Severe slugging in oil-well simulations using a drift flux code
conference paper
To design and evaluate slugging control strategies, a simulator that is capable to simulate severe slugging accurately with limited CPU-needs is required; therefore a drift flux simulator was developed. The drift-flux simulator was used to simulate a field case. The pressure drop was predicted very well. However, an additional horizontal length was needed in the simulations to obtain slugging. This additional requirement is in-line with known shortcomings of multiphase models identified in literature. Aside this criterion, also a minimum hydraulic jump was required. The current drift-flux simulator is suitable for case specific control strategy development and testing.
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TNO Identifier
409279
ISBN
9781855981171
Source title
7th North American Conference on Multiphase Technology, 2-4 June, 2010, Banff, AB, Canada
Pages
357-371
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