• Adhesion strength of tetrahydrofuran hydrates is dictated by substrate stiffness 

      Lin, Yan-Wen; Li, Tong; Zhang, Yi; Yan, Wei-Wei; Chen, Xiao-Ming; Zhang, Zhi-Sen; Wu, Jianyang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Understanding the hydrate adhesion is important to tackling hydrate accretion in petro-pipelines. Herein, the relationship between the Tetrahydrofuran (THF) hydrate adhesion strength (AS) and surface stiffness on elastic ...
    • Numerical study on the strain capacity of girth-welded X80 grade pipes 

      Wang, Xu; Shuai, Jian; Zhang, Sheng-Zhu; Ren, Wei; Zhu, Xue-Ming (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Strain capacity is an important performance indicator for designing and evaluating high-grade steel pipelines. Due to the inhomogeneity of material properties in welded structures, girth welds are one of the main factors ...
    • Unraveling the influence of surface roughness on oil displacement by Janus nanoparticles 

      Chang, Yuanhao; Xiao, Senbo; Ma, Rui; Zhang, Zhiliang; He, Jianying (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Janus nanoparticles (JNPs) possess great potential in recovering the residual oil from reservoirs, however, the fundamental interaction mechanisms among nanoparticles, the oil, and reservoir wall characteristics remain to ...