Modeling Drilling Dynamics with Simulink

The drilling industry has substantially improved performance based on knowledge from physics-based, statistical, and empirical models of components and systems. However, open-source packages and several commercial software struggle with modeling drilling dynamics. Simulink^® has several inbuilt capabilities that enable you to work more efficiently and improve your development of drilling models. Explore how you can:

• Manage models and data in one place in a collaborative, scalable environment with Simulink Projects
• Use Simulink to convert MATLAB^® scripts to MATLAB functions that simplify the task of building models
• Create a custom interface with block masking to hide the block content and simplify the user interface to the model
• Create custom libraries for common drilling dynamics such as drill string, heavyweight drill pipe, drill bit, and mud motor
• Use the variant subsystem to easily swap out the active implementation and replace with alternate configurations without modifying the model