Jens Birkholzer

Dr. Jens Birkholzer

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division
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Academic Career Length

35Years (1992-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 March 2009 in International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control
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Jens BirkholzerJens Birkholzer
Jens Birkholzer
QZQ Zhou
Q Zhou
CTC Tsang
C Tsang

1 June 2007 in Energy Conversion and Management
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JRJ. Rutqvist
J. Rutqvist
Jens BirkholzerJens Birkholzer
Jens Birkholzer
FCF. Cappa
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CTC.-F. Tsang
C.-F. Tsang

1 October 2008 in International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control
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QZQuanlin Zhou
Quanlin Zhou
Jens BirkholzerJens Birkholzer
Jens Birkholzer
CTChin-Fu Tsang
Chin-Fu Tsang
JRJonny Rutqvist
Jonny Rutqvist

22 February 2022 in Reviews of Geophysics
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HVHari Viswanathan
Hari Viswanathan
JAJonathan Ajo-Franklin
Jonathan Ajo-Franklin
Jens BirkholzerJens Birkholzer
Jens Birkholzer
JCJ. W. Carey
J. W. Carey
YGY. Guglielmi
Y. Guglielmi
DTDaniel M. Tartakovsky
Daniel M. Tartakovsky
Quantitative predictions of natural and induced phenomena in fractured rock is one of the great challenges in the Earth and Energy Sciences with far‐reaching economic and environmental impacts. Fractures occupy a very small volume of a subsurface formation but often dominate fluid flow, solute transport and mechanical deformation behavior. They play a central role in CO2 sequestration, nuclear waste disposal, hydrogen storage, geothermal energy production, nuclear nonproliferation, and hydrocarbon extraction. These applications require predictions of fracture‐dependent quantities of interest such as CO2 leakage rate, hydrocarbon production, radionuclide plume migration, and seismicity; to be useful, these predictions must account for uncertainty inherent in subsurface systems. Here, we review recent advances in fractured rock research covering field‐ and laboratory‐scale experimentation, numerical simulations, and uncertainty quantification. We discuss how these have greatly improved the fundamental understanding of fractures and one's ability to predict flow and transport in fractured systems. Dedicated field sites provide quantitative measurements of fracture flow that can be used to identify dominant coupled processes and to validate models. Laboratory‐scale experiments fill critical knowledge gaps by providing direct observations and measurements of fracture geometry and flow under controlled conditions that cannot be obtained in the field. Physics‐based simulation of flow and transport provide a bridge in understanding between controlled simple laboratory experiments and the massively complex field‐scale fracture systems. Finally, we review the use of machine learning‐based emulators to rapidly investigate different fracture property scenarios and accelerate physics‐based models by orders of magnitude to enable uncertainty quantification and near real‐time analysis.

1 February 2008 in International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences
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JRJ. Rutqvist
J. Rutqvist
Jens BirkholzerJens Birkholzer
Jens Birkholzer
CTChin-Fu Tsang
Chin-Fu Tsang

1 December 2009 in International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control
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Jens BirkholzerJens Birkholzer
Jens Birkholzer
QZQuanlin Zhou
Quanlin Zhou