Uncertainty analysis of thermo-hydro-mechanical coupled processes in heterogeneous porous media

Computational Mechanics

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 263-280

  Watanabe, Norihiro ^a,b   Wang, Wenqing ^a   McDermott, Christopher I ^c   Taniguchi, Takeo ^d   Kolditz, Olaf ^a,b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Geothermal reservoir analysis; Monte Carlo simulation; Sequential Gaussian simulation; Thermo hydro mechanical (THM) coupled processes; Uncertainty assessment

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW OF WATER; GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; POROUS MATERIALS; SPECIFIC HEAT;

GEOTHERMAL RESERVOIR; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; HYDRAULIC STIMULATIONS; PARAMETER UNCERTAINTY; SEQUENTIAL GAUSSIAN SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURES; THERMO-HYDRO-MECHANICAL COUPLED PROCESS; UNCERTAINTY ASSESSMENT;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955419170     PISSN: 01787675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00466-009-0445-9     Document Type: Article

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