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Fabian Wenzlau
Birth name: Fabian Krzikalla
Geophysicist		 Fabian Wenzlau
CSIRO Petroleum – ARRC
26 Dick Perry Avenue
Kensington, WA 6151
Australia
Tel.:+61 8 64368575
Fabian.Wenzlau(at)csiro.au
University Education
  • Studies in Civil Engineering in Braunschweig, Karlsruhe and Bordeaux, 10/2000–09/2005
  • Dipl.-Ing., University of Karlsruhe (TH), Institute for Hydromechanics, Karlsruhe 2005
  • Dr. rer. nat., University of Karlsruhe (TH), Geophysical Institute, Karlsruhe 2009
Professional experience
  • Internship as diploma student at INRA Bordeaux-Aquitaine, France, 02/2005–05/2005
  • Ph.D. student at the Geophysical Institute within the junior research group "Seismic waves in porous media", Karlsruhe, 10/2005–03/2009
  • Internship at CSIRO Petroleum Resources, Perth, Australia, since 04/2009
Research Interests
Publications

    Finite-difference modeling of wave propagation and diffusion in heterogeneous media,
    F. Wenzlau and T. M. Müller,
    accepted for publication in Geophysics (2009)

    Direct laboratory observation of patchy saturation and its effects on ultrasonic velocities,
    Lebedev, M., J. Toms-Stewart, B. Clennell, M. Pervukhina, V. Shulakova, L. Paterson, T. M. Müller, B. Gurevich, and F. Wenzlau,
    The Leading Edge, 28, 24–27, doi:10.1190/1.3064142 (2009)

    Velocity-saturation relation for partially saturated rocks with fractal pore fluid distribution,
    Müller, T. M., J. Toms-Stewart, and F. Wenzlau,
    Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L09306, doi:10.1029/2007GL033074 (2008)

    Poroelastic Modelling of Wavefields in Heterogeneous Media,
    Wenzlau,F.,
    Ph.D. thesis, University of Karlsruhe, 2005.

    Numerical Investigation of the Interaction between Wind and Forest under Heterogeneous Conditions,
    Krzikalla, F.,
    Diploma thesis, University of Karlsruhe, 2005.   [pdf, 2.4MB]

Recent talks

    Estimating effective elastic properties of heterogeneous, porous media using finite-element modelling,
    Wenzlau, F., J. B. Altmann and T. M. Müller,
    Symposium of the Acoustics of Porous Media, Bradford, UK, Dec. 2008

    Modelling effective elastic properties of fractured and partially-saturated rocks, 70th EAGE Conference,
    Wenzlau, F., and T. M. Müller,
    70th EAGE Conference, Rome, Extended Abstracts, Rock Physics I, I040, Jun. 2008

    Modeling elastic and poroelastic wave propagation in complex geological structures,
    Wenzlau, F., T. Xia, T. M. Müller,
    High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering, Stuttgart, Germany, Oct. 2007

    Inertial and diffusive pore pressure fields in porous media,
    Wenzlau,F.,
    Euro-Conference of "Rock Physics and Geomechanics" on natural hazards: thermo-hydro-mechanical processes in rocks, Erice, Italy, Sep. 2007