Integrated geoscientific modeling of the TRANSENERGY project area

Abstract

During the every day management of thermal-water systems, a tool is needed to provide the decision makers with information about the future responses of the system to the effects of various interactions, as well as about available hydrogeothermal resources. This tool can be based on the results of different models. At the frame of TRANSENERGY project series of conceptual and numerical models were built on each other. They handled the project area in a uniform system approach. It had given an overview on the large-scale geological, hydrogeological and thermal characteristics of thermal water flow systems in the western part of the Pannonian Basin The developed models describe the groundwater flow and geothermal system behaviour and its possible changes and serve as a basis for sustainable transboundary thermal water- and energy management.