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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Sebastian Geiger is affiliated with Heriot-Watt University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields within engineering and environmental science, with a focus on subsurface and reservoir engineering topics.

The main fields of study for Geiger include:

  • Engineering
  • Environmental Science

Within these fields, Geiger's work concentrates on several subfields, notably:

  • Ocean Engineering
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Geochemistry and Petrology

The scientific topics covered in Geiger's publications include:

  • Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Geological Modeling and Analysis

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Geiger are:

  • Hannah Menke
  • Carl Jacquemyn
  • Matthew D. Jackson
  • Gary J. Hampson
  • Florian Doster

Geiger has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most common publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Transport in Porous Media
  • International journal of greenhouse gas control

Some recent papers by Sebastian Geiger are:

  • "Subsurface hydrogen storage controlled by small-scale rock heterogeneities," 2024, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
  • "The FluidFlower Validation Benchmark Study for the Storage of CO2," 2023, Transport in Porous Media
  • "Pore-scale visualization of hydrogen storage in a sandstone at subsurface pressure and temperature conditions: Trapping, dissolution and wettability," 2022, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
  • "Upscaling the porosity-permeability relationship of a microporous carbonate for Darcy-scale flow with machine learning," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "Multi-objective optimization under uncertainty of geothermal reservoirs using experimental design-based proxy models," 2020, Geothermics

In recognition of their contributions, Geiger was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Comprehensive Comparison of Pore-Scale Models for Multiphase Flow in Porous Media

    Benzhong Zhao;Christopher W. MacMinn;Bauyrzhan K. Primkulov;Yu Chen

  • Combining finite element and finite volume methods for efficient multiphase flow simulations in highly heterogeneous and structurally complex geologic media

    Sebastian Geiger;Stephen Roberts;Stephan Matthai;Christopher Zoppou

  • Numerical simulation of magmatic hydrothermal systems

    S. E. Ingebritsen;Sebastian Geiger;S. Hurwitz;Thomas Driesner

  • Droplet fragmentation: 3D imaging of a previously unidentified pore-scale process during multiphase flow in porous media

    Tannaz Pak;Ian B. Butler;Sebastian Geiger;Marinus I. J. van Dijke

  • Universal scaling of spontaneous imbibition for water‐wet systems

    K.S. Schmid;Sebastian Geiger

  • Black-Oil Simulations for Three-Component, Three-Phase Flow in Fractured Porous Media

    Sebastian Geiger;Stephan Matthäi;Jennifer Niessner;Rainer Helmig

  • Numerical simulation of multi-phase fluid flow in structurally complex reservoirs

    S. K. Matthäi;S. Geiger;S. G. Roberts;A. Paluszny

  • A Novel Multirate Dual-Porosity Model for Improved Simulation of Fractured and Multiporosity Reservoirs

    Sebastian Geiger;Marco Dentz;Insa Neuweiler

  • Efficient flow and transport simulations in reconstructed 3D pore geometries

    Yan Zaretskiy;Sebastian Geiger;Ken Sorbie;Malte Förster

  • Pore-scale visualization of hydrogen storage in a sandstone at subsurface pressure and temperature conditions: Trapping, dissolution and wettability.

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  • Universal scaling of spontaneous imbibition for arbitrary petrophysical properties: Water-wet and mixed-wet states and Handy's conjecture

    K.S. Schmid;S. Geiger

  • Semianalytical solutions for cocurrent and countercurrent imbibition and dispersion of solutes in immiscible two‐phase flow

    Karen Sophie Schmid;Sebastian Geiger;Kenneth Stuart Sorbie

  • Numerical simulation of water injection into layered fractured carbonate reservoir analogs

    Mandefro Belayneh;Sebastian Geiger;Stephan K. Matthäi

  • Upscaling solute transport in naturally fractured porous media with the continuous time random walk method

    Sebastian Geiger;A. Cortis;J. T. Birkholzer

  • Multiscale fracture network characterization and impact on flow: A case study on the Latemar carbonate platform

    Nico J. Hardebol;Christine Maier;Hamid Nick;Sebastian Geiger

  • Analytical Solutions for Spontaneous Imbibition: Fractional-Flow Theory and Experimental Analysis

    Karen Sophie Schmid;Nayef Alyafei;Sebastian Geiger;Martin J. Blunt

  • Assessment of CO2 storage potential in naturally fractured reservoirs with dual-porosity models

    Rafael March;Florian Doster;Sebastian Geiger

  • Multiphase Thermohaline Convection in the Earth's Crust: I. A New Finite Element - Finite Volume Solution Technique Combined With a New Equation of State for NaCl-H2O

    Sebastian Geiger;Thomas Driesner;Christoph A. Heinrich;Stephan K. Matthäi

  • Numerical Simulation of Multiphase Fluid Flow in Hydrothermal Systems

    Thomas Driesner;Sebastian Geiger

  • Non-Fourier thermal transport in fractured geological media

    Sebastian Geiger;Simon Emmanuel

  • The dynamics of mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal systems: Splitting plumes and fluctuating vent temperatures

    Dim Coumou;Thomas Driesner;Sebastian Geiger;Christoph A. Heinrich

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephan K. Matthäi
Stephan K. Matthäi University of Melbourne
Kenneth Stuart Sorbie
Kenneth Stuart Sorbie Heriot-Watt University
Dim Coumou
Dim Coumou Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Gary J. Hampson
Gary J. Hampson Imperial College London
Matthew D. Jackson
Matthew D. Jackson Imperial College London
Ian B. Butler
Ian B. Butler University of Edinburgh
Giovanni Bertotti
Giovanni Bertotti Delft University of Technology
Rachel Wood
Rachel Wood University of Edinburgh

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