Abstract: Tertiary oil recovery technologies, for example, alkaline/surfactant/polymer (ASP) flooding, can enhance oil recovery as an important oil displacement technology noteworthy in the present oilfields. However, it is the fact ...

Abstract: Due to the uncertain and dynamic parameters from design, manufacturing, and working conditions, many engineering structures usually show uncertain and dynamic properties. During the product design and development stages, ...

Abstract: Comprehensive knowledge of strain rate-dependent viscoelastic properties of bony materials is necessary to understand the mechanisms of bone fracture under impact loading conditions (e.g., falls, traffic accidents, and ...

Abstract: The aggregation behavior and the subsequent deposition behavior of wax crystals own undesirable effects on the production and transportation of waxy crude oil. The understanding and prediction of these behaviors are essential ...

Abstract: Although the problems of wax deposition in multiphase transportation pipelines have been addressed and wax deposition models have been developed in recent years, the complex wax deposition paths derived from the potential ...

Abstract: Unlike conventional waxy crude oil, the condensate undergoes a complex phase evolution process in high-temperature and high-pressure conditions of a deep gas-condensate reservoir, which makes it more difficult to predict ...

Abstract: Complete quantitative data of the chemical (proximate, ultimate, and ash analyses) and mineral (in low-temperature ash (LTA) and various high-temperature ashes (HTA)) compositions of 21 coals were used to investigate the ...

Abstract: This paper presents a time-dependent concurrent reliability-based design optimization (TDC-RBDO) method integrating the time-variant B-distance index to improve the confidence level of design results with a small amount ...

Abstract: Alkali/surfactant/polymer (ASP) flooding process is proven to be vitally effective for enhancing oil recovery (EOR) in the oil industry. However, foaming behavior is generated by the breakthrough of chemical agents in the ...

Abstract: o enhance the capability of models in better characterizing the urban water cycle, physical parameterizations of urban hydrological processes have been implemented into the single-layer urban canopy model in the widely ...