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In many subsurface applications which require the knowledge of subsurface temperature distributions the land area of the study is small enough to consider the subsurface heat flux
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to be homogeneous across location area:
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| \lambda_e({\bf r}) =\lambda_e(z) |
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where
is true vertical depth....
This simplifies the procedure of modelling the Geothermal Temperature Field
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along to a modelling of Constant Areal Geothermal Temperature Profile along a given
wellbore trajectory.
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