TIGER

TIGER (Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical sImulator for GEoscience Research) is an open-source C++ code based on the Finite Element Method. It was developed on MOOSE Framework to model complex coupled processes in fractured anisotropic heterogeneous porous media in a fully coupled and implicit manner. It is capable of modelling faults and well paths as (lower-dimensional) discrete features. This code is a part of Maziar's postdoc research, mentored by Prof T. Kohl, at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.

References:

Gholami Korzani, M., Held, S., & Kohl, T. (2020). Numerical based filtering concept for feasibility evaluation and reservoir performance enhancement of hydrothermal doublet systems. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 190, 106803. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2019.106803

Egert, R., Gholami Korzani, M., Held, S., & Kohl, T. (2020). Implications on large-scale flow of the fractured EGS reservoir Soultz inferred from hydraulic data and tracer experiments. Geothermics, 84, 101749. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geothermics.2019.101749

Egert, R., Nitschke, F., Korzani, M. G., & Kohl, T. (2021). Stochastic 3D Navier‐Stokes flow in self‐affine fracture geometries controlled by anisotropy and channeling. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL092138

Stricker, K., Grimmer, J. C., Egert, R., Bremer, J., Gholami Korzani, M., Schill, E., & Kohl, T. (2020). The Potential of Depleted Oil Reservoirs for High-Temperature Storage Systems. Energies, 13(24), 6510. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13246510

Examples

Some animations produced by TIGER are shown below. Additional animations can be found on TIGER YouTube Channel