Heat Transfer Processes Upscaling in Geoenergy Fields

Multiphase Flow in a Naturally Fractured Reservoir: Equation of Continuity

“…The heat transfer in the geoenergy scaling system's process (e.g., geothermal and oil fields) was analyzed by Espinosa-Paredes (2014). The importance of the upscaling process is that the capture of the heat transfer effects are dependent of the length-scale characteristics, i.e., point, Darcy, macroscopic, and field scales, with intermediate scale among them.…”

“…The importance of the upscaling process is that the capture of the heat transfer effects are dependent of the length-scale characteristics, i.e., point, Darcy, macroscopic, and field scales, with intermediate scale among them. The scaling analysis presented by Espinosa-Paredes (2014) is based on the fundamental ideas of Wood (2009). This author discussed the mass transfer process of coarse graining in a complex subsurface hydrologic system, and examined the difference between averaging and upscaling processes, then "adopted" five scaling laws: influence of boundaries, statistical homogeneity, separation of length scales, ergodicity, and smallness of the variance.…”