By L.P. Dake
I'm a mechanical engineer who has no historical past with geophysics or reservoir engineering, yet i need to say that when you've got a few wisdom on thermodynamics , chemistry and a few calculus, this ebook will rather stroll you thru the basics of Reservoir engineering.
It is de facto thorough and it explains issues in a very uncomplicated way.
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All rights reserved. Electronic edition published 2012. 30 Surface Forces and Hydrophobicity Figure 6. 564 m/s) Figure 7. Particle impacts with a flat interface (dimple configurations) particle-travel time Ttrav, which is the time span for the particle resting on the air/liquid interface. As shown in Figure 6, in the first frame, the apex of the particle reaches the original level of the air/ water interface before it deforms, while in the fourth frame, the particle reaches the highest elevation and its velocity drops to zero.
In other words, the tendency for coalescence increases in the cases of large Re, Fr and We, which has been observed in our data. CONLUSIONS In this paper, the dynamics of particle impacting onto air bubbles or flat interfaces has been studied. From experiments, the bubble-particle dynamics was observed to exhibit two different interactions; the particle either gets attached with the air/liquid interface or bounces back. This transition can be understood by comparing two particle-travel and film-drainage times.
The pressure balance yields the Young-Laplace equation for the interface shape of the pendant bubble, which is described as follows: (1) where ∆p is the pressure at the bubble apex (Nguyen and Schulze, 2004, Chapter 23). Equation 1 can be numerically integrated to obtain the interface height, © 2012 by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration. All rights reserved. Electronic edition published 2012. Surface Deformation During Bubble-Particle Colloidal Interaction 21 Figure 1. Geometry of (pendant) bubbles with (right) and without (left) a solid sphere pushed against the gas-water interface in a rotationally symmetrical coordinate system (r, z) with the origin located at the bubble apex.