A three-dimensional thermo-poroelastic model for fracture response to injection/extraction in enhanced geothermal systems

Geothermics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 39-49

  Ghassemi, A ^a   Zhou, X ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary element; Enhanced geothermal systems; Fracture deformation; Fracture slip; Geothermal; Heat transport; Induced seismicity; Natural fracture; Poroelasticity; Thermoelasticity

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENTS; ENHANCED GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS; GEOTHERMAL; HEAT TRANSPORT; INDUCED SEISMICITY; NATURAL FRACTURE; PORO-ELASTICITY;

BOUNDARY INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUIDS; FRACTURE; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; GEOTHERMAL PROSPECTING; GEOTHERMAL WELLS; HEAT TRANSFER; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SEISMOLOGY; THERMOELASTICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WATER INJECTION;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

BOUNDARY INTEGRAL METHOD; DEFORMATION; FLUID INJECTION; FRACTURE; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; HEAT TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROELASTICITY; RESERVOIR; SEISMICITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THERMOELASTICITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 79951671580     PISSN: 03756505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geothermics.2010.12.001     Document Type: Article

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