Abercus News
The HPC edition of NAFEMS’ Benchmark magazine – Abercus discusses the use of HPC for undertaking probabilistic explosion assessments
Abercus Technical Director Steve Howell contributed to the HPC edition (April 2016) of NAFEMS Benchmark magazine. His article, which considered the use of HPC for undertaking probabilistic explosion assessments, is available for download here. NAFEMS is the...
Abercus presents at the NSRI subsea storage workshop – Subsea storage – flow assurance, issues and challenges
Abercus Technical Director Steve Howell presented at the NSRI workshop in Aberdeen in April. The workshop considered how subsea storage could be used as a potential solution for small pools. Steve's paper, which focused on the issues and challenges associated with...
Abercus presents to the ERCOFTAC oil and gas special interest group in Oslo – Determining structural design loads by using CFD to simulate explosions within a probabilistic framework – current best practice and future trends
Abercus directors Steve Howell and Simon Feven presented at the ERCOFTAC oil and gas special interest group workshop in Oslo in April. Their paper focused on how structural design loads are determined by using CFD to simulate explosions within a probabilistic...
Abercus presents at Offshore Engineering 2015 – Enabling improved analysis data for blast protection of offshore structures
Abercus directors Steve Howell and Simon Feven presented at the Offshore Engineering 2015 conference in Aberdeen in December. Their paper focused on methods aimed at improving the integration of explosion and blast analysis data in structural design to enable improved...
Abercus presents at the SPE flow assurance workshop – On the role of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in flow assurance, with reference to fluids sampling and ISO3171
Abercus Technical Director Steve Howell presented at the SPE Flow assurance: ensuring production today, creating solutions for tomorrow workshop in Edinburgh in October. His paper focused the use of CFD for flow assurance activities, with particular reference to...
Abercus presents at the Sand Management Network workshop – On the use of computational fluid dynamics for predicting issues relating to produced sand
Abercus presented a poster at the Sand Management Network workshop in Aberdeen in September, focusing on the use of CFD for sand management applications, specifically sand erosion and sand accumulation wihin vessels. Our poster is available for download here.
Abercus presents at the FLACS user group meeting in London
The FLACS user group (FLUG) meeting was hosted by BP at the Sunbury facility south of London. Abercus' contribution considered how to model the local ventilation efficiency for a facility in accordance with the ISO15138 (2007) requirements. Calculation of the global...
Abercus presents at the Technip CFD/FEA simulation forum in Rio de Janeiro
Abercus presents at the FLACS user group meeting in Bergen
Abercus presents at the Star Global Conference in Vienna
Abercus and Caltec presented at the Star global conference in Vienna in March. The presentation focussed on Caltec's patented WX (water extraction) technology and the role of CFD in improving performance, and is available for download here.
Abercus presents at the Subsea Expo in Aberdeen
Abercus presents at the Produced water best management practices conference in Kuala Lumpar
Abercus and Caltec presented at the Produced water best management practices conference in Kuala Lumpar in November. The presentation focussed on Caltec's patented WX (water extraction) technology and the role of CFD in improving performance, and is available...