With an applied focus, and aiming to anticipate the future industry needs, this multidisciplinary research line addresses relevant to issues in the pipeline transportation segment of the oil and natural gas production and distribution chain. The main topics include structural integrity, risk analysis, risk-based inspection, structural analysis of subsea pipelines, sensing and instrumentation, instrumented pigs, thermo-hydraulic flow simulation and flow assurance.
Professors:
This research line focuses on issues relevant to the Exploration and Production (E&P) segment of the oil and natural gas chain. Research work includes reservoir engineering, drilling, well engineering, and production engineering. Research topics in this line include fiber optic sensing for permanent downhole monitoring, intelligent completion, smart fields, rheology of unconventional fluids of interest in the E&P segment, multiphase flow, fluid flow in the drilling process, flow in porous media, emulsion flow, and reservoir modeling.
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This research line focuses on the rational use of energy sources, considering thermodynamic, economic and environmental aspects. Topic under development include conversion of diesel engines to natural gas consumption, cogeneration and alternative generation, fuel cells for electricity generation and cogeneration, as well as regulation of the natural gas sector in the country’s market.
Professors:
Robotics Laboratory
Rheology Laboratory
Computational Transport Phenomena Laboratory
Fluid Engineering Laboratory
Micro Hydrodynamics and Porous Media Laboratory
Dynamics and Vibrations Laboratory
Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics Laboratory
Photomechanics Laboratory
Fiber Optic Sensors Laboratory
MEC2231 – Fracture Mechanics and Fatigue
MEC2240 – Theory of Elasticity
MEC2303 – Thermodynamics
MEC2310 – Experimental Methods in Thermosciences
MEC2320 – Transport Phenomena
MEC2335 – Computational Fluid Dynamics
MEC2341 – Advanced Computing in Transport Phenomena
MEC2343 – Solar Energy
MEC2344 – Fluid Mechanics I
MEC2345 – Fluid Mechanics II
MEC2346 – Multiphase Flow
MEC2350 – Finite Elements in Fluids
MEC2352 – Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
MEC2354 – Thermal Accumulation
MEC2362 – Solid Modeling
MEC2363 – Dynamic Systems
MEC2364 – Dynamics
MEC2365 – Nonlinear Finite Elements
MEC2367 – Structural Integrity
MEC2372 – Introduction to Petroleum Economics
MEC2373 – Flow in Pipelines
MEC2374 – Pipeline in Mechanical Design
MEC2376 – Non-Newtonian Fluids in the Oil Industry
MEC2377 – Flow in Porous Media
MEC2378 – Thermodynamic Analysis of Processes
MEC2379 – Cogeneration Systems Analysis
MEC2380 – Oil Well Completion
MEC2381 – Oil Well Drilling
MEC2382 – Natural Gas Engineering
MEC2383 – Well Engineering
MEC2384 – Reservoir Engineering
MEC2385 – Production Engineering
MEC2386 – Energy Systems
MEC2387 – Offshore Production Systems
MEC2388 – Fundamentals of Combustion
MEC2389 – Advanced Reservoir Engineering
MEC2390 – Advanced Well Engineering
MEC2391 – Advanced Production Engineering
MEC2961 – Fiber Optic Sensors