| Title | APPLICATION OF AUTOMATIC DIFFERENTIATION FOR THE SIMULATION OF NONISOTHERMAL, MULTIPHASE FLOW IN GEOTHERMAL RESERVOIRS |
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| Authors | Jong G. Kim and Stefan Finsterle |
| Year | 2002 |
| Conference | Stanford Geothermal Workshop |
| Keywords | numerical simulation |
| Abstract | Simulation of nonisothermal, multiphase flow through fractured geothermal reservoirs involves the solution of a system of strongly nonlinear algebraic equations. The Newton-Raphson method used to solve such a nonlinear system of equations requires the evaluation of a Jacobian matrix. In this paper we discuss automatic differentiation (AD) as a method for analytically computing the Jacobian matrix of derivatives. Robustness and efficiency of the AD-generated derivative codes are compared with a conventional derivative computation approach based on first-order finite differences. |