As a kind of clean renewable energy, the production and utilization of geothermal resources
can make a great contribution to optimizing the energy structure and energy conservation …

Hot dry rock geothermal resources are widely distributed at various reservoir depths,
possessing high energy potential and substantial extraction prospects. Heat extraction …

Geothermal energy is one of renewable and clean energy resources. Predicting geothermal
productivity is an essential task for managing a continuable geothermal system, which is a …

Granites are inevitably subjected to the effects of repeated water quenching in the process of
geothermal energy exploitation. To gain a greater understanding of the mechanical …

We propose a novel multilateral-well coaxial closed-loop geothermal system (CCGS) to help
realize the commercial exploitation of hot dry rock. Compared with the enhanced geothermal …

Geothermal energy is gaining attention as an environmentally friendly and sustainable
alternative to fossil fuels. There exist complicated coupling processes among fluid flow, heat …

Geothermal resources have important value for its development and utilization. In this work,
a thermal–hydraulic–mechanical (THM) coupled numerical model is developed to simulate …

Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) fluid flow and thermal transport modeling in discrete
fracture networks (DFNs) is critical for geothermal energy recovery from enhanced …

Natural gas hydrate, a potential energy source, is clean and occurs abundantly in nature.
Enhancing the gas production efficiency from gas hydrate-bearing sediments (GHBS) is of …

The effects of fracture distribution on the heat extraction performance of enhanced
geothermal system (EGS) are very significant. Referring to lots of EGS fracturing projects, the …