India, April 22 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
Engineers drill glycerol, a sweet alcohol used in cough syrups, into rocks to push out the viscous oil. Now, a new study has unearthed a novel method to control mechanical behaviour of displaced clay that can help better understand the oil recovery process and aid in clay transport.
Fig 1. Blue represents the Newtonian Fluid - water, flowing through the non-Newtonian Clay,
represented by yellow
Viscosity is a fluid's resistance to flow. For example, honey is more viscous than oil, which is more viscous than water. When a less viscous fluid, such as water, pushes out a clay suspension in a confined space, the water creates interesting designs. A clay suspension is a non-New...