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Fractal Analysis of Robertson-Stiff Fluid Flow in Porous Media |
| YUN Mei-Juan1,2**, ZHENG Wei3 |
1Key Laboratory of Systems Science in Metallurgical Process of Hubei Province, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081
2State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500
3State Key Laboratory of Geodesy and Earth's Dynamics, Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430077 |
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YUN Mei-Juan, ZHENG Wei 2012 Chin. Phys. Lett. 29 064706 |
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Abstract The Robertson–Stiff (RS) fluid is the representative fluid which may be reduced to Bingham, power-law and Newtonian fluids under appropriate conditions. We present fractal models for the flow rate, velocity, starting pressure gradient and effective permeability for RS fluids in porous media based on the fractal characteristics of porous media and capillary models. The proposed models are expressed as functions of the fractal dimensions, porosity, maximum pore size and the representative length of the porous media. Every parameter in the proposed expressions has clear physical meaning, and the proposed models relate the flow characteristics of the RS fluids to the structural parameters of the porous media. The analytical expressions reveal the physical principles of RS fluid flow in porous media.
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Received: 16 February 2012
Published: 31 May 2012
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