CFSES Publications

Each year, researchers publish a number of papers related to the center’s research. Please contact the lead author directly if you would like a reprint of the article or have questions about the research.

2017

Daigle, Hugh; Hayman, Nicholas W.; Kelly, Eric D.; Milliken, Kitty L.; and Jiang, Han Fracture capture of organic pores in shales Geophysical Research Letters, (2017). [DOI: 10.1002/2016GL072165] [CFSES] more details

Ilgen, Anastasia G.; Heath, Jason E.; Akkutlu, I. Yucel; Bryndzia, L. Taras; Cole, David R.; Kharaka, Yousif K.; Kneafsey, Timothy J.; Milliken, Kitty L.; Pyrak-Nolte, Laura J.; and Suarez-Rivera, Roberto Shales at all scales: Exploring coupled processes in mudrocks Earth Science Reviews 1 66 (2017), 132-152 (2017). [DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2016.12.013] [CFSES] more details

Trevisan, L.; Krishnamurthy, P. G.; and Meckel, T. A. Impact of 3D capillary heterogeneity and bedform architecture a the sub-meter scale on CO2 saturation for buoyant flow in clastic aquifersInternational Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 56, 237 - 249 (2017). [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2016.12.001] [CFSES] more details

2016

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Chen, X; Kianinejad, A.; and DiCarlo, D. A. Measurements of CO2-brine relative permeability in Berea sandstone using pressure taps and a long core Greenhouse Gases, (2016). [DOI: 10.1002/ghg.1650] [CFSES] more details

Newell, P; Yoon, H.; Martinez, M. J.; Bishop, J. E.; and Bryant, S. L. Investigation of the influence of geomechanical and hydrogeological properties on surface uplift at In Salah Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, (2016). [DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2016.11.012] [CFSES] more details

McNeece, Colin J.; and Hesse, Marc A. Reactive transport of aqueous protons in porous mediaAdvances in Water Resources, 97, 314 - 325 (2016). [DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2016.09.013] [CFSES] more details

Sun, Z.; Espinoza, D. Nicolas; and Balhoff, M. T. Discrete element modeling of indentation tests to investigate mechanisms of CO2-related chemo-mechanical rock alteration Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, (2016). [DOI: 10.1002/2016JB013554] [CFSES] more details

Chen, X; Kianinejad, A.; and DiCarlo, David A. An extended JBN method of determining unsteady-state two-phase relative permeability Water Resources Research, 52 Issue 10, 8374-8383 (2016). [DOI: 10.1002/2016WR019204] [CFSES] more details

Krishnamurthy, Prasanna G; Senthilnathan, Siddharth; Yoon, Hongkyu; Thomassen, Daan; Meckel, Tip; and DiCarlo, David A. Comparison of Darcy's law and invasion percolation simulations with buoyancy-driven CO2-brine multiphase flow in a heterogeneous sandstone core Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, (2016). [DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2016.10.022] [CFSES] more details

Newell, P; Martinez, M.J.; and Eichhubl, P Impact of layer thickness and well orientation on caprock integrity for geologic carbon storage Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, (2016). [DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2016.07.032] [CFSES] more details

Chen, Xiongyu; and DiCarlo, David A. A new unsteady-state method of determining two-phase relative permeability illustrated by CO2-brine primary drainage in berea sandstone Advances in Water Resources, 96, 251 - 265 (2016). [DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2016.07.018] [CFSES] more details

Lee, Sanghyun; Wheeler, Mary F.; and Srinivasan, Sanjay Initialization of phase-field fracture propagation in porous media using probability maps of fracture networks Mechanics Research Communications, (2016). [DOI: 10.1016/j.mechrescom.2016.04.002] [CFSES] more details

Lee, Sanghyun; Reber, Jacqueline E.; Hayman, Nicholas W.; and Wheeler, Mary F. Investigation of wing crack formation with a combined phase-field and experimental approach Geophysical Research Letters, 43, (2016). [DOI: 10.1002/2016GL069979] [CFSES] more details

Rinehart, Alex J.; McKenna, Sean A.; and Dewers, Thomas Using Wavelet Covariance Models for Simultaneous Picking of Overlapping P- and S-Wave Arrival Times in Noisy Single-Component DataSeismological Research Letters, 87 No 4, (2016). [DOI: 10.1785/0220150130] [CFSES] more details

Wang, Lichun; and Cardenas, M. Bayani Development of an empirical model relating permeability and specific stiffness for rough fractures from numerical deformation experiments Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, (2016). [DOI: 10.1002/2016JB013004] [CFSES] more details

Yoon, Hongkyu; Lee, Jonghyun; Kitnidis, Peter; Werth, Charles J.; and Valocchi, Albert J.Scalable subsurface inverse modeling of huge data sets with an application to tracer concentration breakthrough data from magnetic resonance imaging Water Resources Research, 52 (7), 5213 - 5231(2016). [DOI: 10.1002/2015WR018483] [CFSES] more details

