Mark Cottrell

539 total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 374 citations indexed

About

Mark Cottrell is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Cottrell has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 374 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 7 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 6 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in Mark Cottrell's work include Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (7 papers), Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (6 papers) and High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior (3 papers). Mark Cottrell is often cited by papers focused on Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (7 papers), Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques (6 papers) and High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior (3 papers). Mark Cottrell collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Mark Cottrell's co-authors include Jie Bai, Chenfeng Li, Hywel Rhys Thomas, Beatriz Ramos Barboza, Yanan Sun, Bin Chen, M. Dutko, D. R. J. Owen, E. A. de Souza Neto and Y.T. Feng and has published in prestigious journals such as International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, International Journal of Impact Engineering and Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Mark Cottrell

12 papers receiving 356 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A Review of Hydraulic Fracturing Simulation

2021 209 citations Bin Chen, Beatriz Ramos Barboza et al. Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Mark Cottrell	225	190	174	96	71	15	374
I. Larsen	156 0.7×	233 1.2×	191 1.1×	82 0.9×	93 1.3×	38	375
A. J. L. Crook	251 1.1×	220 1.2×	120 0.7×	191 2.0×	72 1.0×	26	507
Xuan Qin	251 1.1×	257 1.4×	155 0.9×	187 1.9×	45 0.6×	33	459
Rob Jeffrey	288 1.3×	233 1.2×	221 1.3×	127 1.3×	45 0.6×	13	447
Beatriz Ramos Barboza	252 1.1×	162 0.9×	203 1.2×	79 0.8×	56 0.8×	9	348
Marembo Micheal	297 1.3×	323 1.7×	253 1.5×	64 0.7×	36 0.5×	19	478
Scott Thomas Broome	86 0.4×	158 0.8×	77 0.4×	93 1.0×	90 1.3×	21	347
J. Heiland	167 0.7×	232 1.2×	176 1.0×	57 0.6×	95 1.3×	23	353
Bashar Alramahi	236 1.0×	162 0.9×	243 1.4×	73 0.8×	102 1.4×	24	386

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15 of 15 papers shown

Hartley, Lee, et al.. (2025). Simulation of Coupled THMC Processes in Fractured Rocks Using a Dual-Media Approach. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering.

Cottrell, Mark, et al.. (2025). Discrete fracture network modelling reconstructs fracture array evolution and related petrophysical properties over geological time. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 1 indexed citations

Cottrell, Mark, et al.. (2023). Evaluating the Geothermal Potential of Hot Sedimentary Aquifers Using a Hybrid Approach.

Hartley, Lee, Robert Turnbull, Mark Cottrell, et al.. (2023). Exploring the impact of fracture interaction on connectivity and flow channelling using grown fracture networks. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology. 57(1). 1 indexed citations

Kumar, Manish, et al.. (2022). Detection of Cracks in Turbomachinery Blades by Online Monitoring. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power. 145(4). 1 indexed citations

Chen, Bin, Beatriz Ramos Barboza, Yanan Sun, et al.. (2021). A Review of Hydraulic Fracturing Simulation. Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering. 29(4). 1–58. 209 indexed citations breakdown →

Hofmann, Hannes, Günter Zimmermann, Arno Zang, et al.. (2020). Hydromechanical analysis of the second hydraulic stimulation in well PX-1 at the Pohang fractured geothermal reservoir, South Korea. Geothermics. 89. 101990–101990. 21 indexed citations

Cottrell, Mark, et al.. (2020). Detection of Cracks in Turbomachinery Blades by Online Monitoring. 1 indexed citations

Cottrell, Mark, et al.. (2019). Advances in Hydromechanical Coupling for Complex Hydraulically Fractured Unconventional Reservoirs. 53rd U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium. 1 indexed citations

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Dershowitz, W., et al.. (2019). A Geomechanical Approach for Evaluating Hydraulic Stimulation in Complex Stratigraphies. Proceedings of the 7th Unconventional Resources Technology Conference. 1 indexed citations

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Cottrell, Mark, et al.. (2013). Rapid Discrete Fracture Analysis of Hydraulic Fracture Development in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs. Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, Denver, Colorado, 12-14 August 2013. 2341–2353. 9 indexed citations

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Dershowitz, W., et al.. (2010). A Discrete Fracture Network Approach For Evaluation of Hydraulic Fracture Stimulation of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs. 30 indexed citations

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Owen, D. R. J., Y.T. Feng, E. A. de Souza Neto, et al.. (2004). The modelling of multi‐fracturing solids and particulate media. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. 60(1). 317–339. 79 indexed citations

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Cottrell, Mark, Jianguo Yu, & D. R. J. Owen. (2003). The adaptive and erosive numerical modelling of confined boron carbide subjected to large-scale dynamic loadings with element conversion to undeformable meshless particles. International Journal of Impact Engineering. 28(9). 1017–1035. 15 indexed citations

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Cottrell, Mark, et al.. (2003). The numerical modelling of ceramics subject to impact using adaptive discrete element techniques. Engineering Computations. 20(1). 82–106. 5 indexed citations

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