Erosion of oil and gas industry choke valves using computational fluid dynamics and experiment

International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 636-643

  Nøkleberg, Lars ^a   Søntvedt, Terje ^b  

^a ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Choke valves; Computational fluid dynamics; Erosion; Oil and gas industry

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; EROSION; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; VALVES (MECHANICAL);

CHOKE VALVES; PARTICULATE FLOW;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

CHOKE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EROSION; OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION; VALVE;

EID: 0032460364     PISSN: 0142727X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0142-727X(98)10039-5     Document Type: Article

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