COUPLED RESERVOIR-WELLBORE SIMULATION OF GEOTHERMAL RESERVOIR BEHAVIOR

The reservoir simulator TOUGH and the wellbore simulator WFSA have bee n coupled to model Row of geothermal brine in the reservoir as well as in the wellbore, An outline of the structure of the two computer code s is given, together with the relevant equations. A new module, COUPLE , has been written to serve as an interface between TOUGH and WFSA. Tw o sample problems are given to illustrate the use of the coupled codes . One of these problems compares the results of the new simulation met hod to those obtained by using the deliverability option in TOUGH. The coupled computing procedure is shown to simulate more accurately the behavior of a geothermal reservoir under exploitation.