What is it about?
• A new equation to calculate critical Rayleigh numbers in a 3D fault is given • The new expression accounts for temperature-dependent fluid viscosity • The stabilizing effects of increasing thermal conductivity ratio are included • Onset of geothermal convection in faults was previously underestimated
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Why is it important?
• important to estimate impacts of faults on hydro-thermal flow from regional to basin scale
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This page is a summary of: Thermal convection of temperature-dependent viscous fluids within three-dimensional faulted geothermal systems: Estimation from linear and numerical analyses, Water Resources Research, April 2016, American Geophysical Union (AGU),
DOI: 10.1002/2015wr018001.
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