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Philip H. Stauffer is affiliated with Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States, where their research contributions focus on engineering and environmental science. Their work covers a range of topics primarily related to subsurface fluid flow, reservoir analysis, and CO2 sequestration.

The scientist's publication record includes multiple recent papers exploring complex aspects of carbon dioxide storage and reservoir behavior. Notable publications include:

  • The FluidFlower Validation Benchmark Study for the Storage of CO2, 2023, Transport in Porous Media
  • Impact of reservoir parameters and wellbore permeability uncertainties on CO2 and brine leakage potential at the Shenhua CO2 Storage Site, China, 2021, International journal of greenhouse gas control
  • A Hierarchical Framework for CO2 Storage Capacity in Deep Saline Aquifer Formations, 2022, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Coupled multiphase flow and transport simulation to model CO2 dissolution and local capillary trapping in permeability and capillary heterogeneous reservoir, 2021, International journal of greenhouse gas control
  • Great SCO2T! Rapid tool for carbon sequestration science, engineering, and economics, 2021, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)

Their collaborations involve frequent co-authors, including Hari Viswanathan, Jeffrey D. Hyman, Hakim Boukhalfa, D. R. Harp, and Matthew Sweeney, reflecting a sustained engagement with a core group of researchers in related fields.

Publication venues where this scientist has frequently contributed include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • International journal of greenhouse gas control
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Their work is broadly situated in the fields of engineering and environmental science, with particular subfields of study comprising environmental engineering, ocean engineering, mechanical engineering, mechanics of materials, and geophysics.

Main topics addressed in their research encompass:

  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis
  • CO2 sequestration and geologic interactions
  • Geophysical methods and applications
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics
  • Seismic imaging and inversion techniques

Best Publications

  • Simulation of industrial-scale CO2 storage: Multi-scale heterogeneity and its impacts on storage capacity, injectivity and leakage

    Hailin Deng;Philip H. Stauffer;Zhenxue Dai;Zunsheng Jiao

  • The cross-scale science of CO2 capture and storage: from pore scale to regional scale

    Richard S. Middleton;Gordon N. Keating;Philip H. Stauffer;Amy B. Jordan

  • Development of a hybrid process and system model for the assessment of wellbore leakage at a geologic CO2 sequestration site.

    Hari S. Viswanathan;Rajesh J. Pawar;Philip H. Stauffer;John P. Kaszuba

  • A system model for geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide.

    Philip H. Stauffer;Hari S. Viswanathan;Rajesh J. Pawar;George D. Guthrie

  • Non-modal growth of perturbations in density-driven convection in porous media

    Saikiran Rapaka;Shiyi Chen;Rajesh J. Pawar;Philip H. Stauffer

  • Greening coal: breakthroughs and challenges in carbon capture and storage.

    Philip H. Stauffer;Gordon N. Keating;Richard S. Middleton;Hari S. Viswanathan

  • Pre-site characterization risk analysis for commercial-scale carbon sequestration.

    Zhenxue Dai;Philip H. Stauffer;J. William Carey;Richard S. Middleton

  • Heterogeneity-assisted carbon dioxide storage in marine sediments

    Zhenxue Dai;Zhenxue Dai;Ye Zhang;Jeffrey Bielicki;Mohammad Amin Amooie

  • Hydrothermal recharge and discharge guided by basement outcrops on 0.7-3.6 Ma seafloor east of the Juan de Fuca Ridge: Observations and numerical models

    M. Hutnak;A. T. Fisher;L. Zühlsdorff;V. Spiess

  • Consolidation patterns during initiation and evolution of a plate-boundary decollement zone: Northern Barbados accretionary prism

    J. Casey Moore;Adam Klaus;Nathan L. Bangs;Barbara Bekins

  • The National Risk Assessment Partnership’s integrated assessment model for carbon storage: A tool to support decision making amidst uncertainty

    Rajesh J. Pawar;Grant S. Bromhal;Shaoping Chu;Robert M. Dilmore

  • Probabilistic evaluation of shallow groundwater resources at a hypothetical carbon sequestration site

    Zhenxue Dai;Elizabeth Keating;Diana H. Bacon;Hari Viswanathan

  • Effects of geologic reservoir uncertainty on CO2 transport and storage infrastructure

    Richard S. Middleton;Gordon N. Keating;Hari S. Viswanathan;Philip H. Stauffer

  • Malaya and Southeast Asia in the pattern of Continental Drift

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  • Onset of convection over a transient base-state in anisotropic and layered porous media

    Saikiran Rapaka;Rajesh J. Pawar;Philip H. Stauffer;Dongxiao Zhang

  • A response surface model to predict CO2 and brine leakage along cemented wellbores

    Amy B. Jordan;Philip H. Stauffer;Dylan Harp;J. William Carey

  • Upscaled discrete fracture matrix model (UDFM): an octree-refined continuum representation of fractured porous media

    Matthew R. Sweeney;Carl W. Gable;Satish Karra;Philip H. Stauffer

  • The hydrothermal alteration of cooling lava domes

    Jessica L. Ball;Jessica L. Ball;Philip H. Stauffer;Eliza S. Calder;Greg A. Valentine

  • Potential CO2 and brine leakage through wellbore pathways for geologic CO2 sequestration using the National Risk Assessment Partnership tools: Application to the Big Sky Regional Partnership

    Tsubasa Onishi;Tsubasa Onishi;Minh C. Nguyen;Minh C. Nguyen;J. William Carey;Bob Will

  • Mesoscale carbon sequestration site screening and CCS infrastructure analysis.

    Gordon N Keating;Richard S Middleton;Philip H Stauffer;Hari S Viswanathan

  • Upscaling retardation factor in hierarchical porous media with multimodal reactive mineral facies.

    Hailin Deng;Zhenxue Dai;Andrew V. Wolfsberg;Ming Ye

  • Radionuclide Gas Transport through Nuclear Explosion-Generated Fracture Networks

    Amy B. Jordan;Philip H. Stauffer;Earl E. Knight;Esteban Rougier

  • Investigation of uncertainty in CO2 reservoir models: A sensitivity analysis of relative permeability parameter values

    Nozomu Yoshida;Nozomu Yoshida;Jonathan S. Levine;Philip H. Stauffer

Frequent Co-Authors

Rajesh J. Pawar
Rajesh J. Pawar United States Department of Energy
Hari S. Viswanathan
Hari S. Viswanathan Los Alamos National Laboratory
Carl W. Gable
Carl W. Gable Los Alamos National Laboratory
Zhenxue Dai
Zhenxue Dai Los Alamos National Laboratory
Andrew T. Fisher
Andrew T. Fisher University of California, Santa Cruz
Ronald C. Surdam
Ronald C. Surdam University of Wyoming
J. William Carey
J. William Carey Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jonny Rutqvist
Jonny Rutqvist Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Mark Person
Mark Person New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Shiyi Chen
Shiyi Chen Southern University of Science and Technology

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