A Mathematical Model for the Pipeline Transportation of Soft Clay

Abstract:

We have found a way of a pipeline transportation of soft clay in order to overcome the difficulties to transport soft clay so that the long distance transportation of soft clay becomes true in Engineering. By analyzing the properties of soft clay and pipeline transportation, the rules of decreasing energy through the pipeline transportation, and the characters of flow field with gas, liquid and mud, we have obtained a mathematical model for the pipeline transportation of soft clay. The model not only builds up a theory for the non-continuous soft clay column pipeline transportation techniques but also leads to further developments and wider applications of the pipeline transportation of soft clay.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 275-277)
• Pages: 1476-1479
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.275-277.1476
• Online since: January 2013
• Authors: Wan Zhen Zhu, Shu Hui Wu, Song Lei Tao
• Keywords: Bingham, Mathematical Models, Pipeline Transportation, Soft Clay

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