Nobuo Hirano

Drilling to Gabbro in Intact Ocean Crust

Douglas S. Wilson, D.A.H. Teagle, Jeffrey C. Alt et al. · Science · 2006 · 264 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Geophysics +15

Determination of aperture structure and fluid flow in a rock fracture by high‐resolution numerical modeling on the basis of a flow‐through experiment under confining pressure

Noriaki Watanabe, Nobuo Hirano, Noriyoshi Tsuchiya · Water Resources Research · 2008 · 188 citations · Full text

Engineering, Geological Engineering, Geology +17

Direct measurement of contact area and stress dependence of anisotropic flow through rock fracture with heterogeneous aperture distribution

Katsumi Nemoto, Noriaki Watanabe, Nobuo Hirano et al. · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2009 · 157 citations

Engineering, Earth Sciences, Geology +17

Diversity of channeling flow in heterogeneous aperture distribution inferred from integrated experimental‐numerical analysis on flow through shear fracture in granite

Noriaki Watanabe, Nobuo Hirano, Noriyoshi Tsuchiya · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2009 · 121 citations · Full text

Engineering, Earth Sciences, Geological Engineering +17

Beyond‐laboratory‐scale prediction for channeling flows through subsurface rock fractures with heterogeneous aperture distributions revealed by laboratory evaluation

Takuya Ishibashi, Noriaki Watanabe, Nobuo Hirano et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth · 2014 · 94 citations

Engineering, Earth Sciences, Geological Engineering +16