Lee, Sanghyun; Wheeler, Mary F.; and Wick, Thomas Pressure and fluid-driven fracture propagation in porous media using an adaptive finite element phase field model Science Direct Comput Methods Appl Mech Engrg, 305, 111-132 (2016). [DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2016.02.037] [CFSES] more details

Mozley, Peter S.; Heath, Jason E.; Dewers, Thomas A.; and Bauer, Stephen J. Origin and heterogeneity of pore sizes in the Mount Simon Sandstone and Eau Claire Formation: Implications for multiphase fluid flow Geosphere, 12, (2016). [DOI: 10.1130/GES01245.1] [CFSES] more details

Raduha, S.; Butler, D.; Mozley, P. S.; Person, M.; Evans, J.; Heath, J. E.; Dewers, T.; Stauffer, P. H.; Gable, C. W.; and Kelkar, S. Potential seal bypass and caprock storage produced by deformation-band-to-opening-mode-fracture transition at the reservoir/caprock interface Geofluids, (2016). [DOI: 10.1111/gfl.12177] [CFSES] more details

Sathaye, Kiran J; Larson, Toti E.; and Hesse, Marc A. Noble gas fractionation during subsurface gas migration Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 450, 1 - 9 (2016). [DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.05.034] [CFSES] more details

Chen, Yunshen; Elhag, Amro S.; Reddy, Prathima R.; Chen, Hao; Cui , Leyu; Worthen, Andrew J; Ma, Kun; Quintanilla, Heriberto; Noguera , Jose A.; Hirasaki, George J.; Nguyen, Quoc P.; Biswal , Sibani L.; and Johnston, Keith P Phase behavior and interfacial properties of a switchable ethoxylated amine surfactant at high temperature and effects on CO2-in-water foams Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 470, 80 - 91 (2016). [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2016.02.028] [CFSES] more details

Lee, Sanghyun; Lee, Young-Ju; and Wheeler, Mary F. A LOCALLY CONSERVATIVE ENRICHED GALERKIN APPROXIMATION AND EFFICIENT SOLVER FOR ELLIPTIC AND PARABOLIC PROBLEMS SIAM J. Sci. Comput, 38, 3, A1404–A1429 (2016). [DOI: 10.1137/15M1041109] [CFSES] more details

Islam, Akand; Sun, Alexander; and Yang, Changbing Reactive Transport Modeling of the Enhancement of Density- Driven CO2 Convective Mixing in Carbonate Aquifers and its Potential Implication on Geological Carbon Sequestration Nature Scientific Reports, 6, 1 - 10 (2016). [DOI: 10.1038/srep24768] [CFSES] more details

Gilbert, Kimberly; Bennett, Phillip C.; Wolfe, Will; Zhang, Tongwei; and Romanak, Katherine D.CO2 solubility in aqueous solutions containing Na+, Ca2+, Cl-, SO42- and HCO3-: the effects of electrostricted water and ion hydration thermodynamics Applied Geochemistry, 67, 59 - 67 (2016). [DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2016.02.002] [CFSES] more details

Kirk, Matthew F.; Altman, Susan J.; Santillan, Eugenio-Felipe U.; and Bennett, Phillip C. Interplay between microorganisms and geochemistry in geological carbon storage International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, (2016). [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2016.01.041] [CFSES] more details

Sun, Yuhao; Aman, Michael; and Espinoza, D. Nicolas Assessment of mechanical rock alteration caused by CO2–watermixtures using indentation and scratch experiments International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 45, 9 - 17 (2016). [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2015.11.021] [CFSES] more details

Bishop, Joseph E.; Martinez, Mario J.; and Newell, Pania SIMULATING FRAGMENTATION AND FLUID-INDUCED FRACTURE IN DISORDERED MEDIA USING RANDOM FINITE-ELEMENT MESHES International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering, 14, 4, 349 - 366 (2016). [DOI: 10.1615/IntJMultCompEng.2016016908 ] [CFSES] more details

Ilgen, A. G.; and Cygan, R. T. Mineral dissolution and precipitation during CO2injection at theFrio-I Brine Pilot: Geochemical modeling and uncertainty analysisA International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 44, 166-174 (2016). [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijggc.2015.11.022] [CFSES] more details

Martinez, M.J.; and Hesse, M. A. Two-phase convective CO2 dissolution in saline aquifers Water Resources Research, 52, 585 - 599 (2016). [DOI: 10.1002/2015WR017085] [CFSES] more details

Urena-Benavides, E. E.; Lin, E. L.; Foster, E. L.; Xue, Z.; Ortiz, M. R.; Fei, Y.; Larsen, E. S.; Kmetz, A. A.; Lyon, B. A.; Moaseri, E.; Bielawski, C. W.; Pennell, K. D.; Ellison, C. J.; and Johnston, K. P. Low Adsorption of Magnetite Nanoparticles with Uniform Polyelectrolyte Coatings in Concentrated Brine on Model Silica and Sandstone I & EC Research, 55, 1522 - 1532 (2016). [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.5b03279] [CFSES] more details

