Alessandro Lenci | Stochastic Modeling of Complex Flow & Transport Processes in Geological Media

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ORCID: 0000-0002-0285-6991

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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

  1. Lenci A., Méheust Y., Dentz M., Di Federico V. (under review). Stochastic Modeling and Upscaling of Hydrodynamic Transport in Geological Fractures. Submitted to J. Fluid Mech., preprint available on arXiv:2510.07272.
  2. Lenci A., Méheust Y., Klepikova M., Di Federico V., Tartakovsky D. M. (2026). Effects of Wall Roughness on Coupled Flow and Heat Transport in Fractured Media. J. Fluid Mech., 1032, A61, 10.1017/jfm.2026.11403.
  3. Lenci A., Méheust Y., Di Federico V., Ciriello V. (2024). Reduced-Order Models Unravel the Joint Impact of Aperture Heterogeneity and Shear-Thinning Rheology on Fracture-Scale Flow Metrics. Water Resour. Res., e2023WR036026, 10.1029/2023WR036026.
  4. Lenci A., Zeighami F., Daprà I., Di Federico V. (2023). Slip Backflow of Polymers in Elastic Fractures for Subsurface Heat Recovery. Energies, 16, 7999, 10.3390/en16247999.
  5. Lenci A., Zeighami F., Di Federico V. (2022). Effective Forchheimer Coefficient for Layered Porous Media. Transp. Porous Med., 144, 459-480, 10.1007/s11242-022-01815-2.
  6. Lenci A., Méheust Y., Putti M., Di Federico V. (2022). Monte Carlo Simulations of Shear-Thinning Flow in Geological Fractures. Water Resour. Res., 58, e2022WR032024, 10.1029/2022WR032024.
  7. Lenci A., Putti M., Di Federico V., Méheust Y. (2022). A Lubrication-Based Solver for Shear-Thinning Flow in Rough Fractures. Water Resour. Res., 58, e2021WR031760, 10.1029/2021WR031760.
  8. Zeighami F., Lenci A., Di Federico V. (2022). Drainage of Power-Law Fluids from Fractured or Porous Finite Domains. J. Non-Newton. Fluid Mech., 305, 104832, 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2022.104832.
  9. Lenci A., Chiapponi L., Longo S., Di Federico V. (2021). Experimental Investigation on Backflow of Power-law Fluids in Planar Fractures. Phys. Fluids, 33, 083111, 10.1063/5.0062422.
  10. Ciriello V., Lenci A., Longo S., Di Federico V. (2021). Relaxation-Induced Flow in a Smooth Fracture for Ellis Rheology. Adv. Water Resour., 152, 103914, 10.1016/j.advwatres.2021.103914.
  11. Longo S., Chiapponi L., Petrolo D., Lenci A., Di Federico V. (2021). Converging Gravity Currents of Power-Law Fluids. J. Fluid Mech., 918, A5, 10.1017/jfm.2021.305.
  12. Lenci A., Di Federico V. (2020). A Channel Model for Bi-Viscous Fluid in Fractures. Transp. Porous Med., 134, 97-116, 10.1007/s11242-020-01438-5.
  13. Lenci A., Chiapponi L. (2020). An Experimental Setup to Investigate Non-Newtonian Fluid Flow in Variable Aperture Channels. Water, 12(5), 1284, 10.3390/W12051284.
  14. Lenci A., Longo S., Di Federico V. (2020). Shear-Thinning Fluid Flow in Variable-Aperture Channels. Water, 12(4), 1152, 10.3390/W12041152.
  15. Chiapponi L., Petrolo D., Lenci A., Di Federico V., Longo S. (2020). Dispersion Induced by Non-Newtonian Gravity Flow in a Layered Fracture or Formation, J. Fluid Mech., 903, A14, 10.1017/jfm.2020.624.
  16. Zanni S., Cipolla S.S., Di Fusco E., Lenci A., Altobelli M., Currado A., Maglionico M., Bonoli A. (2019). Modeling for Sustainability: Life Cycle Assessment Application to Evaluate Environmental Performance of Water Recycling Solutions at the Dwelling Level, Sustain. Prod. Consum., 17:47-61, 10.1016/j.spc.2018.09.002.
  17. Felisa G., Lenci A., Lauriola I., Longo S., Di Federico V. (2018). Flow of Truncated Power-Law Fluid in Fracture Channels of Variable Aperture, Adv. Water Resour., 122:317-327, 10.1016/j.advwatres.2018.10.024.

