STRUCTURE OF MECHANICAL RESISTANCE OF THE WATER-OIL CONTACT REGION
V. N. Alekseev and A. V. Bogoslovskii UDC 541.18.137 A scanning method for determining the rheological characteristics of two-phase liquids and the corresponding experimental technique are considered. The structure of mechanical resistance of the water-oil contact region and its relation to the interphase tension have been shown. Institute of Petroleum Chemistry, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 3 Akademicheskii Ave., Tomsk, 634021, Russia; email: bav@ipc.tsc.ru. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 81, No. 5, pp. 885-891, September-October, 2008. Original article submitted August 28, 2006; revision submitted June 1, 2007.