Worthen, Andrew J; Tran, Vu; Cornell, Kevin A.; Truskett, Thomas M.; and Johnston, Keith PSteric stabilization of nanoparticles with grafted low molecular weight ligands in highly concentrated brines including divalent ions Soft Matter, 12, 2025 - 2039 (2016). [DOI: 10.1039/c5sm02787j] [CFSES] more details

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2015

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Deng, Wen; Balhoff, Matthew T.; and Cardenas, M. Bayani Influence of dynamic factors on nonwetting fluid snap-off in pores Water Resources Research, (2015). [DOI: 10.1002/2015WR017261] more details

Mehmani, Yashar; and Balhoff, Matthew T. Mesoscale and Hybrid Models of Fluid Flow and Solute Transport Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry, 80, 433 - 459 Chapter 13 (2015). [DOI: 10.2138/rmg.2015.80.13 ] more details

Santillan, Eugenio F.U.; Shanahan, Timothy M.; Omelon, Christopher R.; Major, Jonathan R.; and Bennett, Phillip C. Isolation and characterization of a CO2-tolerant Lactobacillus strain from Crystal Geyser, Utah, U.S.A. Frontiers in Earth Science, 3 Article 41, (2015). [DOI: 10.3389/feart.2015.00041] more details

Wang, Lichun; and Cardenas, M. Bayani An efficient quasi-3D particle tracking-based approach for transport through fractures with application to dynamic dispersion calculation Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 179, 47-54 (2015). [DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2015.05.007] more details

2014

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Sathaye, Kiran J; Hesse, Marc A.; Cassidy, Martin; and Stockli, Daniel F. Constraints on the magnitude and rate of CO2 dissolution at Bravo Dome natural gas field, PNAS, 111, 15332-15337 (2014). [10.1073/pnas.1406076111]

Mehmani, Yashar; and Balhoff, Matthew T. Generalized semi-analytical solution of advection–diffusion–reaction, International Journal of Heat & Mass Transfer, 78, 1155 - 1165 (2014). [10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2014.07.082]

Altman, Susan J; Aminzadeh, Behdad; Balhoff, Matthew T.; Bennett, Phillip C.; Bryant, Steven L.; Cardenas, M. Bayani; Chaudhary, Kuldeep; Cygan, Randall T.; Deng, Wen; Dewers, Thomas; DiCarlo, David A.; Eichhubl, Peter; Hesse, Marc A.; Huh, Chun; Matteo, Edward N; Mehmani, Yashar; Tenney, Craig M; and Yoon, Hongkyu Chemical and Hydrodynamic Mechanisms for Long-Term Geological Carbon Storage, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118, 15103 - 15113 (2014). [10.1021/jp5006764]

Mehmani, Yashar; and Balhoff, Matthew T. Bridging from Pore to Continuum: A Hybrid Mortar Domain Decomposition Framework for Subsurface Flow and Transport, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, 12(2), 667 - 693 (2014). [10.1137/13092424X]

Ovaysi, Saeed; Wheeler, Mary F.; and Balhoff, Matthew T. Quantifying the Representative Size in Porous Media, Transport in Porous Media, 104, 349 -362 (2014). [10.1007/s11242-014-0338-z]

Deng, Wen; Cardenas, M. Bayani; and Bennett, Phillip C. Extended Roof snap-off for a continuous nonwetting fluid and an example case for supercritical CO2, Advances in Water Resources, 64, 34-46 (2014). [10.1016/j.advwatres.2013.12.001]

Tenney, Craig M; and Cygan, Randall T Molecular Simulation of Carbon Dioxide, Brine, and Clay Mineral, Environmental Science & Technology, 48, 2035-2042 (2014). [10.1021/es404075k]

Wang, Lichun; and Cardenas, M. Bayani Non-Fickian transport through two-dimensional rough, Water Resources Research, on line, (2014). [10.1002/2013WR014459]

Delshad, Mojdeh; Tavakoli, Reza; and Wheeler, M. F. Role of computational science in geological storage of CO2, Computational Models for CO2 Geo-sequestration & Compressed Air Energy Storage, Chapter 6 193-229 (2014). [10.1201/b16790]

2013

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Arbogast, Todd; Juntunen, Mika; Pool, Jamie; and Wheeler, Mary F. A discontinuous Galerkin method for two-phase flow in a porous medium enforcing H(div) velocity and continuouscapillary pressure, Computer Geosciences, 17, Issue 6, 1055 - 1078 (2013). [10.1007/s10596-013-9374-y]

Kirk, M. F.; Santillan, Eugenio F.U.; and Altman, S. J. CO2-induced shift in microbial activity affects carbon trapping and water quality in anoxic bioreactors, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 122, 198 - 208 (2013). [10.1016/j.gca.2013.08.018]

Tavakoli, Reza; Yoon, Hongkyu; Delshad, Mojdeh; El Sheikh, Ahmed H.; Wheeler, Mary F.; and Arnold, Bill W. Comparison of ensemble filtering algorithms and null space Monte Carlo for parameter estimation and uncertainty quantification using CO2 Sequestration Data, Water Resources Research, 49 Issue 10, 1 - 20 (2013). [10.1002/2013WR013959]

