Institut Francais Du Pe'trole

Ifp Energies Nouvelles

Isabelle Faille

Eric Heintze

Chakib Bennis

Emmanuel Duret

Jean-Marc Daniel

Mathieu Ducros

Roland Masson

Renaud Traby

Pierre Duchet-Suchaux

Claude Leibovici

Veronique Henriot

Bertrand Moraisin

Lionel Ladouari

Jean-Luc Rudkiewicz

Sylvie Wolf

Sylvie Pegaz-fiornet

Françoise Willien

Sylvie Pegaz-Fiornet

A method for simulating flows in reservoirs, such as hydrocarbons, by means of chimera type grid which fluid generates a chimera grid made up of a set of elementary grids for accounting for characteristics of the flows and of the geometry (e.g., radial grid in the well zone and CPG grid for the reservoir) so that their union covers the entire simulation domain and that there is a minimum overlap between two neighboring elementary grids. Interpolation parameters allowing connection of the flows calculated on the grid to the flows calculated on the neighboring grids are then determined on the border of each elementary grid. Finally, flows are simulated within the reservoir and the well, and the variables describing the flow on the border of the overlap zones are interpolated using the interpolation parameters.

Method for simulating fluid flows within a reservoir by means of a chimera type discretization

An automatic pipe gridding method allowing implementation of codes for modelling fluids carried by pipes is disclosed which has for example an application for oil pipes. The method comprises, considering a minimum and a maximum grid cell size, subdividing the pipe into sections including bends, positioning cells of minimum size on either side of each bend, positioning large cells whose size is at most equal to the maximum size in the central portion of each section, and distributing cells of increasing or decreasing size on the intermediate portions of each section between each minimum-size cell and the central portion. The method preferably comprises a prior stage of simplification of the pipe topography by means of weight or frequency spectrum analysis, so as to reduce the total number of cells without affecting the representativeness of the flow model obtained with the grid pattern.

Automatic pipe gridding method allowing implementation or flow modelling codes

The invention provides a model representative of steady and transient flows, in a pipe, of a mixture of multiphase fluids, which takes account a set of variables defining the properties of the fluids and of the flow modes having separate phases which are dispersed and intermittent, and the dimensions and slope of the pipes. The modeled quantities characterizing the flow are determined by solving a set of transport equations, an equation of mass conservation per constituent and an equation of momentum of the mixture, and by using a hydrodynamic model and a hydrodynamic model of the fluids. The models are formed by considering the mixture to be substantially at equilibrium at all times and that the constituents of the multiphase mixture are variable all along the pipe. The method can be applied to hydrocarbon transportation network study and to determination of characteristics of flow of the multiphase mixture in the pipe.

Method for constituting a model representative of multiphase flows in

The invention relates to a method for forming a simulation model of two-phase flow in pipelines and notably in pipelines carrying hydrocarbons. The method comprises solving mass conservation equations for each of the phases and an equation of momentum conservation of the flow, while complying with closing relations. An explicit solution is used on slow waves (corresponding to the propagation of a gas phase) and fast waves (corresponding to the propagation of the pressure waves), which has the advantage of allowing time interval control by the slow waves while keeping the accuracy on these waves inherent in an explicit scheme. The method thus combines model execution speed and accuracy of results. The method can be applied to the design of a hydrocarbon transportation network.

Method for forming a simulation model of transient two-phase flows in

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