Dennis Nagy
CD-adapco
Stephen Ferguson
CD-adapco
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| As energy costs and demands continue to rise, system/component suppliers and operators are even more concerned with increasing their oil, gas and refinery production performance and avoiding the risks and associated costs of equipment or system downtime. In many cases, experimental testing and validation of proposed designs, installations and modifications is too expensive and timeconsuming, or sometimes not even possible. Fortunately, the power, accuracy, ease of use and affordability of 3D flow, thermal and stress simulations now makes detailed and timely examination of such performance and....[more] | |
| Multiphase 1D flow simulation is ideal for predicting dynamic behaviour of fluid flow in extensive piping systems, while full 3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is essential for accurately predicting fluid flow in complex 3D situations including blowout preventers, separators, slug catchers, pumps and dry trees. However, using 1D and 3D flow simulation together for overall component and system-level simulation has been cumbersome and time-consuming because of the need to manually pass data back and forth between the two corresponding simulation codes. The recent integration of 1D and 3D flo....[more] | |
