Nam H. Tran

TL;DR: In this article, the role of heat transfer between the rock matrix and circulating fluid on economic hot water production from fractured geothermal systems is investigated and a numerical procedure is developed by coupling fluid flow with heat transfer.

TL;DR: The methodology is able to produce discrete fracture network that match closely to the target fault map, even in the case where data are limited, and is also able to improve results of several recent fracture models, such as integrated stochastic simulations as well as grid-based simulations.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study on an actual fracture outcrop, where results are compared with a current and advanced simulated annealing work, is presented, and the improvements are examined in a case-study on a single outcrop.

TL;DR: This paper proposes a multimodal circular statistical model to characterize fracture orientation data, and the linear statistics is upgraded to circular statistics on modified orientation data to account for truncation and observational biases.

TL;DR: Using the concept of fuzzy memberships, this paper advances the fundamental understanding in fracture network inversion and presents a systematic procedure to solve the most important problem in global optimization (simulated annealing): objective function formulation.