Study on the Generalized Darcy's Law for Bingham and Herschel-Bulkley Fluids

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Extra-heavy oil, polymer solution and some drilling fluids are typical non-Newtonian Herschel-Bulkley fluids, which behave as sheer-thinning with yield stress. In this paper, the Generalized Darcy's law for Herschel-Bulkley fluids flow in porous media was formulated, by the same way formulating the Generalized Darcy's Law for Bingham fluids. Then, the applications of the two type flow models were compared; Bingham type model was still widely applied due to its conciseness and relatively satisfied accuracy. In addition, the Generalized Darcys Law was revised to describe thixotropic non-Newtonian fluids conceptually.

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