Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations of Horizontal Wellbore Cleaning and Cement Placement Processes in Drilling and Completions Engineering Applications

Autores

  • M. Tyagi Assistant Professor
  • M. Zulqarnain
  • D. Yilmaz

Palavras-chave:

Primary cementing, cuttings transport, directional drilling, discrete phase model, volume of fluid

Resumo

Mathematical modeling and simulations of complex coupled processes require both robust and accurate physics-based techniques. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) have been used extensively in a wide range of fields such as aerospace, automotive, and chemical processing industries to name a few. Typically, processes during drilling and completion of wells involve modeling of complex rheology fluids, turbulence modeling, multiphase phenomena, and heat transfer. Each individual process could possibly result in a sophisticated detailed model that might not have a wide range of applicability. In this research study, two representative engineering flow examples of wellbore cleaning during cuttings transport and non-Newtonian fluid displacement during primary cementing are simulated for highly deviated wells. Potential of CFD approach is demonstrated through systematic verification and validation studies followed by simulation of complex coupled processes.Keywords: Primary cementing, cuttings transport, directional drilling, discrete phase model, volume of fluid

Biografia do Autor

  • M. Tyagi, Assistant Professor
    Craft & Hawkins Department of Petroleum EngineeringLouisiana state university Baton Rouge, LA 70803 • PHone (225)-578-6041fax (225) 578-6039 • e-mail [email protected] Mayank Tyagi Education Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, IndiaB. S., May 1995 Major: Mechanical EngineeringLouisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LAPh.D., May 2003 Major: Mechanical EngineeringMinor 1: Mathematics Minor 2: OceanographyExperience Assistant Professor (Joint Faculty): 2007-Present, Petroleum Engineering and the Center for Computation & Technology (CCT), LSU.Holder of Adolphe G. Gueymard ProfessorshipTenure-track joint faculty between the petroleum engineering department and CCT at LSU, Baton Rouge.Research Scientist: 2006-2007, LSU (CCT) Baton Rouge, LAProject manager to lead the development of an open-source community computational framework "CFD Toolkit". CFD Toolkit is based on cactus framework (www.cactuscode.org) and is designed to address multiscale, multiphysics interdisciplinary problems.Development of fundamental algorithms to address mechanistic predictions of microscale boiling heat transfer around arrays of micro pinfins.Research Associate: 2003-2005, LSU (CCT) Baton Rouge, LADevelopment of computational algorithms to solve biological flows on High Performance Computing platform at LSU.Development of interdisciplinary computational fluid dynamics program that spans several departments at LSU: Biology, Mathematics, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Oceanography and Astrophysics.Development of Large Eddy Simulations and Immersed Boundary Method capabilities in the DOW chemical Ltd's in-house research code.Research Assistant: 1995-2003, LSU (ME) Baton Rouge, LADeveloped computer code to solve the three-dimensional unsteady Navier-Stokes and energy equations. These programs used combinations of Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) and Large Eddy Simulation (LES).Used the programs to solve various fluid dynamics and heat transfer problems related to film cooling of gas turbine blades and other complex turbulent flows.Attended workshops on High-Performance Computing (HPC) using Beowulf and SGI Origin 2000 parallel computers at LSU and OSU. TEACHING PETE 4046 (Well Design: Production), Spring 2009, 2010, 2011; PETE 7280 (Reservoir Simulation), Fall 2009; PETE 4241 (Senior Elective), Fall 2008, 2011; PETE 2032 (The properties of petroleum fluids) Spring 2008.IGERT Class: Introduction to interdisciplinary fluid mechanics (Cross-listed across several disciplines and offered as a senior level honors course) taught by multiple instructors, Fall 2006, Spring 2007 and Fall 2007. Taught ME7823 (Graduate