HYDRATE v1.5 OPTION OF TOUGH+ v1.5 ...

• Main Author: Moridis, George
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States) 2015
• Subjects: permafrost
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.11578/dc.20181010.2; https://www.osti.gov/doecode/biblio/19653

HYDRATE v1.5 is a numerical code that for the simulation of the behavior of hydrate-bearing geologic systems, and represents the third update of the code since its first release [Moridis et al., 2008]. It is an option of TOUGH+ v1.5 [Moridis and Pruess, 2014], a successor to the TOUGH2 [Pruess et al., 1999, 2012] family of codes for multi-component, multiphase fluid and heat flow developed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. HYDRATE v1.5 needs the TOUGH+ v1.5 core code in order to compile and execute. It is written in standard FORTRAN 95/2003, and can be run on any computational platform (workstation, PC, Macintosh) for which such compilers are available. By solving the coupled equations of mass and heat balance, the fully operational TOUGH+HYDRATE code can model the non-isothermal gas release, phase behavior and flow of fluids and heat under conditions typical of common natural CH4-hydrate deposits (i.e., in the permafrost and in deep ocean sediments) in complex geological media at any scale (from ...