海底管道颗粒侵蚀数值模拟技术及考察.pdfVIP

ABSTRACT The safety and reliability of pipelines must be ensured to meet the demand of further development in deepwater oil and gas drilling technology. Solid particle erosion in submarine pipelines is a severe problem involved in hydrocarbon transportation as well as an important topic of the flow assurance. Much research has been carried out on solid particle erosion mechanism at home and abroad until now, the development of CFD-based model greatly a elerated the process of the exploration on solid particle erosion. This model gives sufficient consideration to the complex flow field and the particle trajectory inside the pipelines，hence it has shown distinct advantages compared to the experience models and semi-empirical models. The procedure consists of three main sections: flow modeling, particle tracking and penetration calculation. A ording to the steps above, the present work firstly verifies the validity of the CFD-based erosion model, then a set of feasible erosion prediction method is built to summarize the general process of the solid particle erosion within pipelines. Good agreement between experimental data and the simulation results is demonstrated by using several erosion equations. The reliable numerical technology was established for the solid particle erosion in pipelines to provide important technical guidance to engineering applications. During the calculation ，the shear stress transport model is employed to analyze the flow field and a Lagrangian method combined with particle stochastic rebound model is adopted to track the particle trajectories. Based on the knowledge of the flow field and the particle motions, four solid particle erosion models are introduced in ANS