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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…