Publications

Journal Publication

In 2024

• Tan, L., Liu, F., Dai, S., & Yao, J. (2024). A bibliometric analysis of two-decade research efforts in turning natural gas hydrates into energy. Energy, 299, 131440.
• Wang, P., Xu, C., Yin, Z. Y., Song, S. X., Xu, C., & Dai, S. (2024). A DEM-based Generic Modeling Framework for Hydrate-Bearing Sediments. Computers and Geotechnics, 171, 106287.
• Lu, Y., Jin, W., Klinger, J., Saha, N., Xia, Y., & Dai, S. (2024). Shear rate dependency on flowing granular biomass material. Powder Technology, 442, 119834.
• Tepecik, I., Zhao, Y., Seol, Y., Garcia, A., Waite, W. F., & Dai, S. (2024). Hydraulic properties of sediments from the GC955 gas hydrate reservoir in the Gulf of Mexico. Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, 37, 100522.
• Zhao, Y., Jin, W., Ikbarieh, A., Klinger, J. L., Saha, N., Dayton, D. C., & Dai, S. (2024). SPH Modeling of Biomass Granular Flow: Engineering Application in Hoppers and Augers. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 12(10), 4213-4223.

In 2023

• Park, T., Kwon, T. H., & Dai, S. (2023). Alterations in wettability and immiscible fluid flows by bacterial biosurfactant production for microbial enhanced oil recovery: Pore-scale micromodel study. Geoenergy Science and Engineering, 229, 212170.
• Huard, D. J., Johnson, A. M., Fan, Z., Kenney, L. G., Xu, M., Drori, R., … & Glass, J. B. (2023). Molecular basis for inhibition of methane clathrate growth by a deep subsurface bacterial protein. PNAS nexus, 2(8), pgad268.
• Lu, Y., Jin, W., Klinger, J. L., & Dai, S. (2023). Effects of the Moisture Content on the Flow Behavior of Milled Woody Biomass. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 11(31), 11482-11489.
• Zhang, Z., Liu, L., Lu, W., Liu, C., Ning, F., & Dai, S. (2023). Permeability of hydrate-bearing fine-grained sediments: Research status, challenges and perspectives. Earth-Science Reviews, 104517.
• Lu, Y., Cortes, D. D., Yu, X., Narsilio, G., & Dai, S. (2023). Numerical investigations of enhanced shallow geothermal energy recovery using microencapsulated phase change materials and metal fins. Acta Geotechnica, 18(6), 2869-2882.
• Zhao, Y., Deng, B., Cortes, D. D., & Dai, S. (2024). Morphological advantages of angelwing shells in mechanical boring. Acta Geotechnica, 19(3), 1179-1190.
• Joo, H. W., Kwon, T. H., & Dai, S. (2023). Clay-bacteria interaction: Effect of bacterial cell density on sedimentation behavior and fabric map of kaolinite clay. Applied Clay Science, 241, 106973.
• Zhao, Y., Jin, W., Klinger, J., Dayton, D. C., & Dai, S. (2023). SPH modeling of biomass granular flow: Theoretical implementation and experimental validation. Powder Technology, 426, 118625.
• Espinoza, W. F., Pereira, J. M., Kneafsey, T., & Dai, S. (2023). Mechanical and creep properties of granitic minerals of albite, biotite, and quartz at elevated temperature. Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, 34, 100465.
• Zhao, Y., & Dai, S. (2023). Challenges of rock drilling and opportunities from bio-boring. Biogeotechnics, 100009.
• Yin, Z., Wang, P., & Dai, S. (2023). Microstructures and micromechanics of geomaterials. Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A, 24(4), 299-302.
• Fei, W., Neto, L. A. B., Dai, S., Cortes, D. D., & Narsilio, G. A. (2023). Numerical analyses of energy screw pile filled with phase change materials. Renewable Energy, 202, 865-879.

