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Overview

Klaus Regenauer-Lieb is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research concentrates primarily on engineering, with specific attention given to the mechanics of materials, geophysics, ocean engineering, mechanical engineering, and materials chemistry.

Regenauer-Lieb's work spans a broad variety of topics, including:

  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis
  • Rock mechanics and modeling
  • Enhanced oil recovery techniques
  • Seismic imaging and inversion techniques
  • Coal properties and utilization
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials

The scientist has contributed frequently to several publication venues, notably:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Fuel
  • International Journal of Coal Geology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Klaus Regenauer-Lieb cover topics such as micro-CT imaging of porous media, underground hydrogen storage, vanadium flow batteries, water migration behavior in coal, and geomaterial wettability. Specific recent publications include:

  • "On Representative Elementary Volumes of Grayscale Micro-CT Images of Porous Media," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Role of large-scale underground hydrogen storage and its pathways to achieve net-zero in China," 2023, Journal of Energy Storage
  • "Vanadium flow batteries at variable flow rates," 2021, Journal of Energy Storage
  • "Characterization of water migration behavior during spontaneous imbibition in coal: From the perspective of fractal theory and NMR," 2023, Fuel
  • "On the interpretation of contact angle for geomaterial wettability: Contact area versus three-phase contact line," 2020, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

Collaborations have been significant in Regenauer-Lieb's career, with frequent co-authors including Manman Hu, Tomasz Blach, Hamid Roshan, Phung Vu, and Mohammed Abdul Qadeer Siddiqui.

Best Publications

  • The initiation of subduction: criticality by addition of water?

    Klaus Regenauer-Lieb;Dave A. Yuen;Joy Branlund

  • Uncertainties have a meaning: Information entropy as a quality measure for 3-D geological models

    J. Florian Wellmann;Klaus Regenauer-Lieb;Klaus Regenauer-Lieb

  • Dynamics of retreating slabs : 2. Insights from three-dimensional laboratory experiments

    Francesca Funiciello;Claudio Faccenna;Domenico Giardini;Klaus Regenauer-Lieb

  • Creep cavitation can establish a dynamic granular fluid pump in ductile shear zones

    Florian Fusseis;Klaus Regenauer-Lieb;Klaus Regenauer-Lieb;Jie Liu;R.M. Hough

  • Towards incorporating uncertainty of structural data in 3D geological inversion

    J. Florian Wellmann;Franklin G. Horowitz;Eva Schill;Klaus Regenauer-Lieb;Klaus Regenauer-Lieb

  • Modeling shear zones in geological and planetary sciences: solid- and fluid-thermal-mechanical approaches

    Klaus Regenauer-Lieb;D.A. Yuen

  • The effect of energy feedbacks on continental strength

    Klaus Regenauer-Lieb;Klaus Regenauer-Lieb;Klaus Regenauer-Lieb;Roberto Ferrez Weinberg;Gideon Rosenbaum

  • Curvature of oceanic arcs

    Gabriele Morra;Klaus Regenauer-Lieb;Domenico Giardini

  • The role of water in connecting past and future episodes of subduction

    Suzan van der Lee;Klaus Regenauer-Lieb;Klaus Regenauer-Lieb;Dave A. Yuen

  • Dynamics of retreating slabs: 1. Insights from two-dimensional numerical experiments

    Francesca Funiciello;Gabriele Morra;Klaus Regenauer-Lieb;Domenico Giardini

  • Rapid conversion of elastic energy into plastic shear heating during incipient necking of the lithosphere

    Klaus Regenauer-Lieb;David A. Yuen

  • Application of percolation theory to microtomography of structured media: percolation threshold, critical exponents, and upscaling.

    Jie Liu;Jie Liu;Klaus Regenauer-Lieb

  • Low grade heat driven multi-effect distillation technology

    Xiaolin Wang;Xiaolin Wang;Alexander Christ;Alexander Christ;Klaus Regenauer-Lieb;Klaus Regenauer-Lieb;Kamel Hooman

  • Heat generation associated with collision of two plates: the Himalayan geothermal belt

    M.P. Hochstein;K. Regenauer-Lieb

  • Positive feedback of interacting ductile faults from coupling of equation of state, rheology and thermal-mechanics

    Klaus Regenauer-Lieb;Dave Yuen

  • Ductile fractures and magma migration from source

    Roberto F. Weinberg;Klaus Regenauer-Lieb

  • Beyond the Second Law

    Roderick C. Dewar;Charles H. Lineweaver;Robert K. Niven;Klaus Regenauer-Lieb

  • Dilatant plasticity applied to Alpine collision: ductile void growth in the intraplate area beneath the Eifel volcanic field

    Klaus Regenauer-Lieb

  • Toward enhanced subsurface intervention methods using chaotic advection.

    Mike G. Trefry;Mike G. Trefry;Daniel Robert Lester;Guy Metcalfe;Alison Ord

  • Improved estimates of percolation and anisotropic permeability from 3-D X-ray microtomography using stochastic analyses and visualization

    Jie Liu;Klaus Regenauer-Lieb;Chris Hines;Keyu Liu

  • From characterisation of pore-structures to simulations of pore-scale fluid flow and the upscaling of permeability using microtomography: A case study of heterogeneous carbonates

    Jie Liu;Gerald G. Pereira;Klaus Regenauer-Lieb

  • The role of water in connecting past and future episodes of subduction

    S. van der Lee;K. Regenauer-Lieb;D. A. Yuen

Frequent Co-Authors

Roberto F. Weinberg
Roberto F. Weinberg Monash University
Gideon Rosenbaum
Gideon Rosenbaum University of Queensland
Hui Tong Chua
Hui Tong Chua University of Western Australia
Alison Ord
Alison Ord University of Western Australia
Marco Herwegh
Marco Herwegh University of Bern
Jie Liu
Jie Liu Duke University
David A. Yuen
David A. Yuen Columbia University
Xiaolin Wang
Xiaolin Wang University of Tasmania
Bruce E. Hobbs
Bruce E. Hobbs Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Alfons Berger
Alfons Berger University of Bern

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