Effect of pulse pressure on borehole stability during shear swirling flow vibration cementing

Zhihua Cui1,2, Chi Ai2, Lei Lv1

  • 1School of Petroleum and Environmental Engineering, Yan'an University, Yan'an, Shaanxi Province, China.

Plos One
|November 18, 2017
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