Curt Oldenburg

Publications

2008

Cortis, A., C.M. Oldenburg, and S.M. Benson, The role of optimality in characterizing CO2 seepage from geologic carbon sequestration sites, Int. J. Greenhouse Gas Control, xx, yyy-yyy, 2008.

Maggi, F., C. Gu, W.J. Riley, G.M. Hornberger, R.T. Venterea, T. Xu, N. Spycher, C. Steefel, N.L. Miller, and C.M. Oldenburg, A mechanistic treatment of the dominant soil nitrogen cycling processes: Model development, testing, and application, Journal of Geophysical Research Biosciences, 113, G02016, 2008, LBNL-486E.

Lewicki, J. L., C. M. Oldenburg, L. Dobeck, and L. Spangler, Surface CO2 leakage during two shallow subsurface CO2 releases, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L24402, 2008, LBNL-63528.

2007

Oldenburg, C.M., Screening and ranking framework for geologic CO2 storage site selection on the basis of health, safety, and environmental risk, Environmental Geology, 54, 1687-1694, 2008. DOI 10.1007/s00254-007-0947-8, LBNL-63306.

Oldenburg, C.M., Joule-Thomson cooling due to CO2 injection into natural gas reservoirs, Energy Conversion and Management, 48, 1808-1815, 2007, LBNL-60158.

Zhang, Y., C.M. Oldenburg, S. Finsterle, and G.S. Bodvarsson, System-level modeling for economic evaluation of geological CO2 storage in gas reservoirs, Energy Conversion and Management, 48, 1827-1833, 2007, LBNL-62617.

2006

Oldenburg, C.M. and J.L. Lewicki, On leakage and seepage of CO2 from geologic storage sites into surface water, Environmental Geology, 50(5), 691-705, 2006.

Su, G.W., B.M. Freifeld, C.M. Oldenburg, P.D. Jordan, and P.F. Daley, Interpreting Velocities from Heat-Based Flow Sensors by Numerical Simulations, Ground Water, 44(3), 386-393, 2006.

2005

Lewicki, J.L., G.E. Hilley, and C.M. Oldenburg, An improved strategy to detect CO2 leakage for verification of geologic carbon sequestration, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32(L19403), doi:10.1029/2005GL024281, 2005.

2004

Borglin, S. E., T. C. Hazen, C. M. Oldenburg, and P. T. Zawislanski, Comparison of Aerobic and Anaerobic Biotreatment of Municipal Solid Waste, J. Air and Waste Management Assoc., 54, 815-822, 2004, LBNL-50576.

Oldenburg, C.M., and A.J.A. Unger, Coupled vadose zone and atmospheric surface-layer transport of CO2 from geologic carbon sequestration sites, Vadose Zone Journal, 3, 848–857, 2004, LBNL-55510.

Oldenburg, C.M., S.H. Stevens, and S.M. Benson, Economic feasibility of carbon sequestration with enhanced gas recovery (CSEGR), Energy, 29,1413–1422, 2004 LBNL-49762.

Oldenburg, C.M., S.W. Webb, K. Pruess, and G.J. Moridis, Mixing of stably stratified gases in subsurface reservoirs: a comparison of diffusion models, Trans. Porous Med., 54(3), 323-334, March 2004.

Pruess, K, J. Garcia, T. Kovscek, C. Oldenburg, J. Rutqvist, C. Steefel, and T. Xu, Code intercomparison builds confidence in numerical simulation models for geologic disposal of CO2, Energy, 29, 1431–1444, 2004, LBNL-52211.

Todesco, M., J. Rutqvist, G. Chiodini, K. Pruess, and C.M. Oldenburg, Modeling of recent volcanic episodes at Phlegrean Fields (Italy): Geochemical variations and ground deformation.  Geothermics, 33(4), 531–537, LBNL-53603.

Zhang, Y., C.M. Oldenburg, and S.M. Benson, Vadose zone remediation of carbon dioxide leakage from geologic carbon dioxide sequestration sites, Vadose Zone Journal, 3, 858–866, 2004, LBNL-54680.

