Patent ID: 9483586
Filing Date: 2016-11-01
CPC Classification: E21B,G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method of modeling drilling equipment comprising: constructing two or more design configurations, wherein each of the design configurations represents at least a portion of a bottom hole assembly (BHA); identifying operating parameters for the two or more design configurations; selecting lateral model mathematical boundary conditions for a lateral beam bending mathematical model that provide system excitation through a lateral mode, wherein the two or more design configurations are subjected to identical lateral system excitation; calculating lateral beam bending results using the lateral beam bending mathematical model in a computer processor accessing non-transitory computer readable media, for each of the two or more design configurations using the identified operating parameters and the selected mathematical boundary conditions; comparing the calculated results for the two or more design configurations; displaying the calculated results of at least one of the two or more design configurations; selecting operating parameters for at least a portion of a bottom hole assembly design configuration, based on the calculated results for the two or more design configurations, and selecting at least a portion of the bottom hole assembly design configuration, based on the selected operating parameters; and drilling a well with drilling equipment based at least on the selected bottom hole assembly design configuration.