Publications

Peer reviewed journals

O. Kolditz · S. Bauer, L. Bilke, N. B¨ottcher, J.O. Delfs, T. Fischer, U.J. G¨orke, T. Kalbacher, G. Kosakowski, C.I. McDermott, C.H. Park, F. Radu, K. Rink, H. Shao, H.B. Shao, F. Sun, Y.Y. Sun, A.K. Singh, J. Taron, M. Walther, W. Wang, N. Watanabe, Y. Wu, M. Xie, B. Zehner Technical Paper OpenGeoSys: An open source initiative for numerical simulation of thermo-hydro-mechanical/chemical (THM/C) processes in porous media, Environmental Earth Sciences, DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-1546-x.

Christopher I. McDermott, Alex Bond, Wenqing Wang and  Olaf Kolditz, Front Tracking using a Hybrid Analytical Finite Element Approach for Two Phase Flow applied to Supercritical CO2 Replacing Brine in a Heterogeneous Reservoir and Caprock, Transport in Porous Media: Volume 90, Issue 2 (2011), Page 545-573, DOI 10.1007/S11242-011-9799-5.

Norihiro Watanabe, Wenqing Wang , Christopher I. McDermott , Takeo Taniguchi , and Olaf Kolditz, 2011, Numerical analysis and visualization of uncertainty effects in thermo-hydro-mechanical coupled processes in a hot-dry-rock geothermal reservoir,Managing Groundwater and the Environment (Proceedings of ModelCARE 2009, Wuhan, China, September 2009). IAHS Publ. 341, 2011.

Xiaojuan Qiao, Guomin Li, Christopher I. McDermott, Runjian Wu, R. Stuart Haszeldine, 2010, An overview of CO₂ geological storage in China, Environmental Engineering and Management Journal
July 2010, Vol.9, No.7, 889 -897.

Helmut Tenzer, Chan Hee Park, Olaf Kolditz, Christopher Ian McDermott , 2010, Application of the Geomechanical Facies Approach and Comparison of Exploration and Evaluation Methods used at Soultz-sous-Forêts (France) and Spa Urach (Germany) Geothermal sites, Environmental Earth Sciences,  Environmental Earth Sciences, Volume 61, Issue 4 (2010), Page 853, DOI: 10.1007/s12665-009-0403-z.

Norihiro Watanabe, Wenqing Wang , Christopher I. McDermott , Takeo Taniguchi , and Olaf Kolditz, 2010, Uncertainty analysis of thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) coupled processes in heterogeneous porous media, Computational mechanics, Volume: 45 Issue: 4 Pages: 263-280.

McDermott, C.I, Walsh, R., Mettier, R., Kosakowski, G.,  Kolditz, O., 2009, Hybrid analytical and finite element numerical modeling of mass and heat transport in fractured rocks with matrix diffusion", Computational Geosciences,  Volume 13, Issue 3, Page 349-361. DOI: 10.1007/s10596-008-9123-9.

Norihiro Watanabe, Wenqing Wang, Christopher I. McDermott, Björn Zehner  and Olaf Kolditz (2009) Thermo-hydro-mechanical modelling and applications for enhanced geothermal reservoirs, GRC transactions 2009  

Kosakowski, G. and McDermott, C., 2008, Modelling matrix diffusion - Results of a bench mark study, Journal of Environmental Science and Sustainable Society. Vol. 2 (2008) pp.57-62.

Kolditz, O., Worsch, R.E., McDermott, C.I, Blum, P., Grathwohl, P., 2008, Numerical modelling of heat storage in soils, Journal of Environmental Science and Sustainable Society. Vol. 2 (2008) pp.47-56.

Walsh, R., C. I. McDermott and O. Kolditz, 2008, Numerical modeling of stress-permeability coupling in rough fractures., Hydrogeology Journal, 16: 613-627, DOI 10.1007/s10040-007-0254-1.

G. Blöcher, D. Bruhn, G. Zimmermann, C. McDermott & E. Huenges., 2007,  Investigation of the undrained poroelastic response of sandstones to confimeing pressure via laboratory experiment, numerical simulation and analytic calculation, Geological Society, London, Special Publications; 2007; v. 284; p. 71-87 DOI: 10.1144/SP284.6

Kalbacher T, Mettier R, McDermott C, Wang W, Kosakowski G, Taniguchi T, Kolditz O., 2007, Geometric modelling and object-oriented software concepts applied to a heterogeneous fractured network from the Grimsel rock laboratory, Computational Geosciences 11 (1): March 2007, Pages 9-26

