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Heat Transfer Modeling in Enhanced Geothermal Energy: A Three-Temperature Approach for Solid, Injected, and Residing Fluids

Yi-Yung Yang·Sanghyun Lee·Dmitri Kuzmin
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Enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) involve strongly coupled, advection-dominated flow and heat transfer in fractured porous media. Conventional models typically assume local thermal equilibrium with a single effective fluid temperature or, at best, an averaged pore-fluid temperature, so the thermal evolution of injected cold fluid is only inferred indirectly. In this work, we develop a local thermal non-equilibrium (LTNE) model that explicitly resolves the temperature of injected fluid as it moves through the reservoir and exchanges heat with the hot rock and resident fluid. The key ingredient is a concentration variable that tracks the injected fluid and induces a three-way LTNE coupling among rock, resident-fluid, and injected-fluid temperatures. This framework distinguishes, at the continuum scale, how newly injected fluid parcels are heated by conductive and convective exchange, and predicts production-well temperatures without relying on bulk averages. To discretize the resulting nonlinear, advection-dominated system, we employ an enriched Galerkin (EG) finite element method for Darcy flow, temperature, and concentration, providing local mass conservation with relatively few degrees of freedom. We further design a flux-corrected transport (FCT) strategy for the EG concentration and temperature equations to enforce a discrete maximum principle and suppress nonphysical oscillations while preserving local conservation. Time integration uses an IMPES-type splitting combined with a strong-stability-preserving Runge--Kutta scheme. Numerical experiments for fractured EGS problems show that the proposed LTNE--EG--FCT framework captures injected-fluid heating paths and thermal breakthrough behavior not resolved by standard single-temperature or averaged LTNE models.

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Yi-Yung Yang, Sanghyun Lee, Dmitri Kuzmin. 2026-04-22. Heat Transfer Modeling in Enhanced Geothermal Energy: A Three-Temperature Approach for Solid, Injected, and Residing Fluids. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20710

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