Date of Graduation
2017
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Type
MS
College
Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources
Department
Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Committee Chair
Ali Takbiri Borujeni
Committee Co-Chair
Samuel Ameri
Committee Member
Ebrahim Fathi
Committee Member
Shahab Mohaghegh
Abstract
Multiphase flow simulations are essential methods for providing information such as the evolution of phase fraction (gas, liquid and solid), velocities, pressure, temperature and flow regimes at every time during a process. Dynamic flow simulations also help reservoir, drilling, and production engineers to develop a proper well design. DamBreak problem is one of the most well-known problems in computational fluid dynamics (CFD); it is a dynamic hydraulic phenomena and the numerical simulation requires sophisticated mathematical modeling. OpenFOAM, is used to run CFD simulations in this thesis.;One of the main issues in CFD is that the simulations are time-consuming. In this work, will use artificial intelligence (AI) to predict the behavior of the system at each time-step of the process at a lower run time. DamBreak problem is defined base on a two-dimensional rectangular tank with a barrier at the bottom, the liquid column (water in this study) at the left side of the tank behind the wall. As soon as the wall collapse, the water will pour down, resulting in complicated fluid dynamics. The main data-set, generated by OpenFOAM flow simulations, is used for building the smart proxy model (SPM), using the network toolbox in MATLAB. Neural network (NN) is applied with feed-forward back propagation method and the training algorithm is Levenberg Marquardt.;Results indicate that the smart proxy can run 3 seconds of the DamBreak process, which takes 8 hours of computational time with 4 processors when is done by using OpenFOAM, takes less than 2 minutes using the developed SPM on one processor. SPM is also capable of predicting the CFD results in non-cascading condition and up to around 40 time-steps in cascading condition with acceptable error (less than %10).
Recommended Citation
Hosseini Boosari, Seyed Sina, "Developing a Smart Proxy for Predicting the Fluid Dynamic in DamBreak Flow Simulation by Using Artificial Intelligence" (2017). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports. 5824.
https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/5824