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Heat in the Groundwater Flow

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Geothermics

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The presence of groundwater flow implies other heat transfer mechanisms rather than pure conduction. Several strategies have been developed to explore the heat transport associated with water flow. This chapter presents some analytical methods and shows how subsurface temperatures can provide a quantitative tool for inferring water flow in permeable layers and heat advection in hydrothermal systems. Thermal convection in deep aquifers and its potential are then analyzed by means of the dimensionless Rayleigh number.

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    Vincenzo Pasquale, Massimo Verdoya & Paolo Chiozzi

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Pasquale, V., Verdoya, M., Chiozzi, P. (2014). Heat in the Groundwater Flow. In: Geothermics. SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02511-7_5

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