Corrosion prediction in multiphase flow has been a challenging task in oil and gas industry for many years. Strictly speaking, the existing mechanistic CO2 corrosion models can only be used in single-phase flow. To add the capability of predicting corrosion in multiphase flow, the mass transfer and the turbulent diffusivity correlations in the models have to be modified to properly calculate th...

among the all parameters affecting the performance of a downhole de-oiling hydrocyclone, the investigation of internal flow field deserves more attempts especially in the petroleum industry. in this study, the effects of inlet flow rate, inlet oil volume fraction, and oil droplet diameter on the separation efficiency and pressure drop ratio have been investigated along the hydrocyclone body. al...

The simultaneous flow of immiscible fluids in porous media occurs in a wide variety of applications. The equations governing these flows are inherently nonlinear, and the geometries and material properties characterizing many problems in petroleum and groundwater engineering can be quite irregular. As a result, numerical simulation often offers the only viable approach to the mathematical model...

Cavitation is an intricate multiphase phenomenon that interplays with turbulence in fluid flows. It exhibits clear duality in characteristics, being both destructive and beneficial in our daily lives and industrial processes. Despite the multitude of occurrences of this phenomenon, highly dynamic and multiphase cavitating flows have not been fundamentally well understood in guiding the effort t...

One of the challenging problems in the Oil & Gas industry is accurate and reliable multiphase flow rate measurement in a three-phase flow. Application of methods with minimized uncertainty is required in the industry. Previous developed correlations for two-phase flow are complex and not capable of three-phase flow. Hence phase behavior identification in different conditions to designing and mo...

Computational fluid dynamic (CFD) code calculates flow properties for the analysis of a flow system. Flow properties are computed based on conservation principles and various phenomenological models. The accuracy of the computed flow properties highly depends on the validity of the models and the degree of numerical convergence. Validation of a CFD code is essential for application of an engine...

Abstract. Variational descriptions for various multiphase level set formulations involving curvature flow are discussed. A representation of n phases using n−1 level set functions is introduced having the advantage that constraints preventing overlaps or vacuum are not needed. The representation is then used in conjunction with our variational formulation to deduce a novel level set based algor...

Multiphase flows are commonly encountered in oil and gas industries. The transport of multiphase flow causes the formation of slug, the increase of pressure drop and the possibility of phase changes therefore, a set of simulation runs was performed to predict flow regimes in a horizontal pipeline, and the results were compared with the Baker chart. The effects of small downward inclinations of ...

Core flooding experiments are used for testing enhanced oil recovery strategies (EOR) on a laboratory scale. In a typical core flooding experiment, the core plug contains oil, water and potential EOR agents. It is of importance to understand the multiphase flow of these liquid inside the porous rock formation. The combination of X‐ray CT scanning and image analysis has been used to study multip...

Multiphase flow imaging is a very challenging and critical topic in industrial process tomography. In this article, simulation and experimental results of reconstructing the permittivity profile of multiphase material from data collected in electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) are presented. A multiphase narrowband level set algorithm is developed to reconstruct the interfaces between three-...