Question: A drilling operation involves circulating drilling mud to cool the drill string and maintain safe downhole temperatures. The drill string has a surface temperature of

A drilling operation involves circulating drilling mud to cool the drill string and maintain safe downhole temperatures. The drill string has a surface temperature of 180\deg C, and the drilling mud enters the wellbore at 60\deg C. The convective heat transfer coefficient between the mud and the drill string is 100 W/m'.K. The surface area of the drill string in contact with the mud is 15 m?. The mud is flowing at a velocity of 1.5 m/s through a wellbore with a diameter of 0.2 m.The mud has the following properties:Density p =1200 kg/m3Dynamic viscosity 4=0.004 Pa.sSpecific heat capacity cp =2200 J/kg. KThermal
conductivity k =0.45 W/m.K Answer the following:a. Calculate the rate of heat transfer from the drill string to the mud using Newton's law of cooling.b. Determine the Reynolds number for the mud flow and interpret the flow regime.c. Calculate the Nusselt number for the flow, assuming a characteristic length equal to the wellbore diameter.d. Determine the Prandtl number for the mud.e. Discuss how increasing the flow rate of the mud affects the convective heat transfer rate and flow regime.

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