Nodal Systems Analysis Using Object-Oriented Programming Techniques

Efficient design of a flowing or artificially lifted well requires analysis of its components in conjunction with the entire system. These analyses customarily are called nodal systems analyses. Development of computer programs for nodal systems analysis is a complex and time-consuming task, mainly because of the complexity of the system. A recently emerging programming technique, object-oriented programming (OOP) can give programmers an excellent means for solving such difficult problems. The aim of this paper is to show the use of OOP programming techniques in the development of a computer program for nodal systems analysis. The program described here was written in TURBO PASCAL 6.0, and its menu system was created using Turbo Vision.