Characterization of main heat transport processes in the Northeast German Basin: Constraints from 3-D numerical models

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Kaiser, Bjrn Onno ^a,b   Cacace, Mauro ^a,b   Scheck Wenderoth, Magdalena ^b   Lewerenz, Björn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Advection; convection; coupled fluid and heat transport; Northeast German Basin; numerical simulations; salt structures

Indexed keywords

FLUIDS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODELS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ADVECTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; GEOLOGY; HEAT CONDUCTION; HEAT CONVECTION; NUMERICAL MODELS;

BUOYANCY FORCES; COUPLED FLUID AND HEAT TRANSPORT; DENSITY-DRIVEN GROUNDWATER FLOW; FLUID DENSITIES; FLUID VISCOSITY; GEOLOGICAL LAYERS; GEOLOGICAL SETTING; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; HEAT TRANSPORT; NORTHEAST GERMAN BASIN; NUMERICAL MODELS; PERMEABILITY FIELDS; PERMIAN; PRESSURE FORCE; SALT STRUCTURES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; THERMAL ANOMALIES; THERMAL FIELD; THICK LAYERS; THICKNESS VALUE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; TOPOGRAPHIC GRADIENTS;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ADVECTION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SALT DOME; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL CONVECTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

GERMANY; NORTH GERMAN BASIN; NORTHEAST GERMAN BASIN;

EID: 79960686263     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003535     Document Type: Article

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