A review of crude oil emulsification and multiphase flows in chemical flooding

Y Zhou, D Yin, Y Li, J He… - Energy Science & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Chemical flooding has become an important method to enhance oil recovery in high‐water
cut reservoirs. Crude oil emulsification often occurs during chemical flooding, and it plays a …

Deformation and breakup of a viscoelastic drop in a Newtonian matrix under steady shear

N Aggarwal, K Sarkar - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2007 - cambridge.org
The deformation of a viscoelastic drop suspended in a Newtonian fluid subjected to a steady
shear is investigated using a front-tracking finite-difference method. The viscoelasticity is …

Three-dimensional simulation of elastic capsules in shear flow by the penalty immersed boundary method

WX Huang, CB Chang, HJ Sung - Journal of Computational Physics, 2012 - Elsevier
An improved penalty immersed boundary method (pIBM) has been proposed for simulation
of flow-induced deformation of three-dimensional (3D) elastic capsules. The motion of the …

Front tracking simulation of deformation and buckling instability of a liquid capsule enclosed by an elastic membrane

X Li, K Sarkar - Journal of Computational Physics, 2008 - Elsevier
The dynamics of a liquid capsule enclosed by an elastic membrane in a shear flow is
investigated using a front tracking finite difference method. We compute deformation …

Level set simulation of coupled advection‐diffusion and pore structure evolution due to mineral precipitation in porous media

X Li, H Huang, P Meakin - Water Resources Research, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
A pore‐scale simulation technique based on level set interface tracking has been developed
for modeling coupled reactive flow and structure evolution in porous media and fracture …

Electrohydrodynamic interaction between droplet pairs in a confined shear flow

S Santra, D Sen, S Das, S Chakraborty - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
This study deals with electrohydrodynamic interactions between two deformable droplets in
a confined shear flow. We have investigated the effect of the channel confinement and the …

Effects of matrix viscoelasticity on viscous and viscoelastic drop deformation in a shear flow

N Aggarwal, K Sarkar - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2008 - cambridge.org
The deformation of a Newtonian/viscoelastic drop suspended in a viscoelastic fluid is
investigated using a three-dimensional front-tracking finite-difference method. The …

Effect of interfacial slip on the cross-stream migration of a drop in an unbounded Poiseuille flow

S Mandal, A Bandopadhyay, S Chakraborty - Physical Review E, 2015 - APS
We analyze the motion and deformation of a buoyant drop suspended in an unbounded fluid
which is undergoing a quadratic shearing flow at small Reynolds number in the presence of …

Lateral migration of a capsule in plane shear near a wall

RK Singh, X Li, K Sarkar - Journal of fluid mechanics, 2014 - cambridge.org
The migration of a capsule enclosed by an elastic membrane in a wall-bounded linear shear
is investigated using a front-tracking method. A detailed comparison with the migration of a …

Effect of surfactants on the deformation of drops and bubbles in Navier–Stokes flow

J Lee, C Pozrikidis - Computers & fluids, 2006 - Elsevier
A numerical method is implemented for investigating the effect of an insoluble surfactant on
the deformation of, and structure of the flow around a two-dimensional drop with arbitrary …