Integration of computational fluid dynamics simulation and statistical factorial experimental design of thick-wall crude oil pipeline with heat loss
CFD with statistics was developed for flow simulation in a thick-wall pipeline. Crude oil temperature decreased along pipeline length and radius. Heat transfer coefficient and ambient temperature were the effect parameters. Increasing heat transfer coefficient decreases the wax appearance distance. Increasing ambient temperature increases the wax appearance distance.
computational fluid dynamics experimental design thick-wall crude oil pipeline wax appearance distance