McDermott, C.I., Tarafder, S.A. and Schüth, C., 2007, Vacuum assisted removal of volatile to semi volatile organic contaminants from water using hollow fiber membrane contactors: II: A hybrid numerical-analytical modeling approach Journal of Membrane Science, Volume 292, Issues 1-2, 5 April 2007, Pages 17-28

Tarafder, S.A., McDermott, C.I. and Schüth, C., 2007 Vacuum assisted removal of volatile to semi-volatile organic contaminants from water using hollow fiber membrane contactors: I: Experimental results Journal of Membrane Science, Volume 292, Issues 1-2, 5 April 2007, Pages 9-16

Brauchler R.; Sauter M.; McDermott C. I.; Leven C.; Weede M.; Dietrich P.; Liedl R.; Hötzl H.; Teutsch G.: Characterization of fractured porous media: Aquifer analogue approach, in: Krasny J., Sharp J. M. (eds.), Groundwater in fractured rocks, IAH-Selected Paper Series 9, Taylor and Francis

McDermott, C.I., Randriamanjatosoa, A.L., Tenzer, H. and Kolditz, O., 2006. Simulation of Heat Extraction from Crystalline Rocks: The Influence of Coupled Processes on Differential Reservoir Cooling. Geothermics, 35(3): 321-344.

Ghergut, I., McDermott, C.I., Herfort, M., Sauter, M. and Kolditz, O., 2006. Reducing ambiguity in fractured-porous media characterization using single-well tracer tests. IAHS Publ., 304: 17-24.

Tenzer, H., McDermott, C.I. and Kolditz, O., 2006. Comparison of exploration techniques of EGS sites, Soultz-sous-Forêts and Spa Urach and relations to the geomechanical facies concept., Geothermal Resource Council Transactions vol 30.

Kalbacher, T., Mettier, R., McDermott, C.I., Wang, W., Kosakowski, G., Taniguchi, T. and Kolditz, O., 2006 in press. Geometric modelling and object oriented software concepts applied to a heterogeneous fractured network from the Grimsel rock laboratory. Computational Geosciences.

McDermott, C.I. and Kolditz, O., 2006. Geomechanical model for fracture deformation under hydraulic, mechanical and thermal loads. Hydrogeology Journal, Vol 14, 4, 487-498.

McDermott, C.I., Lodemann, M., Ghergut, I., Tenzer, H., Sauter, M. and Kolditz, O., 2006. Investigation of Coupled Hydraulic-Geomechanical Processes at the KTB site: Pressure dependent characteristics of a long term pump test and elastic interpretation using a geomechanical facies model. Geofluids, 6: 67-81.

McDermott, C.I., Randriamanjatosoa, A.L., Tenzer, H., Sauter, M. and Kolditz, O., 2005a. Investigation of the Effects of Coupled Processes in Crystalline HDR Geothermal Energy Recovery: Preliminary Application to Spa Urach., Geothermal Resources Council Transactions, Vol 9, 649-657.

Kalbacher, T., Wang, W., McDermott, C.I., Kolditz, O. and Taniguchi, T., 2005. Development and application of a CAD interface for fractured rock. Environmental Geology, 47(7): 1017-1027.

McDermott, C.I., Sinclair, B. and Sauter, M., 2003a. Recovery of undisturbed highly fractured bench scale (30 cm diameter drilled samples for laboratory investigation. Engineering Geology, 69(1-2): 161-170.

McDermott, C.I., Sauter, M. and Liedl, R., 2003b. New experimental techniques for pneumatic tomographical determination of the flow and transport parameters of highly fractured porous rock samples. Journal of Hydrology, 278(1-4): 51-63.

McDermott C.I. 2010 in Kolditz, O. and Shao, H. eds. Contribution to OpenGeoSys Developer Benchmark Book, UFZ Publisher, pp361.

O. Kolditz, M.G. Bloecher, C. Clauser, H.-J. Diersch, T. Kohl, M. Kuehn, C.I. McDermott, W. Wang, N. Watanabe, G. Zimmermann, (2010) Geothermal Reservoir Simulation, pp245 - 302,  in Huenges. E. ed. Geothermal Energy Systems, pp463, ISBN 978-3-527-40831-3

McDermott, C. I., Leven, C., Sinclair, B., Sauter, M. and Dietrich, P. (2005) Preparation of fractured porous bench scale samples for conducting flow and transport experiments. In Eds: P. Dietrich, R. Helmig, M. Sauter, H. Hötzl, J. Köngeter and G. Teutsch. Flow and transport in fractured porous media. Springer: 103-126.

McDermott, C. I., Liedl, R., Sauter, M. and Teutsch, G. (2005) The multi-shell model - a conceptual model approach. In Eds: P. Dietrich, R. Helmig, M. Sauter, H. Hötzl, J. Köngeter and G. Teutsch. Flow and transport in fractured porous media. Springer: 306-321.

