Abstract:
A Polycrystalline Diamond Compact (PDC) cutter for a rotary drill bit is provided with an integrated sensor and circuitry for making measurements of a property of a fluid in the borehole and/or an operating condition of the drill bit. A method of manufacture of the PDC cutter and the rotary drill bit is discussed.
Abstract:
A method, apparatus and system for estimating a parameter of interest downhole is disclosed. An acoustic source signal is generated at a drill bit downhole. The generated acoustic source signal is received at a source sensor at the drill bit. A character of the generated acoustic source signal is determined from the received signal at the source sensor. The characterized source signal is used to estimate the downhole parameter of interest.
Abstract:
In one aspect a method of estimating a property of interest of a formation is provided, which method in one embodiment may include: injecting nanoexplosive elements into the formation, detecting signals responsive to explosion of the nanoexplosive elements by one or more sensors, and processing the detected signals by a processor to estimate the property of interest of the formation.
Abstract:
A system and method for computing thermal boundary conditions from an unstructured computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation for a thermal simulation of a structural component are disclosed. The thermal boundary conditions include convective heat transfer coefficient (HTC) and reference temperature (Tref). In one embodiment, prism cells are formed to capture boundary layer substantially next to a wall of the structural component. Further, tetrahedral cells are formed to capture a diffused temperature layer substantially next to the formed last prism cell and in a direction normal to the wall. Furthermore, temperature of each of the prism cells is computed in the direction normal to the wall until a substantially first tetrahedral cell. In addition, the computed temperature of the prism cell that is substantially adjacent to the first tetrahedral cell is declared as the Tref. Also, the HTC is computed using the obtained Tref.
Abstract:
A method for forming a coating upon a wellbore tool includes forming a pattern of features supported by a body and forming a coating over the pattern of features. Forming the pattern of features includes forming a first feature and forming a second feature spaced from the first feature by a first width at a first elevation and by a second width at a second elevation, the second width being different than the first width, and the first elevation being further from an interior region of the body than the second elevation. Also disclosed is a wellbore tool comprising a coating covering a pattern of features and a method of utilizing a wellbore tool in a subterranean formation, the method including forming a pattern of features, forming a coating over the pattern, and disposing the wellbore tool in a borehole.
Abstract:
The present invention generally relates to computer software, and more specifically, to a computerized utility for analysis of optimized program files. A method and apparatus for optimized program analysis is disclosed.
Abstract:
A Polycrystalline Diamond Compact (PDC) cutter for a rotary drill bit is provided with an integrated sensor and circuitry for making measurements of a property of a fluid in the borehole and/or an operating condition of the drill bit. A method of manufacture of the PDC cutter and the rotary drill bit is discussed.
Abstract:
A method implemented in a node to forward data packets via a communication link to another node. The method includes receiving an indication of a resource level associated with one or more ports among the other node's ingress and egress ports. The indication to be received via a side-band communication link coupled to the other node. The method further includes forwarding one or more data packets associated with data to the other node based on the indicated resource level received via the side-band communication link.
Abstract:
A method that includes determining a pending data packet count for one or more data packets associated with data to be forwarded from a node to another node on a communication link and then comparing the pending data packet count to a threshold data packet count value. The method further includes forwarding the one or more data packets to the other node at a rate based on the comparison.
Abstract:
A novel optical sensor is used for monitoring the thickness of deposited thin film in real time. The sensor operates on the basic principle of a Fabry-Perot interferometer. A MEMS based design is used to fabricate the optical fiber sensor. Detail analytical results provide the theoretical model based on the Fabry-Perot interferometer, and show that the optical fiber sensor can successfully monitor and measure the thickness of deposited thin-film in real time. Since thin-film will be deposited simultaneously on both surfaces of sensor head and targeted silicon wafer, the sensor can be used in the fabrication of IC and MEMS devices j, as well as in proteomics, nano-sensors, and biosensors.