Fluid Flow and Heat Transport Computation for Power-Law Scaling Poroperm Media

Figure 10

MWX fault-controlled crustal section fluid flow heat advection spatiotemporal temperature profiles for three values of Peclet number = 2γ = . Blue curves are numerical model temperature fields; red curves are analytic temperature fields (16). At the high poroperm sections of the wellbore where fluid flows into the wellbore, the effective Peclet number = 2γ ~ 5 implies that the effective fault-borne advective heat flow is of order 10 times the ambient crustal sections above and below the fault intersections. The numerical temperature field deviates from the analytic temperature field at larger radii because the fault-borne fluid radial inflow from the localized fault intersections along the wellbore expands axially along the wellbore where the analytic expression assumes no axial flow along the wellbore.