Abstract
Opportunities and Challenges in CFD Modelling for Oil & Gas Operations
Technology is playing an increasingly important role in the oil & gas industry as it move towards harsher environments, stiffer environmental regulations, and tougher business climates. From operations stand-point, safety of processes is of prime importance followed by commercial efficiency. Most of operations primarily involve flowing hydrocarbons, Computational Fluid Dynamics is gaining lot of momentum in supporting operational excellence - from understanding the integrity/safety risks to equipment designs to extracting optimum yields from processes. An overview on the scope of CFD modelling will be provided on specific topics for upstream and downstream applications such as multiphase flow in pipelines, erosion-corrosion, FIV/VIV, crude blending and fluid catalytic cracking. Emphasis will be laid on challenges faced in accurately predicting the phenomena of interest due to multiphase, multiphysics and multiscale aspects.
About the Speaker
Mr. Madhusuden Agrawal, BP
Mr. Madhusuden Agrawal is currently Senior Principal Engineer in CFD CoE team at BP Houston. He has 20+ years’ experience in numerical modelling of fluid flow and mass/heat transfer. His expertise covers the cutting edge industrial-strength CFD analysis, simulations and optimization in wide range of applications in oil & gas, chemical, petrochemical field. Mr. Agrawal worked with ANSYS and Fluent for about 20 years prior to joining BP. He specializes in multiphase and particulate flow modelling.
