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Philippe Davy is affiliated with the University of Rennes in France and has substantial research contributions in the fields of Environmental Science, Engineering, and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work encompasses significant topics such as rock mechanics and modeling, groundwater flow and contamination studies, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, flood risk assessment and management, hydrology and watershed management studies, and hydrology and sediment transport processes.

The scientist's recent research outputs include the following papers:

  • "Performance of automated methods for flash flood inundation mapping: a comparison of a digital terrain model (DTM) filling and two hydrodynamic methods" (2021, Hydrology and earth system sciences)
  • "Advancing measurements and representations of subsurface heterogeneity and dynamic processes: towards 4D hydrogeology" (2023, Hydrology and earth system sciences)
  • "Hydro-Geomorphic Metrics for High Resolution Fluvial Landscape Analysis" (2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface)
  • "Which fractures are imaged with Ground Penetrating Radar? Results from an experiment in the Äspö Hardrock Laboratory, Sweden" (2020, Engineering Geology)
  • "A Discrete Fracture Network Model With Stress-Driven Nucleation: Impact on Clustering, Connectivity, and Topology" (2020, Frontiers in Physics)

Philippe Davy frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Caroline Darcel (12 co-authored works), Dimitri Lague (10), Diego Mas Ivars (6), Marine Le Minor (6), and Tanguy Le Borgne (5).

The scientist's publications are mainly found in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), with 5 publications
  • Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, with 4 publications
  • Engineering Geology, with 3 publications
  • Earth Surface Dynamics, with 3 publications
  • Hydrology and earth system sciences, with 2 publications

Their subfields of study include geophysics, mechanics of materials, environmental engineering, global and planetary change, and mechanical engineering. This interdisciplinary expertise supports the wide range of topics covered in their research portfolio.

Best Publications

  • Scaling of fracture systems in geological media

    E. Bonnet;O. Bour;N. E. Odling;P. Davy

  • Lateral extrusion in the eastern Alps, Part 1: Boundary conditions and experiments scaled for gravity

    Lothar Ratschbacher;Olivier Merle;Philippe Davy;Peter Cobbold

  • Connectivity of random fault networks following a power law fault length distribution

    Olivier Bour;Philippe Davy

  • Experiments on shortening of a 4-layer model of the continental lithosphere

    P. Davy;P.R. Cobbold

  • Discharge, discharge variability, and the bedrock channel profile

    Dimitri Lague;Dimitri Lague;Niels Hovius;Philippe Davy

  • Impact of transient groundwater storage on the discharge of Himalayan rivers

    Christoff Andermann;Christoff Andermann;Laurent Longuevergne;Stéphane Bonnet;Alain Crave

  • The Namche Barwa syntaxis: evidence for exhumation related to compressional crustal folding

    Jean-Pierre Burg;Peter Nievergelt;Felix Oberli;Diane Seward

  • The dynamics of back‐arc extension: an experimental approach to the opening of the Tyrrhenian Sea

    Claudio Faccenna;Philippe Davy;Jean-Pierre Brun;Renato Funiciello

  • Physical models of extensional tectonics at various scales

    B. Vendeville;P. R. Cobbold;P. Davy;P. Choukroune

  • Evolution of soil surface roughness and flowpath connectivity in overland flow experiments

    F Darboux;F Darboux;Ph. Davy;C Gascuel-Odoux;C Huang

  • Indentation tectonics in nature and experiment. I: Experiments scaled for gravity

    P Davy;P. R Cobbold

  • Hydraulic properties of two-dimensional random fracture networks following a power law length distribution: 1. Effective connectivity

    Jean-Raynald de Dreuzy;Philippe Davy;Olivier Bour

  • On the connectivity of three‐dimensional fault networks

    Olivier Bour;Philippe Davy

  • A statistical scaling model for fracture network geometry, with validation on a multiscale mapping of a joint network (Hornelen Basin, Norway)

    Olivier Bour;Philippe Davy;Caroline Darcel;Noëlle Odling

  • Exhumation during crustal folding in the Namche-Barwa syntaxis

    Jean-Pierre Burg;Philippe Davy;Peter Nievergelt;Felix Oberli

  • Connectivity properties of two‐dimensional fracture networks with stochastic fractal correlation

    C. Darcel;O. Bour;P. Davy;J. R. de Dreuzy

  • On the Frequency-Length Distribution of the San Andreas Fault System

    P. Davy

  • OZCAR: The French Network of Critical Zone Observatories

    J. Gaillardet;I. Braud;F. Hankard;S. Anquetin

  • Fluvial erosion/transport equation of landscape evolution models revisited

    Philippe Davy;Dimitri Lague

  • Indentation tectonics in nature and experiment. II: Central Asia

    P. R. Cobbold;P. Davy

  • Hydraulic properties of two‐dimensional random fracture networks following a power law length distribution: 2. Permeability of networks based on lognormal distribution of apertures

    Jean-Raynald de Dreuzy;Philippe Davy;Olivier Bour

Frequent Co-Authors

Olivier Bour
Olivier Bour University of Rennes
Dimitri Lague
Dimitri Lague University of Rennes
Laurent Longuevergne
Laurent Longuevergne University of Rennes
Luc Aquilina
Luc Aquilina University of Rennes
Diogo Bolster
Diogo Bolster University of Notre Dame
Marco Dentz
Marco Dentz Spanish National Research Council
Richard Gloaguen
Richard Gloaguen Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Chantal Gascuel-Odoux
Chantal Gascuel-Odoux University of Rennes
Jean-Pierre Brun
Jean-Pierre Brun University of Rennes
Jesús Carrera
Jesús Carrera Spanish National Research Council

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