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ABSTRACT Oil wells contain two-phase liquid and gas mixtures driven upwards due to a pressure gradient. In this paper, we study a two-fluid model for vertical upwelling flow and explicitly account for the exsolution of the dissolved gas as the pressure decreases along the well. We find that the application of Henry's law for the dissolved gas concentration predicts a rapid transition to a foam, which runs counter to intuition. In order to study ways in which this rapid transition could be avoided, we examine rate limiting non-equilibrium dynamics by incorporating nucleation and bubble growth dynamics in the two-phase model.
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Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics exists for the publication of original research papers and short communications, occasional survey articles and conference reports on the fluid mechanics of the earth and planets, including oceans, atmospheres and interiors, and the fluid mechanics of the sun, stars and other astrophysical objects.
In addition, their magnetohydrodynamic behaviours are investigated. Experimental, theoretical and numerical studies of rotating, stratified and convecting fluids of general interest to geophysicists and astrophysicists appear. Properly interpreted observational results are also published.
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