Chin-Fu Tsang
Visiting professor at Department of Earth Sciences; Program for Air, Water and Landscape Sciences; Hydrology
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 71 93
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 729 71 64
- E-mail:
- chin-fu.tsang@geo.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Geocentrum, Villavägen 16
752 36 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Villavägen 16
752 36 UPPSALA
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Biography
Chin-Fu Tsang is a Visiting Professor and Visiting Scholar at Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden. He is a Senior Scientist Emeritus in the Earth Sciences Division and a former Head of the Hydrogeology Department at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California. From 2008 to 2010, He was a Visiting Professor of Hydrogeology at Imperial College London. He holds a B.Sc. (First Class Honours) in Physics from the University of Manchester, UK, and a Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley, USA. His research has been mainly in the fields of (a) flow and transport in fractured and heterogeneous porous media, (b) coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical processes in fractured rock and other geological media, and (c) advanced well tests analysis and borehole testing methods. Dr. Tsang has been very active professionally worldwide. From 1992 to 2007, Dr. Tsang was the Chairman of the DECOVALEX Project, a ten-nation cooperative research program on coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical processes in geological systems. From 1993 to 1998, he was also the Director of Russian-American Center for Contaminant Transport Studies based in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. From 2002 to 2009, he served on the INSITE Committee to advice the Swedish government authority (SKI, now SSM) on Swedish site investigation program for siting nuclear waste repository in Sweden being conducted by Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB). He was an invited and keynote speaker in many international conferences. He is the author or co-author of more than 400 scientific publications, including about 180 articles in refereed scientific journals and about 110 invited papers and presentations. In addition, he is the co-author or co-editor of eight books and five Journal Special Issues. In 2015, he was invited to prepare a review paper on “Hydrologic issues associated with nuclear waste repositories” which was published in the special 50th anniversary issue of Water Resources Research.

Publications
Recent publications
Part of Advances in Water Resources, 2025
- DOI for Characteristics of flow and transport in low-permeability fractured rock based on a channel network model
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Part of Hydrogeology Journal, p. 425-448, 2025
Part of Hydrogeology Journal, p. 1295-1305, 2024
- DOI for The DECOVALEX international collaboration on modeling of coupled subsurface processes and its contribution to confidence building in radioactive waste disposal
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Part of Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, p. 5303-5316, 2024
- DOI for Coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Processes in Fractured Rocks: Some Past Scientific Highlights and Future Research Directions
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Part of Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 2024
- DOI for Modeling nuclear waste disposal in crystalline rocks at the Forsmark and Olkiluoto repository sites: Evaluation of potential thermal-mechanical damage to repository excavations
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All publications
Articles in journal
Part of Advances in Water Resources, 2025
- DOI for Characteristics of flow and transport in low-permeability fractured rock based on a channel network model
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Part of Hydrogeology Journal, p. 425-448, 2025
Part of Hydrogeology Journal, p. 1295-1305, 2024
- DOI for The DECOVALEX international collaboration on modeling of coupled subsurface processes and its contribution to confidence building in radioactive waste disposal
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Part of Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, p. 5303-5316, 2024
- DOI for Coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Processes in Fractured Rocks: Some Past Scientific Highlights and Future Research Directions
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Part of Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 2024
- DOI for Modeling nuclear waste disposal in crystalline rocks at the Forsmark and Olkiluoto repository sites: Evaluation of potential thermal-mechanical damage to repository excavations
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Part of Water resources research, 2023
- DOI for Channel Network Modeling of Flow and Transport in Fractured Rock at the Äspö HRL: Data‐Worth Analysis for Model Development, Calibration and Prediction
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Apparent flow-dimension approach to the study of heterogeneous fracture network systems
Part of Hydrogeology Journal, 2023
- DOI for Apparent flow-dimension approach to the study of heterogeneous fracture network systems
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Part of International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 2022
- DOI for CO2 residual trapping experiments at Heletz, Israel pilot injection site: Editorial to the special section
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Part of Energy, 2022
Part of Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, 2022
- DOI for Numerical study of fluid injection-induced deformation and seismicity in a mature fault zone with a low-permeability fault core bounded by a densely fractured damage zone
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Hydraulic stimulation strategies in enhanced geothermal systems (EGS): a review
Part of Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources, 2022
