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Yi-Feng Chen

Yi-Feng Chen

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
47
Citations
6839
World Ranking
4980
National Ranking
972

Overview

Yi-Feng Chen is affiliated with Wuhan University in China, contributing extensively to the fields of engineering and environmental science. Their primary research areas encompass environmental engineering, ocean engineering, civil and structural engineering, mechanical engineering, and computational mechanics. Within these subfields, Chen's work addresses practical and theoretical challenges related to fluid flow, structural interactions, and environmental processes.

The main topics of Chen's research include:

  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Enhanced oil recovery techniques
  • Hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis
  • CO2 sequestration and geologic interactions
  • Dam engineering and safety
  • Soil and unsaturated flow
  • Grouting, rheology, and soil mechanics

Chen has published in a number of frequent venues, highlighting sustained engagement with leading scientific journals and conferences:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science

Among recent papers, notable works include:

  • "Groundwater flow through fractured rocks and seepage control in geotechnical engineering: Theories and practices" (2022), published in the Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
  • "Transitions of Fluid Invasion Patterns in Porous Media" (2020), published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Economic costs of biological invasions in Asia" (2021), published in NeoBiota
  • "Non-Darcian flow effect on discharge into a tunnel in karst aquifers" (2020), published in International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences
  • "Role of Pore-Scale Disorder in Fluid Displacement: Experiments and Theoretical Model" (2020), published in Water Resources Research

Chen collaborates frequently with several co-authors, illustrating a network of research partnerships across decades:

  • Ran Hu
  • Zhibing Yang
  • Chen-Xing Zhou
  • Chuangbing Zhou
  • Jiaqing Zhou

Best Publications

  • Stochastic response surface method for reliability analysis of rock slopes involving correlated non-normal variables

    Dianqing Li;Yifeng Chen;Wenbo Lu;Chuangbing Zhou

  • Evaluation of Forchheimer equation coefficients for non-Darcy flow in deformable rough-walled fractures

    Yi-Feng Chen;Jia-Qing Zhou;Shao-Hua Hu;Ran Hu

  • Influence of surface roughness on nonlinear flow behaviors in 3D self-affine rough fractures: Lattice Boltzmann simulations

    Min Wang;Min Wang;Yi Feng Chen;Guo Wei Ma;Jia Qing Zhou

  • Nonlinear flow behavior at low Reynolds numbers through rough-walled fractures subjected to normal compressive loading

    Jia-Qing Zhou;Shao-Hua Hu;Shu Fang;Yi-Feng Chen

  • Visualizing and quantifying the crossover from capillary fingering to viscous fingering in a rough fracture

    Yi-Feng Chen;Shu Fang;Dong-Sheng Wu;Ran Hu

  • Wettability and Flow Rate Impacts on Immiscible Displacement: A Theoretical Model

    Ran Hu;Jiamin Wan;Zhibing Yang;Yi‐Feng Chen

  • A water retention curve and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity model for deformable soils: consideration of the change in pore-size distribution

    R. Hu;Y.-F. Chen;H.-H. Liu;C.-B. Zhou

  • Modeling coupled THM processes of geological porous media with multiphase flow: Theory and validation against laboratory and field scale experiments

    Yifeng Chen;Chuangbing Zhou;Lanru Jing

  • Bivariate simulation using copula and its application to probabilistic pile settlement analysis

    Dian-Qing Li;Xiao-Song Tang;Kok-Kwang Phoon;Yi-Feng Chen

  • Estimating hydraulic conductivity of fractured rocks from high‐pressure packer tests with an Izbash's law‐based empirical model

    Yi-Feng Chen;Shao-Hua Hu;Ran Hu;Chuang-Bing Zhou

  • A numerical solution to seepage problems with complex drainage systems

    Yifeng Chen;Chuangbing Zhou;Hong Zheng

  • Experimental characterization and micromechanical modeling of damage-induced permeability variation in Beishan granite

    Yifeng Chen;Shaohua Hu;Kai Wei;Ran Hu

  • Formulation of strain-dependent hydraulic conductivity for a fractured rock mass

    Yifeng Chen;Chuangbing Zhou;Yongqing Sheng

  • Groundwater flow through fractured rocks and seepage control in geotechnical engineering: Theories and practices

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  • Experimental study on two-phase flow in rough fracture: Phase diagram and localized flow channel

    Yi-Feng Chen;Dong-Sheng Wu;Shu Fang;Ran Hu

  • Phase diagram of quasi-static immiscible displacement in disordered porous media

    Ran Hu;Tian Lan;Guan-Ju Wei;Yi-Feng Chen

  • A new parabolic variational inequality formulation of Signorini's condition for non-steady seepage problems with complex seepage control systems

    Yifeng Chen;Ran Hu;Chuangbing Zhou;Dianqing Li

  • Universal Relationship Between Viscous and Inertial Permeability of Geologic Porous Media

    Jia‐Qing Zhou;Jia‐Qing Zhou;Yi‐Feng Chen;Lichun Wang;M. Bayani Cardenas

  • Modeling of coupled deformation, water flow and gas transport in soil slopes subjected to rain infiltration

    Ran Hu;YiFeng Chen;ChuangBing Zhou

  • The Friction Factor in the Forchheimer Equation for Rock Fractures

    Jia-Qing Zhou;Shao-Hua Hu;Yi-Feng Chen;Min Wang

  • Improved knowledge-based clustered partitioning approach and its application to slope reliability analysis

    Xiao-Song Tang;Dian-Qing Li;Yi-Feng Chen;Chuang-Bing Zhou

  • Kinetic Energy Dissipation and Convergence Criterion of Discontinuous Deformations Analysis (DDA) for Geotechnical Engineering

    Qinghui Jiang;Yifeng Chen;Chuangbing Zhou;Man-chu Ronald Yeung

Frequent Co-Authors

Chuangbing Zhou
Chuangbing Zhou Nanchang University
Dian-Qing Li
Dian-Qing Li Wuhan University
Qinghui Jiang
Qinghui Jiang Wuhan University
Hui-Hai Liu
Hui-Hai Liu Saudi Aramco (United States)
Lanru Jing
Lanru Jing Royal Institute of Technology
M. Bayani Cardenas
M. Bayani Cardenas The University of Texas at Austin
Pengpeng Ni
Pengpeng Ni Sun Yat-sen University
Wenbo Lu
Wenbo Lu Wuhan University
Zhihong Zhao
Zhihong Zhao Tsinghua University
Kok-Kwang Phoon
Kok-Kwang Phoon Singapore University of Technology and Design

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