Thermal Analysis of a Perforated Vertical Wellbore

A numerical simulation of the effect evaluation heat loss and temperature distribution along wellbore is performed, for two models, first an open hole (without perforation) other a perforated vertical wellbore. In this study, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software code ANSYS FLUENT 15.0 has been used, simulate model 3-D turbulent flow with stander k-ϵ model. The results show that, increasing losses leads to increase in gradient, while gradient decreases inlet main velocity. Also, produced crude oil length