Fluids Engineer

Upwing Energy is developing and commercializing first-of-their-kind Subsurface Compressor Systems (SCS) for natural gas extraction. Our development efforts combine exciting engineering challenges in turbomachinery; rotordynamics; high-speed and high-power electric motors; power electronics; industrial automation; aerodynamics; structural, thermal and fluid flow simulations; mechanical design and design-for-manufacturability.

The ideal Fluids Engineer will have a strong analytical background with experience matching models to test data. This position will own compressor performance requirements definition based on gas reservoir data from reservoir engineering. Throughout the product development process, the Fluids Engineer will provide design, analysis and test contributions to the team from a fluid mechanics and dynamics perspective as well as work with the engineering and test teams to correlate models to test results.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Motor Thermal Analysis with conjugate heat transfer
• Material thermal property characterization
• Turbulent fluid simulation
• Fluid Property Modeling
• Windage Estimation
• Pressure Loss Estimation for basic tubing flows
• Correlation Development
• Compressor Thermodynamic Analysis
• Bearing Heat Transfer Analysis
• OLGA: wellbore modelling and data matching
• OLGA: preliminary wellbore with the SCS system curve development (using pressure boost module)
• OLGA: advanced wellbore with the SCS (using compressor module)
• Develop OLGA compatible compressor map
• System optimization with OLGA
• Develop/deliver compressor design specification for compressor design team
• Field data analysis and integration into OLGA model
• Piping network analysis
• Integration of advanced reservoir models (ROCX, Eclipse)
• Reports updates of activities and status to teams and management regularly

Skills, Experience, Education, and Abilities:

• Mechanical Engineering degree
• A minimum of 5 years of engineering experience with a minimum of 3 years of fluid mechanics and dynamics analysis experience
• Computational Fluid Dynamics proficiency with tools like ANSYS Fluent, and ANSYS CFX
• Heat Transfer proficiency with tools, such as ANSYS Mechanical
• Strong practical application of engineering fundamentals, including
• Fluid Mechanics & Dynamics
• Thermodynamics
• Thermodynamic Cycle Analysis
• Equations of State
• Demonstrated Skill with the following tools is preferred:
• REFPROP
• Multiflash
• OLGA
• PIPESIM
• Scripting and programming languages such as Python, MATLAB, Excel VBA
• Excel

Intangibles Sought:

• Must have the initiative to take ownership and drive results
• Fundamental curiosity as to how things work
• Drive to constantly learn new things and apply them to development and improvement of analysis methods
• Determination to investigate and understand root cause of problems
• Ability to communicate problems, analysis and results clearly to a general engineering audience of various specializations
• Be open to new ideas and input from others in a collegial, team environment
• Strong organizational skills
• Integrity, commitment and honesty
• Readiness to do whatever task is necessary to move the product/team/company forward