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Emmanuel M Detournay

Emmanuel M Detournay

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
64
Citations
17440
World Ranking
1621
National Ranking
532

Emmanuel M Detournay publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 302 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Emmanuel M Detournay D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Emmanuel M Detournay sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

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

  • Propagation Regimes of Fluid-Driven Fractures in Impermeable Rocks

    Emmanuel M Detournay

  • Poroelastic response of a borehole in a non-hydrostatic stress field

    Emmanuel M Detournay;A. H.D. Cheng

  • A phenomenological model for the drilling action of drag bits

    E. Detournay;P. Defourny

  • Mechanics of Hydraulic Fractures

    Emmanuel M Detournay

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

    A.A. Savitski;E. Detournay

  • 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

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

    A. Drescher;E. Detournay

  • Drilling response of drag bits: Theory and experiment

    Emmanuel M Detournay;Thomas Richard;Mike Shepherd

  • An implicit level set method for modeling hydraulically driven fractures

    Anthony Peirce;Emmanuel Detournay

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

    D. Garagash;Emmanuel M Detournay

  • The crack tip region in hydraulic fracturing

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

  • Mandel's problem revisited

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

  • Discrete element modeling of tool-rock interaction I: rock cutting

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

  • Toughness-dominated Hydraulic Fracture with Leak-off

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

  • Rock strength determination from scratch tests

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

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

    J. I. Adachi;E. Detournay

  • Plane strain propagation of a hydraulic fracture in a permeable rock

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

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

    Brice Lecampion;Emmanuel Detournay

  • Multiscale tip asymptotics in hydraulic fracture with leak-off

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew P. Bunger
Andrew P. Bunger University of Pittsburgh
Robert G. Jeffrey
Robert G. Jeffrey University of Wollongong
Alexander H.-D. Cheng
Alexander H.-D. Cheng University of Mississippi
Anthony Peirce
Anthony Peirce University of British Columbia
Nathan van de Wouw
Nathan van de Wouw Eindhoven University of Technology
John McLennan
John McLennan University of Utah
Ioannis Vardoulakis
Ioannis Vardoulakis National Technical University of Athens
Colin Atkinson
Colin Atkinson Imperial College London
Joseph F. Labuz
Joseph F. Labuz University of Minnesota
Henk Nijmeijer
Henk Nijmeijer Eindhoven University of Technology

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