Bed Erosion

Bed Erosion is a mechanistic process in drilling engineering whereby accumulated cuttings in an annular section of a wellbore are dislodged and entrained into the drilling fluid flow, distinguished from other hole-cleaning mechanisms by its reliance on the hydrodynamic forces exceeding the shear strength of the stationary cuttings bed.

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2017–2026

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  1. NR
    N. Rajaratnam

    University of Alberta, Canada

    8 publications · 849 citations

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  2. EK
    Ergün Kuru

    University of Alberta, Canada

    7 publications · 240 citations

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  3. GP
    Gary Parker

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    5 publications · 447 citations

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  4. TD
    Tjalling de Haas

    Utrecht University, Netherlands

    4 publications · 179 citations

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  5. JB
    Jacques Bouillard

    Institut national de l'environnement industriel et des risques, France

    4 publications · 91 citations

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  1. Journal of Hydraulic Research

    17 publications · 1.3K citations

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  2. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering

    11 publications · 1.4K citations

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  3. Water Resources Research

    8 publications · 550 citations

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  4. Chemical Engineering Science

    8 publications · 289 citations

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  5. Journal of the Hydraulics Division

    7 publications · 1.7K citations

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