Effects of boundary conditions and friction on static buckling of pipe in a horizontal well

SPE Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 782-796

  Gao, Guohua ^a   Miska, Stefan ^b  

^a SPE

^b UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUCKLING; FRICTION; HORIZONTAL WELLS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TUBING; WELL COMPLETION;

BUCKLING EQUATION; CRITICAL CONDITION; DIFFERENT BOUNDARY CONDITION; FRICTION COEFFICIENTS; LATERAL FRICTION; NONLINEAR ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; PERTURBATION SOLUTIONS; PRINCIPLE OF VIRTUAL WORK;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 76349098498     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/111511-PA     Document Type: Article

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