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Overview

Bruce E. Hobbs is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Environmental Science, with a focus on Environmental Engineering, Geophysics, Mechanics of Materials, Computational Mechanics, and Ocean Engineering.

The main topics addressed in their work include 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, and Rock Mechanics and Modeling.

Bruce E. Hobbs has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

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

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Hobbs are:

  • Alison Ord
  • Chongbin Zhao
  • Xiangtao Zhang
  • Yao Liu
  • Karel Schulmann

Recent papers by Bruce E. Hobbs include:

  • "Two different mathematical schemes for solving chemical dissolution-front instability problems in fluid-saturated rocks," 2021, published in 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, published in Journal of Hydrology
  • "Fragment size distributions in brittle deformed rocks," 2021, published in Journal of Structural Geology
  • "A semianalytical approach for solving first-order perturbation equations of dissolution-timescale reactive infiltration instability problems in fluid-saturated rocks," 2020, published in International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics
  • "Failure modes in fluid saturated rocks: deformation processes and mode-switching," 2022, published in Geological Magazine

Best Publications

  • An Outline of Structural Geology

    Bruce Edward Hobbs;Winthrop Dickinson Means;Paul Frederick Williams

  • The simulation of fabric development during plastic deformation and its application to quartzite: the influence of deformation history

    G.S Lister;B.E Hobbs

  • Vorticity and non-coaxiality in progressive deformations

    W.D Means;B.E Hobbs;G.S Lister;P.F Williams

  • The simulation of fabric development in plastic deformation and its application to quartzite: The model

    G.S. Lister;M.S. Paterson;B.E. Hobbs

  • Recrystallization of single crystals of quartz

    B.E. Hobbs

  • 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

  • Mineral and Rock Deformation: Laboratory Studies

    B. E. Hobbs;H. C. Heard

  • 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

  • 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

  • Chemical and deformational controls on recrystallization of mica

    M. A. Etheridge;M. A. Etheridge;B. E. Hobbs

  • 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

  • Dislocations associated with optical features in naturally-deformed olivine

    J. N. Boland;A. C. McLaren;B. E. Hobbs

  • Plasticity of single crystals of synthetic quartz

    B. E. Hobbs;A. C. McLaren;M. S. Paterson

  • Mineral and rock deformation : laboratory studies : the Paterson volume

    Bruce E. Hobbs;H. C. Heard

  • Advances in convective and advective heat transfer in geological systems

    Chongbin Zhao;Bruce E. Hobbs;Alison Ord

Frequent Co-Authors

Alison Ord
Alison Ord University of Western Australia
Chongbin Zhao
Chongbin Zhao Central South University
Hans Muhlhaus
Hans Muhlhaus University of Queensland
Klaus Regenauer-Lieb
Klaus Regenauer-Lieb University of New South Wales
John L. Walshe
John L. Walshe Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
M. A. Etheridge
M. A. Etheridge Monash University
Mark Jessell
Mark Jessell University of Western Australia
Gordon S. Lister
Gordon S. Lister University of Queensland
Nicholas H.S. Oliver
Nicholas H.S. Oliver James Cook University
Ron H. Vernon
Ron H. Vernon Macquarie University

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