THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE CONICAL SWIRLING WATER JET FLOW

This paper is concerned with theoretical and experimental study on theconical swirling water jet flow.Based upon the theoretical analysis,the experiment on thestructural characteristics of swirling water jet flow including the velocity and pressure dis-tribution laws,on which the parameters of the jet,nozzle and directional blades havemore or less influence,was carried out in CSSRC by using a 3-D LDV in order to optimizea new high-efficiency jet instead of swirling drilling bit for rock-breaking and continuouslydrilling,and to meet the demand of radial horizontal drilling technology.Meanwhile basedon the experimental results,the numerical simulation was conducted for the conicalswirling water jet in the immersed well-bottom flow by solving the RANS equations in the3-D body-fitted coordinate system with the k-ε turbulence model.The numerical resultsare consistent with the experimental data,and lead to some conclusions which are impor-tant for applying the conical swirling water jet to the petroleum drill

THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE CONICAL SWIRLING WATER JET FLOW

This paper is concerned with theoretical and experimental study on the conical swirling water jet flow. Based upon the theoretical analysis, the experiment on the structural characteristics of swirling water jet flow including the velocity and pressure distribution laws, on which the parameters of the jet, nozzle and directional blades have more or less influence, was carried out in CSSRC by using a 3-D LDV in order to optimize a new high-efficiency jet instead of swirling drilling bit for rock-breaking and continuously drilling, and to meet the demand of radial horizontal drilling technology. Meanwhile based on the experimental results, the numerical simulation was conducted for the conical swirling water jet in the immersed well-bottom flow by solving the RANS equations in the 3-D body-fitted coordinate system with the k-e. turbulence model. The numerical results are consistent with the experimental data, and lead to some conclusions which are important for applying the conical swirling water jet to the petroleum drilling engineering.