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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH
卷 118, 期 10, 页码 5225-5235出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/jgrb.50373
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thermal conductivity; effective value; high-resolution optical scanning; rock heterogeneities; heat transport simulations
Studying heat transfer processes in sedimentary crustal rocks requires the correct thermal conductivity of the respective rock type. Often a single value is used for a given rock type, obtained from the measurements on homogenous samples. We demonstrate how variations in rock layering and microfractures on the subcentimeter scale may influence thermal conductivity values at much larger scale. We obtain thermal conductivity images from lab measurements on two different, heterogeneous samples performed with an optical thermal conductivity scanner in two directions. We study different spatial averaging methods for parameterizing the structural heterogeneities and the associated variation of thermal conductivity within the samples. For each of these structural simplifications, we set up a numerical model for a numerical heat transfer experiment in order to determine effective thermal conductivity values in two directions. We compare these values and the mean thermal conductivities obtained from different mixing laws and find that, in heterogeneous rocks, effective and mean thermal conductivity may differ substantially. This may cause significant errors in reservoir-scale simulations of heat transfer with associated severe consequences for estimated heat flow and temperatures.
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