Martinez, Mario J.; Newell, P; Bishop, J. E.; and Turner, D Z Coupled multiphase flow and geomechanics model for analysis of joint reactivation during CO2 sequestration operations, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 17, 148-160 (2013). [10.1016/j.ijggc.2013.05.008]

Deng, Wen; Cardenas, M. B.; Kirk, M. F.; Altman, S. J.; and Bennett, P. C. The effect of permeable biofilm on micro- and macro-scale flow and transport in bioclogged pores, Environmental Science & Technology, 47, 11092–11098 (2013). [10.1021/es402596v]

DiCarlo, David A. Unstable multi-phase flow in porous media: 40 years of advancements, Water Resources Research, 49 Issue 8, 4531-4544 (2013). [10.1002/wrcr.20359]

Deng, Wen; and Cardenas, M. B. Dynamics and dislodgment from pore constrictions of a trapped nonwetting droplet stimulated by seismic waves, Water Resources Research, 49 Issue 7, 4206 - 4218 (2013). [10.1002/wrcr.20335]

Yoon, Hongkyu; and Dewers, Thomas Nanopore structures, statistically representative elementary volumes,, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 40, 1-5 (2013).

Aminzadeh, Behdad; Chung, D. H.; Bryant, Steven L.; Huh, Chun; and DiCarlo, David A. CO2 Leakage Prevention by Introducing Engineered, Energy Procedia, 37, 5290 - 5297 (2013). [10.1016/j.egypro.2013.06.446]

Delshad, Mojdeh; Kong, Xianhui; Tavakoli, Reza; Hosseini, Seyyed A; and Wheeler, Mary F. Modeling and simulation of carbon sequestration at Cranfield incorporating new physical models, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, (2013). [10.1016/j.ijggc.2013.03.019]

Arbogast, Todd; and Xiao, Hailong A Multiscale Mortar Mixed Space Based on Homogenization for Heterogeneous Elliptic Problems, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 51, 377-399 (2013). [10.1137/120874928]

Chaudhary, Kuldeep; Cardenas, M. Bayani; Deng, W.; and Bennett, Phillip C. Pore geometry effects on intrapore viscous to inertial flows and on effective hydraulic parameters, Water Resour. Res., 49, 1-14 (2013). [10.1002/wrcr.20099]

Santillan, Eugenio F.U.; Kirk, Matthew F.; Altman, Susan J.; and Bennett, Phillip C. Mineral influence on microbial survival during carbon sequestration, Geomicrobiol. J., (2013). [10.1080/01490451.2013.767396]

Criscenti, Louise J; and Cygan, Randall T Molecular Simulations of Carbon Dioxide and Water: Cation Solvation, Environmental Science and Technology, 47, 87-94 (2013). [10.1021/es301608c]

Yoon, Hongkyu; Hart, David B.; and McKenna, Sean A. Parameter estimation and predictive uncertainty in stochastic inverse modeling of groundwater flow: Comparing null-space Monte Carlo and multiple starting point methods,Water Resour. Res., 49, 536–553 (2013). [10.1002/wrcr.20064]

Zhang, Rui; Sen, Mrinal K; and Srinivasan, Sanjay A prestack basis pursuit seismic inversion, Geophysics, 78, R1 - R11 (2013). [10.1190/geo2011-0502.1]

2012

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Juntunen, Mika; and Wheeler, Mary F. Two-phase flow in complicated geometries, Comput Geosci, 17, 239 - 247 (2012). [10.1007/s10596-012-9326-y]

Kirk, Matthew F.; Santillan, Eugenio F.U.; McGrath, Lucas K; and Altman, Susan J. Variation in hydraulicconductivity with decreasingpH in abiologically-cloggedporous medium, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 11, 133-140 (2012). [10.1016/j.ijggc.2012.08.003]

Tavakoli, Reza; Pencheva, Gergina; Wheeler, Mary F.; and Ganis, Benjamin A parallel ensemble-based framework for reservoir history matching and uncertainty characterization, Computational Geosciences, 17, 83 - 97 (2012). [10.1007/s10596-012-9315-1]

Yoon, Hongkyu; and McKenna, Sean A. Highly parameterized inverse estimation of hydraulic conductivity and porosity in a three-dimensional, heterogeneous transport experiment, Water Resources Research, 48, W10536 (2012). [10.1029/2012WR012149]

Prigiobbe, Valentina; Hesse, Marc A.; and Bryant, Steven L. Fast strontium transport induced by hydrodynamic dispersion and pH-dependent sorption, Geophysical Research Letters, 39, 5 (2012). [10.1029/2012GL053146]

Zhang, Rui; Sen, Mrinal K; Phan, Son; and Srinivasan, Sanjay Stochastic and deterministic seismic inversion methods for thin-bed resolution, Journal of Geophysics and Engineering, 9 Number 5, 611 - 618 (2012). [10.1088/1742-2132/9/5/611]Acknowledgements: 100% of the analysis and modeling presented in the paper was performed using the CFSES funds. The modeling used data that was provided by Sue Hovorka (Gulf Coast Carbon Center) who collected the data as part of an DOE-NETL/SSEB project.

