LaGriT Related Publications

To reference LaGriT in a publication use the following citation:
Los Alamos Grid Toolbox, LaGriT, Los Alamos National Laboratory, <http://lagrit.lanl.gov>, year_of_lagrit_version.
For example:
Los Alamos Grid Toolbox, LaGriT, Los Alamos National Laboratory, <http://lagrit.lanl.gov>, 2013.

Year 2014:

Hyman, J.D., Gable, C.W., Painter, S.L Makedonska, N., Conforming Delaunay Triangulation of Stochastically Generated Three Dimensional Discrete Fracture Networks : A Feature Rejection Algorithm for Meshing Strategy, SIAM J of Sci Computing, V 36, No. 4, pp. A1871-A1894, DOI:10.1137/130942541, 2014.

Pepin, J, Person, M, Phillips, F, Kelley, S, Timmons, S, Owens, L, Witcher, J, Gable, C, Deep fluid circulation within crystalline basement rocks andthe role of hydrologic windows in the formation of the Truth or Con- sequences, New Mexico low-temperature geothermal system, Geofluids, Oct. 2014, DOI:10.1111/gfl.12111

Harp, DH, Pawar, R, Gable, CW, Numerical modeling of cemented wellbore leakage from storage reservoirs with secondary capture due to thief zones, Greenhouse Gas Technology 12, Energy Procedia, Elsevier, 2014.

Siegel, J, Person, M, Dugan, B, Cohen, D, Lizarralde, D, Gable, C, Influence of Late Pleistocene Glaciations on the Hydrogeology of the Continental Shelf Offshore Massachusetts, USA, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2014, DOI:10.1002/2014GC005569.

Year 2013:

Zhang,Y, Person, M, Rupp, J, Ellett, K, Celia, MA, Gable, CW, Bowen, B, Evans, J, Bandilla, K, Mozley, P, Dewers, T, Elliot, T, Hydrogeologic Controls on Induced Seismicity in Crystalline Basement Rocks Due to Fluid Injection into Basal Reservoirs, Groundwater, Vol 51, Iss. 4, 525538, July/August 2013, DOI: 10.1111/gwat.12071.

Year 2012:

Painter, S.L., Gable, C.W., Kelkar, S, Pathline Tracing on Fully Unstructured Control Volume Grids, Computational Geosciences, Vol 16, iss. 4, 1125-1134, 2012, DOI:10.1007/s10596-012-9307-1.

Person, M, Hofstra, A, Sweetkind, D, Stone, W, Cohen, D, Gable, C, Banerjee, A, Analytical and numerical models of hydrothermal fluid flow at fault intersections, Geofluids, Vol 12, iss. 4, 312-326, 2012, DOI:10.1111/gfl.12002.

Person, M, Butler, D, Gable, CW, Villamil, T, Wavrek, D, Schelling, D, Hydrodynamic stagnation zones: A new play concept for the Llanos Basin, Colombia, AAPG BULLETIN Vol.96, iss.1, 23-41, 2012.

Year 2011:

Blessent, D, Therrien, R, Gable, C.W., Large-scale numerical simulation of groundwater flow and solute transport in discretely-fractured crystalline bedrock, Advances in Water Resources, 34, 1539-1552, 2011.

Banerjee, A, Person, M, Hofstra, A, Sweetkind, D, Cohen, D, Sabin, A, Unruh, J, Zyvoloski, G, Gable C.W., Crossey, L, Karlstrom, K, Deep permeable fault-controlled helium transport and limited mantle flux in two extensional geothermal systems in the Great Basin, United States GEOLOGY (MAR 2011) Vol.39, iss.3, p.195-198.

Zhang, Y, Liu, B, Gable, C.W., Homogenization of Hydraulic Conductivity for Hierarchical Sedimentary Deposits at Multiple Scales Transport in Porous Media, (2011) Vol.87, iss.3, p.717-737.

Year 2010:

Zhang, Y., Gable, C.W., Sheets, B., Equivalent hydraulic conductivity of three-dimensional heterogeneous porous media: An upscaling study based on an experimental stratigraphy Journal of Hydrology (2010) Vol.388, iss.3-4, p.304-320.

