Hydraulic stimulation and fluid circulation experiments in underground laboratories: Step** up the scale towards engineered geothermal systems

VS Gischig, D Giardini, F Amann, M Hertrich… - … for Energy and the …, 2020 - Elsevier
The history of reservoir stimulation to extract geothermal energy from low permeability rock
(ie so-called petrothermal or engineered geothermal systems, EGS) highlights the difficulty …

[HTML][HTML] Recent developments, challenges, and future research directions in tomographic characterization of fractured aquifers

LM Ringel, WA Illman, P Bayer - Journal of Hydrology, 2024 - Elsevier
This work reviews various studies of hydraulic and pneumatic tomography for estimation of
flow properties of fractured geologic media with hydraulic and pneumatic tomography. The …

Stochastic inversion of three‐dimensional discrete fracture network structure with hydraulic tomography

LM Ringel, M Jalali, P Bayer - Water Resources Research, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We introduce an approach for the stochastic characterization of the geometric and hydraulic
parameters of a three‐dimensional (3D) discrete fracture network (DFN) and for estimating …

Field comparison of DNA‐labeled nanoparticle and solute tracer transport in a fractured crystalline rock

A Kittilä, MR Jalali, KF Evans… - Water Resources …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Field tracer experiments were conducted to examine tracer transport properties in a fracture‐
dominated crystalline rock mass at the Grimsel Test Site, Switzerland. In the experiments …

Estimation of fracture compliance from attenuation and velocity analysis of full‐waveform sonic log data

ND Barbosa, E Caspari, JG Rubino… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In fractured rocks, the amplitudes of propagating seismic waves decay due to various
mechanisms, such as geometrical spreading, solid friction, displacement of pore fluid …

[HTML][HTML] Hydromechanical processes and their influence on the stimulation effected volume: observations from a decameter-scale hydraulic stimulation project

H Krietsch, VS Gischig, J Doetsch, KF Evans… - Solid Earth, 2020 - se.copernicus.org
Six hydraulic shearing experiments have been conducted in the framework of the In-situ
Stimulation and Circulation experiment within a decameter-scale crystalline rock volume at …

Characterization of the effects of hydraulic stimulation with tracer-based temporal moment analysis and tomographic inversion

A Kittilä, MR Jalali, M Somogyvári, KF Evans, MO Saar… - Geothermics, 2020 - Elsevier
Tracer tests were conducted as part of decameter-scale in-situ hydraulic stimulation
experiments at the Grimsel Test Site to investigate the hydraulic properties of a stimulated …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of hydraulic and tracer tomography for discrete fracture network inversion

LM Ringel, M Somogyvári, M Jalali, P Bayer - Geosciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Fractures serve as highly conductive preferential flow paths for fluids in rocks, which are
difficult to exactly reconstruct in numerical models. Especially, in low-conductive rocks …

[HTML][HTML] Hydraulic fracture propagation in a heterogeneous stress field in a crystalline rock mass

N Dutler, B Valley, V Gischig, L Villiger, H Krietsch… - Solid Earth, 2019 - se.copernicus.org
As part of the In-situ Stimulation and Circulation (ISC) experiment, hydraulic fracturing (HF)
tests were conducted in a moderately fractured crystalline rock mass at the Grimsel Test Site …

Physical and mechanical rock properties of a heterogeneous volcano; the case of Mount Unzen, Japan

JE Kendrick, LN Schaefer, J Schauroth… - Solid Earth …, 2020 - se.copernicus.org
Volcanoes represent one of the most critical geological settings for hazard modelling due to
their propensity to both unpredictably erupt and collapse, even in times of quiescence …