TOUGH-RFPA: Coupled thermal-hydraulic-mechanical Rock Failure Process Analysis with application to deep geothermal wells

An Approach to Modeling Coupled Thermal-hydraulic-chemical Processes in Geothermal Systems

Interactions between hydrothermal fluids and rock alter mineralogy, leading to the formation of secondary minerals and potentially significant physical and chemical property changes. Reactive transport simulations are essential for evaluating the coupled processes controlling the geochemical, thermal and hydrological evolution of geothermal systems. The objective of this preliminary investigati...

Failure diagnosis and nonlinear observer. Application to a hydraulic process

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Rock Mass Response to Coupled Mechanical Thermal Loading Äspö Pillar Stability Experiment, Sweden

Coupled chemical-hydraulic-mechanical behaviour of bentonites

Massively Parallel Fully Coupled Implicit Modeling of Coupled Thermal-hydrological-mechanical Processes for Enhanced Geothermal System Reservoirs

Development of enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) will require creation of a reservoir of sufficient volume to enable commercial-scale heat transfer from the reservoir rocks to the working fluid. A key assumption associated with reservoir creation/stimulation is that sufficient rock volumes can be hydraulically fractured via both tensile and shear failure, and more importantly by reactivation of...