Person, M, Banerjee, A, Rupp, J, Medina, C, Lichtner, P, Gable, C, Pawar, R, Celia, M, McIntosh, J, Bense, V, Assessment of basin-scale hydrologic impacts of CO2 sequestration, Illinois basin, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GREENHOUSE GAS CONTROL (SEP 2010) Vol.4, iss.5, p.840-854.

Stepwise inversion of a groundwater flow model with multi-scale observation data. Dai, ZX; Keating, E; Gable, C, Levitt, D, Heikoop, J, Simmons, A, HYDROGEOLOGY JOURNAL Volume: 18 Issue: 3 Pages: 607-624 Published: 2010 (PDF)

Origin and Extent of Fresh Paleowaters on the Atlantic Continental Shelf, USA. Cohen, D; Person, M; Wang, P, et al. GROUND WATER Volume: 48 Issue: 1 Pages: 143-158 Published: 2010 (PDF)

Year 2009:

Pawar, R.J., Watson, T.L., Gable, C.W., Numerical Simulation of CO2 Leakage through Abandoned Wells: Model for an Abandoned Site with Observed Gas Migration in Alberta, Canada, Energy Procedia (2009) Vol.1, iss.1, p.3625-3632. (PDF)

Zhang, Y , Gable, CW, Zyvoloski, GA, Walter, LM, Hydrogeochemistry and gas compositions of the Uinta Basin: A regional-scale overview, AAPG BULLETIN (AUG 2009) Vol.93, iss.8, p.1087-1118.

Blessent, D; Therrien, R; MacQuarrie, K, Coupling geological and numerical models to simulate groundwater flow and contaminant transport in fractured media, COMPUTERS & GEOSCIENCES 35:9, 1897-1906, 2009

Stauffer, PH ; Vrugt, JA ; Turin, HJ ; Gable, CW ; Soll, WE, Untangling Diffusion from Advection in Unsaturated Porous Media: Experimental Data, Modeling, and Parameter Uncertainty, VADOSE ZONE JOURNAL (MAY 2009) Vol.8, iss.2, p.510-522

Kuprat, AP ; Einstein, DR An anisotropic scale-invariant unstructured mesh generator suitable for volumetric imaging data, JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS (FEB 20 2009) Vol.228, iss.3, p.619-640

Year 2008:

Plumes anchored by a high viscosity lower mantle in a 3D mantle convection model featuring dynamically evolving plates Lowman, J.P.; Gait, A.D.; Gable, C.W., Kukreja, H, Geophysical Research Letters Pages: L19309 (5 pp.) Published: 10 2008 9 Oct. 2008 (PDF)

Time dependence in 3-D mantle convection models featuring evolving plates: effect of lower mantle viscosity Gait, A.D.; Lowman, J.P.; Gable, C.W. Journal of Geophysical Research - Part B - Solid Earth Pages: B08409 (16 pp.) Published: 08 2008 Aug. 2008 (PDF)

Zhang, Y ; Gable, CW Two-scale modeling of solute transport in an experimental stratigraphy , JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY (JAN 15 2008) Vol.348, iss.3-4, p.395-411

Year 2007:

Zhang, Y ; Person, M ; Gable, CW, Representative hydraulic conductivity of hydrogeologic units: Insights from an experimental stratigraphy , JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY (JUN 10 2007) Vol.339, iss.1-2, p.65-78

Year 2005:

Bower, KM; Gable, CW; Zyvoloski, GA "Grid resolution study of ground water flow and transport" Ground Water; 2005; v.43, no.1, p.122-132

Robinson, BA; Cole, G; Carey, JW; Witkowski, M; Gable, CW; Lu, ZM; Gray, R "A vadose zone flow and transport model for Los Alamos Canyon, Los Alamos, New Mexico" VADOSE ZONE JOURNAL; AUG 2005; v.4, no.3, p.729-743

Gruber, J; George, DC; Kuprat, AP; Rohrer, GS; Rollett, AD "Effect of anisotropic grain boundary properties on grain boundary plane distributions during grain growth" Scripta Materialia; Aug. 2005; vol.53, no.3, p.351-5

Zhang, Ye; Person, Mark; Paola, Chris; Gable, Carl W.; Wen, Xian-Huan; Davis, J. Matthew "Geostatistical analysis of an experimental stratigraphy" Water Resources Research; November 2005; v.41, no.11, p.1-20

Year 2003:

Demirel, Melik; Kuprat, Andrew; George, Denise; Rollett, Anthony, "Bridging Simulations and Experiments in Microstructure Evolution", PRL, vol90, 016106.

