Abstract
Conventional closed-loop geothermal designs from 2024 and early 2026 consistently suffer from localized thermal drawdown. As heat is extracted, a stagnant fluid boundary layer forms against the internal pipe casing, acting as a thermal insulator that drastically reduces long-term extraction efficiency. This specification provides the complete theoretical, mathematical, and algorithmic architecture to bypass this bottleneck without mechanical pumping systems.
By treating the fluid-casing interface as a 2D viscoelastic membrane resting at equilibrium (z=0), we deploy targeted acoustic solitons down the fluid column. These scale-invariant wave packets generate localized micro-vortices that continuously strip away the thermal boundary layer. Our continuous-time mathematical formulation derives the coupled field equations governing this boundary layer cancellation. We provide a complete Python simulation showing a 10-year comparative analysis between conventional thermal decay and DEHP wave-assisted extraction, alongside a pristine Cypher graph schema for distributed system telemetry persistence.
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Recommended Citation
Eckes, Christopher L., "Eliminating Late-Time Logarithmic Thermal Drawdown in Closed-Loop Geothermal Wells via Soliton-Induced Boundary Layer Disruption under the DEHP Framework", Technical Disclosure Commons, ()
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/11070