In 2022

• Lu, Y., Jin, W., Saha, N., Klinger, J. L., Xia, Y., & Dai, S. (2022). Wedge-shaped hopper design for milled woody biomass flow. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 10(50), 16803-16813.
• Lu, Y., Cortes, D. D., Yu, X., Narsilio, G., & Dai, S. (2022). Numerical investigations of enhanced shallow geothermal energy recovery using microencapsulated phase change materials and metal fins. Acta Geotechnica, 1-14.
• Espinoza, W. F., Zhang, F., & Dai, S. (2022). Impacts of temperature on the mechanical properties of Longmaxi shale outcrops using instrumented nanoindentation. Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, 30, 100348.
• Wang, Q., Wang, D., & Dai, S. (2022). A theoretical thermal conductivity model for hydrate-bearing sediments considering pore-scale phase saturation and spatial distribution. Under review.
• Jin, W., Lu, Y., Chen, F., Hamed, A., Saha, N., Klinger, J., … & Xia, Y. (2022). On the fidelity of computational models for the flow of milled loblolly pine: A benchmark study on continuum-mechanics models and discrete-particle models. Frontiers in Energy Research, 10, 855848.
• Lei, L., et al. (2022). Pore-scale observations of natural hydrate-bearing sediments via pressure core sub-coring and micro-CT scanning. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 3471.
• Zhang, L. et al. (2022). Effects of depressurization on gas production and water performance from excess-gas and excess-water methane hydrate accumulation. Chemical Engineering Journal, 431, 133223.

In 2021

• Lu, Y., Jin, W., Klinger, J., & Dai, S. (2021). Flow and arching of biomass particles in wedge-shaped hoppers. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c05628. (featured in the journal cover)
• Won, J., Jeong, B., Lee, J., Dai, S., & Burns, S.E. (2021). Facilitation of microbially induced calcite precipitation with kaolinite nucleation. Geotechnique, 1-7.
• Singh, S., Dai, S., Zurakowski, Z., & Zhang, Y. (2021). Effect of grain crushing on the hydraulic conductivity of tailings sand. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 147(12), 04021143.
• Johnson, A., Zhao, Y., Kim, J., Dai, S., & Glass, J.B. (2021). Methane hydrate crystallization on sessile droplets. JoVE, 171, e62686.
• Wang, S., Chen, X., Zhang, L., Wang, Z., Wang, D., & Dai, S. (2021). An analytical model for the permeability in hydrate-bearing sediments considering the dynamic evolution of hydrate saturation and pore morphology, Geophysical Research Letters, e2021GL093397.
• Kim, J., Seol, Y., & Dai, S. (2021). The coefficient of lateral earth pressure in hydrate-bearing sediments, Acta Geotechnica, 1-11.
• Zhang, X., Kong, G., Liu, H., & Dai, S. (2021). Experimental and theoretical investigation of transparent sand composing of fused quartz and calcium bromide solution. Heat and Mass Transfer, 1-15.
• Martinez, A., et al. (2021). Bio-inspired geotechnical engineering: principles, current work, opportunities and challenges. Geotechnique, 1-48.
• Lu, Y., Jin, W., Klinger, J., Westover, T. L., & Dai, S. (2021). Flow characterization of compressible biomass particles using multiscale experiments and a hypoplastic model. Powder Technology, 383, 396-409.

In 2020

• Johnson, A.M., Huard, D.J.E., Kim, J., Raut, P., Dai, S., Lieberman, R.L., & Glass, J.B. (2020). Mainly on the plane: deep subsurface bacterial proteins bind and alter clathrate structure. Crystal Growth & Design, 20(10), doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.0c00855. (featured in the journal cover)
• White, M.D., et al., (2020). An international code comparison study on coupled thermal, hydrologic and geomechanical processes of natural gas hydrates. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 104566.
• Cheng, Z., Ning, Z., & Dai, S. (2020). The electroviscous flow of non-Newtonian fluids in microbtubes and implications for nonlinear flow in porous media. Journal of Hydrology, 125224.
• Li, G., Zhan, L.T., Yun, T.S. & Dai, S. (2020). Pore-scale controls on the gas and water transport in hydrate-bearing sediments. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(12), e2020GL086990.
• Dai, S. & Sanchez, M. (2020). Editorial: Special Issue on Challenges of gas production from hydrate-bearing sediments. Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, 100189. 
• Choi, J., Lin, J.-S., Lei, L., Dai, S., & Seol, Y. (2020). Triaxial compression of hydrate-bearing sediments undergoing hydrate dissociation by depressurization. Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, 00187.
• Kim, J., Zhang, Y., Seol, Y., & Dai, S. (2019). Particle crushing in hydrate-bearing sands. Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, 23, 100133.
• Zhang, L., Kuang, Y., Dai, S., Wang, J., Zhao, J., & Song, Y. (2020). Kinetic enhancement of capturing and storing greenhouse gas and volatile organic compound: Micro-mechanism and micro-structure of hydrate growth. Chemical Engineering Journal,  379: 122357.

