PREDICTION OF HORIZONTAL OIL-WATER FLOW PRESSURE GRADIENT USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES

Chemical Engineering Communications

Volumn 201, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 209-224

  Al Wahaibi, Talal ^a   Mjalli, Farouq S ^a  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

ANN; Homogeneous model; Oil water flow; Pressure gradient; Two fluid model

Indexed keywords

ANN; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODELS; AVERAGE ABSOLUTE ERROR; HOMOGENEOUS MODELS; OIL WATER FLOW; SUPERFICIAL VELOCITY; TWO FLUID MODEL;

FLOW OF WATER; FORECASTING; HYDRAULICS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PIPING SYSTEMS;

PRESSURE GRADIENT;

EID: 84887905881     PISSN: 00986445     EISSN: 15635201     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00986445.2013.766603     Document Type: Article

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