...SOCIETY OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERS OF AIME 6200 North Central Expressway Dallas, Texas 75206 PAPER NUMBER SPE 1687 THIS IS A PREPRINT SUBJECT TO CORRECTION Flow of Viscoelastic Flu ds Through Porous Media By R. J. Marshall and A. B. Metzner, U. of Delaware, Newark, Del. This paper is to be presented...

... number relationship flow behavior index turbulent flow Weissenberg number Reynolds transition point equation flow in porous media drilling fluid formulation diameter tube diameter effect viscoelastic fluid Metzner SOCIETY OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERS OF AJME 6200 North Central Expressway Dallas...

... molecules of high molecular weight are requirements for significant drag reductions. Although the above remarks cannot be taken as complete evidence for the particular theory, it does lend some support to it. It is also known [see, for example, Metzner and Seyerl6] that the second-order fluid does...