Research Article

Investigation of Non-Newtonian Characteristics of Water Flow in Micro-/Nanochannels and Tight Reservoirs

Table 1

Flow experiment in microcircular channel according to the N-S equation.

FluidMicrotubule scaleCross sectionDocument

Silicone oil11.8-50 μmCircular<10Makihara et al. [6]
Deionized water8-40 μmCircular<64Jiang et al. [7]
Deionized water25-35 μmCircular130-330Aniskin et al. [8]
Distilled water27-63 μmTrapezoid<600Flockhart and Dhariwal [9]
Nonpolar organic liquid25 μmCircular<8Li et al. [10]
Distilled water12-150 μmCircular8-2300Judy et al. [11]
Methanol, isopropanol79.9-166.3 μmSquare/trapezoid/circleAbout 64Li [12]
100.25-205.3 μm
Deionized water50-100 μmCircular90-800Salman et al. [13]
Deionized water16-30 μmCircular<4Xu et al. [14]
Deionized water172-520 μmCircular800-1000Bucci et al. [15]
Deionized water30-326 μmCircular>300Celeta et al. [16]