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Overview

Stefan Finsterle is affiliated with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in engineering and environmental science. Their work covers a range of specialized subfields, including environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, ocean engineering, mechanics of materials, and civil and structural engineering.

The main areas of research focus on groundwater flow and contamination studies, CO2 sequestration and geologic interactions, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, soil and unsaturated flow, geophysical methods and applications, and nuclear and radioactivity studies.

The scientist has published in several frequent venues with multiple contributions in each. These venues include:

  • Energies
  • Geothermics
  • Geoenergy
  • Transport in Porous Media
  • Computational Geosciences

Stefan Finsterle has collaborated with a consistent group of co-authors, including:

  • Bill Lanyon
  • Curtis M. Oldenburg
  • Robert Trautz
  • Richard A. Muller
  • John Grimsich

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Finsterle include:

  • Modeling of coupled wellbore-reservoir flow in steam-like supercritical geothermal systems, 2020, Geothermics
  • Two-dimensional liquid water flow through snow at the plot scale in continental snowpacks: simulations and field data comparisons, 2021, The Cryosphere
  • The HotBENT Experiment: objectives, design, emplacement and early transient evolution, 2023, Geoenergy
  • Sealing of a Deep Horizontal Borehole Repository for Nuclear Waste, 2020, Energies
  • Three-dimensional fracture continuum characterization aided by surface time-domain electromagnetics and hydrogeophysical joint inversion-proof-of-concept, 2020, Computational Geosciences

Best Publications

  • Estimation of field-scale soil hydraulic and dielectric parameters through joint inversion of GPR and hydrological data

    M B. Kowalsky;Stefan A. Finsterle;John Peterson;Susan Hubbard

  • Electrokinetic coupling in unsaturated porous media

    André Revil;Niklas Linde;Adrian Cerepi;D. Jougnot

  • Making sense of global sensitivity analyses

    Haruko M. Wainwright;Stefan Finsterle;Yoojin Jung;Quanlin Zhou

  • T2VOC user`s guide

    R.W. Falta;K. Pruess;S. Finsterle;A. Battistelli

  • Estimating flow parameter distributions using ground-penetrating radar and hydrological measurements during transient flow in the vadose zone

    Michael B. Kowalsky;Stefan Finsterle;Yoram Rubin

  • Ground surface temperature reconstructions: Using in situ estimates for thermal conductivity acquired with a fiber-optic distributed thermal perturbation sensor

    B. M. Freifeld;S. Finsterle;T. C. Onstott;P. Toole

  • Multiphase Inverse Modeling: Review and iTOUGH2 Applications

    Stefan Finsterle

  • Solving the Estimation‐Identification Problem in Two‐Phase Flow Modeling

    Stefan Finsterle;Karsten Pruess

  • Modeling the performance of large-scale CO2 storage systems: A comparison of different sensitivity analysis methods

    Haruko M. Wainwright;Stefan Finsterle;Quanlin Zhou;Jens T. Birkholzer

  • Determining permeability of tight rock samples using inverse modeling

    Stefan Finsterle;Peter Persoff

  • TOUGH3: A new efficient version of the TOUGH suite of multiphase flow and transport simulators

    Yoojin Jung;George Shu Heng Pau;Stefan Finsterle;Ryan M. Pollyea

  • Solving iTOUGH2 simulation and optimization problems using the PEST protocol

    Stefan Finsterle;Yingqi Zhang

  • Inversion of tracer test data using tomographic constraints

    Niklas Linde;Stefan Finsterle;Susan Hubbard

  • Multiphase Inverse Modeling

    Stefan Finsterle

  • Approximation errors and truncation of computational domains with application to geophysical tomography

    A. Lehikoinen;S. Finsterle;A Voutilainen;L. M. Heikkinen

  • Corrosion-induced gas generation in a nuclear waste repository: Reactive geochemistry and multiphase flow effects

    Tianfu Xu;Rainer Senger;Stefan Finsterle

  • Single-well experimental design for studying residual trapping of superciritcal carbon dioxide

    Yingqi Zhang;Barry Freifeld;Stefan Finsterle;Martin Leahy;Martin Leahy

  • Using the continuum approach to model unsaturated flow in fractured rock

    Stefan Finsterle

  • Characterization and prediction of subsurface pneumatic response at Yucca Mountain, Nevada

    C.Fredrik Ahlers;Stefan Finsterle;Gudmundur S. Bodvarsson

  • Information entropy to measure temporal and spatial complexity of unsaturated flow in heterogeneous media

    David C. Mays;David C. Mays;Boris A. Faybishenko;Stefan Finsterle

  • TOUGH3 User’s Guide, Version 1.0

    Yoojin Jung;George Shu Heng Pau;Stefan Finsterle;Christine A. Doughty

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan S. Hubbard
Susan S. Hubbard Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Curtis M. Oldenburg
Curtis M. Oldenburg Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Gudmundur S. Bodvarsson
Gudmundur S. Bodvarsson Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Karsten Pruess
Karsten Pruess Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jens Birkholzer
Jens Birkholzer Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hui-Hai Liu
Hui-Hai Liu Saudi Aramco (United States)
George J. Moridis
George J. Moridis Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Yoram Rubin
Yoram Rubin University of California, Berkeley
Niklas Linde
Niklas Linde University of Lausanne
Barry Freifeld
Barry Freifeld Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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