TOUGHVISUAL A friendly graphical user interface for building TOUGHREACT models under complex 3D geological environments
- DOI
- 10.2991/icsecs-13.2013.20How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Interface software; Mesh generation; Output visualization; TOUGHREACT; Numerical model
- Abstract
TOUGHVISUAL is a full Windows-based graphical user interface for the TOUGHREACT program. TOUGHREACT is a general multiphase multicomponent reactive transport simulator, developed by introducing geochemistry into the multiphase fluid and heat flow code TOUGH2. TOUGHREACT has been widely used internationally for CO2 geological sequestration, nuclear waste disposal, groundwater remediation and geothermal energy development. The complexity of the input files (such as “flow.inp”, “solute.inp” and “chemical.inp”) required by original TOURHREACT, makes manual construction of these input files tedious and error-prone, especially dealing with complex geological structures and irregular study region. For this reason, we attempted to develop a new user-friendly interface. Here, we present a description and application examples of the improved pre- and post-processing graphical user interface TOUGHVISUAL. This interface can interactively create geometrical models, define related properties for multiphase flow and reactive transport, run the model, and view the simulation result. The interface offers a conceptual model approach and local grid refinement. It can deal with complex geological condition and heterogeneous media, and can share file data with other software to build a field-scale model.
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- © 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Yanlin Yang AU - Tianfu Xu AU - Fanting Bu AU - Hongwu Lei AU - Yan Shi AU - Guangrong Jin AU - Fugang Wang PY - 2013/09 DA - 2013/09 TI - TOUGHVISUAL A friendly graphical user interface for building TOUGHREACT models under complex 3D geological environments BT - Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering and Computer Science PB - Atlantis Press SP - 93 EP - 102 SN - 1951-6851 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icsecs-13.2013.20 DO - 10.2991/icsecs-13.2013.20 ID - Yang2013/09 ER -