Tom Bultreys

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
77 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Tom Bultreys is a scholar working on Ocean Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Bultreys has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Ocean Engineering, 40 papers in Environmental Engineering and 37 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Tom Bultreys's work include Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques (51 papers), Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (36 papers) and CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions (23 papers). Tom Bultreys is often cited by papers focused on Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques (51 papers), Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (36 papers) and CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions (23 papers). Tom Bultreys collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Tom Bultreys's co-authors include Veerle Cnudde, Wesley De Boever, Luc Van Hoorebeke, Martin J. Blunt, Branko Bijeljic, Kamaljit Singh, Matthieu Boone, Marijn Boone, Catherine Spurin and Steffen Berg and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Tom Bultreys

72 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Imaging and image-based fluid transport modeling at the pore scale in geological materials: A practical introduction to the current state-of-the-art

2016 366 citations Tom Bultreys, Wesley De Boever et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tom Bultreys Belgium	26	1.5k	1.1k	800	765	257	77	2.3k
Oussama Gharbi United Kingdom	10	1.5k 1.0×	1.0k 0.9×	737 0.9×	621 0.8×	152 0.6×	16	1.9k
Hu Dong China	7	1.2k 0.8×	863 0.8×	605 0.8×	485 0.6×	139 0.5×	15	1.7k
Zhaoqin Huang China	34	1.6k 1.1×	1.3k 1.1×	2.1k 2.6×	780 1.0×	278 1.1×	128	3.2k
Zuleima T. Karpyn United States	29	2.0k 1.3×	1.5k 1.3×	1.5k 1.9×	879 1.1×	241 0.9×	94	2.7k
Jianming He China	25	1.2k 0.8×	1.4k 1.2×	1.1k 1.4×	365 0.5×	273 1.1×	83	2.2k
O. Vizika France	23	1.2k 0.8×	797 0.7×	696 0.9×	682 0.9×	111 0.4×	56	1.8k
Mark L. Porter United States	18	1.1k 0.7×	784 0.7×	809 1.0×	816 1.1×	94 0.4×	30	2.0k
Ali Q. Raeini United Kingdom	25	2.0k 1.4×	1.3k 1.1×	973 1.2×	897 1.2×	111 0.4×	40	2.8k
Randy Hazlett Kazakhstan	20	1.0k 0.7×	771 0.7×	601 0.8×	359 0.5×	135 0.5×	76	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom Bultreys

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Tang, Kunning, Ryan T. Armstrong, Peyman Mostaghimi, et al.. (2025). Scaling deep learning for material imaging with a pseudo 3D model for domain transfer. Nature Communications. 16(1). 11293–11293.

Cnudde, Veerle, et al.. (2025). Impact of efflorescence on internal salt precipitation dynamics during injection of gases in porous rocks. Advances in Water Resources. 201. 104984–104984. 2 indexed citations

Spurin, Catherine, et al.. (2025). The role of injection method on residual trapping: Insights into bridging scales and heterogeneity. Advances in Water Resources. 197. 104913–104913.

Bultreys, Tom, et al.. (2025). Pore-scale imaging of hydrogen and methane storage in fractured aquifer rock: The impact of gas type on relative permeability. Advances in Water Resources. 206. 105109–105109.

Bultreys, Tom, Jeroen Van Stappen, Kamaljit Singh, et al.. (2024). Influence of Local Aperture Heterogeneity on Invading Fluid Connectivity During Rough Fracture Drainage. Transport in Porous Media. 151(12). 2387–2403. 4 indexed citations

Spurin, Catherine, et al.. (2024). Python Workflow for Segmenting Multiphase Flow in Porous Rocks. Transport in Porous Media. 151(15). 2819–2834.

Ruspini, Leonardo C., et al.. (2023). Imaging and Modeling the Impact of Multi‐Scale Pore Connectivity on Two‐Phase Flow in Mixed‐Wet Rock. Water Resources Research. 59(7). 2 indexed citations

Spurin, Catherine, et al.. (2023). Pore‐Scale Imaging of Multiphase Flow Fluctuations in Continuum‐Scale Samples. Water Resources Research. 59(6). 20 indexed citations

Ruspini, Leonardo C., et al.. (2022). Anchoring Multi‐Scale Models to Micron‐Scale Imaging of Multiphase Flow in Rocks. Water Resources Research. 58(1). 15 indexed citations

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Menke, Hannah, Andreas Busch, S. Geiger, et al.. (2022). Pore-scale visualization of hydrogen storage in a sandstone at subsurface pressure and temperature conditions: Trapping, dissolution and wettability. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 629(Pt B). 316–325. 94 indexed citations

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Bultreys, Tom, et al.. (2021). A Systematic Investigation Into the Control of Roughness on the Flow Properties of 3D‐Printed Fractures. Water Resources Research. 57(4). 42 indexed citations

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Singh, Kamaljit, Tom Bultreys, Ali Q. Raeini, Mosayeb Shams, & Martin J. Blunt. (2021). New type of pore-snap-off and displacement correlations in imbibition. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 609. 384–392. 42 indexed citations

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Boone, Matthieu, Matias Kagias, Federica Marone, et al.. (2021). Tunable X-ray dark-field imaging for sub-resolution feature size quantification in porous media. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 18446–18446. 13 indexed citations

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Spurin, Catherine, Tom Bultreys, Maja Rücker, et al.. (2020). Real‐Time Imaging Reveals Distinct Pore‐Scale Dynamics During Transient and Equilibrium Subsurface Multiphase Flow. Water Resources Research. 56(12). 32 indexed citations

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Rücker, Maja, W.‐B. Bartels, Tom Bultreys, et al.. (2020). Workflow for Upscaling Wettability from the Nanoscale to Core Scale. Petrophysics – The SPWLA Journal of Formation Evaluation and Reservoir Description. 61(2). 189–205. 23 indexed citations

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Spurin, Catherine, Tom Bultreys, Branko Bijeljic, Martin J. Blunt, & Samuel Krevor. (2019). Intermittent fluid connectivity during two-phase flow in a heterogeneous carbonate rock. Physical review. E. 100(4). 43103–43103. 50 indexed citations

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Rücker, Maja, W.‐B. Bartels, Gaetano Garfi, et al.. (2019). Relationship between wetting and capillary pressure in a crude oil/brine/rock system: From nano-scale to core-scale. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 562. 159–169. 73 indexed citations

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Munawar, Muhammad Jawad, Chengyan Lin, Veerle Cnudde, et al.. (2018). Petrographic characterization to build an accurate rock model using micro-CT: Case study on low-permeable to tight turbidite sandstone from Eocene Shahejie Formation. Micron. 109. 22–33. 38 indexed citations

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Boever, Wesley De, Tom Bultreys, Hannelore Derluyn, Luc Van Hoorebeke, & Veerle Cnudde. (2016). Comparison between traditional laboratory tests, permeability measurements and CT-based fluid flow modelling for cultural heritage applications. The Science of The Total Environment. 554-555. 102–112. 21 indexed citations

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Boone, Marijn, Tom Bultreys, Thomas De Schryver, et al.. (2015). Fast time resolved micro-CT imaging: visualizing dynamic pore scale processes at high resolution. Image Analysis & Stereology. 1 indexed citations

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