   In 2019

• Li, G., Dai, S., Zhan, L., & Chen, Y. (2019). A pore-scale numerical investigation of the effect of pore characteristics on flow properties in soils. Journal of Zhejiang University – Science A, 20(12), 961-978.
• Shen, X., Arson, C., Ferrier, K., West, N., & Dai, S. (2019). Biotite weathering and bedrock weakening: Modeling damage at the microscale. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 124(11), 2623-2646
• Liu, Z., Kim, J., Lei, L., Ning, F., & Dai, S. (2019). Tetrahydrofuran hydrate in clayey sediments – formation, morphology, and wave characterization. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 124(4),3307-3319.
• Liu, L., Dai, S., Ning, F., Cai, J., Liu, C., & Wu, N. (2019). Fractal characteristics of unsaturated sands – implications to relative permeability in hydrate-bearing sediments. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering. 66,11-17.
• Lei, L., Liu, Z., Seol, Y., Boswell, R., & Dai, S. (2019). An investigation of hydrate formation in unsaturated sediments using X-ray computed tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 124(4),3335-3349.
• Bachus, R.C., Terzariol, M., Pasten, C., Chong, S., Dai, S., Cha, M., Kim, S., Jang, J., Papadopoulos, E., Roshankhah, S., Lei, L., Garcia, A., Park, J., Sivaram, A., Santamarina, F., Ren, X.,& Santamarina, J.C. (2019). Fly ash properties and characterization: A southeastern USA study. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironment Engineering. 145 (3), 04019003.
• Qin, X., Cai, J., Xu, P., Dai, S., & Gan, Q. (2019). A fractal model of effective thermal conductivity for porous media with various liquid saturation. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 128, 1149-1156.
• Mahabadi, N., Dai, S., Seol, Y., & Jang, J. (2019). Impacts of hydrate saturation on water permeability in hydrate-bearing sediments. Journal of Petroleum Science and Egnineering, 174, 696-703.
• Kim, J., Dai, S., Jang, J., Waite, W.F., Collett, T.S., & Kumar, P. (2019). Compressibility and particle crushing of Krishna-Godavari Basin sediments from offshore India: Implications for gas production from deep-water gas hydrate deposits. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 108, 679-704.
• Jang, J., Dai, S., Yoneda, J., Waite, W.F., Collett, T.S., & Kumar, P. (2019). Pressure core analysis of geomechanical and fluid flow properties of seals associated with gas hydrate-bearing reservoirs in the Krishna-Godavari Basin, offshore India. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 108, 537-550.
• Dai, S., Kim, J., Xu, Y., Waite, W.F., Jang, J., Yoneda, J., Collett, T.S., & Kumar, P. (2019). Permeability anisotropy and relative permeability in sediments from the National Gas Hydrate Program Expedition 02, offshore India. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 108, 705-713.       