- DOI for Hydraulic stimulation strategies in enhanced geothermal systems (EGS): a review
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Part of International Journal of Rock Mechanics And Mining Sciences, 2021
- DOI for Modelling fluid injection-induced fracture activation, damage growth, seismicity occurrence and connectivity change in naturally fractured rocks
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Part of Water resources research, 2021
Part of Geofluids, 2020
- DOI for The Influence of Coupled Thermomechanical Processes on the Pressure and Temperature due to Cold Water Injection into Multiple Fracture Zones in Deep Rock Formation
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Part of Hydrogeology Journal, p. 595-614, 2019
- DOI for Simplified representative models for long-term flow and advective transport in fractured crystalline bedrock
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Part of Environmental Earth Sciences, 2018
A new scripting library for modeling flow and transport in fractured rock with channel networks
Part of Computers & Geosciences, p. 181-189, 2018
Part of International Journal of Rock Mechanics And Mining Sciences, p. 13-17, 2018
Role of natural fractures in damage evolution around tunnel excavation in fractured rocks
Part of Engineering Geology, p. 100-113, 2017
- DOI for Role of natural fractures in damage evolution around tunnel excavation in fractured rocks
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Study of hydraulic fracturing processes in shale formations with complex geological settings
Part of Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, p. 361-374, 2017
- DOI for Study of hydraulic fracturing processes in shale formations with complex geological settings
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Part of Engineering Geology, p. 197-213, 2017
Part of Hydrogeology Journal, p. 501-517, 2017
Part of International journal of earth sciences, p. 1549-1562, 2016
Part of Hydrogeology Journal, p. 1333-1341, 2016
Part of Hydrogeology Journal, p. 1607-1622, 2016
- DOI for Review: The state-of-art of sparse channel models and their applicability to performance assessment of radioactive waste repositories in fractured crystalline formations
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Part of Greenhouse Gases, p. 419-436, 2015
Part of Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, p. 4784-4807, 2015
- DOI for A new approach to upscaling fracture network models while preserving geostatistical and geomechanical characteristics
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Polyaxial stress-induced variable aperture model for persistent 3D fracture networks.
Part of Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, p. 34-47, 2015
A study of changes in deep fractured rock permeability due to coupled hydro-mechanical effects
Part of International Journal of Rock Mechanics And Mining Sciences, p. 70-85, 2015
Part of Scientific Drilling, p. 1-11, 2015
- DOI for COSC-1 - drilling of a subduction-related allochthon in the Palaeozoic Caledonide orogen of Scandinavia
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Part of International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, p. 432-448, 2015
Part of Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, p. 303-311, 2014
Part of International Journal of Rock Mechanics And Mining Sciences, p. 507-523, 2014
Part of Hydrogeology Journal, p. 1691-1700, 2013
Part of Water resources research, p. 2241-2252, 2013
Deep hydrogeology: a discussion of issues and research needs
Part of Hydrogeology Journal, p. 1687-1690, 2013
Part of Journal of Hydrology, p. 1-13, 2013
Part of International Journal of Rock Mechanics And Mining Sciences, p. 100-112, 2013
Part of International Journal of Rock Mechanics And Mining Sciences, p. 31-44, 2012
Part of Water resources research, 2012
Part of Computers & Geosciences, p. 1-3, 2012
Regional channelized transport in fractured media with matrix diffusion and linear sorption
Part of Water resources research, 2008
Part of International Journal of Rock Mechanics And Mining Sciences, p. 793-804, 2005
Part of International Journal of Rock Mechanics And Mining Sciences, p. 793-804, 2005
A Regional-Scale Particle-Tracking Method for Nonstationary Fractured Media
Part of Water Resources Research, p. 1-16, 2005
Articles, review/survey
Part of International Journal of Rock Mechanics And Mining Sciences, 2019
- DOI for 25 years of DECOVALEX - Scientific advances and lessons learned from an international research collaboration in coupled subsurface processes
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Part of Computers and geotechnics, p. 151-176, 2017
- DOI for The use of discrete fracture networks for modelling coupled geomechanical and hydrological behaviour of fractured rocks
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Hydrologic issues associated with nuclear waste repositories
Part of Water resources research, p. 6923-6972, 2015
- DOI for Hydrologic issues associated with nuclear waste repositories
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Chapters in book
Chapter 7: Continuum Modeling of Hydraulic Fracturing in Complex Fractured Rock Masses
Part of Hydraulic Fracture Modeling, p. 195-217, Gulf Professional Publishing, 2018
Part of Geological Storage Of Co2 In Deep Saline Formations, p. 15-38, Springer Netherlands, 2017
Part of Dynamics of Fluids and Transport in Fractured-Porous Media, American Geophysical Union, 2015
Conference papers
Part of Preferential flow and non-equilibrium solute transport in the critical zone, 2022
- DOI for Use of apparent flow dimension in transient pressure analysis to evaluate non-uniform flow in heterogeneous porous media
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p. 3527, 2017
2015
p. 2725, 2015
Hydrogeologic Testing During Drilling of COSC-1 Borehole: Application of FFEC Logging Method.
p. 4414, 2015
Use of FFEC logging for long-term monitoring of regional flow in multi-layer aquifer system
2013
2012
2011
Part of Proceedings of 8th Annual Conference on Carbon Capture & Sequestration May 4th - 7th, 2009 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania., 2009
2008