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Juan E. Santos

Earth and Planetary Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Established · publishing since 1985
Seismic Imaging and Inversion TechniquesHydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir AnalysisSeismic Waves and AnalysisDrilling and Well EngineeringNumerical methods in engineering

Publications

216

Citations

3,510

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

42

Publishing since 1985

Research summary
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This researcher works on the mathematical and computational modeling of how seismic (sound) waves travel through porous underground rocks that contain fluids like water, gas, or injected carbon dioxide. Much of the work uses finite-element numerical methods to predict how wave behavior changes with temperature, fluid saturation, and rock structure, with applications to monitoring CO2 storage, shale gas extraction, and characterizing rock properties from seismic data. Note that the publication list also includes a small number of unrelated items (e.g., cardiac imaging, agriculture, epidemiology, fisheries), which likely reflect shared author names or database matching rather than this researcher's core work.

Seismic wave propagation in porous rocksPoroelasticity and thermo-poroelastic modelingFinite-element numerical simulation methodsTwo-phase fluid flow and CO2 monitoring in reservoirsShale gas and hydraulic fracturing analysis

Publication output has declined over the last decade, dropping from a peak of around 10-11 papers per year in 2020-2021 to just 1-2 per year in 2024-2026.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.6/year recently
2017: 8 publications172018: 5 publications182019: 5 publications192020: 11 publications11202021: 10 publications212022: 3 publications222023: 5 publications232024: 2 publications242025: 2 publications252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Lecture notes in geosystems mathematics and computing×13
  • Geophysical Journal International×4
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America×4
  • arXiv (Cornell University)×4
  • Geophysics×3
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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