Research Article

Mathematical Modeling Applied to Drilling Engineering: An Application of Bourgoyne and Young ROP Model to a Presalt Case Study

Table 5

Results of the simulation with originally suggested drillability coefficients and normalization values with the aim of minimizing the relative error.

 Lower boundary [unitless]Upper boundary [unitless]Calculated coefficients [unitless]

0.51.91.083550
0.0000010.00050.000001
0.0000010.00090.000900
0.0000010.00010.000001
0.52.00.500000
041.00.651057
0.31.50.300000
0.30.60.402447
-squaredāˆ’2.6091334
Relative error0.4572496