Abstract
In many countries, especially in Europe, the study of heat transfer in aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES) has been carried out in order to evaluate the utility of natural energy for the future. Simulation has proven useful for clarifying mechanisms of heat transfer in underground water, and much progress in this area has been made to date. However, the available simulation methods cannot be applied to the analysis of heterogeneous or anisotropic subjects in nature. For this reason, these codes do not enable analysis of ATES in practical terms. Consequently, we have developed two simulation codes. One, called the "full-scale code", can be applied to any case. The other, called the "rapid code", enables rapid analysis of ATES while incorporating the consideration of heterogeneity in thermal dispersion due to the flow domain. In this paper, we present the full-scale code ; the rapid code will be addressed in the following paper.
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