Scholtes Luc

Career :

• 2021 – Associate Professor – Université Clermont Auvergne / Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont Ferrand / Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans
• 2019 – Vice Director of the International Affairs – École Nationale Supérieure de Géologie
• 2017 – Visiting Researcher – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / Energy Geosciences Division (Berkeley, USA)
• 2012 – Associate Professor – Université de Lorraine / École Nationale Supérieure de Géologie / Laboratoire GeoRessources (Nancy, France)
• 2012 – Postdoctoral fellow – Laboratoire 3S-R (Grenoble, France)
• 2010 – Postdoctoral fellow – CSIRO / Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies (Brisbane, Australia)
• 2009 – Postdoctoral fellow – Institut de Recherche en Génie Civil et Mécanique (Saint-Nazaire, France)

Education :

• 2008 – PhD, Mechanics – Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble / Laboratoire 3S-R (Grenoble, France)
• 2005 – Master, Mechanics – Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France)
• 2003 – Bachelor, Mechanics – Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand, France)

Supervision :

• 6 PhDs: V. Bonilla-Sierra, INPG/3SR (2012-2015), E. Papachristos, INPG/3SR (2013-2017), A. Hajjar, UL/GeoRessources (2014-2017), S. Moosavi, UL/GeoRessources (2015-2018), A. Mostafa, UL/GeoRessources (2019-2022), M. Huber, UL/CRPG/GeoRessources (2019-2022)
• 6 postdoctoral fellows: J. Wu, UL/GeoRessources (2015-2016), O. Dinç, UL/GeoRessources (2016-2017), T. Chauve, UiO/UGA (2018-2020), L. Zhang, UGA/ISTerre (2018-2020), K. Eldursi, UL/GeoRessources (2020-2021), H. Nho Gia Nguyen, UL/GeoRessources (2020-2021)

Collective Actions :

• Development of the open source code YADE DEM
• Editorial Board of Computers and Geotechnics

Current Research Projects:

• REGALOR: Multi-scale hydro-mechanical modeling of coalbed methane recovery (PhD of A. Mostafa)
• ANR HydroGeoDam: Numerical investigation of local damage mechanisms and characterization of macroscopic laws (postdoc of L. Zhang)
• DEEPSURF: Micro-Hydro-Mechanical behavior of faults in the context of CO2 geological storage (postdoc of H. Nho Gia Nguyen)

Teaching

Full list on Google Scholar

Peer Reviewed Journals :

2021

• Donzé F.V., Klinger Y., Bonilla-Sierra V., Duriez J., Jiao L., Scholtes L. (2021). Assessing the brittle crust thickness from strike-slip fault segments on Earth, Mars and Icy moons. Tectonophysics vol.805, p.228779, - DOI:10.1016/j.tecto.2021.228779.
• Jiao L., Klinger Y., Scholtes L. (2021). Fault Segmentation Pattern Controlled by Thickness of Brittle Crust. Geophysical Research Letters vol.48, p.e2021GL093390, - DOI:10.1029/2021GL093390 - .
• Nguyen H.N.G., Scholtes L., Guglielmi Y., Donzé F.V., Ouraga Z., Souley M. (2021). Micromechanics of Sheared Granular Layers Activated by Fluid Pressurization. Geophysical Research Letters vol.48, 14, - DOI:10.1029/2021GL093222 - .
• Zhang L., Scholtes L., Donzé F.V. (2021). Discrete Element Modeling of Permeability Evolution During Progressive Failure of a Low-Permeable Rock Under Triaxial Compression. Rock Mechanics Rock Engineering - DOI:10.1007/s00603-021-02622-9 - .

• Caulk, R., Scholtès, L., Krzaczek, M., Chareyre, C. (2020). A pore-scale thermo–hydro-mechanical model for particulate systems, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Volume 372, 113292, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2020.113292
• Chauve, T., Scholtès, L., Donzé, F.‐V., Haque Mondol, N., & Renard, F. (2020). Layering in shales controls microfracturing at the onset of primary migration in source rocks. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125, e2020JB019444. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB019444
• Bonneau, F., Scholtès, L., Rambure, H. (2020). An algorithm for generating mechanically sound sphere packings in geological models. Computational Particle Mechanics, 8, 201–214, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40571-020-00324-7