Maximus has principally been designed for solving complex and difficult engineering problems, such as optimisation or stochastic analysis.  However, these more difficult problems usually have as their basis the solution of a more straightforward problem, albeit repeatedly.

For example, consider the case of optimising a gathering network to maximise the amount of produced oil by adjusting certain parameters such as the distribution of gaslift injection or the routing of wellstream fluids through alternative pipelines.  In this case, one has to solve the basic gathering network many times with different values of the optimising parameters in order to determine the best configuration and/or settings.  Therefore, central to this optimisation is the solution of a relatively straightforward network problem.  The complexity of the optimisation only arises because of the computational effort required to perform many network solutions and the difficulties encountered in choosing the direction towards the optimum.

Maximus is able to solve the basic engineering systems just as well as the more complex ones.  In fact, Maximus is excellent at solving the simpler problems because it has been designed to solve more complex ones.  Indeed, it is essential that the basic operations (e.g. pipeline integration or network simulation) are performed quickly and robustly otherwise the more complex solutions become impractical or even impossible!

For more information about using Maximus to solve basic engineering systems, please select from the following:

1.      Well Tubing, Pipeline and Riser Simulation

2.      Network Simulation

3.      Life-of-Field Simulation 

4.      Fluid Analysis