ESCOAMENTO DE LÍQUIDO PSEUDO-PLÁSTICO ATRAVÉS DE CAPILAR COM GARGANTA / FLOW OF PSEUDO-PLASTIC LIQUID THROUGH CAPILLARY TUBES WITH THROAT

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2007

RESUMO

Due to its application on a large number of fields and activities which are vital for the modern world, being oil prospection one of them, the flow of fluids on porous media have been studied in many experimental works and theoretical pieces. For instance, regarding the recovery of oil fields, it is challenging to predict the behavior of fluids that will be injected on the formation (gas, water or water added with polymer), with the objective to increase the pressure and optimize the oil recuperation. To approach this matter adequately a deep knowledge of the porous media and the behavior of the fluid in question are required, in addition to the use of the experimental and/or theorical models which provide simulations of this process with reasonable fidelity. On this experiment the path of the fluid through the empty spaces of a porous medium is represented by a capillary with contraction/expansion (throat). Starting with the conveniently defined geometrical relations where only one parameter varies, we generated eight different analysis geometries. Numerical simulations of the Newtonian and Pseudo-Plastic fluids were done using the CFD code developed at PUC-Rio. Relationships were established between the flow on capillaries with throat and equivalent capillaries, with constant radius. Two methodologies are presented and compared, determining equivalent analytical radius and adjusted (Req an e Req aj). For the case of Newtonians fluids, the approximation works very well on all geometries, and the largest difference is 6.2%. Although larger, the approximation still works in a satisfactory manner when dealing with Power Law fluids.

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capilar fluido pseudo-plastico meios porosos porous media pseudo-plastic fluid capillary

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