Herb Wang

Herb Wang
Professor
Rock Physics and Geodynamics
(608) 262-5932
Email: wang@geology.wisc.edu
Office: A254 Weeks Hall

I am interested in poroelastic behavior of rocks, multiphase fluid flow in rock, and geodynamical modeling. I am currently pursuing applications of fiber-optic sensors to monitoring deformation and temperature in underground laboratories, in particular, the interim Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) in the former Homestake gold mine in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Different poroelastic properties of rock, such as permeability and specific storage, can be measured in my laboratory.

What's Available Here

H. F. Wang (2000), Theory of Linear Poroelasticity with Applications to
Geomechanics and Hydrogeology, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,
287 pp.

T. Masterlark, D. C. DeMets, and H. Wang (2001), Homogeneous vs.
heterogeneous subduction zone models: Coseismic and postseismic
deformation, Geophys. Res. Letters, 28, 4047-4050.

T. Masterlark and H. Wang (2001), Mechanical coupling between the 1992
Landers and 1999 Hector Mine earthquakes, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., accepted
for publication.

J. G. Berryman and H. F. Wang (2001), Dispersion in poroelastic systems,
Phys. Rev. E, 64 (011303), 1-15.

D. J. Hart and H. F. Wang (2001), A single test method for determination of
poroelastic constants and flow parameters in rocks with low hydraulic
conductivities, Int. J. Rock Mech. and Mining Sci., 38, 577-583.

N. I. Christensen, L. G. Medaris, Jr., and H. F. Wang (2001), Depth
variation of seismic anisotropy and petrology in central European
lithosphere: A tectonothermal synthesis from spinel lherzolite, J. Geophys.
Res., 106, 645-664.

J. G. Berryman and H. F. Wang (2000), Elastic wave propagation and
attenuation in a double-porosity dual-permeability medium, Int. J. Rock
Mech. and Mining Sci., 37, 67-78.

T. Masterlark and H. Wang (2000), Poroelastic coupling between the 1992
Landers and Big Bear earthquakes, Geophys. Res. Letters, 27, 3647-3650.

D. J. Hart and H. F. Wang (1999),
Pore pressure and confining stress dependence of poroelastic linear
compressibilities and Skempton's B coefficient for Berea sandstone,
Proc. of the 37th U. S. Rock Mechanics Symposium,
edited by B. Amadei, R. L. Kranz, G. A. Scott, and P. H. Smeallie,
pp. 365-371, A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam.

P. A. Berge, S. C. Blair, and H. F. Wang (1999),
Thermomechanical effects on permeability for a 3-D model of YM rock,
Proc. of the 37th U. S. Rock Mechanics Symposium,
edited by B. Amadei, R. L. Kranz, G. A. Scott, and P. H. Smeallie,
pp. 729-734, A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam.

T. L. Masterlark, H. F. Wang, L. S. Chan, and C. Yongtai (1999),
Coseismic Fluid-Pressure response estimated from prediction-error
filtering of tidal-band loading,
Bull. Seis. Soc. America, v. 89, 1439-1446.

L. G. Medaris, H. F. Wang, J. H. Fournelle, J. H. Zimmer, and
E. Jelinek (1999),
A cautionary tale of spinel peridotite thermobarometry:
an example from xenoliths of Kozakov volcano, Czech Republic,
Geolines, v. 9, 92-96.

T. Tokunaga, D. J. Hart, and H. F. Wang (1998),
Complete set of
anisotropic poroelastic moduli for Berea sandstone,
in Poromechanics, edited by J.-F. Thimus, Y. Abousleiman, A.
H.-D. Cheng, O. Coussy, and E. Detournay, pp. 629--634,
Balkema, Rotterdam.

D. J. Hart, and H. F. Wang (1998), Poroelastic effects during a
laboratory transient pore pressure test,
in Poromechanics, edited by J.-F. Thimus, Y. Abousleiman, A.
H.-D. Cheng, O. Coussy, and E. Detournay, pp. 579--582,
Balkema, Rotterdam.

K. T. Lewallen, and H. F. Wang (1998), Consolidation of a
double-porosity medium,
Int. J. Solids and Structures,
35, 4845-4867.

Wang, H. F. (1997),
Effects of deviatoric stress on undrained pore pressure response
to fault slip, J. Geophys. Res., 102,
17,943-17,950.

Medaris, L. G., J. H. Fournelle, H. F. Wang, and E. Jelinek (1997),
Thermobarometry and reconstructed chemical compositions of
spinel-pyroxene symplectites: Evidence for pre-existing
garnet in lherzolite xenoliths from Czech Neogene lavas,
Russian Geology and Geophys., 38, 277--286.

Wang H. F. and J. G. Berryman (1996),
On constitutive equation and effective stress principles for
deformable, double-porosity
media. Water Resources Res 32, 3621-3622.

Berryman, J. G. and H. F. Wang (1995),

The elastic coefficients of double-porosity
models for fluid transport in jointed rock.
J Geophys Res 100, 24,611-24,627.

Hart DJ and Wang HF (1995) Laboratory measurements of a complete
set of poroelastic moduli for Berea sandstone and Indiana
limestone, J Geophys Res 100:17,741-17,751.

Wang, H. F. and
M. P. Anderson
(1982) Introduction to groundwater modeling:
Finite difference and finite element methods. Freeman and Co, 237 pp.
(reprinted in 1995 by Academic Press).
Source listings of several

FORTRAN programs and data files
are available on this server.)

Source files for the FORTRAN programs in the book
Introduction to Groundwater Modeling (copyright 1995
Academic Press, Inc.) by H. F. Wang
and M. P. Anderson are listed here by the figure
number in the book. In addition, a triangular element
equivalent of several programs
in Chapters 7 and 8 are provided below with a designation
of triangular following the figure number.

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