  Before 2019

• Choi, J.H., Dai, S., Lin, J.S., & Seol, Y. (2018). Multi-stage triaxial tests on laboratory-formed methane hydrate-bearing sediments. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123(5),3347-3357.
• Liu, Z., Dai, S., Ning, F., Peng, L., Wei, H., & Wei, C. (2018). Strength estimation for hydrate‐bearing sediments from direct shear tests of hydrate‐bearing sand and silt. Geophysical Research Letter, 45(2), 715-723
• Dai, S., & Santamarina, J. C. (2017). Stiffness Evolution in Frozen Sands Subjected to Stress Changes. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 143(9), 04017042.
• Mahabadi, N., Dai, S., Seol, Y., Yun, T.S., and Jang, J. (2016). The water retention curve and relative permeability for gas production from hydrate‐bearing sediments: pore‐network model simulation. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 17(8), 3099-3110.
• Cao, S.C., Dai, S., and Jung, J. (2016). Supercritical CO2 and brine displacement in geological carbon sequestration: Micromodel and pore network simulation studies. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 44, 104-114.
• Dai, S., Shin, H., and Santamarina, J.C. (2016) Formation and development of salt crusts on soil surfaces. Acta Geotechnica, 11(5), 1103-1109.
• Dai, S., Cha, J. H., Rosenbaum, E. J., Zhang, W., & Seol, Y. (2015). Thermal conductivity measurements in unsaturated hydrate‐bearing sediments. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(15), 6295-6305.
• Dai, S., Seol, Y., Wickramanayake, S., & Hopkinson, D. (2015). Characterization of hollow fiber supported Ionic liquid membranes using microfocus X-ray computed tomography. Journal of Membrane Science, 492, 497-504.
• Santamarina, J. C., Dai, S., Terzariol, M., Jang, J., Waite, W. F., Winters, W. J., Nagao, J., Yoneda, J., Konno, Y., Fujii, T., & Suzuki, K. (2015). Hydro-bio-geomechanical properties of hydrate-bearing sediments from Nankai Trough. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 66 (Part 2), 434-450
• Nasirian, A., Cortes, D. D., & Dai, S. (2015). The physical nature of thermal conduction in dry granular media. Géotechnique Letters, 5(January–March), 1-5.
• Dai, S., Lee, J. Y., & Santamarina, J. C. (2014). Hydrate nucleation in quiescent and dynamic conditions. Fluid Phase Equilibria, 378, 107-112.
• Seol, Y., Choi, J. H., & Dai, S. (2014). Multi-property characterization chamber for geophysical-hydrological investigations of hydrate bearing sediments. Review of Scientific Instruments, 85(8), 084501.
• Dai, S., & Santamarina, J. C. (2014). Sampling disturbance in hydrate-bearing sediment pressure cores: NGHP-01 expedition, Krishna–Godavari Basin example. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 58, 178-186.
• Dai, S., & Seol, Y. (2014). Water permeability in hydrate‐bearing sediments: A pore‐scale study. Geophysical Research Letters, 41(12), 4176-4184.
• Choi, J. H., Dai, S., Cha, J. H., & Seol, Y. (2014). Laboratory formation of noncementing hydrates in sandy sediments. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15(4), 1648-1656.
• Dai, S., & Santamarina, J. C. (2013). Water retention curve for hydrate‐bearing sediments. Geophysical Research Letters, 40(21), 5637-5641.
• Dai, S., Wuttke, F., & Santamarina, J. C. (2013). Coda Wave Analysis to Monitor Processes in Soils. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 139(9), 1504-1511.
• Dai, S., Santamarina, J. C., Waite, W. F., & Kneafsey, T. J. (2012). Hydrate morphology: Physical properties of sands with patchy hydrate saturation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth (1978–2012), 117(B11).
• Santamarina, J. C., Dai, S., Jang, J., & Terzariol, M. (2012). Pressure core characterization tools for hydrate-bearing sediments. Sci. Drill, 14(4).
• R. J. Fragaszy, J. C. Santamarina, A. Amekudzi, D. Assimaki, R. Bachus, S. E. Burns, M. Cha, G. C. Cho, D. D. Cortes, S. Dai, D. N. Espinoza, L. Garrow, H. Huang, J. Jang, J. W. Jung, S. Kim, K. Kurtis, C. Lee, C. Pasten, H. Phadnis, G. Rix, H. S. Shin, M. C. Torres, C. Tsouris (2011). Sustainable development and energy geotechnology—Potential roles for geotechnical engineering. KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, 15(4), 611-621.
• Dai, S., Lee, C., & Santamarina, J. C. (2011). Formation history and physical properties of sediments from the Mount Elbert Gas hydrate stratigraphic test well, Alaska North Slope. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 28(2), 427-438.

