FALCON
Fracturing And Liquid CONvection
A MOOSE-based application for simulating coupled Thermal-Hydraulic-Mechanical-Chemical processes in subsurface systems
Fully Coupled THMC
FALCON is a true "fully-coupled" THMC simulator, using a finite-element approach to solve highly nonlinear coupled subsurface dynamics for problems such as carbon sequestration, reactive transport, geothermal energy, etc.
FORGE EGS Site
FALCON is the reservoir simulator of record for the Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy, the United States Department of Energy flagship for R&D related to geothermal energy.
Quality Assurance
FALCON development is largely in accordance with the ASME NQA-1 software requirements.
A MOOSE-Based Application
FALCON is built on the MOOSE framework and can efficiently solve problems using standard workstations or very large high-performance computers in different dimensions, including full 3D, 2D, 2D-RZ axisymmetric, and 1D systems. Code reliability is paramount for the MOOSE framework, and MOOSE-based applications. FALCON employs a well-defined development and testing strategy in which code changes are only merged into the repository after both a manual code review and an automated regression test have been completed.
FALCON was originally developed by the Geothermal Energy Group at the Idaho National Laboratory by a team of computational scientists, applied mathematicians, and subsurface scientists. Collaboration with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization has lead to many new enhancements.
Development has been supported by various funding agencies including the United States Department of Energy and Idaho National Laboratory.