Subsurface energy: Flow and reactive-transport in porous and fractured media
M.K. Mudunuru, H.S. Viswanathan, J. W. Carey, L. Chen, Q. Kang, S. Karra, V.V. Vesselinov, R.S. Middleton, P.A. Johnson
Handbook of Porous Materials (invited), World Scientific Publishers2020DOI 10.1142/9789811223419_0004
Summary
This work examines how geologic structure, state of stress, and well design affect hydrothermal fluid flow and energy production in geothermal systems. Using the NMFk unsupervised learning workflow within the SmartTensors framework, it identifies the reservoir and engineering parameters that most strongly control production and extracts characteristic energy-production signatures linked to subsurface conditions.