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Heating of Oil Well by Hot Water Circulation

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When highly viscous oil is produced at low temperatures, large pressure drops will significantly decrease production rate. One of possible solutions to this problem is heating of oil well by hot water recycling. We construct and analyze a mathematical model of oil-well heating composed of three linear parabolic PDE coupled with one Volterra integral equation. Further on we construct numerical method for the model and present some simulation results.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Mladen Jurak

  2. INA-Naftaplin, d. o. o., Cagreb, Croatia

    Žarko Prnić

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  1. University of Zagreb, Croatia

    Zlatko Drmač , Miljenko Marušić  & Zvonimir Tutek ,  & 

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Jurak, M., Prnić, Ž. (2005). Heating of Oil Well by Hot Water Circulation. In: Drmač, Z., Marušić, M., Tutek, Z. (eds) Proceedings of the Conference on Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3197-1_16

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