Numerical Simulation of the Downhole Flow Field of the Sealing While Drilling through Physical Methods

Author

Chen Xiao Yu ; Zeng Chuan

Author_Institution

Pet. Eng. Coll., Southwest Pet. Univ., Chengdu, China

fYear

2010

fDate

17-19 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

194

Lastpage

196

Abstract

The technology of leak protection and leak control while drilling through physical methods can be successfully applied based on studying the annulus´ behaviour of the whole down hole flow field. In this paper, the model of sealing down hole while drilling through physical methods which will be used for CFD simulation is eatablished through reasonable simplification. Then running numerical simulation two-dimensionally on the down hole model using FLUENT software models and adopting the physical parameters of # 1 drilling fluid systems.

Keywords

computational fluid dynamics; flow simulation; leak detection; numerical analysis; oil drilling; seals (stoppers); CFD simulation; FLUENT software; annulus´ behaviour; drilling; fluid systems; leak control; leak protection; numerical simulation; physical methods; sealing; whole downhole flow field; Drilling; Equations; Fluids; Mathematical model; Numerical models; Numerical simulation; Petroleum; FLUENT; Sealing while drilling through physical methods; Two-dimensional numerical simulation; downhole flow field;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational and Information Sciences (ICCIS), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8814-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4270-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCIS.2010.52

Filename

5708919