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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Laura J. Pyrak-Nolte is an American geophysicist who is Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Purdue University. She is the former President of the International Society of Porous Media and former President of the American Rock Mechanics Association. In 2020 Pyrak-Nolte was awarded the Society of Exploration Geophysicists Reginald Fessenden Award. She is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
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Published Works
- Transmission of seismic waves across single natural fractures (1990) (603)
- Single fractures under normal stress: The relation between fracture specific stiffness and fluid flow (2000) (334)
- Hydraulic And Mechanical Properties of Natural Fractures In Low Permeability Rock (1987) (288)
- Anisotropy in seismic velocities and amplitudes from multiple parallel fractures (1990) (259)
- Fluid percolation through single fractures (1988) (165)
- The Role of Chemistry in Fracture Pattern Development and Opportunities to Advance Interpretations of Geological Materials (2019) (132)
- The seismic response of fractures and the interrelations among fracture properties (1996) (131)
- Approaching a universal scaling relationship between fracture stiffness and fluid flow (2016) (121)
- Linking pressure and saturation through interfacial areas in porous media (2004) (113)
- Shales at all scales: Exploring coupled processes in mudrocks (2017) (112)
- Elastic interface waves along a fracture (1987) (103)
- Volumetric imaging of aperture distributions in connected fracture networks (1997) (93)
- Simulating drainage and imbibition experiments in a high‐porosity micromodel using an unstructured pore network model (2009) (90)
- Terrestrial sequestration of CO2: An assessment of research needs (2001) (81)
- The fractal geometry of flow paths in natural fractures in rock and the approach to percolation (1989) (78)
- Fracture interface waves (1996) (74)
- Frequency dependence of fracture stiffness (1992) (74)
- The use of ultrasound and shear oscillatory tests to characterize the effect of mixing time on the rheological properties of dough (2004) (73)
- Fracture network versus single fractures: Measurement of fracture geometry with X-ray tomography (1999) (72)
- SEISMIC VISIBILITY OF FRACTURES (1987) (71)
- Measurement of interfacial area per volume for drainage and imbibition (2007) (70)
- A novel deep reactive ion etched (DRIE) glass micro-model for two-phase flow experiments. (2012) (66)
- Laser-based ultrasound detection using photorefractive quantum wells (1998) (62)
- Wavelet analysis of velocity dispersion of elastic interface waves propagating along a fracture (1995) (58)
- Precursors to the shear failure of rock discontinuities (2014) (56)
- Active Seismic Monitoring of Crack Initiation, Propagation, and Coalescence in Rock (2017) (53)
- Scaling of fluid flow versus fracture stiffness (2013) (53)
- On the dynamics and kinematics of two‐fluid‐phase flow in porous media (2015) (50)
- Physics of Partially Saturated Porous Media: Residual Saturation and Seismic-Wave Propagation (2001) (47)
- The effect of mixing conditions on the material properties of an agar gel—microstructural and macrostructural considerations (2006) (46)
- Interface waves propagated along a fracture (1996) (44)
- Relating capillary pressure to interfacial areas (2008) (42)
- Geophysics at the interface: Response of geophysical properties to solid‐fluid, fluid‐fluid, and solid‐solid interfaces (2010) (40)
- The effect of surface roughness and mixed-mode loading on the stiffness ratio κx/κz for fractures (2014) (37)
