TY - GEN
T1 - Secondary thermal cracks in EGS
T2 - Geothermal Resources Council Annual Meeting 2010, Geothermal 2010
AU - Bourdin, B.
AU - Maurini, C.
AU - Knepley, M.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - We present a mechanistically faithful and mathematically sound approach to the numerical simulation of secondary thermal cracks propagation in EGS based on the variational approach to fracture [1-4]. While remaining compatible with classical theories, this approach provides a unified framework to crack nucleation, full path identification, including interaction between multiple cracks, branching or kinking in 2 and 3D. We present large scale numerical experiments, and compare our results with the literature.
AB - We present a mechanistically faithful and mathematically sound approach to the numerical simulation of secondary thermal cracks propagation in EGS based on the variational approach to fracture [1-4]. While remaining compatible with classical theories, this approach provides a unified framework to crack nucleation, full path identification, including interaction between multiple cracks, branching or kinking in 2 and 3D. We present large scale numerical experiments, and compare our results with the literature.
KW - EGS
KW - Fracture
KW - Numerical simulation
KW - Reservoir stimulation
KW - Secondary thermal cracks
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/79955086122
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79955086122
SN - 9781617821844
T3 - Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council
SP - 289
EP - 292
BT - Geothermal Resources Council Annual Meeting 2010, Geothermal 2010
Y2 - 24 October 2010 through 27 October 2010
ER -