Study of Multiphase Flow and Its Application in Petroleum Engineering
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 January 2025 | Viewed by 7837
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Dear Colleagues,
The simultaneous transport of multiple fluid phases through a porous medium is known as multiphase flow. In the production of an oil or gas well, multiphase flow may occur under several operational circumstances. To enable appropriate engineering design, oil and gas professionals must precisely comprehend and forecast the physics of multiphase flow patterns. Multiphase flow data are related to important processes, including the movement of proppant in the fracture and drilling fluid in the wellbore. Typically, the flow regime and accompanying flow rate are used to study multiphase flow. The internal corrosion rate is further influenced by multiphase flow due to the diverse hydrodynamics and associated turbulence, and is notably different to that of single-phase flow. Additionally, multiphase flow must consider how the fluid phase condition changes under various pressure and temperature conditions. The composition of the fluid is temperature- and pressure-dependent, which means that multiphase flow is coupled with temperature and pressure. This is because the same fluid components have different proportional fractions and transport rates in different phase states due to differences in the physical properties of each phase. However, there are also barriers to observing complicated multiphase flow characteristics in the lab, in the field, and in numerical simulation. Despite recent advances in the creation of mathematical models to analyze the behaviors of multiphase flows, no correlations or mechanistic models have been thoroughly validated against field data. This Special Issue focuses on recent developments in multiphase flow research in petroleum science and engineering, including multiphase flow issues in drilling, stimulation, and reservoir simulation.
Dr. Xian Shi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- multiphase flow
- petroleum engineering
- oil and gas production
- hydrodynamics
- drilling
- reservoir simulation
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