• closedAccess   Numerical investigation of the effect of viscosity in a multistage electric submersible pump 

      Minoru Ofuchi, Edgar; Stel, Henrique; Sirino, Thiago; Silva Vieira, Tatiana; Ponce, Francisco Javier; chiva, sergio; Morales, Rigoberto E. M. Taylor & Francis (2017-02-04)
      Electric submersible pump (ESP) systems are commonly used as an artificial lift technique by the petroleum industry. Operations of ESPs in oil wells are subjected to performance degradation due to the effect of oil viscosity. ...
    • closedAccess   Numerical investigation of the flow in a multistage electric submersible pump 

      Stel, Henrique; Sirino, Thiago; Ponce, Francisco Javier; chiva, sergio; Morales, Rigoberto E. M. Elsevier (2015-12)
      This article presents a numerical study on the flow in a multistage, mixed-type Electric Submersible Pump (ESP). Several details about the application of a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) program based on the finite ...