Proceedings/Other Publication

• Ikbarieh, A., Lu, Y., Zhao, Y., & Dai, S. (2024, May). Application of fluid rheology models for milled woody biomass and non-recyclable municipal solid waste particles. In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (Vol. 1330, No. 1, p. 012044). IOP Publishing.
• Arnold, C., et al. (2023). Towards Implementing SCPTu Geotechnical Design Guidelines for the State of Illinois. In Geo-Congress 2023 (pp. 104-113).
• Bachus, R.C., Zhao, Y., & Dai, S. (2021). Effects of moisture content changes on the rheologic properties of ponded CCRs. 2021 USSD Conference, May 10-21. 
• Jeong, B., Zhao, Y., Kang, D. H., & Dai, S. (2020). An experimental study of the effect of motile bacteria on the fluid displacement in porous media. In E3S Web of Conferences (Vol. 205, p. 08008). EDP Sciences.
• Kim, J., Zhang, H., Seol, Y., & Dai, S. (2020). Impacts of hydrate on the lateral stress in sediments. In E3S Web of Conferences (Vol. 205, p. 11006). EDP Sciences.
• Zhao, Y., Jeong, B., Kang, D. H., & Dai, S. (2020). Impacts of motile Escherichia coli on air-water surface tension. In E3S Web of Conferences (Vol. 205, p. 08003). EDP Sciences.
• Jeong, B., Zhao, Y., & Dai, S. (2019). A preliminary study of desaturation in porous media in the presence of motile bacteria. AGUFM, 2019, H33N-2172.
• Li, G., Zhan, L., & Dai, S. (2019). A pore-scale numerical study on the effect of pore distribution characteristics on effective oxygen diffusion coefficient in soil covers. 13th International Conference on Mine Closure, Sept 3-5, 2019, Perth, Australia.
• Johnson, A.M., Kim, J., Raut, P., Huard, D., Petrov, A.S., Williams, L.D., Lieberman, R.L., Dai, S., & Glass, J.B. (2019). Potential life strategies in gas clathrates. 2019 Astrobiology Science Conference. June 24-28, 2019. Seattle, WA.
• Li, G., Zhan, L., & Dai, S. (2018). Influence of pore distribution chracteristics on relative hydraulic conductivity in soil covers – a pore-scale numerical investigation. The International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics, 343-350.
• Cortes, D.D., Nasirian, A., & Dai, S. (2018). Smart ground-source borehole heat exchanger backfills: a numerical study. International Symposium on Energy Geotechnics, 27-34. 
• Dai, S., & Santamarina, J. C. (2017). Hydrate-Bearing Clayey Sediments: Morphology, Physical Properties, Production and Engineering/Geological Implications (No. DOE-GT-0009897-1). Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta, GA (United States).
• Dai, S., & Santamarina, J. C. (2017). Borehole Tool for the Comprehensive Characterization of Hydrate-bearing Sediments (No. DOE-GT-0013961-1). Georgia Tech Research Corporation.
• Kim, J., Dai, S. (2017). Impacts of pore water distribution in soils on elastic wave characteristics in soils. 19th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Sept 17-22, 2017, Seoul, Korea.
• Choi, J.H., Lin, J.S., Dai, S., and Seol, Y. (2017). Laboratory studies on geomechanical behavior of hydrate-bearing sediments during dissociation. 9th International Conference on Gas Hydrates, Jun 25-30, 2017, Denver, CO.
• Dai, S., Boswell, R., Waite, W.F., Jang, J., Lee, J.Y., and Seol, Y. (2017). What has been learned from pressure cores. 9th International Conference on Gas Hydrates, Jun 25-30, 2017, Denver, CO.
• Dai, S., Seol, Y. and Jang, J. (2017). Relative water and gas permeability – from capillary tube models to pore networks. 9th International Conference on Gas Hydrates, Jun 25-30, 2017, Denver, CO. (Extended abstract).
• Kim, J., Seol, Y., and Dai, S. (2017). Waves in THF hydrate-bearing sands. 9th International Conference on Gas Hydrates, Jun 25-30, 2017, Denver, CO.
• Yang, F., Dai, S. (2017). Thermal properties measurements for hydrate-bearing sediments using single-sided heat source. 9th International Conference on Gas Hydrates, June 25-30, 2017, Denver, CO.
• Lei, L., Liu, Z., Seol, Y., Boswell, R., and Dai, S. (2017). Hydrate formation in an unsaturated system: impacts of fine particles and water content. 9th International Conference on Gas Hydrates, June 25-30, 2017, Denver, CO.
• Xu, Y., Seol, Y., Jang, J., and Dai, S. (2017). Water and gas flow in hydrate-bearing sediments. ASCE – Geotechnical Frontiers, GSP 280, 766-772. Mar 12-15, 2017 Orlando, FL.
• Y Seol, S Dai, JH Choi (2014). Impacts of Hydrate Pore Habit on Physical Properties of Hydrate Bearing Sediments. AGUFM Abstracts 1, 0011.
• N Mahabadi, S Dai, Y Seol, J Jang (2014). Water Retention Curve and Relative Permeability for Gas Production from Hydrate-Bearing Sediments. AGUFM Abstracts 1, 0019
• WF Waite, JC Santamarina, S Dai, WJ Winters, J Yoneda, Y Konno, J Nagao, K Suzuki, T Fujii, DH Mason, E Bergeron (2014). Instrumented Pressure Testing Chamber (IPTC) Characterization of Methane Gas Hydrate-Bearing Pressure Cores Collected from the Methane Production Test Site in the Eastern Nankai Trough, Offshore Japan. AGUFM Abstracts 1, 0014.
• S. Dai, J. Jang, M. Terzariol, E. Papadopoulos, J.C. Santamarina, Y. Konno, J. Yoneda, J. Nagao, K. Suzuki, T. Fujii, W.J. Winters, W. Waite, D. Mason, E. Bergeron (2013). Pressure core analysis tools used to characterize hydrate-bearing sediments from the Nankai Trough. Fire in the Ice. 13 (2), 19-22.
• Santamarina, J. C., W. J. Winters, S. Dai, J. Jang, M. Terzariol, E. Papadopoulos, D. Mason, W. Waite, and E. Bergeron. Pressure core characterization tools to enhance gas hydrate field programs. Fire in the Ice. 12 (2012): 7-9.