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A New Simplified Discrete Fracture Model for Shearing of Intersecting Fractures and Faults

Shearing of fractures and faults is important because it can result in permeability change or even induce seismicity—both are keys for efficient and safe energy recovery and storage in Earth systems. Quantitat...

Mengsu Hu, Tsubasa Sasaki, Jonny Rutqvist… in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (2024)

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Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Modeling of Brine Migration in a Heated Borehole Test in Bedded Salt

This research paper focuses on the thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) modeling of brine migration in a heated borehole test conducted as part of the ongoing Brine Availability Test in Salt (BATS) at the Waste Isola...

Hafssa Tounsi, Jonny Rutqvist, Mengsu Hu… in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (2023)

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Microscale THMC Modeling of Pressure Solution in Salt Rock: Impacts of Geometry and Temperature

Pressure solution, a mechanism that involves tight coupling between the geometry and thermal-hydro-mechanical-chemical (THMC) processes, plays an important role in diagenesis. In this study, we make the first ...

Mengsu Hu, Carl I. Steefel, Jonny Rutqvist… in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (2023)

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Long-term sinking of nuclear waste canisters in salt formations by low-stress creep at high temperature

Rock salt has a self-sealing capacity, low permeability, and high thermal conductivity, making it a potential host for heat-generating nuclear waste. The feasibility of nuclear waste disposal within salt forma...

Hafssa Tounsi, Jonny Rutqvist, Mengsu Hu, Ralf Wolters, Svetlana Lerche in Acta Geotechnica (2023)

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TOUGH3-FLAC3D: a modeling approach for parallel computing of fluid flow and geomechanics

The recent development of the TOUGH3 code allows for a faster and more reliable fluid flow simulator. At the same time, new versions of FLAC3D are released periodically, allowing for new features and faster ex...

Antonio P. Rinaldi, Jonny Rutqvist, Keurfon Luu… in Computational Geosciences (2022)

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Guest editorial for the topical collection: geomechanics for deep resource and energy exploitation

Olaf Kolditz, Jonny Rutqvist… in Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy… (2022)

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Multi-scale Coupled Processes Modeling of Fractures as Porous, Interfacial and Granular Systems from Rock Images with the Numerical Manifold Method

The greatest challenges of rigorously modeling coupled hydro-mechanical processes in fractured rocks at different scales are associated with computational geometry. In addition, selections of continuous or dis...

Mengsu Hu, Jonny Rutqvist in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (2022)

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Using Sentinel-1 and GRACE satellite data to monitor the hydrological variations within the Tulare Basin, California

Subsidence induced by groundwater depletion is a grave problem in many regions around the world, leading to a permanent loss of groundwater storage within an aquifer and even producing structural damage at the...

Donald W. Vasco, Kyra H Kim, Tom G. Farr, J. T. Reager, David Bekaert… in Scientific Reports (2022)

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Cooling-induced reactivation of distant faults during long-term geothermal energy production in hot sedimentary aquifers

Deep geothermal energy (DGE) represents an opportunity for a sustainable and carbon-free energy supply. One of the main concerns of DGE is induced seismicity that may produce damaging earthquakes, challenging ...

Iman Rahimzadeh Kivi, Estanislao Pujades, Jonny Rutqvist… in Scientific Reports (2022)

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Special Issue “Observations of Coupled Processes in Fractured Geological Media at Various Space and Time”

Ki-Bok Min, Jonny Rutqvist, Victor Vilarrasa in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering (2020)

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Guest Editorial to the CouFrac 2018 Special Issue Coupled Thermal-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical Processes in Fractured Media: Microscale to Macroscale Numerical Modeling

Mengsu Hu, Carl I. Steefel, Jonny Rutqvist in Computational Geosciences (2020)

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Microscale mechanical modeling of deformable geomaterials with dynamic contacts based on the numerical manifold method

Micromechanical modeling of geomaterials is challenging because of the complex geometry of discontinuities and potentially large number of deformable material bodies that contact each other dynamically. In thi...

Mengsu Hu, Jonny Rutqvist in Computational Geosciences (2020)

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The Northwest Geysers EGS Demonstration Project, California: Pre-stimulation Modeling and Interpretation of the Stimulation

The Northwest Geysers Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) demonstration project aims to create an EGS by directly and systematically injecting cool water at relatively low pressure into a known High Temperature (...

Jonny Rutqvist, Patrick F. Dobson, Julio Garcia, Craig Hartline… in Mathematical Geosciences (2015)