- Adaptive beam combining and interferometry with photorefractive quantum wells (2001) (36)
- A discontinuous Galerkin method with a modified penalty flux for the propagation and scattering of acousto-elastic waves (2015) (34)
- Combined Scaling of Fluid Flow and Seismic Stiffness in Single Fractures (2014) (34)
- Porosity of natural fracture networks (1995) (32)
- Characterisation of frozen orange juice by ultrasound and wavelet analysis (2004) (31)
- Multi-Modal Monitoring of Slip Along Frictional Discontinuities (2014) (30)
- Laboratory earthquake forecasting: A machine learning competition (2021) (30)
- Immiscible fluid flow in a fracture (1992) (29)
- Acoustic and electrical property changes due to microbial growth and biofilm formation in porous media (2010) (26)
- DETERMINATION OF ULTRASONIC-BASED RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF DOUGH DURING FERMENTATION' (2004) (26)
- Transition from the displacement discontinuity limit to the resonant scattering regime for fracture interface waves (2000) (26)
- Large-format fabrication by two-photon polymerization in SU-8 (2010) (26)
- Controlling Subsurface Fractures and Fluid Flow: A Basic Research Agenda (2015) (25)
- Laboratory‐scale study of field of view and the seismic interpretation of fracture specific stiffness (2009) (25)
- Microbial‐induced heterogeneity in the acoustic properties of porous media (2009) (25)
- Detection and Quantification of Slip Along Non-Uniform Frictional Discontinuities Using Digital Image Correlation (2014) (24)
- Interface waves propagating along tensile fractures in dolomite (1995) (22)
- Influence of Rock Mineralogy on Reactive Fracture Evolution in Carbonate-Rich Caprocks. (2018) (21)
- Variation of shear-wave amplitude during frictional sliding (1993) (21)
- Effects of single fractures on seismic wave propagation (1990) (20)
- Colloid Transport in Porous Media: A Review of Classical Mechanisms and Emerging Topics (2019) (20)
- From Fluid Flow to Coupled Processes in Fractured Rock: Recent Advances and New Frontiers (2021) (19)
- Fractures: Finite-size scaling and multifractals (1992) (19)
- Single-phase flow in a rock fracture: micro-model experiments and network flow simulation (2004) (19)
- Advances in the theory of capillarity in porous media (2009) (18)
- Hysteresis and interfacial energies in smooth‐walled microfluidic channels (2011) (18)
- Seismic focusing by a single planar fracture (2003) (16)
- Compressional waves guided between parallel fractures (2001) (15)
- Wave guiding in fractured layered media (2014) (14)
- Measurements of elastic constants in anisotropic media (2014) (13)
- Observation of a distinct compressional‐mode interface wave on a single fracture (1997) (13)
- Wave Propagation in Isotropic Media with Two Orthogonal Fracture Sets (2016) (12)
- Interface waves along fractures in anisotropic media (2013) (11)
- Mineral Fabric as a Hidden Variable in Fracture Formation in Layered Media (2020) (11)
- Monitoring fracture evolution with compressional‐mode interface waves (2000) (11)
- Probing complex geophysical geometries with chattering dust (2020) (11)
- The Effect of Fabric-Controlled Layering On Compressional And Shear Wave Propagation In Carbonate Rock (2009) (11)
- Seismic wave propagation in fractured rock (1998) (10)
- A stratified percolation model for saturated and unsaturated flow through natural fractures (1990) (10)
- Pinned films and capillary hysteresis in microfluidic channels. (2012) (10)
- Acoustic monitoring of sediment‐pore fluid interaction (1998) (9)
- Hierarchical Cascades and the Single Fracture (1995) (9)
- Coupled wedge waves. (2013) (8)
- General 3D microporous structures fabricated with two-photon laser machining (2008) (8)
