Abstracts Archive

Geothermal energy is one of the renewable energy sources that can help mitigate climate change. Rocks are elasto-plastic materials at low pressure and temperature, and the deformation is accommodated along localized shear bands (brittle behavior); at high pressure and temperature rocks are elasto-vi...

The success of CO2 storage, nuclear waste disposal and energy storage in rock salt depends on the ability of the formation to prevent leakage of fluids injected in the subsurface. However, fractures, either pre-existing or induced, can provide flow paths that are orders of magnitude more conductive ...