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A mathematical model of the process of water injection into a geothermal high-temperature steam-saturated reservoir is proposed. The steam and water zones are separated by a moving interface (phase transition front) whose location is determined in the process of solving the problem. It is shown that for low permeabilities the solution contains a thermodynamic contradiction expressed as supercooling of the steam ahead of the interface. Critical curves bounding the regions of existence of the frontal solution are constructed.
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Moscow. Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 6, pp. 92–98, November–December, 1996.
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Barmin, A.A., Tsypkin, G.G. Mathematical model of water injection into a geothermal steam-saturated reservoir. Fluid Dyn 31, 874–879 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02030107
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02030107