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Mini-Workshops Accepted
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Computational
Mathematics in the Oil and Gas Industry
II
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Organizers:
German Larrazabal & Saul Buitrago
Speakers:
Eduardo Sanchez, German Larrazabal,
& Carlos Torres M.
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| Abstract
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| The oil and gas industry
are a perfect target for applications
of mathematics techniques. From subsurface
exploration to production, refining,
transport and finally distribution
of oil, gas and products, real life
mathematical and decision problems
arise continuously. This mini-workshop
aims at bringing together scientists
and engineers from academia, research
laboratories, and industry, to promote
the application mathematics techniques
to the oil and gas industry problems.
Papers on all aspects of mathematical
theory, and computational and applied
mathematics focus to solve oil and
gas industry problem are invited to
be presented at the mini-workshop. |
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Eduardo
Sanchez
Modeling and Simulation of the Production
Process of Electrical Energy in a
Geothermal Power Plant |
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German
Larrazabal
3D Seismic Survey Design |
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Carlos
Torres
CFD Modeling of Pressure Drop on Fixed
Packed Beds |
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The aim of this study
is the computational fluid dynamics
simulation of single phase pressure
drop in fixed packed beds. A vast
amount of literature has been published
on experimental studies for pressure
drops in infinity packed beds and
some of them in other configurations.
The experiments shows that the pressure
drop through uniform spherical packed
beds depend on porosity and flow rate,
and it is not related to the spheres
spatial distribution. Usually the
spheres are packed in a random way,
in the present study the spheres were
not randomly distributed, they were
organized in a cubic close packing.
To achieve the desired porosity the
distance between the balls centers
was uniformly increased. The CFD simulations
results were compared with the correlations
from different authors and with experimental
data. The results show very good agreement
for both laminar and turbulent regime.
Keywords: Pressure drop, packed
beds, CFD.
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Last
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May 14, 2010 8:45 AM
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