japhiolite / geothermics

Educational repository with Jupyter Notebooks all around the topic of geothermal energy

geothermics

methods, concepts, and more

This repository comprises different notebooks accompanying my exercise lecture in Geothermics.
Content of these exercise lectures cover the whole span of thermodynamic basics, over measurement procedures and their analysis, to numerical modelling of geothermal reservoirs and borehole heat exchangers.
Next to the exercises held in class, I add explanatory jupyter-notebooks for providing more detailed explanations of topics discussed in class.

Notebooks in NBviewer (click on the badge to open it in google colab):

• Introduction to Python
• Plotting in Python
• Variables to Classes - an introduction
• Legendre transformation and Maxwell-relations
• Temperature gradient of RWTH-1
• Heat capacity
• Means and Tensors
• Oceanic Lithosphere cooling
• Thermal Response test
• The Horner Plot method
• The Bullard Plot method
• Geothermal doublets
• A deep Geothermal doublet
• Lord Kelvin and the age of the Earth
• Enthalpy of Water and its change at boiling
• Slip and affected area of rocks in micro-seismic events

Installation / Usage

The .ipynb files, which are the core of this repository, are interactive Jupyter Notebooks. You can directly use a static, rendered version of the notebook by clicking on it. GitHub has an implemented notebook-viewer.
Further you can inspect notebooks on NBviewer by following the links above.

However, for working interactively with the notebooks (recommended), you either have to install Python + Jupyter (e.g. by using Anaconda), clone the repository and start a server. Or start them in an online, interactive environment, such as Binder (see below).

Notebooks in an interactive environment:

You can also work on notebooks interactively by using binder. Click on the binder badge to get to a remote notebook server:

Alternatively, you can import this repository in your Azure Notebooks projects:

Notebooks using cloud services

A convenient way to work interactively on the norebooks without installing any software is Microsoft Azure Notebooks, where the notebooks appear as libraries and you can work entirely in the cloud:

• https://notebooks.azure.com/# Here is some introduction:
• https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/uk_faculty_connection/2017/06/10/guide-to-the-microsoft-azure-notebooks-for-students/

There is a similiar solution provided by Google:

• https://colab.research.google.com/notebooks/welcome.ipynb