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D-Index
59
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9781
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2093
National Ranking
907

Zhenxue Dai publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Zhenxue Dai sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 199 publications — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

Zhenxue Dai D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Zhenxue Dai sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Zhenxue Dai is affiliated with Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans multiple aspects of engineering and environmental science, focusing primarily on environmental engineering and ocean engineering within those broad fields.

Their work explores several main topics, including:

  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • CO2 sequestration and geologic interactions
  • Hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis
  • Enhanced oil recovery techniques
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Rock mechanics and modeling
  • Reservoir engineering and simulation methods

Zhenxue Dai has published extensively, with frequent appearances in specific venues such as:

  • Journal of Hydrology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Water Resources Research
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Among recent papers associated with or authored by Zhenxue Dai are:

  • Reactive chemical transport simulations of geologic carbon sequestration: Methods and applications, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Application of upscaling methods for fluid flow and mass transport in multi-scale heterogeneous media: A critical review, 2021, Applied Energy
  • Radionuclide transport in multi-scale fractured rocks: A review, 2021, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Machine learning based co-optimization of carbon dioxide sequestration and oil recovery in CO2-EOR project, 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Impact of geological and operational conditions on underground hydrogen storage, 2022, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Co-authorship collaborations frequently include the following researchers:

  • Mohamad Reza Soltanian
  • Xiaoying Zhang
  • Hung Vo Thanh
  • Shangxian Yin
  • Zhijie Yang

Zhenxue Dai has been recognized as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • An Integrated Framework for Optimizing CO2 Sequestration and Enhanced Oil Recovery

    Zhenxue Dai;Richard Middleton;Hari Viswanathan;Julianna Fessenden-Rahn

  • Land subsidence due to groundwater withdrawal in the northern Beijing plain, China

    Lin Zhu;Huili Gong;Xiaojuan Li;Rong Wang

  • CO2 Accounting and Risk Analysis for CO2 Sequestration at Enhanced Oil Recovery Sites

    Zhenxue Dai;Hari Viswanathan;Richard Middleton;Feng Pan

  • Optimum design of CO2 storage and oil recovery under geological uncertainty

    W. Ampomah;R.S. Balch;M. Cather;R. Will

  • Evaluation of CO2 Storage Mechanisms in CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery Sites: Application to Morrow Sandstone Reservoir

    William Ampomah;Robert Balch;Martha Cather;Dylan Rose-Coss

  • 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

  • Inverse problem of multicomponent reactive chemical transport in porous media: Formulation and applications

    Zhenxue Dai;Zhenxue Dai;Javier Samper

  • Application of upscaling methods for fluid flow and mass transport in multi-scale heterogeneous media: A critical review

    Xiaoying Zhang;Funing Ma;Shangxian Yin;Corey D Wallace

  • Radionuclide transport in multi-scale fractured rocks: A review

    Xiaoying Zhang;Funing Ma;Zhenxue Dai;Ju Wang

  • Reactive chemical transport simulations of geologic carbon sequestration: Methods and applications

    Zhenxue Dai;Lulu Xu;Ting Xiao;Brian McPherson

  • Co‐optimization of CO2‐EOR and storage processes in mature oil reservoirs

    William Ampomah;Robert S. Balch;Reid B. Grigg;Brian Mcpherson

  • Key factors for determining groundwater impacts due to leakage from geologic carbon sequestration reservoirs

    Susan A. Carroll;Elizabeth Keating;Kayyum Mansoor;Zhenxue Dai

  • Impact of geological and operational conditions on underground hydrogen storage

    Unknown

  • Dissolution Trapping of Carbon Dioxide in Heterogeneous Aquifers

    Mohamad Reza Soltanian;Mohamad Reza Soltanian;Mohammad Amin Amooie;Naum Gershenzon;Zhenxue Dai;Zhenxue Dai

  • An integrated experimental design framework for optimizing solute transport monitoring locations in heterogeneous sedimentary media

    Unknown

  • Spatial correlation of permeability in cross‐stratified sediment with hierarchical architecture

    Robert W. Ritzi;Zhenxue Dai;David F. Dominic;Yoram N. Rubin

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

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

  • Machine learning based co-optimization of carbon dioxide sequestration and oil recovery in CO2-EOR project

    Junyu You;William Ampomah;Qian Sun;Eusebius Junior Kutsienyo

  • Heterogeneity-assisted carbon dioxide storage in marine sediments

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

  • Critical Dynamics of Gravito-Convective Mixing in Geological Carbon Sequestration

    Mohamad Reza Soltanian;Mohammad Amin Amooie;Zhenxue Dai;David Cole

  • Permeability prediction of shale matrix reconstructed using the elementary building block model

    Li Chen;Li Chen;Qinjun Kang;Zhenxue Dai;Hari S. Viswanathan

  • Improving Permeability Semivariograms with Transition Probability Models of Hierarchical Sedimentary Architecture Derived from Outcrop-Analog Studies

    Zhenxue Dai;Robert W. Ritzi;David F. Dominic

  • Uncertainty analysis of carbon sequestration in an active CO2-EOR field

    Feng Pan;Brian J. McPherson;Zhenxue Dai;Wei Jia

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Mohamad Reza Soltanian
Mohamad Reza Soltanian University of Cincinnati
Robert W. Ritzi
Robert W. Ritzi Wright State University
Brian McPherson
Brian McPherson University of Utah
Hari S. Viswanathan
Hari S. Viswanathan Los Alamos National Laboratory
Philip H. Stauffer
Philip H. Stauffer Los Alamos National Laboratory
Yoram Rubin
Yoram Rubin University of California, Berkeley
Ming Ye
Ming Ye Florida State University
Pietro Teatini
Pietro Teatini University of Padua
Rajesh J. Pawar
Rajesh J. Pawar United States Department of Energy
Yaqian Zhao
Yaqian Zhao Xi'an University of Technology

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