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Heinrich Villinger

Heinrich Villinger

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Earth Science

D-Index
31
Citations
3728
World Ranking
8945
National Ranking
645

Overview

Heinrich Villinger is affiliated with the University of Bremen in Germany. Their primary research spans fields focused on engineering and earth and planetary sciences, with significant specialization in ocean engineering, environmental chemistry, and geophysics. Their work integrates aspects of mechanical engineering and the mechanics of materials, emphasizing applied scientific methods related to subsurface and marine environments.

The scientist's research topics cover a variety of areas including reservoir engineering and simulation methods, drilling and well engineering, methane hydrates and related phenomena, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, and hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis. Additional areas of study include geology and paleoclimatology research as well as atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics.

Villinger has contributed publications to a range of academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Geosciences
  • Frontiers in Marine Science

Several recent papers by Villinger cover distinct topics related to earth sciences and geophysics:

  • "Subseafloor Cross-Hole Tracer Experiment Reveals Hydrologic Properties, Heterogeneities, and Reactions in Slow-Spreading Oceanic Crust" (2020, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems)
  • "Heat Flow Measurements at the Danube Deep-Sea Fan, Western Black Sea" (2021, Geosciences)
  • "Thermal Characterization of Pockmarks Across Vestnesa and Svyatogor Ridges, Offshore Svalbard" (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth)
  • "Burial and Heat Flux Modelling along a Southern Vøring Basin Transect: Implications for the Petroleum Systems and Thermal Regimes in the Deep Mid-Norwegian Sea" (2021, Geosciences)
  • "Oceanic strike-slip faults represent active fluid conduits in the abyssal sub-seafloor" (2021, Geology)

Frequent collaborators include researchers such as Keir Becker, Earl E. Davis, C.G. Wheat, A. T. Fisher, and Michael J. Mottl.

Best Publications

  • Rates of fluid expulsion across the Northern Cascadia Accretionary Prism: Constraints from new heat row and multichannel seismic reflection data

    E. E. Davis;R. D. Hyndman;H. Villinger

  • Hydrothermal recharge and discharge across 50 km guided by seamounts on a young ridge flank.

    A. T. Fisher;E. E. Davis;M. Hutnak;V. Spiess

  • Iceberg scouring in Scoresby Sund and on the East Greenland continental shelf

    Julian A. Dowdeswell;Heinrich Villinger;Robert J. Whittington;Peter Marienfeld

  • Analysis of conductive and convective heat transfer in a sedimentary basin, demonstrated for the Rheingraben

    C. Clauser;H. Villinger

  • Abrupt thermal transition reveals hydrothermal boundary and role of seamounts within the Cocos Plate

    A. T. Fisher;C. A. Stein;Robert N. Harris;K. Wang

  • Regional heat flow variations across the sedimented Juan de Fuca Ridge eastern flank: Constraints on lithospheric cooling and lateral hydrothermal heat transport

    E. E. Davis;D. S. Chapman;K. Wang;H. Villinger

  • Effective resolution and drift of Paroscientific pressure sensors derived from long‐term seafloor measurements

    André Polster;Marcus Fabian;Heinrich Villinger

  • Gas hydrate stability and the assessment of heat flow through continental margins

    Ingo Grevemeyer;Heinrich Villinger

  • Tectonic and Thermal Structure of the Middle Valley Sedimented Rift, Northern Juan de Fuca Ridge

    E.E. Davis;H. Villinger

  • Heat flow through the Dead Sea rift

    Zvi Ben-Avraham;Zvi Ben-Avraham;Ralph Hänel;Heinrich Villinger

  • Heat flow and bending-related faulting at subduction trenches: Case studies offshore of Nicaragua and Central Chile

    Ingo Grevemeyer;Norbert Kaul;Juan L. Diaz-Naveas;Heinrich W. Villinger

  • Large heat and fluid fluxes driven through mid-plate outcrops on ocean crust

    M. Hutnak;A. T. Fisher;R. Harris;C. Stein

  • Estimation of marine sediment bulk physical properties at depth from seafloor geophysical measurements

    D. C. Nobes;H. Villinger;E. E. Davis;L. K. Law

  • Heat flow over the descending Nazca plate in central Chile, 32°S to 41°S: observations from ODP Leg 202 and the occurrence of natural gas hydrates

    Ingo Grevemeyer;Juan L. Diaz-Naveas;Cesar R. Ranero;Heinrich W. Villinger

  • Interstitial fluid chemistry of sediments underlying the North Atlantic gyre and the influence of subsurface fluid flow

    Wiebke Ziebis;James McManus;Timothy G Ferdelman;Friederike Schmidt-Schierhorn

  • Active mud volcanoes on the continental slope of the Canadian Beaufort Sea

    Charles K Paull;S R Dallimore;D W Caress;R Gwiazda

  • Hydrothermal heat flux through aged oceanic crust: where does the heat escape?

    Heinrich Villinger;Ingo Grevemeyer;Norbert Kaul;Jan Hauschild

  • Miniaturized data loggers for deep sea sediment temperature gradient measurements

    Marion Pfender;Heinrich Villinger

  • Thermal regime of the Costa Rican convergent margin: 2. Thermal models of the shallow Middle America subduction zone offshore Costa Rica

    Robert N. Harris;Glenn Spinelli;César R. Ranero;Ingo Grevemeyer

  • Slow and delayed deformation and uplift of the outermost subduction prism following ETS and seismogenic slip events beneath Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica

    Earl E. Davis;Heinrich Villinger;Tianhaozhe Sun;Tianhaozhe Sun

  • Solving cylindrical geothermal problems using the Gaver‐Stehfest inverse Laplace transform

    Heinrich Villinger

  • Hydrothermal activity and the evolution of the seismic properties of upper oceanic crust

    Ingo Grevemeyer;Norbert Kaul;Heinrich Villinger;Wilfried Weigel

  • Comparison of measured and BSR-derived heat flow values, Makran accretionary prism, Pakistan

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  • Marine Transform Faults and Fracture Zones: A Joint Perspective Integrating Seismicity, Fluid Flow and Life

    Christian Hensen;Joao N. Duarte;Paola Vannucchi;Paola Vannucchi;Adriano Mazzini

Frequent Co-Authors

Ingo Grevemeyer
Ingo Grevemeyer GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Earl E. Davis
Earl E. Davis Geological Survey of Canada
Joshu J. Mountjoy
Joshu J. Mountjoy National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Stuart Henrys
Stuart Henrys University of Auckland
Katrina J. Edwards
Katrina J. Edwards University of Southern California
Keir Becker
Keir Becker University of Miami
Andrew T. Fisher
Andrew T. Fisher University of California, Santa Cruz
Robert N. Harris
Robert N. Harris Oregon State University
James McManus
James McManus Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences
Timothy G. Ferdelman
Timothy G. Ferdelman Max Planck Society

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