| Title | THE USE OF PHOENICS COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD) CODE FOR GEOTHERMAL RESERVOIRS CONTAINING FLUIDS NEAR THEIR THERMODYNAMIC CRITICAL POINT. |
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| Authors | S.J. Zarrouk, A. Watson , P. J. Richards |
| Year | 1999 |
| Conference | Stanford Geothermal Workshop |
| Keywords | flow modeling |
| Abstract | The paper first discusses the real fluids circulating in the earth's crust, and justifies the need to examine the natural convection in a porous medium of a simple pure fluid with properties resembling those near the thermodynamic critical point. The literature on natural convection in a homogenous porous medium between isothermal horizontal plates, the lower one hotter, is then reviewed. Results for comparison are reproduced using PHOENICS. New results for a fluid with temperature dependent expansion coefficient are presented. |