Model Simulations of the Hengill Area, Southwestern Iceland

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-22

  Gunnarsson, Gunnar ^a   Arnaldsson, Andri ^b   Oddsdóttir, Anna Lilja ^a  

^a formerly at Iceland GeoSurvey   (Iceland)

^b Vatnaskil Consulting Engineers   (Iceland)

Author keywords

3D model simulations; Geothermal; Reservoir Physics; Sustainability; TOUGH2

Indexed keywords

3D MODELS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DOWNHOLE MEASUREMENTS; ENERGY SOURCE; GEOTHERMAL; ICELANDS; MODEL SIMULATION; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; POTENTIAL PRODUCTION; PRODUCTION CAPACITY; PRODUCTION FIELDS; SOFTWARE SUITE; TOUGH2;

GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; HEATING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; THROUGHPUT;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY RESOURCE; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; GEOTHERMAL POWER; SOFTWARE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

HENGILL; ICELAND;

EID: 80053560322     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-010-9629-1     Document Type: Article

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