In this work, we have investigated the oil recovery performance, adsorption, sweep and displacement efficiency by ionic surfactants. In the adsorption and recovery assays, a surfactant aqueous solution at a concentration ...

Injection of microemulsion is a chemical technique of enhanced petroleum recovery. With the implementation of this technique, oil recovery is enhanced by increasing the viscosity of the microemulsion systems, and reducing ...

The purpose of this study is to present a position based tetrahedral finite element method of any order to accurately predict the mechanical behavior of solids constituted by functionally graded elastic materials and ...

Piezoelectric flextensional actuator (PFA) devices consist in a technology in development, with increasing number of applications in precision mechanics such as nanotechnology equipments, electronic microscopy instruments, ...

This study proposes a criterion for evaluating the turbulent boundary layer displacement thickness when predicting airfoil trailing-edge noise with semi-empirical methods. The boundary layer integral parameter is usually ...

This work presents a general formulation and implementation in solid-shell elements of the refined zigzag theory and the trigonometric shear deformation theory in an unified way. The model thus conceived is aimed for use ...