# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

October  2013, 33(10): 4497-4530. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.4497

## Weak solutions of a gas-liquid drift-flux model with general slip law for wellbore operations

 1 University of Stavanger (UiS), 4036 Stavanger 2 University of Stavanger, NO-4036 Stavanger, Norway

Received  November 2012 Revised  January 2013 Published  April 2013

In this work we study a compressible gas-liquid models highly relevant for wellbore operations like drilling. The model is a drift-flux model and is composed of two continuity equations together with a mixture momentum equation. The model allows unequal gas and liquid velocities, dictated by a so-called slip law, which is important for modeling of flow scenarios involving for example counter-current flow. The model is considered in Lagrangian coordinates. The difference in fluid velocities gives rise to new terms in the mixture momentum equation that are challenging to deal with. First, a local (in time) existence result is obtained under suitable assumptions on initial data for a general slip relation. Second, a global in time existence result is proved for small initial data subject to a more specialized slip relation.
Citation: Steinar Evje, Huanyao Wen. Weak solutions of a gas-liquid drift-flux model with general slip law for wellbore operations. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems, 2013, 33 (10) : 4497-4530. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2013.33.4497
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Heat Transfer, 87 (1965), 453-468. doi: 10.1115/1.3689137.  Google Scholar
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