A fully coupled seepage–heat transfer model including a dynamic heat transfer coefficient in fractured rock sample with a single fissure

Abstract

Conventional seepage–heat transfer models in simulating the heat transfer between fluid and rock in fractures mainly involve one-way coupling and do not consider the influence of temperature on the seepage. Moreover, it is an enormous challenge to define parameters of the explicit heat transfer between the rock and fluid. In order to resolve these shortcomings, a two-way fully coupled model of the seepage–heat transfer in the fractured rock was established in the present study. Based on the original geometric structure of the experimental device, combined with the actual engineering scale, the local dynamic heat transfer coefficient of the fractured rock was established, which is related to the fracture aperture, flow velocity and thermal parameters. Then, the proposed model was verified through the experiment and excellent agreement was achieved in this regard. It was found that the dynamic heat transfer coefficient changes the temperature distribution of fluid and rock in the original static heat transfer coefficient fracture system. The proposed model simplifies the parameters required for the calculation of the heat transfer coefficient. These parameters are related to characteristic variables, such as velocity and rock temperature, and can be simply obtained from standard laboratory tests.