Kuprat, George, Straub, Demirel,"Modeling Microstructure Evolution in Three Dimensions with Grain3D and LaGriT" Computational Materials Science, 28 (2003) 199-208.

Viswanathan, HS; Robinson, BA; Gable, CW; Carey, JW "A geostatistical modeling study of the effect of heterogeneity on radionuclide transport in the unsaturated zone, Yucca Mountain " Journal of Contaminant Hydrology; April/May 2003; v.62-63, p.319-336

Tseng, PH; Soll, WE; Gable, CW; Turin, HJ; Bussod, GY "Modeling unsaturated flow and transport processes at the Busted Butte Field Test Site, Nevada" Journal of Contaminant Hydrology; April/May 2003; v.62-63, p.303-318

Year 2002:

Demirel, Melik; Kuprat, Andrew; George, Denise; Straub, Galen; Rollett, Anthony, "Linking Experimental Characteriztion and Computational Modeling of Grain Growh in Al-Foil", Interface Science, Vol10, No2-3, pp 137-142, July 2002.

Year 2001:

Fisher, AT; Giambalvo, E; Sclater, J; Kastner, M; Ransom, B; Weinstein, Y; Lonsdale, P "Heat flow, sediment and pore fluid chemistry, and hydrothermal circulation on the east flank of Alarcon Ridge, Gulf of California" EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS; JUN 15 2001; v.188, no.3-4, p.521-534

Murphy, M; Mount, DM; Gable, CW "A point-placement strategy for conforming Delaunay tetrahedralization" International Journal of Computational Geometry & Applications; Dec. 2001; vol.11, no.6, p.669-82

Kuprat, Andrew; Khamayseh, Ahmed; George, Denise; Larkey, Levi, "Volume Conserving Smoothing for Piecewise Linear Curves, Surfaces, and Triple Lines", Journal of comptational Physics, Vol 172, pp99-118 (2001).

Year 2000:

Kuprat, Andrew, "Inspecting and Repairing Physical Topology in a Moving Grid Grain Growth Simulation," LA-UR-00-3475, July 2000.

Kuprat, Andrew, "Modeling Microstructure Evolution using Gradient-Weighted Moving Finite Elements", SIAM J. Sci. Comput., Vol22, No. 2,pp. 535-560, July 2000.

Kuprat, Andrew; Khamayseh, Ahmed, George Denise; Larkey, Levi "Volume Conserving Smoothing for Piecewise Linear Curves, Surfaces and Triple Lines", LA-UR-00-5004, October 2000.

Michael Murphy, David M. Mount, Carl Gable  "A Point-Placement Strategy for Conforming Delaunay Tetahedralization" LA-UR 99-3868. 11th Annual SIAM-ACM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2000) January, 2000 San Francisco.

Galen K. Straub, Denise C. George, Andrew P. Kuprat "Materials Microstructural Evolution in 2D Surface Front-Tracking Computer Simulations"LA-UR-00-1.    Theoretical Division  Self Assesment Special Feature, April 2000.

Denise C. George, Andrew P. Kuprat "Optimizing 3D Tetrahedral Grids"  LA-UR-00-1.  Theoretical Division  Self Assesment Special Feature, April 2000.

Gable, C.W., "Integrated Geological Interpretation for Computational Modeling, Vadose Zone Science and Technology Solutions", Brian B. Looney, Ronald W. Falta, Battelle Press, 2000. (PDF not available)

Year 1999:

Denise George, Neil Carlson, J. Tinka Gammel, Andrew Kuprat   "3D Modelling of Metallic Grain Growth "  Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 1999.

Gammel, J. Tinka; Kuprat, A; Carlson, N.N.; George D.C, "Modeling Metallic Microstructure: OrientationDependence",to be presented at the APS meeting, March 1999.

Year 1998:

Kuprat, Andrew and George, Denise, "Maintaining Tetrahedral Mesh Quality in Response to Time-dependent Topological and Geometrical Deformation " LA-UR-97-5187, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on  Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Field Simulations, M. Cross  (ed.), International Society of Grid Generation  (ISBN 0-9651627), pp. 589-598, May 1998.

