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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2000
Yannick Peysson, Paris, FR;
Isabelle King, Saint Cloud, FR;
Institut Francais du Petrole, Rueil-Malmaison cedex, FR;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method of calculating the pressure drops created by a given fluid in a circuit having a determined thermal profile. The method includes making up a database (BD) giving the rheology of various fluids at least according to the temperature; segmenting a thermal profile ( ) into sections ( ) and determining a representative temperature value (T , T , T , T ) for the fluid in each section; using the database for determining the rheology of the fluid in each section at the representative temperature; and calculating and adding up the pressure drops in each section considering the rheology determined.