McDermott, C. I., Sauter, M., Liedl, R. and Teutsch, G. (2005) Flow and transport experiments conducted on laboratory cylinders. In Eds: P. Dietrich, R. Helmig, M. Sauter, H. Hötzl, J. Köngeter and G. Teutsch. Flow and transport in fractured porous media. Springer: 127-142.

Selected peer review conferences

Simon Haunch, Alan McDonald, Neil Brown, Christopher McDermott, 2011, The Environmnetal Legacy of Historic Mining Activities in the Almond River Catchment, Scotland. International Minewater Associtaition, Aachen.

Norihiro Watanabe, Wenqing Wang, Christopher I. McDermott, Takeo Taniguchi and Olaf Kolditz, 2009,Uncertainty Analysis of Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical (THM) Coupled  Processes in a Hot-Dry-Rock Geothermal Reservoir Proceedings, Thirty Forth Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

McDermott, C. I., and O. Kolditz., 2007, Geomechanical Facies Concept and the Application of Hybrid Numerical and Analytical Techniques for the Description of HTMC Coupled Transport in Fractured Systems, paper presented at Proceedings, Thirty Second Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

Blöcher, G., Bruhn, D., Zimmermann, G., McDermott, C.I. and Huenges, E., 2006 in press. Investigation of the Undrained Poroelastic Response of Sandstones to Confining Pressure via Laboratory Experiment, Numerical Simulation and Analytical Calculation, Geomechanics and Rock Physics for Reservoir and Repository Characterization, Engineering Geology Special Publication, Geological Society, London.

McDermott, C.I., Randriamanjatosoa, A.L., Tenzer, H., Sauter, M. and Kolditz, O., 2005b. Pressure Dependent Hydraulic Flow, Heat Transport and Geo-thermo-mechanical Deformation in HDR Crystalline Geothermal Systems: Preliminary Application to Identify Energy Recovery Schemes at Urach Spa., Proceedings World Geothermal Congress 2005, Antalya, Turkey April 2005.

McDermott, C.I. and Kolditz, O., 2004. Hydraulic-Geomechanical effective stress model: Determination of some discrete fracture network parameters from a pump test and application to geothermal reservoir modelling., Twenty-Ninth Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

McDermott, C.I., Sauter, M. and Liedl, R., 1998. Investigating fractured porous systems - The aquifer analogue approach. In: W. Rossmanith (Editor), Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Mechanics of Jointed and Faulted Rock. Balkema, pp. 607-612.

Other selected conferences

Alex Bond,Steven Benbow, James Wilson, Christopher McDermott, Myles English and Cherry Tweed, Coupled hydro-mechanical-chemical process modelling in argillaceous formations, Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste: Underpinning Science and Technology, 18 -20 October 2011, Loughborough University.

Garitte, B., Gens, A., Liu, Q.,Modelling benchmark of a laboratory drying test in Opalinus Clay, Fujita, T. & Nakama, S 2010 ROCK MECHANICS IN CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING. Zhao, J., Labiouse, V., Dudt, J. & Mathier, J. (eds.).

Validation of THM and THC simulation results for long-term predictions in a crystalline rock repository Stefanie Krug, Wenqing Wang, Christopher McDermott, Hua Shao, Olaf Kolditz, TIMODAZ conference 2009: impact of thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical (THMC) processes on the safety of underground radioactive waste repositories

Garitte B, Gens A, Feng X, Xiaoyan L, Millard A, Bond A, McDermott C, Fujita T and Nakama S (2009).  A DECOVALEX-2011 benchmark: laboratory drying test in Opalinus Clay. THERESA-TIMODAZ Conference, Luxembourg, 2009.

Decovalex-2011: Quintessa and University of Edinburgh Contribution to Task A, A technical report to NDA RWMD, Alex Bond, Steven Benbow, James Wilson, Chris McDermott, Myles English, QRS-1378J-R9, V0.4, 29/2/2012, pp175.

Kolditz, O., de Jonge, J., Beinhorn, M., Xie, M., Kalbacher, T., Wang, W., Bauer, S., McDermott, C.I., Kaiser, R. and Kohlmeier, M., 2005. GeoSys/Rockflow - Theory and User Manual, release 4.1 Technical report, Groundwater Modelling Group, Center for Applied Geosciences, University of Tübingen & Institute of Fluid Mechanics, University of Hannover.

McDermott, C.I., Randriamanjatosoa, A.L. and Kolditz, O., (2004). Pressure Dependent Hydraulic Flow, Heat Transport and Geo-thermo-mechanical Deformation in HDR Crystalline Geothermal Systems: Preliminary Application to Identify Energy Recovery Schemes at Urach Spa. ErdwärmeforschungStadtwerke Bad Urach.

