2026 Emmanuel M Detournay: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	64	1619	1540	531	479	302	17440

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Current World Ranking

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Engineering and Technology

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531

479

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17440

Engineering and Technology

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Citations

17440

World Ranking

1619

National Ranking

531

Research.com Recognitions

2016 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For advances in hydraulic fracturing and drilling dynamics.

Overview

Emmanuel M Detournay is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily situates within the field of Engineering, with a specialized focus on several subfields including Mechanical Engineering, Ocean Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Geophysics.

The scientist's main research topics cover a range of areas such as:

Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
Drilling and Well Engineering
Tunneling and Rock Mechanics
Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
Rock Mechanics and Modeling
Groundwater flow and contamination studies
Advanced machining processes and optimization

Emmanuel M Detournay has contributed to several publication venues repeatedly. The most frequent venues include:

Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Journal of Sound and Vibration
International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics
Engineering Fracture Mechanics

The scientist's recent papers exemplify their involvement in research relating to hydraulic fracturing, drilling systems, and rock mechanics. Notable recent publications include:

"Carbon Mineralization in Fractured Mafic and Ultramafic Rocks: A Review," 2024, Reviews of Geophysics
"Influence of PDC bit cutter layout on stick-slip vibrations of deep drilling systems," 2021, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
"Influence of Weight-on-Bit on Percussive Drilling Performance," 2020, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering
"Slickwater hydraulic fracturing of shales," 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
"An alternative formulation for modeling self-excited oscillations of rotary drilling systems," 2020, Journal of Sound and Vibration

Frequent collaborators in Detournay's research include:

He Zhang
Nathan van de Wouw
Kaidong Chen
Anthony Peirce
Arviandy G. Aribowo

In recognition of their contributions, Emmanuel M Detournay was elected as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2016, specifically for advances in hydraulic fracturing and drilling dynamics.

Best Publications

Fundamentals of Poroelasticity

E. Detournay;Alexander H.-D. Cheng

1481
Citations
Propagation Regimes of Fluid-Driven Fractures in Impermeable Rocks

Emmanuel M Detournay

783
Citations
Poroelastic response of a borehole in a non-hydrostatic stress field

Emmanuel M Detournay;A. H.D. Cheng

706
Citations
A phenomenological model for the drilling action of drag bits

E. Detournay;P. Defourny

695
Citations
Mechanics of Hydraulic Fractures

Emmanuel M Detournay

572
Citations
Propagation of a penny-shaped fluid-driven fracture in an impermeable rock: Asymptotic solutions

A.A. Savitski;E. Detournay

539
Citations
A simplified model to explore the root cause of stick–slip vibrations in drilling systems with drag bits

Thomas Richard;Christophe Germay;Emmanuel M Detournay

422
Citations
Limit load in translational failure mechanisms for associative and non-associative materials

A. Drescher;E. Detournay

417
Citations
Drilling response of drag bits: Theory and experiment

Emmanuel M Detournay;Thomas Richard;Mike Shepherd

398
Citations
An implicit level set method for modeling hydraulically driven fractures

Anthony Peirce;Emmanuel Detournay

396
Citations
The Tip Region of a Fluid-Driven Fracture in an Elastic Medium

D. Garagash;Emmanuel M Detournay

390
Citations
The crack tip region in hydraulic fracturing

J. Desroches;E. Detournay;B. Lenoach;P. Papanastasiou

389
Citations
Mandel's problem revisited

Y. Abousleiman;A. H.D. Cheng;L. Cui;Emmanuel M Detournay

364
Citations
Discrete element modeling of tool-rock interaction I: rock cutting

H. Huang;B. Lecampion;Emmanuel M Detournay;Emmanuel M Detournay

339
Citations
Toughness-dominated Hydraulic Fracture with Leak-off

Andrew P. Bunger;Emmanuel M Detournay;Dmitry I. Garagash

310
Citations
Rock strength determination from scratch tests

Thomas Richard;Fabrice Dagrain;Edmond Poyol;Emmanuel M Detournay;Emmanuel M Detournay

286
Citations
Self-similar solution of a plane-strain fracture driven by a power-law fluid

J. I. Adachi;E. Detournay

275
Citations
Plane strain propagation of a hydraulic fracture in a permeable rock

José I. Adachi;Emmanuel M Detournay;Emmanuel M Detournay

249
Citations
An implicit algorithm for the propagation of a hydraulic fracture with a fluid lag

Brice Lecampion;Emmanuel Detournay

247
Citations
Multiscale tip asymptotics in hydraulic fracture with leak-off

Dmitry I. Garagash;Emmanuel M Detournay;Jose I. Adachi

224
Citations