Hawaii Geothermal Project: Buoyancy Induced Flows in a Saturated Porous Medium Adjacent to Impermeable Horizontal Surfaces

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dc.contributor.author	Cheng, Ping	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Chang, I-Dee	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2011-07-26T00:50:39Z	en_US
dc.date.available	2011-07-26T00:50:39Z	en_US
dc.date.issued	1975	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Cheng P, Chang ID. 1975. Hawaii Geothermal Project: Buoyancy induced flows in a saturated porous medium adjacent to impermeable horizontal surfaces. Honolulu (HI): University of Hawaii. HGP technical report, 12.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20982	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Boundary-layer analysis is performed for the buoyancy-induced flows in a saturated porous medium adjacent to horizontal impermeable surfaces. Similarity solutions are obtained for the convective flow above a heated surface or below a cooled surface, where wall temperature is a power function of distance from the origin. Analytical expressions for boundary layer thickness, local and overall surface heat flux are obtained. Applications to convective flow in a liquid-dominated geothermal reservoir are discussed.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Prepared under National Science Foundation Research Grant No. GI-38319 and Energy Research and Development Administration Research Grant No. E(04-3)-1093.	en_US
dc.format.extent	21 p.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en-US	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Hawaii	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Hawaii Geothermal Project: Technical Report No. 12	en_US
dc.subject	geothermal	en_US
dc.subject	reservoir impacts	en_US
dc.title	Hawaii Geothermal Project: Buoyancy Induced Flows in a Saturated Porous Medium Adjacent to Impermeable Horizontal Surfaces	en_US
dc.type	Report	en_US
dc.type.dcmi	Text	en_US