Start-Up Transients in CO2 Injection: Effects of Control Mode in Coupled Wellbore–Reservoir Simulation
This study validates the coupled wellbore-reservoir simulator CO2LINK against T2WELL and demonstrates that the choice of injection control mode (constant pressure vs. constant mass rate) significantly influences early-time transient thermophysical behavior and phase distribution during CO2 start-up, highlighting the need to treat operational control logic as a critical design variable in CCS planning.