- Elastic interface waves along a fracture: Theory and experiment (1992) (8)
- Emergent Wave Conversion as a Precursor to Shear Crack Initiation (2018) (8)
- Detecting sub‐wavelength layers and interfaces in synthetic sediments using seismic wave transmission (1999) (7)
- Seismic Wave Conversion Caused by Shear Crack Initiation and Growth (2020) (7)
- Compressional wave anisotropy in fractured rock (1997) (6)
- Summary of the AAPG–SPE–SEG Hedberg Research Conference on “Fundamental Controls on Flow in Carbonates” (2013) (6)
- Coexisting two-phase flow in correlated two-dimensional percolation (1997) (6)
- Fracture anisotropy The role of fracture-stiffness gradients (2007) (6)
- The Effect of the Critical Path on Fluid Flow Through a Fracture (1994) (5)
- Three-dimensional Tomographic Visuallzatlon of Natural Fracture Networks And Graph Theory Analysis of the Transport Properties (1995) (5)
- Toward 3D Microfluidic Structures Fabricated with Two-photon Laser Machining (2007) (5)
- Mercury Porosimetry Studies on a Natural Fracture (1993) (5)
- Geophysical Investigation of Shear Failure along Cohesive-Frictional Rock Discontinuities (2014) (5)
- Particle Swarms in Fractures (2015) (4)
- Monitoring Fracture Saturation With Internal Seismic Sources and Twin Neural Networks (2022) (4)
- Monitoring of Mechanically-Induced Damage in Rock using Transmission and Reflection Elastic Waves (2015) (4)
- Seismic Wave Propagation In Fractured Carbonate Rock (2009) (4)
- Incipient Interface Waves Used to Monitor Rock Failure (1996) (4)
- Holographic 3‐D laser imaging into sandstone (2002) (3)
- Fracture Specific Stiffness (2019) (3)
- Fracture intersections and interface waves (2011) (3)
- Seismic Monitoring Of Fracture Formation (2005) (2)
- Compressional Wave An Isotropy Caused by Single and Multiple Fractures (1998) (2)
- Elastic waves in fractured isotropic and anisotropic media (2016) (2)
- Intersection Waves (2017) (2)
- Shear Specific Stiffness of Fractures And Fracture Intersections (2012) (2)
- Large-scale 3D microporous structures by two-photon laser machining (2008) (2)
- Fracture network geometry and relative permeability (1999) (2)
- Particle Swarms in Smooth-walled Fractures (2011) (2)
- Transient dynamics during two-wave mixing in photorefractive quantum well diodes using moving gratings. (1998) (2)
- Introduction to Selected Contributions from the 47th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium Held in San Francisco, California from June 23–26, 2013 (2014) (2)
- Coupled Waves at Fracture Intersections (2014) (1)
- EMSL Pore Scale Modeling Challenge/Workshop (2011) (1)
- Use of Seismic Wave Conversions (S-to-P Wave) to Monitor Shear Crack Growth (2017) (1)
- Microstructural Controls on the Macroscopic Behavior of Geo-Architected Rocks (2018) (1)
- Characterization of Acoustic Emissions From Analogue Rocks Using Sparse Regression‐DMDc (2022) (1)
- Monitoring a Propagating Front: Exploiting Fresnel Precursors from Fractures (2006) (1)
- Monitoring Rock Damage Caused by Cyclic Loading Using Seismic Wave Transmission and Reflection (2016) (1)
- Evanescent compressional-mode guided waves propagating between parallel fractures (2001) (1)
- Effect of Layering on Cracking Initiation and Propagation under Uniaxial Compression (2017) (1)
- Mechanical and Geophysical Monitoring of Slip Along Frictional Discontinuities (2019) (1)
- Detection and monitoring of shear crack growth using S-P conversion of seismic waves (2017) (1)
- The effect of drying and re-saturation on the gas permeability of coal (1995) (1)
- Effect of Buoyancy on Fluids and Precipitation Distribution in Inclined Fractures (2018) (1)
- Acoustic characterization of sediments after Paraffin migration (1999) (1)
