On the Onset of Hydrothermal Convection in Porous Media in the Presence of Creeping Faults: Numerical Stability Analysis and Geological Applications
This thesis presents the effects of shear heating generated by creeping faults on the onset and pattern of hydrothermal convection. The implementation of a numerical stability analysis using the pseudo-arclength continuation method shows that imperfect bifurcation cases can stem from geometrical asy...
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Curtin University
2018
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| author | Tung, Rebecca Li Jia |
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| description | This thesis presents the effects of shear heating generated by creeping faults on the onset and pattern of hydrothermal convection. The implementation of a numerical stability analysis using the pseudo-arclength continuation method shows that imperfect bifurcation cases can stem from geometrical asymmetry and inhomogeneous material properties. This workflow was applied to a case study of a geothermal reservoir in Soultz-sous-Forêts and emphasises the necessity for a fully-coupled thermal-hydraulic-mechanical-chemical (THMC) approach in geothermal settings. |
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| institution | Curtin University Malaysia |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-756752019-07-25T05:46:28Z On the Onset of Hydrothermal Convection in Porous Media in the Presence of Creeping Faults: Numerical Stability Analysis and Geological Applications Tung, Rebecca Li Jia This thesis presents the effects of shear heating generated by creeping faults on the onset and pattern of hydrothermal convection. The implementation of a numerical stability analysis using the pseudo-arclength continuation method shows that imperfect bifurcation cases can stem from geometrical asymmetry and inhomogeneous material properties. This workflow was applied to a case study of a geothermal reservoir in Soultz-sous-Forêts and emphasises the necessity for a fully-coupled thermal-hydraulic-mechanical-chemical (THMC) approach in geothermal settings. 2018 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/75675 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Tung, Rebecca Li Jia On the Onset of Hydrothermal Convection in Porous Media in the Presence of Creeping Faults: Numerical Stability Analysis and Geological Applications |
| title | On the Onset of Hydrothermal Convection in Porous Media in the Presence of Creeping Faults: Numerical Stability Analysis and Geological Applications |
| title_full | On the Onset of Hydrothermal Convection in Porous Media in the Presence of Creeping Faults: Numerical Stability Analysis and Geological Applications |
| title_fullStr | On the Onset of Hydrothermal Convection in Porous Media in the Presence of Creeping Faults: Numerical Stability Analysis and Geological Applications |
| title_full_unstemmed | On the Onset of Hydrothermal Convection in Porous Media in the Presence of Creeping Faults: Numerical Stability Analysis and Geological Applications |
| title_short | On the Onset of Hydrothermal Convection in Porous Media in the Presence of Creeping Faults: Numerical Stability Analysis and Geological Applications |
| title_sort | on the onset of hydrothermal convection in porous media in the presence of creeping faults: numerical stability analysis and geological applications |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/75675 |