Zhang, Rui; Ghosh, Ranjana; Sen, Mrinal K; and Srinivasan, Sanjay Time-lapse surface seismic inversion with thin bed resolution for monitoring CO2 sequestration: A case study from Cranfield, Mississippi, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 9 (2012). [10.1016/j.ijggc.2012.08.015]Acknowledgements: 100% of the analysis and modeling presented in the paper was performed using the CFSES funds. The modeling used data that was provided by Sue Hovorka (Gulf Coast Carbon Center) who collected the data as part of an DOE-NETL/SSEB project.

Mehmani, Yashar; Sun, Tie; Balhoff, M. T.; Eichhubl, P; and Bryant, S. L. Multiblock Pore-Scale Modeling and Upscaling of Reactive Transport: Application to Carbon Sequestration, Transport in Porous Media, 95, 305-326 (2012). [10.1007/s11242-012-0044-7]

Sun, Tie; Mehmani, Yashar; and Balhoff, Matthew T. Hybrid Multiscale Modeling through Direct Substitution of Pore-Scale Models into Near-Well Reservoir Simulators, Energy and Fuels, 26, 5828–5836 (2012). [10.1021/ef301003b]

Cygan, Randall T; Romanov, Vyacheslav N.; and Myshakin, Evgeniy M. Molecular Simulation of Carbon Dioxide Capture by Montmorillonite Using an Accurate and Flexible Force Field, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 116 (24), pp 13079–13091 (2012). [10.1021/jp3007574]

Leung, Juliana Y.; and Srinivasan, Sanjay Scale-up of mass transfer and recovery performance in heterogeneous reservoirs, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 86-87, 71-86 (2012). [10.1016/j.petrol.2012.03.010]

Sun, Tie; Mehmani, Yashar; Bhagmane, Jaideep; and Balhoff, Matthew T. Pore to continuum upscaling of permeability in heterogeneous porous media using mortars, Int. J. Oil, Gas Coal Technol., 5, 249 - 266 (2012). [10.1504/IJOGCT.2012.046323]

Wang, Lichun; Cardenas, M. Bayani; Deng, Wen; and Bennett, Phillip C. Theory for dynamic longitudinal dispersion in fractures and rivers with Poiseuille flow, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, 10.1029/2011gl050831 (2012). [10.1029/2011gl050831]

Prigiobbe, Valentina; Hesse, Marc A.; and Bryant, Steven L. Anomalous reactive transport in the framework of the theory of chromatography , Transp. Porous Media, 93, 127-145 (2012). [10.1007/s11242-012-9947-6]

Davison, Scott M.; Yoon, Hongkyu; and Martinez, Mario J. Pore scale analysis of the impact of mixing-induced reaction on viscosity variation, Adv. Water Resour., 38, 70-80 (2012). [10.1016/j.advwatres.2011.12.014]

Arbogast, Todd Mixed Multiscale Methods for Heterogeneous, Numerical Analysis of Multiscale Problems, 83, pp 243-283 (2012). [10.1007/978-3-642-22061-6_8]

2011

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Chaudhary, Kuldeep; Cardenas, M. Bayani; Deng, Wen; and Bennett, Phillip C. The role of eddies inside pores in the transition from Darcy to Forchheimer flows, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, (2011). [10.1029/2011GL050214]

DiCarlo, David A.; Aminzadeh, B.; and Dehghanpour, H. Semicontinuum model of saturation overshoot and gravity-driven fingering in porous media, Water Resour. Res., 47, 1-5 (2011). [10.1029/2010wr009879]

DiCarlo, David A.; Aminzadeh, B.; Roberts, M.; Chung, D. H.; Bryant, Steven L.; and Huh, C. Mobility control through spontaneous formation of nanoparticle stabilized emulsions, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, (2011). [10.1029/2011GL050147]

DiCarlo, David A.; Mirzaei, M.; Aminzadeh, B.; and Dehghanpour, H. Fractional Flow Approach to Saturation Overshoot, Transp. Porous Media, 91, 955-971 (2011). [10.1007/s11242-011-9885-8]

Kirk, Matthew F. Variation in Energy Available to Populations of Subsurface Anaerobes in Response to Geological Carbon Storage, Environ. Sci. Technol., 45, 6676-6682 (2011). [10.1021/es201279e]

Leung, Juliana Y.; and Srinivasan, Sanjay Analysis of Uncertainty Introduced by Scaleup of Reservoir Attributes and Flow Response in Heterogeneous Reservoirs, SPE J., 16, 713-724 (2011). [10.2118/145678-PA]

Petersen, R. T.; Balhoff, M. T.; and Bryant, S. L. COUPLING MULTIPHASE PORE-SCALE MODELS, Journal of Multiscale Modelling, 3 Number 3, 109-131 (2011). [10.1142/s1756973711000431]

2009

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Cardenas, M. Bayani Direct simulation of pore level Fickian dispersion scale for transport through dense cubic packed spheres with vortices, Geochem., Geophys., Geosyst., 10, (2009). [10.1029/2009GC002593]

