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JOURNAL OF DISPERSION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 36, Issue 3, Pages 402-410Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/01932691.2014.896219
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CFD simulation; foam drilling; solid-liquid flow; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); rheological models
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Foam, as a non-Newtonian fluid, plays an important role in the underbalanced drilling technique in oil field development. The rheological properties of drilling fluids, such as foam, have a direct effect on flow characteristics and hydraulic performance. Two rheological models-the Herschel-Bulkley model and power law-were fitted to two foam systems in this study. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) was used to simulate the effect of the rheological models on solid-liquid (cuttings transport) hydraulics in concentric and eccentric annulus during the foam drilling operation. The simulation results are compared to the experimental data from previous studies. The results of CFD using the power law model are in good agreement with experimental results in horizontal annulus with respect to the Herschel-Bulkley model with relative error less than 8%. Thus, for CFD cuttings transport for simulations in inclined and horizontal annulus, it is best to use the power law's rheological model parameters. [GRAPHICS]
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