HydrothermalFoam v1.0: a 3-D hydrothermal transport model for natural submarine hydrothermal systems .

Guo, Zhikui , Rüpke, Lars and Tao, Chunhui (2020) HydrothermalFoam v1.0: a 3-D hydrothermal transport model for natural submarine hydrothermal systems . Open Access Geoscientific Model Development, 13 (12). pp. 6547-6565. DOI 10.5194/gmd-13-6547-2020.

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Abstract

Herein, we introduce HydrothermalFoam, a three dimensional hydro-thermo-transport model designed to resolve fluid flow within submarine hydrothermal circulation systems. HydrothermalFoam has been developed on the OpenFOAM platform, which is a Finite Volume based C++ toolbox for fluid-dynamic simulations and for developing customized numerical models that provides access to state-of-the-art parallelized solvers and to a wide range of pre- and post-processing tools. We have implemented a porous media Darcy-flow model with associated boundary conditions designed to facilitate numerical5 simulations of submarine hydrothermal systems. The current implementation is valid for single-phase fluid states and uses a pure water equation-of-state (IAPWS-97). We here present the model formulation, OpenFOAM implementation details, and a sequence of 1-D, 2-D and 3-D benchmark tests. The source code repository further includes a number of tutorials that can be used as starting points for building specialized hydrothermal flow models. The model is published under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

Document Type: Article
Keywords: 3D Numerical modeling, Hydrothermal system, Hydrothermal circulation, OpenFOAM
Research affiliation: OceanRep > GEOMAR > FB4 Dynamics of the Ocean Floor > FB4-MUHS
Refereed: Yes
Open Access Journal?: Yes
Publisher: Copernicus Publications (EGU)
Projects: IODP-SPP 527
Date Deposited: 07 Aug 2020 09:56
Last Modified: 08 Feb 2023 09:37
URI: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/50290

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