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2015

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Chaudhary, Kuldeep; Guiltinan, Eric J; Cardenas, M. Bayani; Maisano, Jessica A.; Ketcham, Richard A.; and Bennett, Phillip C. Wettability measurement under high P-T conditions using X-ray imaging with application to the brine-supercritical CO2 system AGU Publications Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2858 - 2864 (2015). [DOI: 10.1002/2015GC005936] more details

Mehmani, Ayaz; Mehmani, Yashar; Prodanovic, Masa; and Balhoff, Matthew T. A Forward Analysis on the Applicability of Tracer Breakthrough Profiles in Revealing the Pore Structure of Tight Gas Sandstone and Carbonate Rocks Water Resources Research, 51 Issue 6, 4751 - 4767 (2015). [DOI: 10.1002/2015WR016948] more details

Mehmani, Yashar; and Balhoff, Matthew T. Eulerian network modeling of longitudinal dispersionWater Resources Research, 8586 - 8606 (2015). [DOI: 10.1002/2015WR017543] [CFSES] more details

Rinehart, A. J.; Bishop, J. E.; and Dewers, T. Fracture propagation in Indiana Limestone interpreted via linear softening cohesive fracture model Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, 120, 2292 - 2308 (2015). [DOI: 10.1002/2014JB011624] more details

Singh, Rajveer; Yoon, Hongkyu; Sanford, Robert A.; Katz, Lynn; Fouke, Bruce W.; and Werth, Charles J. Metabolism-Induced CaCO3 Biomineralization During Reactive Transport in a Micromodel: Implications for Porosity Alteration Environmental Science & Technology, A - K (2015). [DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b00152] more details

Wang, Linchun; Cardenas, M. Bayani; Slottke, Donald T.; Ketcham, Richard A.; and Sharp, Jr., John M. Modification of the Local Cubic Law of fracture flow for weak inertia, tortuosity, and roughness Water Resources Research, (2015). [DOI: 10.1002/2014WR015815] more details

Wang, Yifeng; Chan, Marjorie A.; and Merino, Enrique Self-organized iron-oxide cementation geometry as an indicator of paleo-flows Science Report, 5, 1 - 15 (2015). [DOI: 10.1038/srep10792] [CFSES] more details

Yang, Xiaofan; Mehmani, Yashar; Perkins, William A.; Pasquali, Andrea; Schonherr, Martin; Kim, Kyungjoo; Perego, Mauro; Parks, Michael L; Trask, Nathaniel; Balhoff, Matthew T.; Richmond, Marshall C.; Geier, Martin; Krafczyk, Manfred; Luo, Li-Shi; Tartakovsky, Alexandre M.; and Scheibe, Timothy D. Intercomparison of 3D Pore-scale Flow and Solute Transport Simulation Methods Advances in Water Resources, (2015). [DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2015.09.015] more details

Yoon, Hongkyu; Kang, Qinjun; and Valocchi, Albert J. Lattice Boltzmann-Based Approaches for Pore-Scale Reactive Transport Mineral and Geochemistry, 80, 393-431 (2015). [DOI: 10.2138/rmg.2015.80.12] more details

2014

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Bishop, J. E. A Displacement-Based Finite-Element Formulation for General Polyhedra using Harmonic Shape Functions, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 97, 1 - 31 (2014). [10.1002/nme.4562]

Boyd, Victoria; Yoon, Hongkyu; Zhang, Changyong; Oostrom, Martinus; Hess, Nancy J.; Fouke, Bruce; Valocchi, Albert J.; and Werth, Charles J. INFLUENCE OF Mg2+ ON CaCO3 PRECIPITATION DURING SUBSURFACE REACTIVE TRANSPORT IN A HOMOGENEOUS SILICON-ETCHED PORE NETWORK, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 135, 15, 321 - 335 (2014). [10.1016/j.gca.2014.03.018]

Dewers, Thomas; Newell, Pania; Broome, Scott; and Heath, Jason Geomechanical behavior of Cambrian Mount Simon Sandstone reservoir lithofacies, Iowa Shelf, USA, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 21, 33 - 48 (2014). [10.1016/j.ijggc.2013.11.010]

Hesse, Marc A.; and Stadler, Georg Joint inversion in coupled quasi-static poroelasticity, journal of geophysical research, 119, 1425-1445 (2014). [10.1002/2013JB010272]Acknowledgements: Marc Hesse defined the problem and the both of them developed the formulation of the inverse problem together. the code was developed jointly but lead by the coauthor.

