Numerical modelling of foam Couette flows

Numerical modelling of foam Couette flows.

A numerical computation based on a tensorial visco-elasto-plastic model based on continuous mechanics is compared to experimental measurements on liquid foams for a bidimensional Couette flow between two glass plates, both in stationary and transient cases. The main features of the model are elasticity up to a plastic yield stress, and viscoelasticity above it. The effect of the friction of the...

Numerical Modelling of Cuttings Transport with Foam in Inclined Wells

In this study, a 1-D transient state mechanistic model of cuttings transport with foam in inclined wells has been developed. The model is solved numerically to predict the optimum foam flow rate (liquid and gas rate) and rheological properties that would maximize cuttings transport efficiency in inclined wells. A detailed sensitivity analysis of the effect of gas and liquid flow rates, drilling...

Linear instability of compressible plane Couette flows

The stability of compressible plane Couette flow, which is a simple case of hypersonic wall-bounded shear flows, is not well understood even though incompressible Couette flow has been studied extensively by linear stability analysis and shown to be stable to linear disturbances. As a first step in studying the stability of three-dimensional hypersonic boundary layers, this paper studies the te...

Numerical Modelling of Inviscid Shocked Flows of Real Gases *

Stratorotational instability in MHD Taylor-Couette flows

Aims. The stability of dissipative Taylor-Couette flows with an axial stable density stratification and a prescribed azimuthal magnetic field is considered. Methods. Global nonaxisymmetric solutions of the linearized MHD equations with toroidal magnetic field, axial density stratification and differential rotation are found for both insulating and conducting cylinder walls. Results. Flat rotati...