Study of Fracture Aperture Variation in a Fracture Network on Heat Production from an Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS)

With the development of the Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) technology, extensive geothermal energy applications have become feasible. To simulate fluid migration and heat propagation within a fractured geothermal reservoir, discrete fracture models (DFMs) of the TH processes are widely used. However, the variability of aperture size from one fracture to another is typically ignored in these models. In this work, a discrete fracture model...