Heat loss to the surrounding rock formation from a geothermal wellbore

Geothermics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 329-349

  Kanev, Kamen ^a   Ikeuchi, Jun ^a   Kimura, Shigeo ^b   Okajima, Atsushi ^b  

^a TOHOKU NATL INDUST RES INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Geothermal wells; HDR; Heat transfer; Japan; Modelling; Ogachi

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; CALCULATIONS; HEAT LOSSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROCKS; THERMAL GRADIENTS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

DOWNHOLE TEMPERATURE; PECLET NUMBER; SCALE ANALYSIS; SINGLE PHASE FLOW; WELLHEAD TEMPERATURE;

GEOTHERMAL WELLS;

GEOTHERMAL RESERVOIR; HEAT TRANSFER; MODELING; ROCK;

GEOTHERMAL WELL; HEAT TRANSFER; HOT DRY ROCK;

EID: 0031160813     PISSN: 03756505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-6505(96)00046-6     Document Type: Article

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