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Sep 2026
Ultrasound-induced viscosity evolution of water-based fracturing fluid and its mechanism on altering coal pore structure
Current hydraulic fracturing technologies rely on chemical gel-breaking agents to enhance the flowback of fracturing fluid. However, these chemicals may cause groundwater pollution. To explore the potential application of ultrasound in flowback operations, slickwater, guar gel, and viscoelastic surfactant (VES) fractur...
Qi-Ming Huang, Hong-Zhan Liu, Gui-Zhuang Zhu et al.
· The Physics of Fluids · 0 citations