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Steady Flow of a Cement Slurry

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  • Chengcheng Tao

    (U. S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA 15236, USA)

  • Barbara G. Kutchko

    (U. S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA 15236, USA)

  • Eilis Rosenbaum

    (U. S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA 15236, USA)

  • Wei-Tao Wu

    (School of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China)

  • Mehrdad Massoudi

    (U. S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA 15236, USA)

Abstract

Understanding the rheological behavior of cement slurries is important in cement and petroleum industries. In this paper, we study the fully developed flow of a cement slurry inside a wellbore. The slurry is modeled as a non-linear fluid, where a constitutive relation for the viscous stress tensor based on a modified form of the second grade (Rivlin–Ericksen) fluid is used;we also propose a diffusion flux vector for the concentration of particles. The one-dimensional forms of the governing equations and the boundary conditions are made dimensionless and solved numerically. A parametric study is performed to present the effect of various dimensionless numbers on the velocity and the volume fraction profiles.

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  • Chengcheng Tao & Barbara G. Kutchko & Eilis Rosenbaum & Wei-Tao Wu & Mehrdad Massoudi, 2019. "Steady Flow of a Cement Slurry," Energies, MDPI, vol. 12(13), pages 1-25, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:12:y:2019:i:13:p:2604-:d:246277
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    1. Li, Yubai & Wu, Wei-Tao & Liu, Xianglei & Massoudi, Mehrdad, 2019. "The effects of particle concentration and various fluxes on the flow of a fluid-solid suspension," Applied Mathematics and Computation, Elsevier, vol. 358(C), pages 151-160.
    2. Wei-Tao Wu & Nadine Aubry & James F. Antaki & Mark L. McKoy & Mehrdad Massoudi, 2017. "Heat Transfer in a Drilling Fluid with Geothermal Applications," Energies, MDPI, vol. 10(9), pages 1-18, September.
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    1. Marcin Kremieniewski, 2020. "Ultra-Lightweight Cement Slurry to Seal Wellbore of Poor Wellbore Stability," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(12), pages 1-19, June.
    2. Chengcheng Tao & Eilis Rosenbaum & Barbara G. Kutchko & Mehrdad Massoudi, 2021. "A Brief Review of Gas Migration in Oilwell Cement Slurries," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(9), pages 1-22, April.
    3. Mehrdad Massoudi, 2020. "Mathematical Modeling of Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Petroleum Industries and Geothermal Applications," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(6), pages 1-4, March.
    4. Marcin Kremieniewski, 2020. "Recipe of Lightweight Slurry with High Early Strength of the Resultant Cement Sheath," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(7), pages 1-13, April.
    5. Marcin Kremieniewski & Bartłomiej Jasiński & Grzegorz Zima & Łukasz Kut, 2021. "Reduction of Fractionation of Lightweight Slurry to Geothermal Boreholes," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(12), pages 1-11, June.
    6. Abdennour C. Seibi & Fatick Nath & Adedapo B. Adeoye & Kaustubh G. Sawant, 2022. "Optimization of Cement–Rubber Composites for Eco-Sustainable Well Completion: Rheological, Mechanical, Petrophysical, and Creep Properties," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(8), pages 1-20, April.
    7. Meng-Ge Li & Feng Feng & Wei-Tao Wu & Mehrdad Massoudi, 2020. "Numerical Simulations of the Flow of a Dense Suspension Exhibiting Yield-Stress and Shear-Thinning Effects," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(24), pages 1-21, December.
    8. Chengcheng Tao & Barbara G. Kutchko & Eilis Rosenbaum & Mehrdad Massoudi, 2020. "A Review of Rheological Modeling of Cement Slurry in Oil Well Applications," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(3), pages 1-55, January.
    9. Marcin Kremieniewski, 2020. "Influence of Graphene Oxide on Rheological Parameters of Cement Slurries," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(20), pages 1-15, October.

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