Huang, Chieh-Sen; Arbogast, Todd; and Hung, Chen-Hui A re-averaged WENO reconstruction and a third order CWENO scheme for hyperbolic conservation laws, Journal of Computational Physics, 262, 291 - 312 (2014). [10.1016/j.jcp.2013.12.056]

Ganis, Benjamin; Juntunen, Mika; Pencheva, Gergina; Wheeler, Mary F.; and Yotov, Ivan A global Jacobian method for mortar discretizations of nonlinear porous media flows, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 36, A522 - A542 (2014). [10.1137/130931837]

Mehmani, Yashar; Oostrom, Martinus; and Balhoff, Matthew T. A Streamline Splitting Pore-Network Approach for Computationally Inexpensive and Accurate Simulation of Species Transport in Porous Media, Water Resources Research, (2014). [10.1002/2013WR014984]

Oostrom, Martinus; Mehmani, Yashar; Romero-Gomez, P; Tang, Y.; Liu, H.; Yoon, Hongkyu; Kang, Q; Joekar-Niasar, V; Balhoff, M. T.; Dewers, T.; Tartakovsky, G. D.; Leist, E. A.; Hess, N. J.; Perkins, W. A.; Rakowski, C. L.; Richmond, M. C.; Serkowski, J. A.; Werth, Charles J.; Valocchi, Albert J.; Wietsma, Thomas W.; and Zhang, C. Pore-scale and Continuum Simulation of Solute Transport Micromodel Benchmark Experiments, Comput Geosci, on line, (2014). [10.1007/s10596-014-9424-0]

Tavakoli, Reza; Srinivasan, Sanjay; and Wheeler, Mary F. Rapid Updating of Stochastic Models by Use of an Ensemble-Filter Approach, SPE Journal, 19, 500 - 513 (2014). [10.2118/163673-PA]

Turner, D. Z.; Nakshatrala, K. B.; and Martinez, M. J. Framework for Coupling Flow and Deformation of a Porous Solid, International Journal of Geomechanics, (2014). [10.1061/(ASCE)GM.1943-5622.0000416]

2013

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Arbogast, Todd; Estep, D.; Sheehan, B.; and Tavener, S. A posteriori error estimates for mixed finite element and finite volume methods, IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis Advance A, 1 - 29 (2013). [10.1093/imanum/drt049]

Chaudhary, Kuldeep; Cardenas, M. B.; Wolfe, W. W.; Maisano, J. A.; Ketcham, R. A.; and Bennett, P. C. Pore-scale trapping of supercritical CO2 and the role of grain wettability and shape, Geophysical Research Letters, 40 Issue 15, 3878 - 3882 (2013). [10.1002/grl.50658]

Fanizza, Michael F.; Yoon, Hongkyu; Zhang, Changyong; Oostrom, Martinus; Wietsma, Thomas W.; Hess, Nancy J.; Bowden, Mark E.; Strathmann, Timothy J.; Finneran, Kevin T.; and Werth, Charles J. Pore-scale evaluation of uranyl phosphate precipitation in a model groundwater system, Water Resour. Res., 49, 874-890 (2013). [10.1002/wrcr.20088]

Kong, Xianhui; Delshad, Mojdeh; and Wheeler, Mary F. An Integrated Capillary, Buoyancy, and Viscous Driven Model for Brine/CO2 Relative Permeability in a Compositional and Parallel Reservoir Simulator. Modeling and Simulation in Fluid Dynamics in Porous Media, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, 28, 125-142 (2013). [10.1007/978-1-4614-5055-9-8]

Pencheva, Gergina; Vohralík, Martin; Wheeler, Mary F.; and Wildey, Tim Robust a Posteriori Error Control and Adaptivity for Multiscale, Multinumerics, and Mortar Coupling, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 51, 526-554 (2013). [10.1137/110839047]

McKenna, Sean A.; and Pike, Darin Q Fluid Pressure Redistribution Events within a Fault: Impact of Material Property Correlation, Advances in Hydrogeology, 57-72 (2013). [10.1007/978-1-4614-6479-2_3]

Myshakin, Evgeniy M.; Saidi, Wissam A.; Romanov, Vyacheslav N.; Cygan, Randall T.; and Jordan, Kenneth D. Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Carbon Dioxide Intercalation in Hydrated Na-Montmorillonite, Journal of Physical Chemistry, 117, 11028-11039 (2013). [10.1021/jp312589s]

Worthen, Andrew J; Bagaria, Hitesh G; Chen, Yunshen; Bryant, S. L.; Huh, Chun; and Johnston, Keith P Nanoparticle-stabilized carbon dioxide-in-water foams with fine texture, J. Colloid and Interface Science, 391, 142 - 151 (2013). [10.1016/j.jcis.2012.09.043]

Yoon, Ki Youl; An, Sung Jin; Chen, Yunshen ; Lee, Jae Ho; Bryant, Steven L.; Ruoff, Rodney S; and Johnston, Keith P. Graphene oxide nanoplatelet dispersions in concentrated NaCl and stabilization, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 403, 1-6 (2013). [10.1016/j.jcis.2013.03.012]

Zhang, Y. P.; Peterson, M.; Rupp, J.; Ellett, K.; Celia, M. A.; Gable, C. W.; Bowen, B.; Evans, J.; Bandilla, K.; Mosley, P.; Dewers, T.; and Elliot, T. Hydrogeologic Controls on Induced Seismicity Incrystalline Basement Rocks Due to Fluid Injection into Basal Reservoirs, Ground Water, 51 Issue 4, 525-538 (2013). [10.1111/gwat.12071]

