A comprehensive review of solid particle erosion modeling for oil and gas wells and pipelines applications

Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue , 2014, Pages 850-873

  Parsi, Mazdak ^a   Najmi, Kamyar ^a   Najafifard, Fardis ^b   Hassani, Shokrollah ^c   McLaury, Brenton S ^a   Shirazi, Siamack A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b Institute for Corrosion and Multiphase Technology   (United States)

^c BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

CFD based erosion modeling; Erosion equation; Multiphase flow; Sand particle erosion; Single phase flow

Indexed keywords

EROSION MODELING; OIL AND GAS WELL; SAND PARTICLES; SINGLE-PHASE FLOW; SOLID PARTICLE EROSION;

MULTIPHASE FLOW;

EID: 84908653764     PISSN: 18755100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jngse.2014.10.001     Document Type: Review

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