- Universal Scaling of Single Fracture Hydromechanics (2012) (1)
- The Effect of Saturation On Shear Wave Anisotropy In a Transversely Isotropic Medium (2010) (1)
- Quasi-Static Pore-Scale Network Models for Studying Pc-Sw-anw Relationship in Drainage and Imbibition (2007) (1)
- Cement sensors with acoustic bandgaps using carbon nanotubes (2021) (1)
- Imaging Seismic Wave Propagation in Fractured Media (1999) (1)
- Seismic Montinoring Of Fracture Alteration By Mineral Deposition (2004) (1)
- Modification of Fracture Geometry by Calcite Precipitation (2016) (1)
- Seismic Detection of Gas in a Partially Saturated Fracture (2001) (1)
- Effects of the Sub-porosity on Wave Propagation Across a Fracture (2008) (0)
- Interpretation of the seismic response of a fracture as a function of the scale. (2006) (0)
- Excitonic Spectral Phase and Tunable Quadrature for Laser-Based Ultrasound Detection using Photorefractive Quantum Wells (1999) (0)
- Manipulation of Contact Angles and Interfacial Lengths of Liquid Drops using Electro-Kinetic Techniques (2014) (0)
- Multiphase Flow Through Microchannels. (2008) (0)
- KEYNOTE ADDRESS: THE INFLUENCE OF MINERALOGY AND FAILURE-MODE ON FRACTURE GEOMETRY (2022) (0)
- Wave propagation across partially infill fracture (2008) (0)
- Transport of Particle Swarms Through Fractures (2011) (0)
- Geophysical Response of Saturated Rock Joints during Shear (0)
- Elastics Wave Conversion From Fractures With Oriented Voids (2018) (0)
- Propagation of Leaky Rayleigh Waves across a Fracture along a Fluid-Solid Interface (2014) (0)
- Laboratory to Field: Critical Scaling of Single Fractures (2013) (0)
- The Effect of fluid buoyancy and fracture orientation on CaCO 3 Formation in a Fracture (2016) (0)
- Experimental Investigation of Relative Permeability Upscaling from the MicroScale to the MacroScale Final Report Reporting Period Start Date : August 8 , 1999 Reporting Period End Date : August 15 , 2003 (2004) (0)
- Monitoring and Repair of Cement-Geomaterial Interfaces in Borehole and Repository Scenarios. (2019) (0)
- Fractures as Time-Dependent Structures: Characterizing Alterations & Changing Length Scales (2008) (0)
- The Effect of Contact Area on the Fluid Flow-Fracture Specific Stiffness Relationship (2009) (0)
- Crack Propagation in Layered Analog Rocks with Oriented Texture (2018) (0)
- Modification of Fracture Apertures by Reactive Multiphase Flow (2015) (0)
- The effect of differential mineral shrinkage on crack formation and network geometry (2022) (0)
- A Computational Study: The Scaling Relationship Between Fluid Flow And Displacement In Single Fractures (2009) (0)
- Detecting the Presence of a Sub-Porosity in an Open Fluid-Filled Fractures (2007) (0)
- Particle Swarms In Confining Fractures (2012) (0)
- Evaluation of Fracture in Cement-Clay Systems trhough Application of Non-Local Peridynamics. (2020) (0)
- Adaptive Compensation for Laser-based Ultrasound Detection Using Holographic Quantum Wells (1998) (0)
- CO 2 Sequestration: Fractures are Enabling Clean Energy Options (2010) (0)
- Measurement of Interfacial Area per Volume on Spatially Correlated and Uncorrelated Micro-models (2002) (0)
- Microstructural controls on the macroscopic behavior of geo-architected rock samples (2017) (0)
- Extracting Information from Geophysical and Geochemical Signals: Applying Machine Learning Through Data Science Challenges I (2018) (0)
- Experimental Investigation of Relative Permeability Upscaling from the MicroScale to the MacroScale Semi-Annual Progress Report Reporting Period Start Date : March 1 , 2000 Reporting Period End Date : August 31 , 2000 (2001) (0)
- Laboratory Investigation of the Effect of Water-Saturation on Seismic Wave Dispersion in Carbonates (2009) (0)
