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Elías Rafn Heimisson - Research Assistant Professor

Elías Rafn Heimisson

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School of Engineering and Natural Sciences

Elías Rafn Heimisson

Research Assistant Professor

Location
Askja / N-327
Phone
525 - 4642 6939188
Email
eliasrafn [at] hi.is

Unit
Institute of Earth Sciences

Published works

2026

Poroelastic Bulk Controls on Shear Localization in Fault Gouge During Earthquake RuptureJournal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

2025

Minute-scale dynamics of recurrent dike intrusions in Iceland with fiber-optic geodesyScience
Tidal and hydrological seismicity modulations reveal pore fluid diffusion during earthquake nucleationScience advances
Probing lower-crustal fault properties with frequency-dependent tidal tremor triggeringEarth and Planetary Science Letters
Poroelastic effects on rupture propagation across fault stepoversEarth and Planetary Science Letters
Applying and validating Coulomb rate-and-state seismicity models in acoustic emission experimentsTectonophysics

2024

A coupled finite difference-spectral boundary integral method with applications to fluid diffusion in fault structuresInternational Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics
Modeling dike trajectories in a biaxial stress field with coupled magma flow, fracture, and elasticityBulletin of Volcanology
Analytical boundary integral solutions for cracks and thin fluid-filled layers in a 3D poroelastic solid in time and wavenumber domainJournal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

2023

The role of three-dimensional fault interactions in creating complex seismic sequencesEarth and Planetary Science Letters

2022

Stress-based forecasting of induced seismicity with instantaneous earthquake failure functionsEarth and Planetary Science Letters
A Spectral Boundary-Integral Method for Faults and Fractures in a Poroelastic SolidJournal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
Spectral boundary integral method for simulating static and dynamic fields from a fault rupture in a poroelastodynamic solidGeomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources
Coulomb threshold rate-and-state model for fault reactivationGeophysical Journal International

2021

Dilatancy and Compaction of a Rate-and-State Fault in a Poroelastic MediumJournal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
Ridgecrest aftershocks at Coso suppressed by thermal destressingNature

2020

Physically Consistent Modeling of Dike-Induced Deformation and SeismicityJournal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
Crack to pulse transition and magnitude statistics during earthquake cycles on a self-similar rough faultEarth and Planetary Science Letters
Logarithmic Growth of Dikes From a Depressurizing Magma ChamberGeophysical Research Letters
Unexpected large eruptions from buoyant magma bodies within viscoelastic crustNature Communications
Analytical Prediction of Seismicity Rate Due to Tides and Other Oscillating StressesGeophysical Research Letters

2019

Poroelastic effects destabilize mildly rate-strengthening friction to generate stable slow slip pulsesJournal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
Short note on the integrated surface uplift for dip-slip faultsBulletin of the Seismological Society of America
Constitutive Law for Earthquake Production Based on Rate-and-State FrictionJournal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

2018

Constitutive Law for Earthquake Production Based on Rate-and-State FrictionJournal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
Magma movements in volcanic plumbing systems and their associated ground deformation and seismic patterns

2017

Evolution of deformation and stress changes during the caldera collapse and dyking at Bárdarbunga, 2014–2015Earth and Planetary Science Letters

2015

Forecasting the path of a laterally propagating dikeJournal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
Kilometer-scale Kaiser effect identified in Krafla volcano, IcelandGeophysical Research Letters

2014

Segmented lateral dyke growth in a rifting event at Bárðarbunga volcanic system, IcelandNature
Segmented lateral dyke growth in a rifting event at Bárðarbunga volcanic system, IcelandNature

Keywords for Specialisation:

Continuum Mechanics

Numerical methods

Machine Learning