Fluid flow and heat transfer within a single horizontal fracture in an enhanced geothermal system

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 133, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Mohais, Rosemarie ^a   Xu, Chaoshui ^a   Dowd, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

channel; enhanced geothermal systems; fracture; permeable walls

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL; CHANNEL WIDTHS; ENHANCED GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS; FLUID FLOWING; HORIZONTAL CHANNELS; HORIZONTAL FRACTURES; HOT DRY ROCK; INJECTION WELLS; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; PERMEABLE WALL; PERTURBATION EXPANSIONS; SIMILARITY SOLUTION; SLIP BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; SLIP COEFFICIENTS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES;

ENHANCED RECOVERY; FLOWING WELLS; FLUIDS; FRACTURE; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; GEOTHERMAL PROSPECTING; GEOTHERMAL WELLS; HEAT TRANSFER; HOT DRY ROCK SYSTEMS; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); REYNOLDS NUMBER; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; WATER INJECTION;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 80053242829     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4004369     Document Type: Article

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