A critical review of flow maps for gas-liquid flows in vertical pipes and annuli

B Wu, M Firouzi, T Mitchell, TE Rufford… - Chemical Engineering …, 2017 - Elsevier
The accurate prediction of two-phase gas and liquid flow regimes is important in the proper
design, operation and scale-up of pressure management and fluid handling systems in a …

Two-phase flow patterns and flow-pattern maps: fundamentals and applications

L Cheng, G Ribatski, JR Thome - 2008 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
A comprehensive review of the studies of gas-liquid two-phase flow patterns and flow-
pattern maps at adiabatic and diabatic conditions is presented in this paper. Especially …

Computational fluid dynamics simulations of Taylor bubbles rising in vertical and inclined concentric annuli

Y Liu, EM Ozbayoglu, ER Upchurch… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Motivated by a dearth of research on the dynamics of single Taylor bubbles in annular
conduits, a computational study of Taylor bubbles rising in vertical and inclined annuli is …

The heat and mass transfer characteristics of superheated steam coupled with non-condensing gases in horizontal wells with multi-point injection technique

F Sun, Y Yao, X Li - Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, a series of works are conducted to study the heat and mass transfer
characteristics of superheated steam & non-condensing gases (SNG) flow in horizontal …

Aspects of wellbore heat transfer during two-phase flow

AR Hasan, CS Kabir - SPE Production & Facilities, 1994 - onepetro.org
Wellbore fluid temperature is governed by the rate of heat loss from the wellbore to the
surrounding formation, which in turn is a function of depth and production/injection time. We …

Experimental and theoretical studies on Taylor bubbles rising in stagnant non-Newtonian fluids in inclined non-concentric annuli

Y Liu, ER Upchurch, EM Ozbayoglu - International Journal of Multiphase …, 2022 - Elsevier
Experiments have been conducted measuring the drift velocity (U d) of single Taylor bubbles
rising in stagnant Bingham plastic fluids in an inclined (4°≤ θ≤ 45° from vertical) and fully …

Investigation of Taylor bubble dynamics in annular conduits with counter-current flow

Y Liu, T Mitchell, ER Upchurch, EM Ozbayoglu… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study numerically investigates counter-current slug flow by considering the motion of a
Taylor bubble in annular conduits with downward-flowing liquids using the Volume-of-Fluid …

Numerical analysis of velocity field and energy transformation, and prediction model for Taylor bubbles in annular slug flow of static power law fluid

W Lou, Z Wang, B Guo, S Pan, Y Liu, B Sun - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Considering the rheological constitutive model and flow-control equation of the fluid around
a Taylor bubble in an annulus, a prediction model of the flow field around the Taylor bubble …

Gas migration model for non-Newtonian fluids under shut-in well conditions

Y Liu, ER Upchurch, EM Ozbayoglu… - SPE/IADC Drilling …, 2023 - onepetro.org
Addressing gas migration in a static mud column during the shut-in period is a major
concern in Pressurized Mud Cap Drilling (PMCD). Significant discrepancies have been …

A numerical approach for obtaining type curves of superheated multi-component thermal fluid flow in concentric dual-tubing wells

F Sun, Y Yao, X Li, P Yu, L Zhao, Y Zhang - International Journal of Heat …, 2017 - Elsevier
Huge amount of works have been done on wellbore modeling, but most of the researchers
focused on saturated thermal fluid, with very little efforts on superheated multi-component …