Email: fkd@psu.edu Phone: (814) 865-2225 Office Address: Title: Professor Website: http://www.ems.psu.edu/~elsworth/ http://g3.ems.psu.eduResearch Areas: Education Background: |
About:Elsworth is a professor of energy and geo-environmental engineering and geosciences. His interests are in the areas of computational mechanics, rock mechanics, and in the mechanical and transport characteristics of fractured rocks, with application to geothermal energy, the deep geological sequestration of radioactive wastes and of carbon dioxide, and the recovery of unconventional hydrocarbons, including coal-gas, tight-gas-shales and hydrates.Research Interests:• Computational reservoir geomechanics• Poromechanics • Permeability evolution in fractured reservoirs and induced seismicity • Hydraulic fracturing with nonconventional propellants • Shale gas and coalbed methane recovery (SGR/CBM and Enhanced-SGR/CBM) • EGS and conventional geothermal reservoir engineering S• equestration of CO2 and radioactive wastes Memberships & Committees:President ARMA Foundation (2014- ). Department of Energy, Future of EGS Committee (2012-pres.). ARMA, Chair of Fellows (2011-). Department of Health and Human Services, Mine Health and Safety Research Committee (2011-2013). Department of Homeland Security, Geophysics Advisory Committee (2010). Chair, DUSEL Research Association Exec. Committee (2010). ARMA Fellow (2009). Chair, DUSEL Experiment Development Committee interfacing science experiments with the SURF facility (2008-2010).Honors & Awards:Teaching:CoursesFluid Mechanics [EME 303] Energy and Society: Energy Choices for the New Millennium [EMSc 470W - 2000] Energy and Society: Industrial Revolution to Industrial Ecology [EMSc 470W - 2003] Energy, Environment and Society: The "Energy" New Deal - Down Under [EMSc 470W - 2013] Sustainable Energy in Scandinavia: One Region, Many Choices [EMSc 470W - 2015] Sustainable Energy in New Zealand [EGEE 497] Flyer News Contaminant Hydrology [ EnvSE 408] Engineering Physics of Energy and Geo-Environmental Systems [EGEE 500] Mathematical Modeling of Energy and Geo-Environmental Systems [EGEE 520] Computational Geomechanics [GeoEE 557] Poromechanics [GeoEE 559] Book Geomechanics Seminar [Fa 2015] [Sp 2016] [Sp 2017] [Fa 2017] Short Courses Computational Reservoir Geomechanics [Outline] Course Resources Page Poromechanics of Porous and Fractured Reservoirs [Outline] Course Resources Page Design Projects Graduate - Design Engineering in Energy and Geo-Environmental Systems [EGEE 580] Graduate/Undergraduate - NREL National Student Geothermal Competition[Report] Publications:Elsevier: https://pennstate.pure.elsevier.com/en/persons/derek-elsworth/publications/ Google: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=jHE-gWUAAAAJ
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