Romain Le Goc

About Me

Hey! I'm a scientist at the Fractory, a research lab funded by Itasca Consultants and the OSUR (CNRS/Univ. Rennes).

My current resarch is on Discrete fracture Networks (DFN) structural, flow and mechanical properties. I have worked on both theoretical and practical aspects of numerical simulations of fractured rocks.

Research Projects

My research projects focus on various fundammental aspects related to fractures in geological media:

Software

I'm actively involved in the development of DFN related software:

DFNLab: I'm the software architect and lead developper of this collection of modules to deal with Discrete Fracture Networks.

Itasca Software: I'm the lead developer of the DFN module in ITASCA software, which allows DFN manipulation and integration in the well-known ITASCA software for geomechanical simulations

Deprecated:

H2OLab : I was involved in the developpement of this academic software for simulating flow in geological media.

Publications

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News

May, 2020: My article with J. Furtney on machine learning in geomechanical projects has been accepted. You can find the associated code on gitlab.
December, 2019: The Fractory website presenting our DFN software for fractured media DFN.lab is now online. Please visit it to see the evolution of the code.
December, 2019: The AGU Fall Meeting was a big success, I spent 4 non-stop hours during the poster session to explain our work and software. The posters are downloadable directly from the AGU website here and here .
November, 2019: We present many papers at the comming AGU General meeting in this session . I'll present DFN.lab while students and post-doc of the Fractory will present their work.
July, 2019: P. Davy, director of the Fractory, is organizing a session at the AGU on fractured media .
April, 2019: Diane presented our work at the EGU General assembly in Vienna.
November, 2018: I participated in the Posiva Working Report Discrete Fracture Network Modelling (Version 3) in Support of Olkiluoto Site Description 2018.
August, 2018: Our paper Elastic properties of fractured rock masses with frictional properties and power-law fracture size distributions has been published in JGR !
June, 2018: I have presented our work Evaluation of Discrete Fracture Network models using flow-based indicators at the DFNE 2018 . I'm also co-authoring other presentations on rock mass properties and DFN theory.
June, 2018: I have presented our work Progress on Discrete Fracture Network (DFN) flow modelling at the CMWR 2018 . I'm also co-authoring another presentation on the elastic properties of rock masses.
April, 2018: I'm happy to announce that I've officially moved in Rennes to work in the Fractory office!