Editor’s note: The Basics department this month is an excerpt from the ISA book Flow of Industrial Fluids – Theory and Equations by Raymond Mulley. Some material in this section may seem self-evident ...

Two separate correlations for predicting the isothermal compressibility of reservoir fluids and crude oils have been developed. One correlation is based on molecular weight; the other, on API gravity.

The trade-offs necessary to choose a fluid involve a consideration of application requirements such as health, safety, and environmental effects, and fluid properties such as viscosity, stability, ...

Figure 1: Seismic sequence related to the Blanco, 6.2 M w earthquake of June 2000. Figure 3: Variations in isothermal compressibility of seawater (at 3.2 wt% NaCl), with temperature and pressure 27,28 ...

Heat a liquid in a sealed tube; it seems a simple enough experiment. But it has intrigued chemists and physicists for over 175 years, probably because the results are unexpected, almost ...

Standard time-marching compressible flow solvers used extensively in the aerospace industry cannot be applied incompressible flows, as the governing equations lack a time derivative in the continuity ...