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Effect of Fracture Connectivity between Production and Injection Wells in Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS)

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Numerical simulations reveal increased fracture connectivity improves thermal performance in geothermal systems, suggesting optimal network design.

Enhanced fracture connectivity significantly improves heat transfer efficiency, ensuring better thermal retention.
Configurations with a larger fracture surface area show slower thermal decline, mitigating early thermal breakthrough.
Higher net heat extraction is consistently observed in systems with greater fracture connectivity, underscoring the need for optimization.
Temperature distribution analysis indicates that well-connected fractures facilitate more uniform heat depletion, preventing localized thermal drawdown.

Kumawat et al. (2025) studied this question.

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Numerical simulations reveal increased fracture connectivity improves thermal performance in geothermal systems, suggesting optimal network design.