Rachel Gelet

Rachel Gelet

Post-doctoral Researcher



School of Civil Engineering, Room 346
Phone: +61 2 9351 2124
Fax: +61 2 9351 3343
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Research Interests

  • Material Point Method and Finite Element Method
  • Constitutive modelling of geomaterials
  • Hydro-Mechanical coupling
  • Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical coupling
  • Dual porous media
  • Heat transfer in local thermal non-equilibrium

Selected Publications

  • R. Gelet, B. Loret, N. Khalili, "Borehole stability analysis in a thermoporoelastic dual-porosity medium", International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, 2012, (50), 65-76.
  • R. Gelet, B. Loret, N. Khalili, "A thermo-hydro-mechanical coupled model in local thermal non-equilibrium for fractured HDR reservoir with double porosity", Journal of Geophysical Research, 2012, doi:10.1029/2012JB009161.
  • R. Gelet, B. Loret, N. Khalili, "Thermal recovery from a fractured medium in local thermal non-equilibrium", International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 2012, doi:10.1002/nag.2145.
  • R. Gelet, G. Nguyen, I. Guiamatsia, P. Rognon, "Solid-Fluid interaction based on the material point method, (to be submitted).
  • Rachel Gelet; Benjamin Loret; Nasser Khalili, 2011, Thermal recovery from a fractured medium in local thermal non-equilibrium, International Journal of Heat and Mass transfer, To be submitted.
  • Rachel Gelet; Benjamin Loret; Nasser Khalili, 2010, Diffusion and Mass Transfer in Thermo-poro-elastic Dual Porous Media: A borehole stability analysis, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, Submitted.