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Overview

Denis Marcotte is affiliated with Polytechnique Montréal in Canada and has contributed extensively to the fields of engineering and environmental science. Their research spans diverse subfields including environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, renewable energy, sustainability, geophysics, and mechanics of materials.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics such as geothermal energy systems and applications, groundwater flow and contamination studies, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, soil and unsaturated flow, reservoir engineering and simulation methods, and rock mechanics and modeling.

Denis Marcotte has authored several recent papers covering various aspects of these topics. Notable publications include:

  • "Robust identification of volumetric heat capacity and analysis of thermal response tests by Bayesian inference with correlated residuals," 2020, Applied Energy
  • "Power-law relationship between joint spacing and bed thickness in sedimentary rocks and implications for layered rock mechanics," 2021, Journal of Structural Geology
  • "A fast convolution-based method to simulate time-varying flow rates in closed-loop and standing column well ground heat exchangers," 2021, Renewable Energy
  • "Flow rate control in standing column wells: A flexible solution for reducing the energy use and peak power demand of the built environment," 2022, Applied Energy
  • "Quantifying Mineral Resources and Their Uncertainty Using Two Existing Machine Learning Methods," 2021, Mathematical Geosciences

Their collaboration network includes frequent co-authors such as Philippe Pasquier, Gabriel Dion, Shaocheng Ji, Gabrielle Beaudry, and Dany Lauzon.

Throughout their career, Denis Marcotte has published in venues including the SSRN Electronic Journal, Applied Energy, Mathematical Geosciences, Natural Resources Research, and the Journal of Structural Geology.

Best Publications

  • On the estimation of thermal resistance in borehole thermal conductivity test

    D. Marcotte;P. Pasquier

  • Fast fluid and ground temperature computation for geothermal ground-loop heat exchanger systems

    Denis Marcotte;Philippe Pasquier

  • Short-term simulation of ground heat exchanger with an improved TRCM

    Philippe Pasquier;Denis Marcotte

  • The importance of axial effects for borehole design of geothermal heat-pump systems

    D. Marcotte;D. Marcotte;P. Pasquier;F. Sheriff;M. Bernier

  • Multivariable variogram and its application to the linear model of coregionalization

    Gilles Bourgault;Denis Marcotte

  • Cokriging with matlab

    Denis Marcotte

  • Estimation of hydraulic conductivity of an unconfined aquifer using cokriging of GPR and hydrostratigraphic data

    Erwan Gloaguen;Michel Chouteau;Denis Marcotte;Robert Chapuis

  • Borehole radar velocity inversion using cokriging and cosimulation

    Erwan Gloaguen;Denis Marcotte;Michel Chouteau;Hervé Perroud

  • Fast variogram computation with FFT

    Denis Marcotte

  • 3D stochastic inversion of gravity data using cokriging and cosimulation

    Pejman Shamsipour;Denis Marcotte;Michel Chouteau;Pierre Keating

  • Joint use of quasi-3D response model and spectral method to simulate borehole heat exchanger

    Philippe Pasquier;Denis Marcotte

  • Evaluating the hydraulic conductivity at three different scales within an unconfined sand aquifer at Lachenaie, Quebec

    Robert P Chapuis;Véronique Dallaire;Denis Marcotte;Michel Chouteau

  • Hydraulic head field estimation using kriging with an external drift: A way to consider conceptual model information

    Martine Rivest;Denis Marcotte;Philippe Pasquier

  • Comparison of approaches to spatial estimation in a bivariate context

    Mustapha Asli;Denis Marcotte

  • Mechanical properties of multiphase materials and rocks: A phenomenological approach using generalized means

    Shaocheng Ji;Shaocheng Ji;Qin Wang;Bin Xia;Denis Marcotte

  • The effect of borehole inclination on fluid and ground temperature for GLHE systems

    Denis Marcotte;Philippe Pasquier

  • Automatic joint set clustering using a mixture of bivariate normal distributions

    D. Marcotte;E. Henry

  • Underground stope optimization with network flow method

    Xiaoyu Bai;Denis Marcotte;Richard Simon

  • Mapping clay content for subsurface drainage in the Nile Delta

    J. Gallichand;D. Marcotte

  • Borehole thermal energy storage systems under the influence of groundwater flow and time-varying surface temperature

    A. Nguyen;P. Pasquier;D. Marcotte

  • Thermal resistance and capacity model for standing column wells operating under a bleed control

    A. Nguyen;P. Pasquier;D. Marcotte

  • Ultimate open pit stochastic optimization

    Denis Marcotte;Josiane Caron

Frequent Co-Authors

Shaocheng Ji
Shaocheng Ji Polytechnique Montréal
Robert P. Chapuis
Robert P. Chapuis Polytechnique Montréal
Pierre Legendre
Pierre Legendre University of Montreal
Matthew H. Salisbury
Matthew H. Salisbury Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Shiv O. Prasher
Shiv O. Prasher McGill University
Zhiqin Xu
Zhiqin Xu Nanjing University
Michel Aubertin
Michel Aubertin Polytechnique Montréal
Yaoguo Li
Yaoguo Li Colorado School of Mines
John Molson
John Molson Université Laval
Basil D. Favis
Basil D. Favis Polytechnique Montréal

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