Zhixue Sun

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Zhixue Sun is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhixue Sun has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 21 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 16 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Zhixue Sun's work include Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (21 papers), Geothermal Energy Systems and Applications (15 papers) and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (12 papers). Zhixue Sun is often cited by papers focused on Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (21 papers), Geothermal Energy Systems and Applications (15 papers) and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (12 papers). Zhixue Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Switzerland. Zhixue Sun's co-authors include Jun Yao, Dongyan Fan, Hai Sun, Xia Yan, Chenchen Wang, Kai Zhang, Ying Xin, Chuanyin Jiang, Xu Zhang and Zhi-lei Sun and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Applied Physics Letters and International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.

In The Last Decade

Zhixue Sun

46 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Well production forecasting based on ARIMA-LSTM model considering manual operations

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhixue Sun China	21	918	866	664	660	555	47	2.0k
Feng Ma China	20	644 0.7×	1.0k 1.2×	726 1.1×	246 0.4×	227 0.4×	60	1.8k
Xia Yan China	21	865 0.9×	603 0.7×	833 1.3×	370 0.6×	226 0.4×	90	1.7k
Ingo Sass Germany	28	659 0.7×	651 0.8×	460 0.7×	841 1.3×	1.1k 2.0×	203	2.3k
Sadiq J. Zarrouk New Zealand	18	686 0.7×	308 0.4×	520 0.8×	539 0.8×	813 1.5×	73	1.7k
Masoud Babaei United Kingdom	25	646 0.7×	458 0.5×	836 1.3×	775 1.2×	190 0.3×	115	2.0k
Wenqing Wang Germany	28	732 0.8×	642 0.7×	350 0.5×	954 1.4×	227 0.4×	139	2.5k
Zhaoqin Huang China	34	2.1k 2.3×	1.3k 1.5×	1.6k 2.4×	780 1.2×	309 0.6×	128	3.2k
Hung Vo Thanh China	32	1.0k 1.1×	901 1.0×	1.2k 1.8×	804 1.2×	103 0.2×	109	2.6k
Michael Kühn Germany	27	760 0.8×	495 0.6×	649 1.0×	1.7k 2.6×	323 0.6×	155	2.4k
Hongqing Song China	27	877 1.0×	748 0.9×	1.0k 1.6×	401 0.6×	106 0.2×	130	2.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhixue Sun

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sun, Zhixue, et al.. (2024). Development of a Scalable Parallel Compositional Simulator for Thermo-Hydromechanical Coupling in Fractured Rocks Using an Embedded Discrete Fracture Model. SPE Journal. 29(5). 2545–2565. 1 indexed citations

Guo, Sheng, et al.. (2024). Automatic History Matching Method and Application of Artificial Intelligence for Fractured-Porous Carbonate Reservoirs. Processes. 12(12). 2634–2634.

Sun, Zhixue, et al.. (2024). A Multiscale Approach for Assessing Shale Oil Availability: Digital Core, Molecular Simulation, and Machine Learning Analysis. SPE Journal. 29(6). 3033–3042. 8 indexed citations

Sun, Zhixue, et al.. (2023). Heat Extraction Evaluation of CO2 and Water Flow through Different Fracture Networks for Enhanced Geothermal Systems. Energies. 17(1). 86–86. 4 indexed citations

Sun, Zhixue, et al.. (2023). Investigation of Natural Gas Hydrate Microscopic Occurrence Types and Pore-Scale Flow Simulation Based on Digital Cores. Energy & Fuels. 37(21). 16434–16445. 8 indexed citations

Li, Yanlong, Nengyou Wu, Qiang Chen, et al.. (2021). Laboratory Study on Hydrate Production Using a Slow, Multistage Depressurization Strategy. Geofluids. 2021. 1–13. 8 indexed citations

Sun, Zhixue, Chuanyin Jiang, Xiaoguang Wang, Wen Zhou, & Qinghua Lei. (2021). Combined Effects of Thermal Perturbation and In-situ Stress on Heat Transfer in Fractured Geothermal Reservoirs. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. 54(5). 2165–2181. 40 indexed citations

Sun, Zhixue, et al.. (2020). Combination of double and single cyclic pressure alternation technique to increase CO ₂ sequestration with heat mining in enhanced geothermal reservoirs by thermo‐hydro‐mechanical coupling method. International Journal of Energy Research. 44(5). 3478–3496. 6 indexed citations

Sun, Zhixue, et al.. (2020). A Data-Driven Approach for Lithology Identification Based on Parameter-Optimized Ensemble Learning. Energies. 13(15). 3903–3903. 67 indexed citations

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Xin, Ying, Łi Zhuang, & Zhixue Sun. (2020). Numerical investigation on the effects of the fracture network pattern on the heat extraction capacity for dual horizontal wells in enhanced geothermal systems. Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources. 6(1). 15 indexed citations

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Sun, Zhixue, et al.. (2019). Cyclic pumping technique to increase CO₂ sequestration in fractured geothermal reservoirs. IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science. 332(3). 32038–32038. 1 indexed citations

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Sun, Zhixue, Chuanyin Jiang, Xiaoguang Wang, Qinghua Lei, & Hervé Jourde. (2019). Joint influence of in-situ stress and fracture network geometry on heat transfer in fractured geothermal reservoirs. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 149. 119216–119216. 58 indexed citations

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Sun, Zhixue, et al.. (2018). Effect of cage-specific occupancy on the dissociation rate of a three-phase coexistence methane hydrate system: A molecular dynamics simulation study. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering. 55. 235–242. 18 indexed citations

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Zhang, Liming, Saisai Wang, Kai Zhang, et al.. (2018). Cooperative Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm With Multiple Populations for Interval Multiobjective Optimization Problems. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. 27(5). 1052–1065. 61 indexed citations

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Wang, Tong, et al.. (2018). Investigation on Heat Extraction Performance of Fractured Geothermal Reservoir Using Coupled Thermal-Hydraulic-Mechanical Model Based on Equivalent Continuum Method. Energies. 12(1). 127–127. 13 indexed citations

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Sun, Zhixue, et al.. (2016). CO2 injection for heat extraction and carbon sequestration in a geothermal site: Huizhou Sag, the Pearl River Mouth Basin. Geothermics. 64. 331–343. 10 indexed citations

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Sun, Zhixue, et al.. (2016). Numerical Simulation of the Depressurization Process of a Natural Gas Hydrate Reservoir: An Attempt at Optimization of Field Operational Factors with Multiple Wells in a Real 3D Geological Model. Energies. 9(9). 714–714. 18 indexed citations

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Kou, Jianlong, Jun Yao, Hangjun Lu, et al.. (2015). Electromanipulating Water Flow in Nanochannels. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54(8). 2351–2355. 59 indexed citations

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Sun, Zhixue, et al.. (2014). POROSITY PRESERVATION DUE TO AUTHIGENIC CHLORITE COATINGS IN DEEPLY BURIED UPPER TRIASSIC XUJIAHE FORMATION SANDSTONES, SICHUAN BASIN, WESTERN CHINA. Journal of Petroleum Geology. 37(3). 251–267. 18 indexed citations

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Sun, Zhixue. (2011). Research on permeability characteristics of single-fractured porous media. Special Oil & Gas Reservoirs. 2 indexed citations

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