- Mechano-Chemical Interactions within Engineered Barrier-Geomaterial Interfaces (2019) (0)
- Mineral Fabric as a Hidden Variable in Fracture Formation in Layered Media (2020) (0)
- Particle Swarm Transport in Porous Media (2016) (0)
- Coupling stress and reactive transport in fractures: Effects on contacting asperities, permeability and stiffness (2015) (0)
- Fracture Formation in Layered Synthetic Rocks with Oriented Mineral Fabric under Mixed Mode I and II Loading Conditions. (2021) (0)
- Film Relaxation and Pressure-Saturation Hysteresis in a Wedge-shaped Microfluidic Channel (2010) (0)
- Effect of Mineral Orientation on Roughness and Toughness of Mode I Fractures (2019) (0)
- THE EFFECT OF INITIAL CONTACT AREA ON THE MECHANICAL AND HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES OF SINGLE FRACTURES (2011) (0)
- Acoustic Wavefront Imaging of Orthogonal Fracture Networks subjected to Bi-axial Loading (2015) (0)
- Modeling Drying of Cement-Clay Composites with Non-Local Peridynamics. (2020) (0)
- Using Fracture Interfaces Waves to Characterize Fractures And Fracture Intersections (2011) (0)
- Particle Swarm Transport through Immiscible Fluid Layers in a Fracture (2011) (0)
- Acoustic Monitoring of Mineral Precipitation in a Fracture (2015) (0)
- Spatial & Temporal Geophysical Monitoring of Microbial Growth and Biofilm Formation (2009) (0)
- Advanced Downhole Acoustic Sensing for Wellbore Integrity: Final Report. (2021) (0)
- Frequency-Dependent Fracture Specific Stiffness (2003) (0)
- Multi-size Scaling of Fluid Flow and Seismic Fracture Stiffness (Invited) (2013) (0)
- Particle Swarm Transport across the Fracture-Matrix Interface (2016) (0)
- Rapid recognition of fracture-generated phase components using machine learning methods (2018) (0)
- Seismic Interpretation of Fracture Specific Stiffness (2007) (0)
- Laser-based ultrasound with linear detection in photorefractive multiple quantum wells (1998) (0)
- Fracture specific stiffness as the critical link among fracture properties (2016) (0)
- Damage Mechanics Challenge: Simulation of Failure Load and Crack Geometry (2019) (0)
- Interpreting Fracture Specific Stiffness for Fractures in Anisotropic Rock (2009) (0)
- List of Contributors (2019) (0)
- Particle Swarms in Variable Aperture Fractures (2013) (0)
- Investigating the behavior of clay in cement systems. (2020) (0)
- Deciphering fractured rock properties from seismic wavefields — Introduction (2018) (0)
- Interactions across interfaces between Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) paste and oil shale (2022) (0)
- Induced Fracture Geometry in Layered Media under Mixed Mode I and III Loading Conditions. (2021) (0)
- Dispersive Waves Propagating Along a Surface Fracture (2013) (0)
- Reactive flow in a fracture: scale effects in the interpretation of seismic measurements. (2005) (0)
- The influence of swarm deformation on the velocity behavior of falling swarms of particles (2017) (0)
- Shale and Mudstone Multiphysics II (2017) (0)
- The Effect of Scale on Seismic Monitoring of Fracture Alteration by Reactive Flow (2005) (0)
- Relationship Between Shear and Normal Stiffness for a Fracture Subjected to Mixed-Mode Loading (2013) (0)
- Simulation of three-dimensional fracture network geometry in coal. Topical report, December 1995-May 1996 (1997) (0)
- Wave-guiding between Fractures in Transversely Isotropic Matrix (2014) (0)
- Elastic Wave Propagation in Media with Orthogonal Fracture Networks (2015) (0)
- Autocorrelation imaging of 3D structures using a femtosecond laser: application to imaging of sandstone (2002) (0)
- Particle Swarms in Fractures: Open Versus Partially Closed Systems (2014) (0)
