S. Wan et al., The flow of Newtonian and inelastic non-Newtonian fluids in eccentric annuli with inner-cylinder rotation, TH COMP FL, 13(5), 2000, pp. 349-359
This brief note presents a preliminary analysis of the flow of Newtonian an
d inelastic non-Newtonian fluids in eccentric annuli with inner-cylinder ro
tation. The study has been motivated by a need to understand the flow of dr
illing fluids in present-day oil wells, the annuli of which are more accura
tely represented as eccentric, rather than concentric, annuli. To derive a
physical understanding of the results numerically generated for this study,
they are also analysed in terms of dimensionless variables. In this way, t
he underlying phenomena of this complex three-dimensional problem are easil
y visualized.