2012

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Arbogast, Todd; Zhen, Tao; and Xiao, Hailong Multiscale mortar mixed methods for heterogeneous elliptic problems, Numerical Analysis of Multiscale Problems, 83, 9-21 (2012). [doi.org/10.1090]

Balhoff, Matthew T.; Daniel, Sanchez-Rivera; Kwok, Alan; Mehmani, Yashar; and Prodanovic, Masa Numerical algorithms for network modeling of yield stress and other non-newtonian fluids in porous media, Transp. Porous Media, (2012). [10.1007/s11242-012-9956-5]Acknowledgements: The number of tools used to model the work were developed through CFSES by a student. Some of the coding and applications were funded by the Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Department and the Yates Foundation.Ganis, Benjamin; Pencheva, Gergina; Wheeler, Mary F.; Wildey, Tim; and Yotov, Ivan A Frozen Jacobian Multi-scale Mortar Preconditioner for Nonlinear Interface Operators. Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, 10, No 3, 853-873 (2012). [10.1137/110826643]

Mikelić, Andro; and Wheeler, Mary F. Convergence of iterative coupling for coupled flow and geomechanics, Computational Geosciences, (2012). [10.1007/s10596-012-9318-y]

Mikelić, Andro; and Wheeler, Mary F. On the interface law between a deformable porous medium containing a viscous fluid and an elastic body, Mathematical Models & Methods in Applied Sciences, 22, 1250031-1 - 1250031-32 (2012). [10.1142/S0218202512500315]

Mikelić, Andro; and Wheeler, Mary F. Theory of the dynamic Biot-Allard equations and their link to the quasi-static Biot system , AIP Journal of Mathematical Physics, 53, 2 - 16 (2012). [10.1063/1.4764887]

Wheeler, M. F.; Xue, G. R.; and Yotov, I. Accurate Cell-Centered Discretizations for Modeling Multiphase Flow in Porous Media on General Hexahedral and Simplicial Grids, SPE Journal, 17 Number 3, 779-793 (2012). [10.2118/141534-PA]

Wheeler, M. F.; Xue, G. R.; and Yotov, I. A multipoint flux mixed finite element method on distorted quadrilaterals and hexahedra, Numerische Mathematik, 121, 165-204 (2012). [10.1007/s00211-011-0427-7]

Wheeler, Mary F.; Xue, Guangri; and Yotov, Ivan A multiscale mortar multipoint flux mixed finite element method , Math. Modell. Numer. Anal., 46, 759-796 (2012). [10.1051/m2an/2011064]

Wheeler, M. F.; Xue, G.; and Yotov, I. Local Velocity Postprocessing for Multipoint Flux Methods on General Hexahedra, International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling, 9, 607-627 (2012).

Yoon, K. Y.; Li, Z. C.; Neilson, B. M.; Lee, W.; Huh, C.; Bryant, S. L.; Bielawski, C. W.; and Johnston, K. P. Effect of Adsorbed Amphiphilic Copolymers on the Interfacial Activity of Superparamagnetic Nanoclusters and the Emulsification of Oil in Water, Macromolecules, 45 (12), 5157–5166 (2012). [10.1021/ma202511b]

Yoon, Hongkyu; Valocchi, Albert J.; Werth, Charles J.; and Dewers, Thomas Pore-scale simulation of mixing-induced calcium carbonate precipitation and dissolution in a microfluidic pore network, Water Resource. Res., 48, (2012). [10.1029/2011wr011192]

2011

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Arbogast, Todd; and Wang, W. H. Stability, monotonicity, maximum and minimum principles, and implementation of the volume corrected characteristic method, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 33, 1549-1573 (2011). [10.1137/100788689]

Bishop, Joseph; and Strack, Erik A statistical method for verifying mesh convergence in Monte Carlo simulations with application to fragmentation, Int. J. Numer. Meth. Engng., 88, 279-306 (2011). [10.1002/nme.3176]

Wheeler, Mary F.; Xue, Guangri; and Yotov, Ivan A family of multipoint flux mixed finite element methods for elliptic problems on general grids, Procedia Computer Science, 4, 918-927 (2011). [10.1016/j.procs.2011.04.097]

Yoon, Ki Youl; Kotsmar, Csaba; Ingram, Davis R.; Huh, Chun; Bryant, Steven L.; Milner, Thomas E.; and Johnston, Keith P. Stabilization of Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoclusters in Concentrated Brine with Cross-Linked Polymer Shells, Langmuir, 27, 10962-10969 (2011). [10.1021/la2006327]

2010

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Ingram, Davis R.; Kotsmar, Csaba; Yoon, Ki Youl; Shao, Stephen; Huh, Chun; Bryant, Steven L.; Milner, Thomas E.; and Johnston, Keith P. Superparamagnetic nanoclusters coated with oleic acid bilayers for stabilization of emulsions of water and oil at low concentration, J. Colloid Interface Sci., 351, 225-232 (2010). [10.1016/j.jcis.2010.06.048]

Wheeler, Mary F.; Wildey, Tim; and Xue, Guangri Efficient algorithms for multiscale modeling in porous media, Numer. Linear Algebra Appl., 17, 771-785 (2010). [10.1002/nla.742]

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