For clay minerals the swelling mechanisms and factors influencing on the swelling potential is widely explained and confirmed through comprehensive research. When it comes to intact rocks there are questions regarding both swelling potential and main reasons for swelling in the different rock types...
Stress-induced fracturing in reservoir rocks is an important issue for the petroleum industry. While productivity can be enhanced by a controlled fracturing operation, it can trigger borehole instability problems by reactivating existing fractures/faults in a reservoir. However, safe fracturing can...
A gravity-diffusion model was implemented for predicting water concentration profiles in dispersed oil-continuous oil–water flows. In this model, the measured droplet size distributions were used instead of a droplet size closure law. The turbulent diffusion was modelled assuming single-phase flow...