a master's thesis at the College of Engineering at the University of Basrah discussing (a numerical and experimental study of the flow through a horizontal well bore for oil)
The thesis presented by the student Muhammad Adnan Mustafa dealt with a numerical and experimental study to verify the flow through holes at an angle of 180° and 90° in a horizontal borehole. In the numerical study, the ANSYS FLUENT program and a model were used
Standard turbulence (k-e) for the study of fluid flow in a three-dimensional, stable, and unsustainable state
for compression. The continuity and momentum equations were solved using the finite volume method and applied SIMPLE algorithm to correlate pressure and velocity within the flow field
The experimental device is built to calculate the friction pressure drop and the exit velocity calculation In the horizontal tube it is done after mixing the axial flow with the radial flow through the holes in the borehole
The same hole dimensions were used
The well for experimental work and numerical simulation.
The thesis aims at a numerical and experimental study of the flow through a horizontal well bore for oil
The thesis concluded that the average error between the numerical and experimental results for the total pressure drop is about 4.5%.
In addition, the productivity index of a 90° phase angle is higher than that of a 180° phase angle
About 2.1%. It was concluded that there is a great agreement between the experimental and numerical results with the phase angle
180° and 90° by studying pressure drop, apparent friction factor.