When the thermal stresses induced in a geothermal well’s casing string exceed the yield strength of the casing material, the fatigue behavior of the latter can be defined as low cycle fatigue (LCF). The connection threads in the casing body amplify the local stress distribution and lower LCF resistance. A theoretical approach is presented to evaluate LCF resistance and compared with preliminary...

SUMMARY Detailed measurements have been made of the casing boundary layer flow before and after the nozzle blades of a single stage model air turbine. The measurements were made with the natural casing inlet boundary layer and two artificially thickened boundary layers. The results differ considerably from those usually obtained in two dimensional cascades. There was no sign of the usual second...

This research paper presents numerical studies of the characteristics of warhead fragmentation in terms of initial velocities, spray angles of fragments and fragment mass distribution of high explosive (HE) warhead. The behavior of warhead fragmentation depends on shape and size of warhead, thickness of casing, type of explosive, number and position of detonator, and etc. This paper focuses on ...

One of the major problems faced by the oilfields in the middle time is casing damage. The neural network, the improvement BP as well as the three-layer feed forward neural network applied in damage diagnosis is a key way to prevent damage. The formations of the damage are corresponded to the input vector. Factors such as casing age limit, strata stress, soaking time are described as real Number...

A critical phase of oil well completion involves positioning cement between the outer surface of a metal casing and the sides of the well. This task is done by injecting a specially formulated cement slurry down the center of the casing and up the sides of the bore hole. Designing these slurry systems is time consuming and expensive because of the variability of the conditions between wells and...

3.1 Overview 3.2 Overview of Nodal Analysis 3.3 Selection and Determination of Tubing and Production Casing Sizes for Flowing Wells Importance of Sensitivity Analysis of Tubing Size Sensitivity Analysis and Optimization of Tubing Size of Flowing Well Optimization Method Based on Surface Tubing Pressure Derived by Given Separator Pressure Optimization Method Based on the Given Wellhead Tubing Pr...