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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2020
Applicant:
William Marsh Rice University, Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Fred C. Higgs, Iii, Houston, TX (US);
Prathamesh S. Desai, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
William Marsh Rice University, Houston, TX (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 19/4099 (2006.01); B33Y 50/00 (2015.01); E21B 10/42 (2006.01); E21B 49/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 19/4099 (2013.01); B33Y 50/00 (2014.12); E21B 10/42 (2013.01); E21B 49/00 (2013.01); E21B 2200/20 (2020.05); G05B 2219/49023 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for designing lithology-specific drill bits. The method creates an experimentally verified multiphysics model to predict drilling into site-specific rock formations. A physics-based, Eulerian-Lagrangian computational modeling framework to predict particle flow and tribological phenomena. The method uses this multiphysics model to generate virtual drilling data and then generates a machine learning enabled surrogate model of the physics-based model using the data from virtual drilling to provide design charts for drill bits.