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  • tubing head pressure which is set by gathering system or injection pump

  • wellbore design

  • pump characterisits

  • fluid friction with tubing /casing walls

  • interfacial phase slippage

  • heat exchange between wellbore fluid and surrounding rocks


Mathematical Model

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The multiphase wellbore flow is modeled with 1D-model with 

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bodyl-
axis aligned with well trajectory.defined by the following set of 1D equations: 

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anchordivTMatBal
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\frac{\partial (\rho_m \,c_{pt})A)}{\partial t} + \frac{\partial T}{\partial tl} 
 
-  \sum_\alpha\big( A \, \rho_\alpham \, cu_{pm \alpha}big) \ \eta_{s \alpha} \ \frac{\partial P_\alpha}{\partial t}  
 
+  \sum_\alpha \rho_\alpha \ c_{p \alpha} \ u_\alpha \frac{\partial T}{\partial l}
 \  =   \   \frac{1}{ \pi r_f^2}  \ \sum_\alpha \rho_\alpha \ c_{p \alpha} T_\alpha \frac{\partial  q_\alpha}{\partial l} 

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body\alpha = \{w,o,g \}

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anchorgradP
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\frac{dp}{dl} = \rho_m \, g \, \sin \theta - \rho \, u_m \, \frac{du_m}{dl} - \frac{ f_m \, \rho_m \, u_m^2 \, }{2 d}
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anchordivT
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(\rho \,c_p)_m \frac{\partial T}{\partial t} 
 
-  \sum_\alpha \rho_\alpha \ c_{p \alpha} \ \eta_{s \alpha} \ \frac{\partial P_\alpha}{\partial t}  
 
+  \sum_\alpha \rho_\alpha \ c_{p \alpha} \ u_\alpha \frac{\partial T}{\partial l}
 \  =   \   \frac{1}{ \pi r_f^2}  \ \sum_\alpha \rho_\alpha \ c_{p \alpha} T_\alpha \frac{\partial  q_\alpha}{\partial l} 

where

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bodym

indicates a mixture of fluid phases

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body\alpha = \{w,o,g \}

water, oil, gas phase indicator

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bodyl

длина ствола скважины, отсчитываемая вниз от поверхности

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body\rho(l)
 

профиль плотности воды

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body \theta(l)

профиль угла наклона скважины к горизонту

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bodyd(l)

профиль диаметра скважины, вдоль которого идет поток

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bodyA(l)

профиль поперечного сечения ствола скважины

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bodyA(l) = 0.25 \, \pi \, d^2(l)

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bodyf(l)

профиль коэффициента трения Дарси

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bodyg

ускорение свободного падения ( = 9.87 м2/сек )


Equations 

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 – 
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 define a closed set of 3 scalar equations on 3 unknowns: pressure 
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bodyp(l)
, temperature 
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bodyT(l)
 and  fluid velocity 
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bodyu(l)
 .


The model is set in 1D-model with 

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bodyl-
axis aligned with well trajectory 
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bodyl(x,y,z)
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The disambiguation of the properties in the above equation is brought in The list of dynamic flow properties and model parameters.


Equations  ???  define

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anchorMatBal
 defines the continuity of the fluid components flow or equivalently represent the mass conservation of each mass component 
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body\{ m_W, \ m_O, \ m_G \}
 during its transportation in spacealong wellbore

Equations ???

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 define the motion dynamics of each phase, represented as linear correlation between phase flow speed  
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body\bar u_\alpha
 and partial pressure gradient of this phase 
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body\bar \nabla P_\alpha
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