level advanced CFD course) with Prof. S. Acharya in Fall 2004.INVITED TALKS & HONORARIUM Theoretical and Computational Approaches for Flow Through Porous Media:State of the Art Techniques & Representative Results, Mathematics & Statistics Department Honorarium, University of New Orleans, November 12th, 2009. Fluid Flow Simulations in Moving Geometries using Immersed Boundary Method, January 8th, 2007, Mechanical Engineering Department Honorarium, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.FUNDED Research GrantsDoE, "Zero Mass Withdrawal, Engineered Convection, and Wellbore Energy Conversion", $997,332 (2011-2014) (PI: C.D. White, co-PI: M. Tyagi)Shell, "Offshore Oil Spill Scenarios Development", $539,928 (2011-2014) (PI: M. Tyagi)BP-GRI, "Functional Design and Capapcity Sizing of Subsea Capping Stack", $244,999 (2011-2012) (PI: J.R. Smith, co-PI: M. Tyagi)Shell, "High-Rate Flow in Gravel Packed Wells", $300,000 (2011-2014) (PI: C.D. White, co-PI: M. Tyagi)Shell, "Multiphase Gas Lift testing and Design", $428,304 (2011-2014) (PI: R.G.Hughes, co-PI: M. Tyagi)Chevron, "Variational Fracture Approach to Reservoir Stimulation", $85,000 (2011) (PI: B. Bourdin, co-PI: M. Tyagi)NSF, "Enabling Science at the Petascale: From Binary Systems and Stellar Core Collapse To Gamma-Ray Bursts", $35,896 (2009-2010) (PI: E. Schnetter, co-PI: M. Tyagi)Exxon-Mobil, "Modeling Inertial Flows using Image Analysis and Image-Based Pore-Scale Modeling," $679,876 (2008-2011) (PI: K. Thompson, co-PI: M. Tyagi)DoE-RPSEA, "Development of a Research Report and Characterization Database of Deepwater and Ultra-Deepwater Assets in the Gulf of Mexico, including Technical Focus Direction, Incentives, Needs Assessment Analysis and Concepts Identification for Improved Oil Recovery (IOR) Techniques," $ 430,000 (2008-2010) (PI: D. Rao, co-PI: M. Tyagi)DoD-EPSCOR, "Development of an Integrated Modeling Framework for Simulations of Coastal Processes in Deltaic Environments using High-Performance Computing," $463,000 (2007-2010) (PI: Q.J. Chen, co-PI: M. Tyagi)NSF-SDCI, "Cactus Tools for Application Level Performance and Correctness Analysis (ALPACA)," $586,070 (2007-2010) (PI: E.H. Schnetter, co-PI: M. Tyagi)DOE-BoR, renewal, "Ubiquitous Computing and Monitoring System (UCoMS) for Discovery and Management of Energy Resources," $210,000, (2007-2010) (PI: C.D. White, co-PI: M. Tyagi)LEQSF-BoR, Large Eddy SImulation of Chemical Processes: Improvements in COmplex-Mixer Designs $225,000 (2004-2007) (PI: S. Acharya, co-PI: M. Tyagi)DOE, NNSA, Towards Miniaturization of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Reactors: Novel Processing Routes of Fabricating Microstructures on Pressurized Water Reactors, $1,500,000, (2005-2008) (PI: S.I. Ibekwe; Co-PIs: G. Li, K. Lian, S.S. Pang), (Prime Contractor: Southern University; Subcontractor: CAMD and LSU), (LSU Subcontractor Budget: $222,801; LSU PI: M.A. Wahab; LSU co-PIs: S.S. Pang, M. Tyagi, K.V. Singh)Research Dissertation: Large Eddy Simulations of Complex Turbulent FlowsLarge eddy simulations were performed using immersed boundary method for problems with complex geometrical features. Film-cooling of gas turbine was studied for various influencing factors. Several other problems that were studied include internal cooling of gas turbines, mixing inside a trapped vortex combustor and unsteady interactions of stator-rotor rows.(URL: http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-0214103-162012/) Publications: Tyagi, M., Smith, J.R., and Bourgoyne, D.A., Analysis of Well Containment and Control Attempts in the Aftermath of the Deepwater Blowout in MC252, submitted to National Oil Spill Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, January 11, 2011 (http://www.oilspillcommission.gov/resources#staff-working-papers).Singh, K.V., Datta, B.N. and Tyagi, M., Closed Form Control Gains for Zero Assignment in the Time Delayed System, ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics Vol. 6, pp. 021002-1, 2011.Feng, Y., Tyagi, M., and White, C.D., Effect of Natural Convection Patterns on Optimal Locations and Size of a Heat Sink in a Geothermal Reservoir, SGP-TR-191, Proceedings of the 