All posts by Phillip Oberdorfer
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.