Faculty Directory

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Pore scale and multiscale modeling; flow and transport in porous media; reservoir engineering

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Decision making under uncertainty; value of information; economics; business strategy; energy and climate policy

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Pore-scale physics; methane hydrates; shale geomechanics, formation evaluation

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Fluid flow; pore-scale physics; preferential and compositional displacements; gas injection processes

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Mechanics and physics of natural porous solids, methane recovery from microporous organic rocks, methane hydrate-bearing sediments and geological carbon sequestration

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Experimental and computational geomechanics and multi-scale modeling with applications to well completions, lost circulation, hydraulic fracturing and anomalous flow in porous media

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Petrophysics; borehole geophysics; formation evaluation; rock physics; inverse problems; integrated reservoir characterization of carbonates and unconventional resources; completion petrophysics

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Enhanced oil recovery; reservoir engineering; reservoir characterization; geochemical modeling; simulation

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Paraffin gelation and deposition in multiphase flow; asphaltene precipitation and deposition; rheological and flow behaviors of non-Newtonian petroleum fluids; and applications of molecular simulation in oil and gas production

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Transport of simple and complex fluids in complex microstructured materials for applications in energy, environment and biotechnology

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Chemical and gas enhanced oil recovery; conformance control technology; stimulated production of unconventional resources; thermal and chemical conversion of tar sand and oil shale; nanoparticle functionalization and processing for subsurface applications

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Enhanced oil recovery; thermal oil recovery; oil displacement theory; numerical reservoir simulation; thermodynamics; multiphase behavior and applied mathematics

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Hydraulic fracturing, petroleum rock mechanics, naturally fractured reservoirs, structural geology

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Fluid displacement in porous media; porous matrix and microfractured media characterization; unconventional reservoirs modeling; ferrohydrodynamics

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Integrated Reservoir Characterization; Unconventional Resources; Petrophysics and pore-scale processes; Geologic Carbon Storage

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Reservoir simulation development and application; simulation of enhance oil recovery processes; computational methods; parallel computations; applied mathematics; naturally fractured reservoir modeling; co-optimization of CO2 sequestration and enhanced oil recovery; inverse modeling

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Formation damage; petrophysics; fluid flow in porous media

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Enhanced oil recovery; petrophysics and pore scale processes; reservoir engineering; unconventional resources; geologic carbon storage; natural gas engineering; reservoir simulation

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Direct air capture with geothermal energy, fracture characterization in enhanced geothermal systems, and using neural operators for subsurface simulations

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Borehole geophysics; petrophysics; formation evaluation; well logging; rock physics; multi-physics geophysical detection and imaging; geophysical imaging of time-lapse subsurface phenomena; inverse problems; signal processing

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Rig automation; zonal isolation; borehole stability and lost circulation; frac optimization; frac water management, drilling and completion fluids