Michael Murphy, Carl W. Gable, "Strategies for Nonobtuse Boundary Delaunay Triangulations", Transactions, 7th International Meshing Roundtable '98, Dearborn Michigan, 309-320, 1998, LAUR-98-3949.

Kuprat, Andrew and Khamayseh, Ahmed, "Non-Parametric Volume Conserving Smoothing, LA-UR-98-3381 (1998).

Khamayseh, A., and Kuprat, A., "Surface Grid Generation Systems," LA-UR-97-87, CRC Handbook ofGrid Generation, ed. Joe Thompson , CRC Press, (ISBN 0849326877), (1998).

Khamayseh, A., Kuprat, A., and W. Mastin, "Boundary Orthogonality in Elliptic Grid Generation", LA-UR-97-3827,CRC Handbook of Grid Generation, ed.

Gammel, J. Tinka and Kuprat, Andrew, "Modeling Metallic Microstructure Using Moving Finite Elements", presented at the Computational and Theory Symposium Pacific Coast Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, IRvine, CA, Oct. 21-24, 1998.

Year 1997:

Kuprat, Andrew, Denise George, Eldon Linnebur, Harold Trease , R. Kent Smith,  "Moving Adaptive Unstructured 3-D Meshes in Semiconductor Process Modelling Applications " LA-UR-95-4128, VLSI Design, Vol. 6(1-4),  (1998),   pp373-378.

George, Denise, "Unstructured Toolbox for Modeling and Simulation", LA-UR-97-3052, presented at the 1997 Workshop on Computational Electronics and Nanoelectronics, Urbana, Illinois, October 20-22, 1997.

George, Denise "Unstructured 3D Grid Toolbox for Modeling and Simulation" , LA-UR-97-3052, presented at the 1997  Workshop on Computational Electronics and Nanoelectronics, Urbana, Illinois, October 20-22, 1997

Year 1996:

Carl W. Gable, Harold Trease and Terry Cherry, "Automated Grid Generation From Models of Complex Geologic Structure and Stratigraphy," Santa Barbara: National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, proceedings paper LA-UR-96-1083, 1996.

Carl W. Gable, Harold Trease and Terry Cherry, "Geological Applications of Automatic Grid Generation Tools for Finite Elements Applied to Porous Flow Modeling," in Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Related Fields, edited by B. K. Soni, J. F. Thompson, H. Hausser and P. R. Eiseman, Engineering Research Center, Mississippi State Univ. Press, 1996.

Khamayseh, Ahmed and Kuprat, A, "Anisotropic Smoothing and Solution Adaption for Unstructured Grids " LA-UR-95-2205, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 39, pp. 3163-3174 (1996).

Garimella, R.V, C.W. Gable, "Interfacing Mesh Generators and Geometric Modelers in Geological Modeling" - Progress Report for LANL/ER Program, LA-UR-00-2956.

Kuprat, Andrew; Cartwright David; Gammel J. Tinka; George Denise; Kendrick Brian; Kilcrease David; Trease Harold; Walker, Robert, "X3D Moving Grid Methods for Semiconductor Applications ", LA-UR-97-2891.

Kuprat, Andrew,  "Adaptive Smoothing Techniques for 3D Unstructured Meshes ",  LA-UR-96-1116 (1996).

Terry Cherry, C. W. Gable and Harold Trease , "3-Dimensional Wells and Tunnels for Finite Element Grids," in Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Related Fields, edited by B. K. Soni, J. F. Thompson, H. Hausser and P. R. Eiseman, Engineering Research Center, Mississippi State Univ. Press, 1996.

Year 1995:

Khamayseh, Ahmed; Ortega, Frank; Trease, Harold, "Ray Tracing for Point Distribution in Unstructured Grid Generation", LA-UR-95-4470 (1995).

Khamayseh, Ahmed; Ortega, Frank; Kuprat, Andrew, "A Robust Point Location Algorithm for General Polyhedra", LA-UR-95-4465 (1995)

Year 1994:

Zyvoloski, G. and C. W. Gable, "Site Scale Modeling of Radionuclide Transport At Yucca Mountain, NV: Grid Generation and Reactive Tracers," Los Alamos National Laboratory, LA-UR-94-1041, 1994. (PDF is not available)