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Anthony Peirce is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Mechanical Engineering, Ocean Engineering, Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, and Environmental Engineering.

The main topics of Anthony Peirce's work include:

  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Drilling and Well Engineering
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics

Anthony Peirce has contributed to several peer-reviewed articles in notable scientific venues. Some of the recent papers include:

  • "Multiscale tip asymptotics for a deflating hydraulic fracture with leak-off," 2022, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • "The arrest and recession dynamics of a deflating radial hydraulic fracture in a permeable elastic medium," 2022, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • "Sunset similarity solution for a receding hydraulic fracture," 2022, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • "The effect of hydrology and crevasse wall contact on calving," 2022, The Cryosphere
  • "Laboratory Experiments Contrasting Growth of Uniformly and Nonuniformly Spaced Hydraulic Fractures," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth

The five most frequent publication venues for their research are:

  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • The Cryosphere
  • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • International Journal of Solids and Structures

Anthony Peirce's research collaborations include frequent coauthors such as:

  • Emmanuel Detournay
  • Maryam Zarrinderakht
  • Christian Schoof
  • D. Gunaydin
  • Andrew P. Bunger

Their work addresses complex challenges involving the mechanics of hydraulic fractures, fluid flow in subsurface environments, and cryospheric processes. This interdisciplinary approach combines engineering principles with geophysical observations to study subsurface and ice-related phenomena.

Best Publications

  • Computer simulation of hydraulic fractures

    J. Adachi;E. Siebrits;A. Peirce;J. Desroches

  • Optimal control of quantum-mechanical systems: Existence, numerical approximation, and applications

    Anthony P. Peirce;Mohammed A. Dahleh;Herschel Albert Rabitz

  • Controllability of molecular systems

    Viswanath Ramakrishna;Murti V. Salapaka;Mohammed Dahleh;Herschel Albert Rabitz

  • An implicit level set method for modeling hydraulically driven fractures

    Anthony Peirce;Emmanuel Detournay

  • Coupling schemes for modeling hydraulic fracture propagation using the XFEM

    Elizaveta Gordeliy;Anthony Peirce

  • Interference Fracturing: Nonuniform Distributions of Perforation Clusters That Promote Simultaneous Growth of Multiple Hydraulic Fractures

    Anthony Peirce;Andrew Bunger

  • The blowup property of solutions to some diffusion equations with localized nonlinear reactions

    John M. Chadam;A. Peirce;Hong-Ming Yin

  • Optimal control of uncertain quantum systems.

    M. Dahleh;A. P. Peirce;H. Rabitz

  • An efficient multi‐layer planar 3D fracture growth algorithm using a fixed mesh approach

    Eduard Siebrits;Anthony P. Peirce

  • Slurry flow, gravitational settling, and a proppant transport model for hydraulic fractures

    Egor Dontsov;Anthony Peirce

  • Analysis of the classical pseudo-3D model for hydraulic fracture with equilibrium height growth across stress barriers

    José I. Adachi;Emmanuel M Detournay;Emmanuel M Detournay;Anthony P. Peirce

  • Proppant transport in hydraulic fracturing : crack tip screen-out in KGD and P3D models

    E. V. Dontsov;Anthony Peirce

  • Implicit level set schemes for modeling hydraulic fractures using the XFEM

    Elizaveta Gordeliy;Anthony Peirce

  • A spectral multipole method for efficient solution of large‐scale boundary element models in elastostatics

    A. P. Peirce;J. A. L. Napier

  • An enhanced pseudo-3D model for hydraulic fracturing accounting for viscous height growth, non-local elasticity, and lateral toughness

    E. V. Dontsov;Anthony Peirce

  • On the moving boundary conditions for a hydraulic fracture

    Emmanuel M Detournay;Anthony Peirce

  • A multiscale Implicit Level Set Algorithm (ILSA) to model hydraulic fracture propagation incorporating combined viscous, toughness, and leak-off asymptotics

    E.V. Dontsov;A.P. Peirce

  • Modeling multi-scale processes in hydraulic fracture propagation using the implicit level set algorithm

    A. Peirce

  • A weakly nonlinear analysis of elasto-plastic-microstructure models

    Lianjun An;Anthony Peirce

  • A non-singular integral equation formulation to analyse multiscale behaviour in semi-infinite hydraulic fractures

    E. V. Dontsov;A. P. Peirce

Frequent Co-Authors

Herschel Rabitz
Herschel Rabitz Princeton University
Emmanuel M Detournay
Emmanuel M Detournay University of Minnesota
Andrew P. Bunger
Andrew P. Bunger University of Pittsburgh
Björn Birgisson
Björn Birgisson Texas A&M University
Jack Xin
Jack Xin University of California, Irvine
Robert G. Jeffrey
Robert G. Jeffrey University of Wollongong
Michael J. Ward
Michael J. Ward University of British Columbia
Theodore Kolokolnikov
Theodore Kolokolnikov Dalhousie University

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