Emmanuel Detournay

13.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
243 papers, 9.8k citations indexed

About

Emmanuel Detournay is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Ocean Engineering and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Emmanuel Detournay has authored 243 papers receiving a total of 9.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 148 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 123 papers in Ocean Engineering and 103 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Emmanuel Detournay's work include Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (120 papers), Drilling and Well Engineering (118 papers) and Tunneling and Rock Mechanics (67 papers). Emmanuel Detournay is often cited by papers focused on Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (120 papers), Drilling and Well Engineering (118 papers) and Tunneling and Rock Mechanics (67 papers). Emmanuel Detournay collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Emmanuel Detournay's co-authors include Alexander H.‐D. Cheng, Dmitry Garagash, Thomas Richard, José Adachi, Andrew P. Bunger, Anthony Peirce, Haiying Huang, Alexei A. Savitski, Christophe Germay and Brice Lecampion and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

In The Last Decade

Emmanuel Detournay

230 papers receiving 9.4k citations

Hit Papers

Propagation Regimes of Fluid-Driven Fractures in Imperme... 1992 2026 2003 2014 2004 2016 1992 100 200 300 400 500
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Propagation Regimes of Fluid-Driven Fractures in Impermeable Rocks
    2004 519 citations Emmanuel Detournay profile →
  2. Mechanics of Hydraulic Fractures
    2016 406 citations Emmanuel Detournay profile →
  3. A phenomenological model for the drilling action of drag bits
    1992 395 citations Emmanuel Detournay et al. profile →

Peers

Emmanuel Detournay
Younane Abousleiman United States
A. P. S. Selvadurai Canada
Sheik S. Rahman Australia
Tsuyoshi Ishida Japan
Ronaldo I. Borja United States
Xi Zhang China
N.G.W. Cook United States
Giovanni Grasselli Canada
I. Vardoulakis Greece
Jean Sulem France
Younane Abousleiman United States
Emmanuel Detournay
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All Works

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Li, Wenfeng, Chelsea W. Neil, Luke Frash, et al.. (2025). Interaction between dissolution and precipitation during olivine carbonation: Implications for CO2 mineralization. Chemical Geology. 678. 122645–122645. 4 indexed citations
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Rudnicki, John W., et al.. (2025). Coupled Fracture Mechanics‐Geochemical Model of Reaction‐Driven Cracking. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(15).
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Labuz, Joseph F., Jean Sulem, Florian Amann, et al.. (2025). ISRM Suggested Method for Achieving Full Water Saturation of Rock. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering.
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Detournay, Emmanuel, et al.. (2025). Response of a large, low-porosity rock sample to hydromechanical loading. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. 194. 106226–106226.
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Peirce, Anthony, Safdar Abbas, & Emmanuel Detournay. (2024). The Sunset Solution: Closure on Leaking Proppant. 1 indexed citations
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Detournay, Emmanuel, et al.. (2024). Saturating a Tight Rock and Measuring Its Hydromechanical Response. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. 57(12). 10385–10398. 5 indexed citations
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Buscarnera, Giuseppe, J. William Carey, Maohong Chen, et al.. (2024). Carbon Mineralization in Fractured Mafic and Ultramafic Rocks: A Review. Reviews of Geophysics. 62(4). e2023RG000815–e2023RG000815. 21 indexed citations
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Zhang, He, et al.. (2023). A high-fidelity model for nonlinear self-excited oscillations in rotary drilling systems. Journal of Sound and Vibration. 573. 118193–118193. 3 indexed citations
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Aamo, Ole Morten, et al.. (2020). Theoretical Investigation of Percussive Drilling and Drop Test. 1 indexed citations
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Dehkhoda, Sevda & Emmanuel Detournay. (2018). Actuated Disc Cutting: An Enabler for Mechanized Hard Rock Mining. 1 indexed citations
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Detournay, Emmanuel, et al.. (2014). Eulerian Formulation of the Torque and Drag Problem. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 1 indexed citations
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Huang, Haiying & Emmanuel Detournay. (2012). Discrete element modeling of tool‐rock interaction II: rock indentation. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics. 37(13). 1930–1947. 77 indexed citations
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Denoël, Vincent & Emmanuel Detournay. (2012). Recent advances in the modeling of a drillstring inside a curved borehole. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 1 indexed citations
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Pirard, Éric, et al.. (2010). 3D and 2D particle image analysis of rock chips generated by core scratch tests.. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 1 indexed citations
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Denoël, Vincent & Emmanuel Detournay. (2009). The problem of a drillstring inside a curved borehole: a perturbed Eulerian approach. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 4 indexed citations
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Adachi, José, Emmanuel Detournay, & Alexei A. Savitski. (2001). Simulation of hydraulic fracturing using an explicit moving mesh algorithm. 4 indexed citations
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Hitzman, Murray W., Donald D. Clarke, & Emmanuel Detournay. (2001). INDUCED SEISMICITY POTENTIAL AND ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES. 4 indexed citations
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Detournay, Emmanuel, et al.. (1996). Deviation of Hydraulic Fractures Through Poroelastic Stress Changes Induced By Injection And Pumping of Fluid. 2 indexed citations
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Detournay, Emmanuel, et al.. (1987). Poroelasitcity in hydraulic fracturing simulators.. 1 indexed citations

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