Applications

Abstract

This chapter presents applications of SHEMAT to seven entirely different problems which demonstrate the versatility of SHEMAT and the utility of its special features and capabilities, in particular in respect to chemical reactions and the mutual coupling of processes:

• transient 2-D coupled flow, transport, and chemical reaction in a reactive transport laboratory core flooding experiment on the 10^-1 meter scale (section 6.1);

• transient 1-D coupled flow, transport, and chemical reaction in a reactive transport laboratory core flooding experiment on the 10⁰ meter scale (section 6.2);

• transient 2-D coupled flow, heat transfer, transport, and chemical reaction around an injection well in a geothermal hot water reservoir on the 10¹ meter scale (section 6.3);

• transient 3-D coupled flow, heat transfer, solute transport, and chemical reaction in a coastal geothermal aquifer on the 10³ meter scale (section 6.7);

• steady-state 2-D coupled flow, heat, and salt transport (including density driven thermohaline convection) in a vertical cross section of the Rhine graben on the 10⁴ meter scale (section 6.5);

• steady-state and transient 2-D heat transfer of magmatic intrusions in a volcanic caldera on the 10⁵ meter scale (section 6.4);

• steady-state 2-D heat transport in a vertical cross section of the north-American continental crust on the 10⁶ meter scale (section 6.6).