36th Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, Stanford, CA, January 31 - February 2, 2011.Eskilsson, C., El-Khamra, Y., Rideout, D., Allen, G., Chen, Q.J., and Tyagi, M., A Parallel High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin Shallow Water Model, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5544, 63-72, 2009.Tyagi, M., Roy, S., Harvey III, A.D., and Acharya, S., Simulation of laminar and turbulent impeller stirred tanks using immersed boundary method and large eddy simulation technique in multi-block curvilinear geometries, Chemical Engineering Science, Vol. 62, pp. 1351-1363, 2007.Benger, W., Heinzl, R., Kapferer, W., Schoor, W., Tyagi, M., Venkataraman, S., and Weber, G.H. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th High-End Visualization Workshop, June 18-22, 2007, Tyrol, Austria (ISBN: 978-3-86541-216-4)Singh, K.V., Datta, B.N. and Tyagi, M., Zero Assignment in Vibration: With and Without Time Delay, Paper no. DETC2007-34819 pp. 739-748, doi:10.1115/DETC2007-34819, ASME 2007 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE2007) September 4-7, 2007 , Las Vegas, Nevada, USATyagi, M. and Acharya, S., Large Eddy Simulations of Flow and Heat Transfer in Rotating Ribbed Duct Flows, ASME J. Heat Trans., Vol. 127, pp. 486-498, 2005.Tyagi, M. and Acharya, S., Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Flows in Complex and Moving Rigid Geometries Using the Immersed Boundary Method, Int. J. Numer. Meth. Fluids, Vol. 48, pp. 691-722, 2005.Tyagi, M. and Acharya, S., Large Eddy Simulations of Jets in Crossflow: I Effect of Freestream Turbulence Intensity, J. Ener. Heat and Mass Trans., Vol. 25, pp. 1-26, 2003.Tyagi, M. and Acharya, S., Large Eddy Simulations of Jets in Crossflow: II Effect of Freestream Turbulence Length Scale Effects, J. Ener. Heat and Mass Trans., Vol. 25, pp. 95-116, 2003.Tyagi, M. and Acharya, S., Large Eddy Simulation of Film-Cooling Flow from an Inclined Cylindrical Jet, ASME J. Turbomachinery, Vol. 125, pp. 734- 742, 2003.Tyagi, M. and Acharya, S.,Large Eddy Simulation of Film-Cooling Flow from an Inclined Cylinderical Jet, J. Turbomachinery, Vol. 125, pp. 734- 742. (presented at ASME/IGTI Turbo Expo, June 2003, Atlanta, GA. GT2003-38633)Tyagi, M. and Acharya, S., Computation of Turbulent Flows in Complex and Moving Geometries Using Immersed Boundary Method, presented at ASME/IMECE congress, November 2003, Washington D.C. IMECE2003-42839.Acharya, S., Tyagi, M., and Hoda, A., Flow and Heat Transfer Predictions for Film-Cooling Flows, Heat Transfer in Gas Turbine Systems, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 934, pp. 110-125, 2001.Tyagi, M., and Acharya, S., Large Eddy Simulations of Complex Turbulent Flows using Immersed Boundary Method, DNS/LES: Progress and Challenges, Third AFSOR Intl. Conference, Eds. C. Liu, L. Sakell and T. Beutner, August 2001, pp. 417-424.Tyagi, M., and Acharya, S., Flow and Heat Transfer Predictions for Film-Cooling Flows using Large Eddy Simulations, DNS/LES: Progress and Challenges, Third AFSOR Intl. Conference, Eds. C. Liu, L. Sakell and T. Beutner, August 2001, pp. 799-806.Tyagi, M., Saha, A.K. and Acharya, S.,Large Eddy Simulations of Rotating Square Duct with Normal Rib Turbulators, DNS/LES: Progress and Challenges, Third AFSOR Intl. Conference, Eds. C. Liu, L. Sakell and T. Beutner, August 2001, pp. 807-814.Tyagi, M., and Acharya, S.,Large Eddy Simulations of an Inclined Jet in Crossflow, Proc. ASME-ISHMT Heat transfer Conference, Pune, January 2000, pp. 1353-1358Hoda, A., Acharya, S., and Tyagi, M., Predictions of a Jet-In-Crossflow with Reynolds Stress Transport Models and Large Eddy Simulations, ASME-Intl. Gas Turbine Conference, May 2000, Munich.Acharya, S., Tyagi, M., and Hoda, A., Flow and Heat Transfer Predictions for Film-Cooling Flows, Heat Transfer in Gas Turbine Systems, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 934, pp. 110-125.Tyagi, M. and Acharya, S., Large Eddy Simulations of Rectangular Jets in Crossflow: Effect of Hole Aspect Ratio, Recent Advances in DNS and LES, Second AFSOR Conference on DNS/LES, Eds D. Knight and L. Sakell, June 1999, pp. 431-442.Tyagi, M. and Acharya, S., Large Eddy Simulations of Jets in Crossflow: Freestream