- Transport and Manipulation of Immiscible Fluids using Electro-Kinetic Techniques (2015) (0)
- Imaging Multiphase Fluid Distribution in Three-dimensional Micro-models (2010) (0)
- Seismic Characterizations of Fractures: Dynamic Diagnostics (2017) (0)
- ELASTIC FILMS AND REVERSIBILITY IN A MICROFLUIDIC PORE (2011) (0)
- Fluid Manipulation Utilizing Electrowetting Techniques (2014) (0)
- Scaling Behavior of Fluid Flow versus Fracture Specific Stiffness for Single Fractures (2014) (0)
- Elastic Waves That Propagate Along Fracture Intersections (2014) (0)
- Seismic Response of In-filled Fractures (2008) (0)
- The Effect Of Scale On Seismic Monitoring Of A Fracture Subjected To Reactive Fluid Flow. (2005) (0)
- The Influence of Mineral Texture on Fracture Geometry in Layered Geo-Architected Rock (2019) (0)
- EARTH SCIENCES Seismic Visibility of Fractures (2013) (0)
- The Effect of Mineral Deposition on the Hydraulic and Seismic Properties of Fractures (2004) (0)
- Chattering Dust to Map Fracture Flow Path Topology and Geometry (2019) (0)
- Interfacial Area per Volume: The link between capillary pressure and saturation (2004) (0)
- SEISMIC WAVE PROPAGATION ACROSS IN-FILLED FRACTURES (2011) (0)
- Frequency-dependent Seismic Anisotropy In a Fractured Medium (1999) (0)
- Fractures: Flow and geometry (2018) (0)
- Self-Assembling Sup-porosity: The Effect On Fluid Flow And Seismic Wave Propagation (2013) (0)
- Three-dimensional Deformable Pore Networks (2014) (0)
- Visualization of Two-Fluid-Phase Flow Dynamics Using Micro-models (2015) (0)
- Effect of Reactive Flow on Multi-size Scaling of Fluid Flow and Seismic Fracture Stiffness (2014) (0)
- Monitoring Fracture Saturation using Transportable Acoustic Sources and a Neural Network Differential Autoencoder (2023) (0)
- Seismic Detection of Flow Paths In a Air-Filled Fracture Under Stress (2012) (0)
- Seismic imaging of fractures and fluid processes (2003) (0)
- Seismic Monitoring of the Alteration of Flow Paths In a Fracture By Mineral Deposition (2004) (0)
- Particle Swarm Transport in Fracture Networks (2012) (0)
- Modeling the complex shape evolution of sedimenting particle swarms in fractures (2016) (0)
- Center for Frontiers of Subsurface Energy Security. Final Report (2019) (0)
- Residual lattice strain in quartzites as a paleopiezometer 4 : 15 (2019) (0)
- Integrated Geomechanics and Geophysics in Induced Seismicity: Mechanisms and Monitoring. (2019) (0)
- Acoustic Monitoring of Gravity-Driven Controls on CaCO3 Precipitates in a Fracture (2017) (0)
- Simulation of Seismic Scattering from Rock Fractures (2010) (0)
- MODELING OF SEISMIC WAVE SCATTERING FROM ROUGH FRACTURE SURFACES (2011) (0)
- Analysis of Capillary Pressure in a Two-Fluid-Phase Porous Medium System Using Micro-model Experiments and Pore-Scale Modeling (2013) (0)
- Ultrasound Focussing by Planar Fractures (2005) (0)
- Exploring the Geometry of Fracture Intersections Under Stress (0)
- Estimating Long-term Performance of Cement-Rock Interfaces. (2021) (0)
- GEOMECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF GYPSUM-BASED 3D PRINTED MATERIALS (2020) (0)
- Laboratory Testing of Acoustic Tomography in Rock Samples Using Regularization of Incomplete Data (2002) (0)
- SCALING OF DISPLACEMENT AND FLUID FLOW IN SINGLE FRACTURES (2011) (0)
- Interface physics in microporous media : LDRD final report. (2008) (0)
- Toward 3D microfluidic structures fabricated with two-photon laser machining (2007) (0)
- Hedberg Research Conference on Fundamental Controls on Flow in Carbonates: Request for Travel Support for Post-Doctoral Fellows (2013) (0)
- Mixed-Mode Fracture Propagation in Layered Printed Rocks with Oriented Texture (2019) (0)
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