Detailed validation of a liquid and heat flow code against field performance
Abstract
The numerical code PT, which calculated liquid and heat flow in a saturated porous or fractured porous medium, was validated against a series of field experiments involving the injection and subsequent production of hot water into a confined aquifer. The layered structure of the aquifer and strong buoyancy effects, indicating highly coupled liquid and heat flows, provide a stringent test of the code's ability to model the real world.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- February 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985STIN...8534368T
- Keywords:
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- Aquifers;
- Computer Programs;
- Heat Transmission;
- Liquid Flow;
- Mathematical Models;
- Porous Materials;
- Algorithms;
- Buoyancy;
- Finite Difference Theory;
- Flow Distribution;
- Optimization;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer