Technical analysis, field reports, and engineering insights from the FluidsMech Engineering team — covering flow measurement, CFD, pipeline integrity, and hydraulic systems.
Subscribe for full access to all analysesGas void fraction uncertainty cascades through every layer of a MPFM stack — how a 4% GVF error became a 12% allocation discrepancy at year-end.
Read Analysis →Installation-effect testing on nine Annubar configurations in a 48-inch line — the correction factors vendors don't publish.
Read Analysis →Coriolis, Venturi, and dual-energy gamma metering side by side on the same wellhead — which performs best in each GVF band.
Read Analysis →Blind validation of six CFD solvers against LDV measurements in a T-junction with strong recirculation — the failure modes that appear in every solver.
Read Analysis →Topology optimisation of a shell-side inlet manifold — how we reduced flow maldistribution from 31% to 4% without touching the tube bundle.
Read Analysis →Two-phase stratified flow at low velocities in a 48-inch crude trunk line — VOF simulations benchmarked against gamma densitometer traverses.
Read Analysis →Internal corrosion shifts surface roughness in ways that push transition Reynolds numbers 40–60% below textbook predictions — 18 months of pigging data.
Read Analysis →MOC vs CFD for a pump-trip transient in a 12-km pipeline — the check valve slam the 1D model predicted for entirely the wrong reason.
Read Analysis →Kaolin tailings at 55% w/w solids — why the Bingham plastic model still over-predicts pressure drop by 18% despite careful calibration.
Read Analysis →A pressure surge event that destroyed two check valves and deformed a 14-inch header — root cause and the surge suppressor specification that followed.
Read Analysis →Fourteen fatigue cracks in instrument root valves at a single refinery — the modal analysis that should have caught them at design stage.
Read Analysis →Twelve years of impeller inspection records across 34 offshore pump sets — which suction conditions predict early failure, and which don't.
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