2003

Oldenburg, C.M., Carbon dioxide as cushion gas for natural gas storage, Energy & Fuels, 17, 240-246, 2003. [Download PDF of this paper]

Oldenburg, C.M., and A.J.A. Unger, On leakage and seepage from geologic carbon sequestration sites: unsaturated zone attenuation, Vadose Zone Journal, 2(3): 287-296, August 2003.

Salve, R., C. M. Oldenburg and J.S.Y. Wang, In Situ Flow Experiments in Nonwelded Tuff: Conceptual Models and Implications for Flow in the PTn., J. Contam. Hydrol.,62-63, 269-286, 2003, LBNL-48869.

Zhou, Q.L., H.-H. Liu, G.S. Bodvarsson, and C.M. Oldenburg, Flow and transport in unsaturated fractured rock: effects of multiscale heterogeneity of hydrogeologic properties, J. Contam. Hydrol., 60, 1?30, 2003.

2002

Oldenburg, C.M., Foreword to the special issue on strongly coupled density-dependent flow in porous media, Transport in Porous Media, 47(2), 123-124, May 2002.

Oldenburg, C.M., and S.M. Benson, CO2 injection for enhanced gas production and carbon sequestration, Soc. Petrol. Eng. SPE-74367, SPE International Petrol. Conf. and Exhib. In Mexico, 10-12 Feb. 2002. [Download PDF of this paper]

2001

Oldenburg, C.M., K. Pruess, and S.M. Benson, Process modeling of CO2 injection into natural gas reservoirs for carbon sequestration and enhanced gas recovery, Energy&Fuels 2001, 15, 293—298. [Download PDF of this paper]

Salve, R. and C.M. Oldenburg, Water flow within a fault in altered nonwelded tuff, Water Resour. Res., 37(12), 3043-3056, 2001.

2000

Borglin, S.E., G.J. Moridis, and C.M. Oldenburg, Experimental studies of the flow of ferrofluid in porous media, Transport in Porous Media, 41, 61—80, 2000.

Freifeld, B.M., and C.M. Oldenburg, The restricted interval Guelph permeameter: theory and application, Water Resources Research, 36(6), 1373—1380, 2000.

Oldenburg, C.M., and K. Pruess, Simulation of propagating fronts in geothermal reservoirs with the implicit Leonard total variation diminishing scheme, Geothermics, 29(2000), 1—25, 2000.

Oldenburg, C.M, S.E. Borglin, and G.J. Moridis, Numerical simulation of ferrofluid flow for subsurface environmental engineering applications, Transport in Porous Media, 38, 319—344, 2000.

1999

Oldenburg, C.M., and K. Pruess, Plume separation by transient thermohaline convection in porous media, Geophysical Research Letters, 26(19), 2997—3000, 1999.

1998

Bennett, D.H., A.L. James, T.E. McKone, and C.M. Oldenburg, On uncertainty in remediation analysis: variance propagation from subsurface transport to exposure modeling, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 62, 117-129, 1998.

Oldenburg, C.M., and K. Pruess, Layered thermohaline convection in hypersaline geothermal systems, Transport in Porous Media, 33, 26—63, 1998.

1997

James, A.L., and C.M. Oldenburg, Linear and Monte Carlo uncertainty analysis for subsurface contaminant transport simulation, Water Res. Res., 33(11), 2495— 2508, 1997.

1996

Oldenburg, C.M., and K. Pruess, Mixing with first-order decay in variable velocity porous media flow, Transport in Porous Media, 22, 161—180, 1996.

Oldenburg, C.M., K. Pruess, B.J. Travis, Reply to Comment on "Dispersive transport dynamics in a strongly coupled groundwater brine flow system," Water Resources Research, 32(11), 3411—3412, 1996.

1995

Oldenburg, C.M., K. Pruess, and M.J. Lippmann, Heat and mass transfer in hypersaline geothermal systems, in Proc. of the World Geothermal Congress 1995, vol. 3, 1647—1652, International Geothermal Association, Florence Italy, and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Report LBL-35085, May 1995.

