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TOUGH Manuals

All Manuals/User’s Guides available for the TOUGH suite of codes are free to download.

  1. Doughty, C., User’s Guide for Hysteretic Capillary Pressure and Relative Permeability Functions in TOUGH2, Report LBNL-6533E, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., March 2013.
  2. Falta, R. W., K. Pruess, S. Finsterle, and A. Battistelli, T2VOC User’s Guide, Report LBL-36400, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., March 1995.
  3. Finsterle, S., iTOUGH2 Universal Optimization Using the PEST Protocol — User’s Guide, Report LBNL-3698E, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., July 2010.
  4. Finsterle, S., iTOUGH2 User’s Guide, Report LBNL-40040, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 2007.
  5. Finsterle, S., iTOUGH2 Command Reference, Report LBNL-40041, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 2007.
  6. Finsterle, S., iTOUGH2 Command Reference, Report LBNL-40041-Rev, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 2017.
  7. Finsterle, S., iTOUGH2 Sample Problems, Report LBNL-40042, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 2007.
  8. Finsterle, S., iTOUGH2 Sample Problems, Report LBNL-40042-Rev, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 2016.
  9. Finsterle, S., Parallelization of iTOUGH2 Using PVM, Report LBNL-42261, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., October 1998.
  10. Finsterle, S., and M.B. Kowalsky, iTOUGH2-GSLIB User’s Guide, Report LBNL/PUB-3191, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., June 2007.
  11. Finsterle, S., Enhancements to the TOUGH2 Simulator Integrated in iTOUGH2, Report LBNL-7016E, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 2016.
  12. Finsterle, S., G.J. Moridis, and K. Pruess, A TOUGH2 Equation-of-State Module for the Simulation of Two-Phase Flow of Air, Water, and a Miscible Gelling Liquid, Report LBL-36086, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 1994.
  13. Haukwa, C.B., AMESH — A Mesh Creating Program for the Integral Finite Difference Method, Report LBNL-45284, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 1998.
  14. Jung, Y., Battistelli, A., User’s Guide for Biodegradation Reactions in TMVOCBio, Report LBNL-1005179, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., May 2016.
  15. Jung, Y., G. Pau, S. Finsterle, C. Doughty, TOUGH3 User’s Guide, Version 1.0, Report LBNL-2001093, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., January 2018.
  16. Magnusdottir, L., and S. Finsterle, iTOUGH2-EOS1sc: Multiphase Resevoir Simulator for Water under Sub- and Supercritical Conditions, User’s Guide, Report LBNL-7017E, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 2015.
  17. Moridis, G.J., User’s Manual of the MeshMaker v1.5 Code: A Mesh Generator for Domain Dicretization in Simulations of the TOUGH+ and TOUGH2 Families of Codes, Report LBNL-1005134, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., February 2016.
  18. Moridis, G.J., and K. Pruess, Flow and Transport Simulations Using T2CG1, a Package of Conjugate Gradient Solvers for the TOUGH2 Family of Codes, Report LBL-36235, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., April 1995.
  19. Moridis, G.J., and K. Pruess, T2SOLV: An Enhanced Package of Solvers for the TOUGH2 Family of Reservoir Simulation Codes, Report LBNL-40933, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 1997.
  20. Moridis, G.J., Y. Wu, and K. Pruess, EOS9nT: A TOUGH2 Module for the Simulation of Water Flow and Solute/Colloid Transport in the Subsurface, Report LBNL-42351, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 1999. (also see Addendum 1 and Addendum 2)
  21. Moridis, G.J., M.B. Kowalsky, and K. Pruess, TOUGH+HYDRATE v1.0 User’s Manual: A Code for the Simulation of System Behavior in Hydrate-Bearing Geologic Media, Report LBNL-149E, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 2008.
  22. Moridis, G.J., User’s Manual for the HYDRATE Option of TOUGH+ v1.5: A Code for the Simulation of System Behavior in Hydrate-Bearing Geologic Media, Report LBNL-1869E, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 2014.
  23. Moridis, G.J., and C.M. Freeman, User’s Manual for the RealGasBrine v1.0 Option of TOUGH+ v1.5: A Code for the Simulation of System Behavior in Gas-Bearing Geologic Media, Report LBNL-1870E, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 2014.
  24. Moridis, G.J., and K. Pruess, User’s Manual of the TOUGH+ Core Code v1.5: A General-Purpose Simulator of Non-Isothermal Flow and Transport Through Porous and Fractured Media, Report LBNL-1871E, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 2014.
  25. Oldenburg, C.M., G.J. Moridis, N. Spycher, and K. Pruess, EOS7C Version 1.0: TOUGH2 Module for Carbon Dioxide or Nitrogen in Natural Gas (Methane) Reservoirs, Report LBNL-56589, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 2004.
  26. Oldenburg, C.M., EOS7CA Version 1.0: TOUGH2 Module for Gas Migration in Shallow Subsurface Porous Media Systems, Report LBNL-175204,Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., March 6, 2015.
  27. Oldenburg, C.M., and K. Pruess, EOS7R: Radionuclide Transport for TOUGH2, Report LBL-34868, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 1995.
  28. Oldenburg, C.M., and K. Pruess, A Two-Dimensional Dispersion Module for the TOUGH2 Simulator, Report LBL-32505, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 1993.
