Propagation model with multi-boundary conditions for periodic mud pressure wave in long wellbore》.pdf

Applied Mathematical Modelling xxx (2015) xxx–xxx Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Applied Mathematical Modelling journal homepage: www.else /locate/apm Propagation model with multi-boundary conditions for periodic mud pressure wave in long wellbore Jiafeng Wu a, Ruihe Wang a,⇑, Rui Zhang a, Feng Sun b a College of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao 266555, China b Sinopec Shengli Oil Field Adm, Drilling Technol Res Inst, Dongying 257000, China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Periodic pressure waves propagating in drilling fluids along the wellbore are widely used to Received 13 October 2014 transmit the downhole information through the drillstring. Although various evaluation Received in revised form 28 March 2015 models for the wellbore and periodic pipe flows have been studied in published literature, Accepted 17 April 2015 the influence of the frequency and multi-boundary conditions on these models for the Available online xxxx non-Newtonian drilling fluid is rarely considered. The paper presents a one-dimensional equivalent model to simulate the propagation of the periodic pressure waves in drilling flu- Keywords: ids along the wellbore based on the assumption that the system is isothermal and the Propagation model internal diameter of drillstring is a constant value. Specially, t