Adaptive Hierarchical Fracture Model for Enhanced Geothermal Systems

DOI10.1137/140983987zbMath1381.86005OpenAlexW2276853594MaRDI QIDQ2806406

D. C. Karvounis, Patrick Jenny

Publication date: 18 May 2016

Published in: Multiscale Modeling & Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/140983987

zbMATH Keywords

discrete fracture modelenhanced geothermal systemsunconventional reservoir simulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Brittle fracture (74R10) Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05) Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M12) Computational methods for problems pertaining to geophysics (86-08) Geophysical solid mechanics (74L05) Potentials, prospecting (86A20) PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids (35Q74) PDEs in connection with geophysics (35Q86)

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