  29. Pan, L., User Information Document for: WinGridder Version 3.0, Document ID 10024-UID-3.0-00, 2007.
  30. Pan, L., C.M. Oldenburg, Y. Wu and K. Pruess, T2Well/ECO2N Version 1.0: Multiphase and Non-Isothermal Model for Coupled Wellbore-Reservoir Flow of Carbon Dioxide and Variable Salinity Water, Report LBNL-4291E, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 2011.
  31. Pan, L., C.M. Oldenburg, TOGA: A TOUGH code for modeling three-phase, multi-component, and non-isothermal processes involved in CO2-based Enhanced Oil Recovery Version 2.2, Report LBNL-1006472, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 2020
  32. Pan, L., N. Spycher, C. Doughty, and K. Pruess, ECO2N V2.0: A TOUGH2 Fluid Property Module for Mixtures of Water, NaCl and CO2, Report LBNL-6930E, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., February 2015.
  33. Pruess, K., C. Oldenburg, and G. Moridis, TOUGH2 User’s Guide, Version 2.0, Report LBNL-43134, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 1999. (superseded by Pruess et al., 2012)
  34. Pruess, K., C. Oldenburg, and G. Moridis, TOUGH2 User’s Guide, Version 2.1, Report LBNL-43134, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 2012.
  35. Pruess, K. and A. Battistelli, TMVOC, A Numerical Simulator for Three-Phase Non-isothermal Flows of Multicomponent Hydrocarbon Mixtures in Saturated-Unsaturated Heterogeneous Media, Report LBNL-49375, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., April 2002.
  36. Pruess, K., ECO2N: A TOUGH2 Fluid Property Module for Mixtures of Water, NaCl, and CO2, Report LBNL-57952, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 2005 (superseded by Pan et al., 2015).
  37. Pruess, K., ECO2M: A TOUGH2 Fluid Property Module for Mixtures of Water, NaCl, and CO2, Including Super- and Sub-Critical Conditions, and Phase Change Between Liquid and Gaseous CO2, Report LBNL-4590E, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 2011.
  38. Sonnenthal, E., N. Spycher, T. Xu, and L. Zheng, TOUGHREACT V4.13-OMP & TReactMech V1.0 User Guide, Report LBNL-DRAFT, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., September 2021.
  39. Spycher, N., G. Zhang, E. Sonnenthal, and S. Molins, TOUGHREACT-Brine: Supplement to TOUGHREACT-V4.0-OMP User’s Guide, Report LBNL-2001387, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., March 2021 (revised January 2022).
  40. Wainwright, H.M., and S. Finsterle, Global Sensitivity and Data-Worth Analyses in iTOUGH2, User’s Guide, Report LBNL-1005838, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., July 2016.
  41. Webb, S.W., EOS7C-ECBM Version 1.0: Additions for Enhanced Coal Bed Methane Including the Dusty Gas Model, Canyon Ridge Consulting Report, Sandia Park, New Mexico, December 6, 2011.
  42. Wu, Y.S., C.F. Ahlers, P. Fraser, A. Simmons, and K. Pruess, Software Qualification of Selected TOUGH2 Modules, Report LBNL-39490, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 1996.
  43. Xu, T., E. Sonnenthal, N. Spycher, L. Zheng, N. Miller, K. Pruess, TOUGHREACT V4.0-OMP Sample Problems, Report LBNL-DRAFT, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., July 2021.
  44. Xu, T., E. Sonnenthal, N. Spycher, and K. Pruess, TOUGHREACT User’s Guide: A Simulation Program for Non-Isothermal Multiphase Reactive Geochemical Transport in Variably Saturated Geologic Media, Report LBNL-55460, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 2004 (Revised 2006, V1.2; superseded by Xu et al. 2012, 2014ab).
  45. Xu, T., N. Spycher, E. Sonnenthal, L. Zheng, and K. Pruess,TOUGHREACT User’s Guide: A Simulation Program for Non-Isothermal Multiphase Reactive Geochemical Transport in Variably Saturated Geologic Media, Version 2.0, Report LBNL-DRAFT, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 2012. (superseded by Xu et al., 2014ab)
  46. Xu, T., E. Sonnenthal, N. Spycher, and L. Zheng, TOUGHREACT V3.0-OMP Reference Manual: A Parallel Simulation Program for Non-Isothermal Multiphase Geochemical Reactive Transport, Report LBNL-DRAFT, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 2014a.
  47. Xu, T., E. Sonnenthal, N. Spycher, and L. Zheng, TOUGHREACT V3.0-OMP Sample Problems, Report LBNL-DRAFT, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 2014b.
  48. Zhang, G., N. Spycher, T. Xu, E. Sonnenthal, and C. Steefel, Reactive Geochemical Transport Modeling of Concentrated Aqueous Solutions: Supplement to TOUGHREACT User’s Guide for the Pitzer Ion-Interaction Model, Report LBN-62718, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 2006.
  49. Zhang, K., Y.-S. Wu, and K. Pruess, User’s Guide for TOUGH2-MP — A Massively Parallel Version of the TOUGH2 Code, Report LBNL-315E, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., 2008.
  50. Zhang, K., H. Yamamoto, and K. Pruess, TMVOC-MP: A Parallel Numerical Simulator for Three-Phase Non-isothermal Flows of Multicomponent Hydrocarbon Mixtures in Porous/Fractured Media, Report LBNL-63827, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif., September 2007.