Distribution of thermal conductivities in the Groß Schönebeck (Germany) test site based on 3D inversion of deep borehole data

Geothermics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 46-58

  Ollinger, Dieter ^a   Baujard, Clément ^a   Kohl, Thomas ^a   Moeck, Inga ^b  

^a GEOWATT AG   (Switzerland)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

EGS; Exploration; Geothermal; Germany; Gro Sch nebeck; I GET Project; Numerical techniques; Thermal model

Indexed keywords

3D GEOLOGICAL MODEL; 3D INVERSION; DEEP BOREHOLES; DEEP WELLS; FINITE ELEMENT MESHES; GEOLOGIC LAYERS; GERMANY; HIGH QUALITY; INHOMOGENEITIES; INVERSE MODELING; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES; TEMPERATURE DATA; TEMPERATURE FIELD; TEST SITE; THERMAL MODEL; VARIABLE THICKNESS;

CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOLOGIC MODELS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT);

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BOREHOLE LOGGING; CALIBRATION; DEEP DRILLING; EXPLORATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; HEAT FLUX; INHOMOGENEITY; INVERSE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

GERMANY;

EID: 77949268986     PISSN: 03756505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geothermics.2009.11.004     Document Type: Article

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