"Pipe Flow 1: Single-phase Flow Assurance" by Ove Bratland

This book is the first in a series of two, and it focuses mostly on single-phase flow. An up-to-date reference for engineers and developers involved with liquid or gas pipelines and networks.

This book is primarily about single-phase flow, meaning it focuses on pipes carrying either a liquid or a gas, but not both at the same time.

This volume:
• Explores topics essential to studying single-phase liquid and gas pipe flow.
• Includes a marked survey of commercially available multi- and single-phase simulation programs.
• New, improved diagrams and formulas for more accurate friction calculations.
• How to include junctions, bends, valves, pumps and other common components.
• Both steady-state and transient simulations.
• The methods are built on the very latest from numerical mathematics, fluid mechanics, software development and market studies.


Brief Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 Pipe friction
3 Friction in non-circular pipes
4 Friction losses in components
5 Non-Newtonian fluids and friction
6 Transient flow
7 Simplified liquid flow solution
8 Heat exchange
9 Adding heat calculations to the characteristics method
10 Solving the conservation equations
11 Ghost cells
12 Boundary conditions
13 Filling the ghost cells by using the boundary conditions directly
14 Simulation results and program testing
15 Simplified models
Nomenclature
Index


The author, Dr. Ove Bratland, was awarded his PhD from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1985.
His technical qualifications cover an unusually broad range of skills, including hydraulics and pneumatics, pipe flow with special emphasis on flow assurance, flow measurement, dynamic simulations, software development, dynamic system analysis, and automation.
He has worked hands-on with most systems common to the upstream petroleum industry, particularly those found on oil rigs and subsea in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.

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