Nobuo Hirano

Drilling to Gabbro in Intact Ocean Crust

Douglas S. Wilson, D.A.H. Teagle, Jeffrey C. Alt et al. · Science · 2006 · 263 citations · Full text

Volcanology, Engineering, Melt Lenses +16

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 · 182 citations

Rock Testing, Engineering, Mechanical Engineering +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 · 155 citations

Geotechnical Engineering, Rock Testing, Engineering +9

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 · 119 citations · Full text

Rock Testing, Engineering, Mechanical Engineering +21

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 · 90 citations

Rock Testing, Engineering, Earth Science +21