Turbulence Intensity Effects, ASME-FEDSM 99-7799, ASME/JSME Fluids Engineering Meeting, San Francisco, July 1999.Tyagi, M. and Acharya, S.,Large Eddy Simulations of Jets in Crossflow: Turbulence Length Scale Effects, ASME-Intl. Mech. Engng. Congress and Exposition, Nashville, November, 1999.Tyagi, M. and Acharya, S., On Commutation Errors in Large Eddy Simulations, APS Meeting, New Orleans, Nov. 1999.Acharya, S, Tyagi, M., Hoda, A., and Muldoon, F.,From RANS to DNS: Application to Film Cooling, 26th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics & Fluid Power, 15 - 17th Dec 1999, IIT, Kharagpur, INDIA. students SupervisedGraduate Students:Chukwudi Chukwudozie, 2008-2011MS (2011) "Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of Inertial Flows in Image-Based Realistic Porous Media"(http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04252011-174119/)Muhammed Zulqarnain, 2009-presentMS (2011) "Computational Simulations of Interfacial Instabilities during non-Newtonian Fluids Displacement in the Annular Geometries for the Drilling Processes"Doguhan Yilmaz, 2011-presentMS (2012) Computational Simulations of Cuttings Transport in Horizontal Wellbores"Ali Takbiri Borujeni, 2009-presentPhD (2012) "Multiscale Modeling of Relative Permeability Tensor using Pore-Scale and Field-Scale Simulations of Multiphase Flow through Porous Media"Yin Feng, 2008-presentPhD (2012) "Numerical Simulations of Fluid, Heat and Chemical Transport Proceedings in the Enhanced Geothermal Systems using High Performance Computing Platforms"Undergraduate Students: Richard Maidla, Kade McCollough, Ross Cazenave, John Thomason (2009-2010):"Comparison of Gas Lift Technology with Multiphase Pumping using System Analysis and Economic Evaluation Tools for the Offshore Wells in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM)," National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) 2010.Razvan Carbunescu (2005-2007): "Study of Pollutant Dispersion in Urban Canyons using the CACTUS CFD Toolkit," National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) 2007."Studying Environmental Flows using Cactus CFD Toolkit," Louisiana Academy of Sciences (LAS) 2007."Implementation of Level Set Methods in Cactus Framework," National Conference on Undergraduate Research 2006.Andrew Davidson (2005-2006):"Using a Graphics Processor Unit (GPU) for Feature Extraction from Turbulent Flow Datasets," National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) 2006.INTERESTs AND Professional MembershipsMember of ASME, SPE and SIAM. Reviewer for National Science Foundation (NSF), Transport in Porous Media (TiPM), Journal of Computational Physics (JCP), ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology (JERT), AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power, ASME Journal of Heat Transfer (JHT), Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing (MSSP), and Numerical Heat Transfer (NHT). Faculty Advisor to the Society of Petroleum Engineers Student Chapter (LSU)SPE Conference:Over hundred students attended the annual technical conference and exhibition (ATCE 2009). This event was sponsored by the SPE student chapter, LSU. Monetary funds were generated through Golf Tournament also organized by the SPE student chapter, LSU. On the behalf of the ATCE Board of Directors and SPE staff, SPE gave $2,800 to thank and appreciate the support of student volunteers from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. A complete set of "Petroleum engineering handbook Vol. I-VII" was gifted to the SPE student chapter.Deepwater technical symposium 2009: 12 students attended and several of them presented and had posters for general audience. LSU PETE students won 1st and 3rd prize in poster sessions.Habitat for Humanity: 12 students participated in the community service event organized by the SPE student chapter. SPE Student Chapter President Lauren Fogarty won the Tom W. Dutton Scholarship Award for her outstanding commitment to community service (2009).Energy education to community: Gave a talk about petroleum engineering and energy issues to 7th grade math class at Glasgow middle school (Spring 2009).       

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