Conference Proceedings

  • Lenci A., Méheust Y., Tartakovsky D. M., Di Federico V. (2023). Potential of Polymer Fluids in Geothermal Systems. In: Proceedings of American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2023, San Francisco, United States, 11–15/12/2023.
  • Lenci A., Méheust Y., Di Federico V., Ciriello V. (2023). Reduced-Order Models Unravel the Interplay of Geological Fracture Heterogeneity and Fluid Rheology in Controlling Fracture-Scale Metrics of Newtonian and Shear-Thinning Flows. In: Proceedings of American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2023, San Francisco, United States, 11–15/12/2023.
  • Di Federico V., Baroni A., Lenci A. (2023). Hydraulic Jump in Yield Stress Fluids Associated with an Abrupt Channel Deviation. In: Proceedings of American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2023, San Francisco, United States, 11–15/12/2023.
  • Di Federico V., Cheng M., Lenci A. (2023). MAR2PROTECT – Data Driven Models for Contrasting Seawater Intrusion via Managed Aquifer Recharge. In: Proceedings of American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2023, San Francisco, United States, 11–15/12/2023.
  • Lenci A., Méheust Y., Dentz M., Di Federico V. (2024). Hydrodynamic Dispersion in Geological Fractures. In: Proceedings of Computational Methods in Water Resources 2024, Tucson, United States, 30/09–03/10/2024.
  • Lenci A., Méheust Y., Klepikova M., Tartakovsky D. M., Di Federico V. (2025). Complex Fluids in Fractured Geological Media for Enhanced Heat Transfer. In: Proceedings of InterPore 2025, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, 19–22/05/2025.
  • Lenci A., Sepideh M. F., Chiapponi L., Di Federico V., Longo S. (2025). Similarity Solutions for Axisymmetric Gravity-Driven Forchheimer Flow in Porous Media. In: Proceedings of the 41st IAHR World Congress – Innovative Water Engineering for Sustainable Development, Singapore, 22–27/06/2025.
  • Lenci A., Sepideh M. F., Chiapponi L., Longo S., Di Federico V. (2025). Fast Gravity Currents in Porous Media. In: Proceedings of 6th International Symposium on Shallow Flows (ISSF), Turin, Italy, 15–18/09/2025.
  • Lenci A., Putti M., Di Federico V., Méheust Y. (2022). A Lubrication-Based Solver for Shear-Thinning Flow in Rough Fractures. In: Proceedings of French Mechanics Congress 2022, Nantes, France, 29/08-02/09/2022.
  • Lenci A., Ciriello V., Méheust Y., Di Federico V., Dentz M. (2022). Anomalous Dispersion in Geological Fractures under Shear-Thinning Flow. In: Proceedings of 24th Computational Methods in Water Resources 2022, Gdańsk, Poland, 19-23/07/2022.
  • Zeighami F., Lenci A., Longo S., Di Federico V. (2022). Backflow Dynamics in an Elastic Fracture with Slip Walls. Environ. Sci. Proc., 21(1):45. In: Proceedings of 5th Efficient Water System International Conference (EWaS), Naples, Italy, 12-15/07/2022.
  • Zeighami F., Lenci A., Di Federico V. (2022). Prediction of Effective Forchheimer Coefficient for One- and Two-Dimensional Flows in Heterogeneous Geologic Media. In: Proceedings of 39th International Association for Hydro-Environmental Engineering and Research World Congress, Granada, Spain, 19-24/06/2022.
  • Zeighami F., Lenci A., Di Federico V. (2022). Drainage of Gravity Currents from an Edge and a Permeable Substrate in a Porous Medium or Fracture with Variable Properties. In: Proceedings of 39th International Association for Hydro-Environmental Engineering and Research World Congress, Granada, Spain, 19-24/06/2022.
  • Lenci A., Méheust Y., Putti M., Di Federico V. (2021). Modeling Complex Fluid Flow in Rough-Fractures: A Lubrication-Based Approach. In: Proceedings of American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2021, New Orleans, USA, 13-17/12/2021.