Oldenburg, C.M., and K. Pruess, Dispersive transport dynamics in a strongly coupled groundwater brine flow system, Water Res. Res., 31(2), 289—302, 1995.

Spera, F.J., C.M. Oldenburg, C. Christensen, and M. Todesco, Simulations of convection with crystallization in the system KAlSiO-CaMgSiO: Implications for compositionally zoned magma bodies, Am. Mineralogist, 80, 1188—1207, 1995.

1993

Oldenburg, C.M., and K. Pruess, On numerical modeling of capillary barriers,Water Res. Res., 29(4), 1045—1056, 1993.

1992

Oldenburg, C.M., and F.J. Spera, Hybrid model for solidification and convection, Numerical Heat Trans. B, 21, 217-229, 1992.

Oldenburg, C.M., and F.J. Spera, Modeling transport processes in nonlinear systems: The example of solidification and convection, in Chaotic Processes in the Geological Sciences, The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, 41, D.A. Yuen, ed., Springer, 317 pp., 1992.

1991

Oldenburg, C.M., and F.J. Spera, Numerical modeling of solidification and convection in a viscous pure binary eutectic system, Int. J. Heat and Mass Trans., 34, 2107— 2121, 1991.

1990

Oldenburg, C.M., and F.J. Spera, Simulation of phase change and convection in magma bodies, in Heat Transfer in Earth Science Studies, (ASME-HTD vol. 149), C. Carrigan and T.Y. Chu (ed.s), 35—42, 1990.

Oldenburg, C.M., F.J. Spera, and D.A. Yuen, Self-organization in convective magma mixing, Earth Science Reviews, 29, 331—348, 1990.

1989

Oldenburg, C.M., F.J. Spera, D.A. Yuen, and G. Sewell, Dynamic mixing in magma bodies: theory, simulations, and implications, J. of Geophys. Res., 94(B7), 9215— 9236, 1989.

Spera, F.J., C.M. Oldenburg, and D.A. Yuen, Magma Zonation: Effects of chemical buoyancy and diffusion, Geophys. Res. Lett., 16, 1387—1390, 1989.

Other Recent Publications

Kneafsey, T.J., C.M. Oldenburg, R. Salve, The effect of clay swelling on fracture flow in the paintbrush nonwelded unit of the Topopah spring tuff, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Report LBNL-48125, 2001.

Oldenburg, Curtis M., T2LBM: Landfill Bioreactor Model for TOUGH2 Version 1.0, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Report LBNL-47961, April 2001.

Oldenburg, C.M. and S.M. Benson. Carbon sequestration with enhanced gas recovery: Identifying candidate sites for pilot study. In First National Conference on Carbon Sequestration, May 2001, LBNL-47580

Pruess, Karsten, Chin-Fu Tsang, David Law, and Curt Oldenburg. Intercomparison of simulation models for CO2 disposal in underground storage reservoirs. In First National Conference on Carbon Sequestration, May 2001, E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Report LBNL-47353

Bodvarsson, G.S. et al., Flow and transport modeling of subsurface systems, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Report LBNL-46025, 2000 and Introduction to Chap. 5, Flow and Transport Modeling of the Vadose Zone, Bodvarsson, G., S. Finsterle, H.H. Liu, C.M. Oldenburg, K. Pruess, E. Sonnenthal, and Y.-S. Wu, pp. 591-828, Brian B. Looney, and Ronald W. Falta, Vadose Zone Science and Technology Solutions, Battelle Press, Columbus OH, 2000.

Oldenburg, C.M., and K. Pruess, Thermohaline convective mixing at a brine interface, Proceedings of the 25^th Annual Stanford Geothermal Workshop, 2000.

Pruess, K., C.M. Oldenburg and G.J. Moridis. TOUGH2 User's Guide Version 2. E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Report LBNL-43134, November 1999.

Zawislanski, P.T., C.M. Oldenburg, C.A. Doughty, and B.M. Freifeld, Application of the vadose zone monitoring system at a TCE-contaminated site: Field data and modeling summary, E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Report LBNL-44325, September 1999.