Jens Birkholzer

Selected Publications

Birkholzer, J., Halecky, N., Webb, S.W., Peterson, P.F., Bodvarsson, G.S. (In Review): A Modeling Study Evaluating the Thermal-Hydrological Conditions in and Near Waste Emplacement Tunnels at Yucca Mountain, submitted to Journal of Nuclear Technology.

Rutqvist, J., D. Barr, J. Birkholzer, M. Chijimatsu, O. Kolditz, Q. Liu, Y. Oda, W. Wang, C. Zhang (In Review): Results from an International Simulation Study on Coupled Thermal, Hydrological, and Mechanical (THM) Processes near Geological Nuclear Waste Repositories, submitted to Journal of Nuclear Technology.

Danko, G., J. Birkholzer, D. Bahrami (In Review): Coupled In-Rock and In-Drift Hydrothermal Model Study for Yucca Mountain, submitted to Journal of Nuclear Technology.

Mukhopadhyay, S., Tsang, Y.W., Birkholzer, J. (In Review): Thermal Conductivities of Unsaturated Rocks from Temperature Data of a Large-Scale Field Test, submitted to Water Resources Research.

Rutqvist, J., Birkholzer, J., Cappa, F., Tsang, C.-F. (In Review): Estimating Maximum Sustainable Injection pressure during Geological Sequestration of CO2 using Coupled Fluid Flow and Geomechanical Fault-Slip Analysis, submitted to Energy Conversion and Management Journal.

Rutqvist, J., Birkholzer, J., Tsang, C.-F. (In Review): Coupled Reservoir-Geomechnical Analysis of Potential for Fault Slip and Fracturing Associated with CO2 Injection in a Multi-Layered Reservoir-Caprock Systems, submitted to International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences.

Lewicki, J.L., Birkholzer, J., Tsang, C.-F. (2006): Natural and Industrial Analogues for Leakage of CO2 from Storage Reservoirs – Identification of Features, Events, and Processes and Lessons Learned, accepted for publication in Journal of Environmental Geology.

Birkholzer, J., Webb, S.W., Halecky, N., Peterson, P.F., Bodvarsson, G.S. (2006): Evaluating the Moisture Conditions in the Fractured Rock at Yucca Mountain – The Impact of Natural Convection in Heated Emplacement Drifts, accepted for publication in Vadose Zone Journal.

Birkholzer, J. (2006): Estimating Liquid Fluxes in Thermally Perturbed Fractured Rocks Using Measured Temperature Profiles, Journal of Hydrology, 327, pp. 496-515.
Birkholzer, J.(2006): A Temperature-Profile Method for Estimating Flow in Geologic Heat Pipes, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 85, pp. 89-117.

Birkholzer, J., Zhang, Y. (2006): On Water Flow in Hot Fractured Rock – A Sensitivity Study on the Impact of Fracture-Matrix Heat Transfer, Vadose Zone Journal, 5, pp. 657-672.

BIRKHOLZER, J., MUKHOPADHYAY, S., TSANG, Y.W. (2004): The Impact of Preferential Flow on the Vaporization Barrier above Waste Emplacement Drifts at Yucca Mountain, Journal of Nuclear Technology, 148, pp. 138-150.

BIRKHOLZER, J., MUKHOPADHYAY, S., TSANG, Y.W. (2004): Modeling Seepage into Heated Waste Emplacement Tunnels in Unsaturated Fractured Rock, Vadose Zone Journal, 3, pp. 819-836.

ZHOU, Q., BIRKHOLZER, J., JAVANDEL, I., JORDAN, P. (2004): Modeling Three-Dimensional Groundwater Flow and Advective Contaminant Transport at a Heterogeneous Mountainous Site in Support of Remediation Strategy, Vadose Zone Journal, 3, pp. 884-900.

Birkholzer, J., Ho, C.K. (2003): A Probabilistic Analysis of Episodic Preferential Flow into Superheated Fractured Rock, Journal of Hydrology, 284, pp. 151-173.

Birkholzer, J. (2003): Penetration of Liquid Fingers into Superheated Fractured Rock, Water Resources Research, 39(4), pp. 9-1 through 9-21.

Tsang, C.F., Moreno, L., Tsang, Y.W., Birkholzer, J. (2001): Dynamic Channeling of Flow and Transport in Saturated and Unsaturated Hetereogeneous Media, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Geophysical Monograph, 42 "Flow and Transport in Fractured Rock", eds. T. Nicholson and T.C. Rasmussen.

Birkholzer, J., Tsang, Y.W. (2000): Modeling the Thermal-hydrologic Processes in a Large-scale Underground Heater Test in Partially Saturated Fractured Tuff, Water Resources Research, 36(6), pp. 1431-1447.

Wang, J.S.Y., Trautz, R.C., Cook, P.J., Finsterle, S., James, A.L., Birkholzer, J. (1999): Field Tests and Model Analyses of Seepage into Drifts at Yucca Mountain, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 38 (1-3), pp. 323-348.

Birkholzer, J., Li, G., Tsang, C.F., Tsang, Y.W. (1999): Modeling Studies and Analysis of Seepage into Drifts at Yucca Mountain, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 38 (1-3), pp. 349-384.

Tsang, Y.W., Birkholzer, J. (1999): Predictions and Observations of the Thermal-hydrologic Conditions in the Single Heater Test, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 38 (1-3), pp. 385-426.

Birkholzer, J., Tsang, C.F. (1997): Solute Channeling in Unsaturated Heterogeneous Porous Media, Water Resources Research, 33(10), pp. 2221-2238.

Rubin, H., Dveyrin, D., Birkholzer, J., Rouvé, G. (1997): Advection and Dispersion of Contaminant in a Permeable Medium Embedding Fractures in which Advection Velocity is Comparatively Slow, Journal of Hydrology, 179, pp. 135-162.

Rubin, H., Soliman, A.M., Birkholzer, J., Rouvé, G. (1996): Transport of a Tracer Slug in a Fractured Permeable Formation, Journal of Hydrology, 176, pp. 153-180.

Birkholzer, J. (1994): Numerische Untersuchungen zur Mehrkontinuumsmodellierung von Stofftransportvorgangen in Kluftgrundwasserleitern, Mitteilungen Inst. für Wasserbau und Wasserwirtschaft, RWTH Aachen, Academia Verlag St. Augustin, Band 93.

Rubin, H., Birkholzer, J., Rouvé, G. (1994): Contaminant Transport in Fractured Permeable Formations, presented as a chapter in "Trends in Hydrology", Ed. J. Menon, Council of Scientific Research Integration.

Birkholzer, J., Rubin, H., Daniels, H., Rouvé, G. (1993): Contaminant Advection and Spreading in a Fractured Permeable Formation: Part 2. Numerical Simulation, Journal of Hydrology, 144, pp. 35-58.

Birkholzer, J., Rubin, H., Daniels, H., Rouvé, G. (1993): Contaminant Advection and Spreading in a Fractured Permeable Formation: Part 1. Parametric Evaluation and Analytical Solution, Journal of Hydrology, 144, pp. 1-33.