  • Di Federico V., Lenci A., Ciriello V., Chiapponi L., Longo S. (2021). Backflow of Non-Newtonian Fluids in Smooth Fractures: Theoretical and Experimental Investigations. In: Proceedings of American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2021, New Orleans, USA, 13-17/12/2021.
  • Longo S., Chiapponi L., Petrolo D., Lenci A., Di Federico V. (2021). Converging Gravity Currents of Power-Law Fluid. In: Proceedings of Italian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics 2021, Parma, Italy, 30/08- 03/09/2021.
  • Lenci A., Méheust Y., Putti M., Di Federico V. (2021). A Stochastic Analysis of the Non-Newtonian Hydraulic Behaviour of Rough Fractures. In: Proceedings of InterPore 2021, Online, 31/05-04/06/2021.
  • Ciriello V., Lenci A., Zeighami F., Di Federico V. (2021). Bounds for Effective Forchheimer Coefficient in Randomly Heterogeneous Porous Media. In: Proceedings of InterPore 2021, Online, 31/05-04/06/2021.
  • Di Federico V., Lenci A., Ciriello V. (2021). Drainage of Viscous Gravity Currents from the Edge of a Porous or Fractured Domain with Variable Properties. In: Proceedings of European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2021, Online, 19/04-30/04/2021.
  • Ciriello V., Lenci A., Longo S., Di Federico V. (2021). Relaxation-Induced Flow of an Ellis Fluid in a Smooth Fracture. In: Proceedings of European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2021, Online, 19/04-30/04/2021.
  • Lenci A., Méheust Y., Putti M., Di Federico V. (2021). An Efficient Lubrication-Based Code for Solving Non-Newtonian Flow in Geological Rough Fractures. In: Proceedings of European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2021, Online, 19/04-30/04/2021.
  • Lenci A., Ciriello V., Chiapponi L., Longo S., Di Federico V. (2020). Models for Non-Newtonian Flowback in an Elastic Fracture. In: Proceedings of 23rd Computational Methods in Water Resources, Stanford (online), USA, 14-17/12/2020
  • Lenci A., Ciriello V., Chiapponi L., Longo S., Di Federico V. (2020). Relaxation-induced Flow in a Rock Fracture: the Effect of Ellis Fluid Rheology. In: Proceedings of 23rd Computational Methods in Water Resources, Stanford (online), USA, 14-17/12/2020.
  • Lenci A., Méheust Y., Di Federico V. (2020). Monte Carlo Approach to Assessing the Influence of Aperture Variability on Non-Newtonian Fracture Flow. In: Proceedings of 23rd Computational Methods in Water Resources, Stanford (online), USA, 14-17/12/2020
  • Lenci A., Roques C., Méheust Y., Di Federico V. (2020). Non-Newtonian Fluid Flow in Geological Rough Fractures: Lubrication Approximation Versus Direct 3D Simulations. In: Proceedings of 23rd Computational Methods in Water Resources, Stanford (online), USA, 14-17/12/2020.
  • Lenci A., Di Federico V. (2020). Shear-Thinning Fluid Flow in Variable Aperture Channels. Proceedings, 48(1):28, 10.3390/ECWS-4-06426. In: Proceedings of 4th International Electronic Conference on Water Sciences (ECWS), online, 13-29/11/2019.
  • Ciriello V., Di Fusco E., Lenci A., Lauriola I., Verdone R., Di Federico V. (2018). Influence of Soil Texture on the Estimation of Soil Moisture through Radio Waves Transmission. In: Proceedings of 37th National Conference on Hydraulics and Hydraulic Constructions, Ancona, Italy, 12-14/09/2018.
  • Di Fusco E., Lenci A., Liserra T., Ciriello V., Di Federico V. (2018). Sustainability Assessment of Urban Water Use from Building to Urban Scale in the GST4Water Project. Proceedings, 2(11):671, 10.3390/proceedings2110671. In: Proceedings of 3rd EWaS International conference of “Insights on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus”, Lefkada Island, Greece, 27-30/06/2018.

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