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4067
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Overview

Alex Hansen is affiliated with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway. Their primary field of study is Engineering, with research focusing extensively on several specialized subfields.

Hansen's subfields of study include:

  • Ocean Engineering
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Materials Chemistry

The main topics of Hansen's work span both applied and theoretical domains:

  • Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques
  • Theoretical and Computational Physics
  • Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis
  • Groundwater Flow and Contamination Studies
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics

Alex Hansen has contributed numerous scholarly articles, with recent papers including:

  • A Statistical Mechanics Framework for Immiscible and Incompressible Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media, 2022, published in Advances in Water Resources
  • Fluid Meniscus Algorithms for Dynamic Pore-Network Modeling of Immiscible Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media, 2021, published in Frontiers in Physics
  • The Co-Moving Velocity in Immiscible Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media, 2022, published in Transport in Porous Media
  • Pore Network Modeling of the Effects of Viscosity Ratio and Pressure Gradient on Steady-State Incompressible Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media, 2020, published in Transport in Porous Media
  • Rheology of Immiscible Two-phase Flow in Mixed Wet Porous Media: Dynamic Pore Network Model and Capillary Fiber Bundle Model Results, 2021, published in Transport in Porous Media

Hansen's frequent coauthors include:

  • Eirik G. Flekkøy
  • Jens Feder
  • Santanu Sinha
  • Subhadeep Roy

The scientist's work appears frequently in several publication venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Frontiers in Physics
  • Transport in Porous Media
  • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
  • Journal of Nuclear Materials

In addition to articles, Alex Hansen has authored a book, titled Physics of Flow in Porous Media, published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Fracture of disordered, elastic lattices in two dimensions.

    Hans J. Herrmann;Alex Hansen;Stephane Roux

  • Failure processes in elastic fiber bundles

    Srutarshi Pradhan;Alex Hansen;Bikas K. Chakrabarti

  • Experimental measurements of the roughness of brittle cracks.

    Knut Jørgen Måløy;Alex Hansen;Einar L. Hinrichsen;Stéphane Roux

  • Determination of the Hurst exponent by use of wavelet transforms

    Ingve Simonsen;Alex Hansen;Olav Magnar Nes

  • The Distribution of Simultaneous Fiber Failures in Fiber Bundles

    Per C. Hemmer;Alex Hansen

  • A Two-Dimensional Network Simulator for Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media

    Eyvind Aker;Eyvind Aker;Knut JØrgen MÅlØy;Alex Hansen;G.George Batrouni

  • Comprehensive Comparison of Pore-Scale Models for Multiphase Flow in Porous Media

    Benzhong Zhao;Christopher W. MacMinn;Bauyrzhan K. Primkulov;Yu Chen

  • Relation between anomalous and normal diffusion in systems with memory.

    Rafael Morgado;Fernando A. Oliveira;G. George Batrouni;Alex Hansen

  • BURST AVALANCHES IN SOLVABLE MODELS OF FIBROUS MATERIALS

    M. Kloster;A. Hansen;P. C. Hemmer

  • Roughness of crack interfaces.

    Alex Hansen;Einar L. Hinrichsen;Stéphane Roux

  • Disorder and granular media

    Daniel Bideau;Alex Hansen

  • Analytical approach to continuous and intermittent bottleneck flows.

    Dirk Helbing;Anders Johansson;Joachim Mathiesen;Mogens H. Jensen

  • Scaling laws in fracture.

    de Arcangelis L;Hansen A;Herrmann Hj;Roux S

  • Burst avalanches in bundles of fibers: Local versus global load-sharing

    Alex Hansen;P.C. Hemmer

  • Fourier acceleration of iterative processes in disordered systems

    Ghassan George Batrouni;Alex Hansen

  • Non-local and non-linear problems in the mechanics of disordered systems: application to granular media and rigidity problems

    E Guyon;S Roux;A Hansen;D Bideau

  • Origin of the Universal Roughness Exponent of Brittle Fracture Surfaces:Stress-Weighted Percolation in the Damage Zone

    Alex Hansen;Jean Schmittbuhl

  • Scale-invariant disorder in fracture and related breakdown phenomena.

    Alex Hansen;Einar L. Hinrichsen;Stéphane Roux

  • The Fiber Bundle Model: Modeling Failure in Materials

    Alex Hansen;Per C. Hemmer;Srutarshi Pradhan

  • Why hour glasses tick

    X.-L. Wu;K. J. Måløy;A. Hansen;M. Ammi

  • Statistics of fracture surfaces.

    Stéphane Santucci;Knut Jørgen Måløy;Arnaud Delaplace;Joachim Mathiesen

  • FRACTURE IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL FUSE NETWORKS

    G. George Batrouni;Alex Hansen

  • Rupture of heterogeneous media in the limit of infinite disorder

    Stéphane Roux;Alex Hansen;Hans Herrmann;Etienne Guyon

Frequent Co-Authors

Stéphane Roux
Stéphane Roux École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
Jean Schmittbuhl
Jean Schmittbuhl University of Strasbourg
Signe Kjelstrup
Signe Kjelstrup Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Knut Jørgen Måløy
Knut Jørgen Måløy University of Oslo
Hans J. Herrmann
Hans J. Herrmann ESPCI Paris
Dick Bedeaux
Dick Bedeaux Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Philippe Davy
Philippe Davy University of Rennes
János Kertész
János Kertész Central European University
Farhang Radjai
Farhang Radjai University of Montpellier
Amnon Aharony
Amnon Aharony Tel Aviv University

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