Session I on Reservoir Physics included nine papers covering a wide variety of topics. Kassoy summarized the research activities currently underway at the University of Colorado, where attempts are being made to characterize and model the various processes that occur in geothermal systems. The importance of faults in controlling the convective motion within geothermal systems is being examined from a number of standpoints, and the effect of a realistic variation in viscosity on convection in porous bodies has revealed that the convective motion is unlike the symmetric classical profiles that result from a fluid of constant viscosity. A considerable effort is being made to develop a better understanding of the East Mesa geothermal system in the Imperial Valley.

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