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  • ERL/EAPS/CEE Prof. Ruben Juanes named American Physical Society Fellow

    ERL/EAPS/CEE Prof. Ruben Juanes named American Physical Society Fellow

    Ruben Juanes named American Physical Society Fellow by Stephanie Martinovich | CEE – Civil and Environmental Engineering • October 10, 2024 Ruben Juanes, professor in the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) at MIT, has been elected a 2024 fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Election to the…

  • P–S Travel‐Time Detection and Hypocenter Location of Low‐SNR Events Using Polarization in the Time–Frequency Domain

    P–S Travel‐Time Detection and Hypocenter Location of Low‐SNR Events Using Polarization in the Time–Frequency Domain

    In the October issue of Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, new work by a team that includes former ERL Associate Director Dr Michael Fehler, ERL/EAPS Research Scientist Dr Nori Nakata, and former ERL postdoc Dr Yusuke Mukuhira (now on the faculty of Tohoku University): P–S Travel‐Time Detection and Hypocenter Location of Low‐SNR Events…

  • Fracturing Processes in Specimens with Internal vs. Throughgoing Flaws: An Experimental Study Using 3D Printed Materials

    Fracturing Processes in Specimens with Internal vs. Throughgoing Flaws: An Experimental Study Using 3D Printed Materials

    New paper in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering by recent ERL/CEE MSc alum Majed Almubarak, ERL Research Affiliate John Germaine, and ERL/CEE Prof. Herbert Einstein: “Fracturing Processes in Specimens with Internal vs. Throughgoing Flaws: An Experimental Study Using 3D Printed Materials“. “The fracturing behavior and associated mechanical characterization of rocks are important for many applications…

  • Three-dimensional simulation of geologic carbon dioxide sequestration using MRST

    Three-dimensional simulation of geologic carbon dioxide sequestration using MRST

    New paper in Advances in Geo-Energy Research by recent MIT ERL/CEE alum Dr. Lluís Saló-Salgado (now a postdoc at Harvard), ERL/CEE Prof. Ruben Juanes, and collaborators from Norwegian research company SINTEF: “Three-dimensional simulation of geologic carbon dioxide sequestration using MRST“. “Physics-based computational modeling of subsurface CO2 migration constitutes the primary tool to assess geologic carbon…