A feedback-based inverse heat transfer method to estimate unperturbed temperatures in wellbores

This paper presents a feedback-based strategy to solve an inverse heat transfer problem for the estimation of unperturbed formation temperatures (UFT) from measured temperatures in wellbores. The feedback function uses the error between the measured and estimated temperatures during the shut-in process. Thus, an inverse heat transfer problem was solved in this way since the UFT represents the unknown initial conditions and the measured temperatures in the wellbore represents the particular solution of the PDE’S governing the heat transfer process in the formation and in the wellbore system. The performance of the method is illustrated via numerical simulations of two wells: (a) oil well FE-1227 from the Gulf of Mexico maritime zone and (b) well CP-0512 from Cerro Prieto Mexican geothermal field.

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