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Overview

Alison Ord is affiliated with the University of Western Australia in Australia. Their research focuses extensively on the fields of Engineering and Environmental Science, with particular attention to the subfields of Environmental Engineering, Geophysics, Mechanics of Materials, Computational Mechanics, and Ocean Engineering.

Their work encompasses key topics including:

  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering
  • Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques
  • Rock Mechanics and Modeling

Alison Ord has contributed publications to several prominent academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Structural Geology
  • Ore Geology Reviews
  • International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics
  • Transport in Porous Media
  • Science China Technological Sciences

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Alison Ord demonstrate a focus on numerical simulation, geological modeling, and mathematical analysis related to subsurface processes. Selected recent publications are:

  • "Fragment size distributions in brittle deformed rocks," 2021, Journal of Structural Geology
  • "Applying benefits and avoiding pitfalls of 3D computational modeling-based machine learning prediction for exploration targeting: Lessons from two mines in the Tongling-Anqing district, eastern China," 2022, Ore Geology Reviews
  • "3D Numerical Simulation-Based Targeting of Skarn Type Mineralization within the Xuancheng-Magushan Orefield, Middle-Lower Yangtze Metallogenic Belt, China," 2020, Lithosphere
  • "Two different mathematical schemes for solving chemical dissolution-front instability problems in fluid-saturated rocks," 2021, Science China Technological Sciences
  • "Effects of mathematical transforms on theoretical analysis and computational simulation of chemical dissolution-front instability within fluid-saturated porous media," 2021, Journal of Hydrology

Throughout their career, Alison Ord has collaborated frequently with a number of researchers. Key frequent coauthors include:

  • B. E. Hobbs
  • Chongbin Zhao
  • Xiangtao Zhang
  • Yao Liu
  • Xunyu Hu

Best Publications

  • Earthquakes in the ductile regime

    B. E. Hobbs;A. Ord;C. Teyssier

  • Instability, softening and localization of deformation

    B. E. Hobbs;H.-B. Mühlhaus;A. Ord

  • Plastic instabilities: Implications for the origin of intermediate and deep focus earthquakes

    Bruce E. Hobbs;Alison Ord

  • The strength of the continental crust, detachment zones and the development of plastic instabilities

    A Ord;B.E Hobbs

  • Fundamentals of Computational Geoscience: Numerical Methods and Algorithms

    Chongbin Zhao;Bruce E. Hobbs;Alison Ord

  • Shear band formation in Gosford sandstone

    A. Ord;I. Vardoulakis;R. Kajewski

  • Theoretical and numerical analyses of chemical‐dissolution front instability in fluid‐saturated porous rocks

    Chongbin Zhao;Chongbin Zhao;B. E. Hobbs;P. Hornby;A. Ord

  • Convective and Advective Heat Transfer in Geological Systems

    Chongbin Zhao;Bruce E. Hobbs;Alison Ord

  • Effect of water on the rheology of experimentally deformed quartzite

    Philip S. Koch;John M. Christie;Alison Ord;Richard P. George

  • 100th Anniversary Special Paper: Numerical Models of Extensional Deformation, Heat Transfer, and Fluid Flow across Basement-Cover Interfaces during Basin-Related Mineralization

    Nicholas H.S. Oliver;John G. McLellan;Bruce E. Hobbs;James S. Cleverley

  • Geodynamic modelling of the Century deposit, Mt Isa Province, Queensland

    A. Ord;B. E. Hobbs;Y. Zhang;G. C. Broadbent

  • Theoretical analyses of nonaqueous phase liquid dissolution-induced instability in two-dimensional fluid-saturated porous media

    C.B. Zhao;Bruce Hobbs;Bruce Hobbs;Alison Ord;Alison Ord

  • Flow stresses from microstructures in mylonitic quartzites of the Moine Thrust zone, Assynt area, Scotland

    A. Ord;J.M. Christie

  • Flow stress from microstructures of mylonites: Example and current assessment

    John M. Christie;Alison Ord

  • Mechanical controls on fluid flow during regional metamorphism; some numerical models

    A. Ord;N. H. S. Oliver

  • Application of coupled deformation, fluid flow, thermal and chemical modelling to predictive mineral exploration

    B.E Hobbs;Y Zhang;A Ord;C Zhao

  • Deformation of rock: a pressure-sensitive, dilatant material

    A. Ord

  • Fault-related dilation, permeability enhancement, fluid flow and mineral precipitation patterns: numerical models

    Y. Zhang;P. M. Schaubs;C. Zhao;A. Ord

  • Coulomb constitutive laws for friction: Contrasts in frictional behavior for distributed and localized shear

    Chris Marone;B. E. Hobbs;A. Ord

  • Effects of compression direction on the plasticity and rheology of hydrolytically weakened synthetic quartz crystals at atmospheric pressure

    Mark F. Linker;Stephen H. Kirby;Alison Ord;John M. Christie

  • Advances in convective and advective heat transfer in geological systems

    Chongbin Zhao;Bruce E. Hobbs;Alison Ord

Frequent Co-Authors

Chongbin Zhao
Chongbin Zhao Central South University
Bruce E. Hobbs
Bruce E. Hobbs Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Klaus Regenauer-Lieb
Klaus Regenauer-Lieb University of New South Wales
Hans Muhlhaus
Hans Muhlhaus University of Queensland
Nicholas H.S. Oliver
Nicholas H.S. Oliver James Cook University
John L. Walshe
John L. Walshe Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Simon M. Jowitt
Simon M. Jowitt University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Murray Rudman
Murray Rudman Monash University
Giles W Hunt
Giles W Hunt University of Bath
Taofa Zhou
Taofa Zhou Hefei University of Technology

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