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This chapter briefly glances at the basic theory of enhanced geothermal reservoir modeling, specifically hydraulic and thermal processes in fractured geological systems, and their numerical solutions with the finite element method.
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Watanabe, N., Blöcher, G., Cacace, M., Held, S., Kohl, T. (2017). Theory. In: Geoenergy Modeling III. SpringerBriefs in Energy(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46581-4_2
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