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.