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Fig. 3 Temperature
prediction in the
cementing-porous medium
interface

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Temperature (ºF)

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5 Conclusions

The numerical results have good agreement against field data and predictions reported
in literature.
For the conditions simulated, it was found that: (1) the thermal model reaches its
steady state at 500h, (2) due to fewsteamcondensation, pressure drop due to gravity is
smaller than the friction and acceleration contributions, and (3) temperature gradients
are large at the beginning of steam injection, but they diminish along time.

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