All posts by Phillip Oberdorfer
How to Obtain Oil Cost-Effectively with Multilateral Wells
August 18, 2014
1 example of how numerical simulation benefits the oil & gas industry: You can predict the stability of a multilateral well to determine if it will need expensive mechanical stabilization.
Geothermal Energy: Using the Earth to Heat and Cool Buildings
May 23, 2014
Learn how to accurately predict the thermal performance of a shallow tubing heat collector design for geothermal heating applications. Part 3 of our blog series on geothermal energy.
Coupling Heat Transfer with Subsurface Porous Media Flow
April 24, 2014
Part 2 of the Geothermal Energy series: We couple heat transport and subsurface flow processes to determine the thermal development of the subsurface due to geothermal heat production.
Modeling Geothermal Processes with COMSOL Software
March 28, 2014
Read Part 1 of our Geothermal Energy blog series here. You’ll get an introduction to the concept of modeling geothermal processes and the many physical phenomena involved.