McDermott, C.I., (2003). Inside Finite Elements for Outsiders; Groundwater flow, stationary and transient conditions, contaminant transport, heat transport, stress strain, Technical report, Groundwater Modelling Group, Center for Applied Geosciences, University of Tübingen. Germany.

McDermott, C.I., (2001). Masters in Applied Environmental Geoscience, Report Prepared for External Assessment of the Masters In Applied Environmental Geoscience, Center for Applied Geoscience, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.

(2000) McDermott als Projektbearbeiter: "DFG-Verbundvorhaben Festgesteins-Aquiferanalog: Experimente und Modellierung, Forschungsberichte für die II. Projektphase.", Teilprojekt 2: Laborexperimente und Entwicklung neuer Untersuchungsmethoden.

(1997) McDermott als Projektbearbeiter: "DFG-Verbundvorhaben Festgesteins-Aquiferanalog: Experimente und Modellierung, Forschungsberichte für die 1. Projektphase. ", Teilprojekt 2: Laborexperimente und Entwicklung neuer Untersuchungsmethoden.

1993 McDermott as author, Ratcliffe-On-Soar Power Station Gypsum Solution Cavities Site Investigation Report, Comercial Report for Powergen PLC., Report No. BJM/CS/B8AQ/052, Project Manager B.J. Messenger, prepared by Rendel Palmer and Tritton South West Civil and Structural Department. 55 pages.

1993 McDermott as principal team member, The Occurrence and Significance of Erosion, Deposition and Flooding, Report on problems to land use and development, Report for the Department of the Environment, No. R/H848/1, by Rendel Geotechnics, 201 pages.

1993 McDermott as author, Geotechnical Interpretive Report on Ground Investigation at Burniston Barracks Scarborough, North Yorkshire, Commercial Report A/S6AN by Rendel Geotechnics, 22 pages.

1993 McDermott as author, Drilling and Grouting Works for Plots 49 to 58, 63 to 68 and 71 to 78, Factual Report for Bellway Homes Ltd (Midlands Division) by Rendel Geotechnics, R/H865 17 pages.

1993 McDermott as principal team member, Photo Geomorphological Survey, Scotland-Northern Ireland Pipeline Route, Twynholm to North Cairn & Island Magee, Commercial Report for British Gas No R/H867/1 by Rendel Geotechnics, 48 pages.

1993 McDermott as author, Ground Investigation at 34 Manor Road, Oxely for Royal Insurance (UK) Ltd. (Foundation Instability and Remedial Measures) by Rendel Geotechnics 29 pages.

1992 McDermott as author, Fenton and Moor Street Foul and Storm Water Sewers, Ground Investigation, Commercial Report No. R/H844/01 for Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, by Rendel Geotechnics. 144 pages.

1992 McDermott as author, Isle of Wight Mineral Workings Data Bank, User Guide and Data Bank Lisiting, Comercial Report for the Planning Unit, Isle of Wight County Council, by Rendel Geotechnics. 74 pages.

1992 McDermott as author, The Davids, Hole Lane, Ground Investigation, Internal Report No R/D137/01 prepared by Rendel Geotechnics for Rendel Palmer and Tritton. 29 pages.

1992 McDermott as contributory team member, Potters Lane Subsidiary Site, Ground Investigation, Commercial Report No. R/H843/01 for Black Country Development Corporation by Rendel Geotechnics. 108 pages.

1992 McDermott as author, Ground Investigation "The Shire Business Park, Worcester Plot 16, Report prepared by Rendel Geotechnics for Rendel Palmer and Tritton, Report No. R/D/100/01, 54 pages.

1992 McDermott as author, Ratcliffe-On-Soar Powerstation, Gypsum Solution Cavities, Phase 1 Grouting Contract Final Report, Report No. BJM/CS/B8AQ/054, 19 pages.

1991 McDermott as principal team member, A Western Orbital Route For The West Midlands Conurbation and Kidderminster, Blakedown and Hagley Bypass, Geotechnical Ground Investigation, Volume 4- Wombourne North and Codsall Sections, Commercial Report for the Department of Transport, West Midlands Regional Office (Birmingham) by Rendel Palmer and Tritton PLC., 387 pages.

1991 McDermott as author, Guide to the Bromhead Slope Stability Package to be used with program users manual, Internal Company Document, Rendel Geotechnics. 6 pages.

1991 McDermott as author, Structural Distress Ground Investigation, Commercial Report for Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, by Rendel Geotechnics, 21 pages.