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Overview

John McLennan is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Engineering, with a focus on several subfields including Mechanical Engineering, Ocean Engineering, Geophysics, Mechanics of Materials, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The main topics of their scholarly work cover a range of areas:

  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Drilling and Well Engineering
  • Geothermal Energy Systems and Applications
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies

John McLennan has published extensively in several scientific venues, frequently contributing to these outlets:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Geothermics
  • Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering
  • Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
  • Renewable Energy

A selection of recent papers reveals areas of active research and collaboration. These include:

  • "Utah FORGE: Hydrogeothermal modeling of a granitic based discrete fracture network," 2020, Geothermics
  • "Geothermal battery energy storage," 2020, Renewable Energy
  • "Experimental investigation of proppant particles transport in a tortuous fracture," 2020, Powder Technology
  • "Evaluation of enhanced coalbed methane recovery and carbon dioxide sequestration potential in high volatile bituminous coal," 2021, Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering
  • "Improving heat extraction performance of an enhanced geothermal system utilizing cryogenic fracturing," 2020, Geothermics

Throughout their career, John McLennan has frequently collaborated with several researchers, including Palash Panja, Joseph N. Moore, Haiyan Zhu, Xuanhe Tang, and Milind Deo. These co-authors have co-published multiple papers with McLennan, indicating ongoing partnerships in their fields of study.

Best Publications

  • Effective and Sustainable Hydraulic Fracturing

    Andrew P. Bunger;John McLennan;Rob Jeffrey

  • A new approach to hydraulic fracturing modeling in naturally fractured reservoirs

    Branko Damjanac;Ivan Gil;Matt Pierce;Marisela Sanchez

  • Poroelasticity considerations in in situ stress determination by hydraulic fracturing

    E. Detournay;A.H.-D. Cheng;J.-C. Roegiers;J.D. McLennan

  • Microbial production of methane and carbon dioxide from lignite, bituminous coal, and coal waste materials

    A. Opara;D. J. Adams;Michael L Free;John David Mclennan

  • Study on wellbore fluid flow and heat transfer of a multilateral-well CO2 enhanced geothermal system

    Yu Shi;Xianzhi Song;Gaosheng Wang;John McLennan

  • A Poroelastic PKN Hydraulic Fracture Model Based on an Explicit Moving Mesh Algorithm

    E. Detournay;A. H.-D. Cheng;J. D. McLennan

  • The Role of Natural Fractures in Shale Gas Production

    Ian Walton;John McLennan

  • A 3D peridynamic simulation of hydraulic fracture process in a heterogeneous medium

    S. Nadimi;I. Miscovic;J. McLennan

  • Performance evaluation of enhanced geothermal system (EGS): Surrogate models, sensitivity study and ranking key parameters

    Pranay Asai;Palash Panja;John McLennan;Joseph Moore

  • Effect of different flow schemes on heat recovery from Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS)

    Pranay Asai;Palash Panja;John McLennan;Milind Deo

  • Efficient workflow for simulation of multifractured enhanced geothermal systems (EGS)

    Pranay Asai;Palash Panja;John David Mclennan;Joseph N Moore

  • Utah FORGE: Hydrogeothermal modeling of a granitic based discrete fracture network

    S. Nadimi;B. Forbes;J. Moore;R. Podgorney

  • Performance and stimulation of horizontal wells

    M.J. Economides;J.D. McLennan;E. Brown;TX Midland

  • Geothermal battery energy storage

    Sidney Green;John McLennan;Palash Panja;Kevin Kitz

  • Effect of Layered Heterogeneity on Fracture Initiation in Tight Gas Shales

    Roberto Suarez-Rivera;Sidney J. Green;John McLennan;Mao Bai

  • ISRM Suggested Method for Uniaxial-Strain Compressibility Testing for Reservoir Geomechanics

    J. W. Dudley;M. Brignoli;B. R. Crawford;R. T. Ewy

  • On the Extraction of Rare Earth Elements from Geothermal Brines

    York R. Smith;Pankaj Kumar;John D. McLennan

  • Experimental investigation of proppant particles transport in a tortuous fracture

    Hai Qu;Shimao Tang;Zhonghua Liu;John Mclennan

  • Evaluation of enhanced coalbed methane recovery and carbon dioxide sequestration potential in high volatile bituminous coal

    Oluwafemi John Omotilewa;Palash Panja;Carlos Vega-Ortiz;John McLennan

  • DEM-CFD Modeling of Proppant Pillar Deformation and Stability during the Fracturing Fluid Flowback

    Haiyan Zhu;Haiyan Zhu;Jiadong Shen;Fengshou Zhang;Fengshou Zhang;Bo Huang

  • Reservoir quality, gas accumulation and completion quality assessment of Silurian Longmaxi marine shale gas play in the Sichuan Basin, China

    Shu Jiang;Shu Jiang;Xianglu Tang;Xianglu Tang;Shengxiang Long;John McLennan

  • Macroscale Mechanical and Microscale Structural Changes in Chinese Wufeng Shale With Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Fracturing

    Qing-You Liu;Lei Tao;Hai-Yan Zhu;Zheng-Dong Lei

Frequent Co-Authors

Shu Jiang
Shu Jiang China University of Geosciences
Brian McPherson
Brian McPherson University of Utah
Emmanuel M Detournay
Emmanuel M Detournay University of Minnesota
Fengshou Zhang
Fengshou Zhang Tongji University
Michael J. Economides
Michael J. Economides University of Houston
Subhash N. Shah
Subhash N. Shah University of Oklahoma
Jan D. Miller
Jan D. Miller University of Utah
Ya-Pu Zhao
Ya-Pu Zhao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Alexander H.-D. Cheng
Alexander H.-D. Cheng University of Mississippi
Maurice B. Dusseault
Maurice B. Dusseault University of Waterloo

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