Methods of simulation, visualisation and measurement of corrosion and erosion for pipeline assurance

The overall aim of the proposed research is to predict the effects of corrosion and erosion for pipeline assurance using both theoretical simulation and experimental measurement. The university has an outstanding research records on the pipeline corrosion theory, measurement and application, CFD modelling for fluid flow, particle/pollutant-laden fluid flows and heat and mass transfer, and experimental visualisation of multiphase fluid flow characteristics with electrical impedance tomography. The proposed research is to develop of a method of pipeline assurance which can take both the chemical corrosion and the physical erosion into account, a method of the measurement which can report the impacts from both erosion and corrosion and also observe the fluid flow characteristics by the means of Measurement, tomography and CFD. The research will be collaborative carried out at the Corrosion and Surface Engineering Research Group, the Centre of Computational Fluid Dynamics, and the flow facilities of the On-line Instrumentation Laboratory of Faculty of Engineering at the University of Leeds and also seeks a collaboration with China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and carry out experimental work at the high pressure and temperature flow facilities at the Materials Evaluation and Corrosion Control Centre of the Engineering Company Limited Southwest of CNPC. It would be better that the research can be carried out by two PhDs who work on simulation and measurement respectively, in the way of either parallel or sequience.