Elastic instabilities during the flow of hydrolyzed polyacrylamide solution in porous media: effect of pore-shape and

Durgesh Kawale1, Esteban Marques2, Pacelli L J Zitha3

  • 1Department of Geosciences and Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. D.Kawale@tudelft.nl and Department of Chemical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. P.E.Boukany@tudelft.nl and Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI), P.O.Box 902, 9600 AX, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

Soft Matter
|January 6, 2017
PubMed

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