Title :
Modeling the transport of drilling muds: Comparison of bblt and ParTrack models
Author :
Niu, Haibo ; Drozdowski, Adam
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Eng., Dalhousie Univ., Truro, NS, Canada
Abstract :
This paper presents a case study to compare and evaluate two drilling mud transport models, ParTrack and bblt. A near bottom release of barite particles under rotary current conditions was simulated with four scenarios. The two ParTrack scenarios release the barite at different depths (1m and 5m) above seabed and the two bblt scenarios use different user specified log-layer depths. Predicted sediment concentrations at four cross-sections were compared.
Keywords :
drilling (geotechnical); sediments; ParTrack model; bblt model; bblt scenarios; drilling mud transport modeling; user specified log-layer depths; Discharges (electric); Dispersion; Fault location; Oceans; Predictive models; Sediments; ParTrack; bblt; drilling muds; model comparison; sediment transport;
Conference_Titel :
Oceans - St. John's, 2014
Conference_Location :
St. John´s, NL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-4920-5
DOI :
10.1109/OCEANS.2014.7003015
