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Faculty and Staff

 

Current Ph.D. Students Project
  Anshul Agarwal Thermal Adaptive Implicit Simulation
  David Cameron  
  Marco Antonio Cardoso
Development and application of reduced-order modeling procedures for subsurface flow simulation
  Yaqing Fan Chemical Reaction Modeling in General Purpose Research Simulator
  Ali Iranshah General-purpose Compositional Space Parameterization
  Yuanlin Jiang General Purpose Reservoir Simulator
  Jihoon Kim
Sequential formulation of coupled geomechanics and 
multiphase flow
  Pipat Likanapaisal Statistical Moment Equations for Forward and Inverse Modeling of Multiphase Flow in Porous Media
  Sebastian Martinge Mixed finite element methods for discretization and streamline tracing
  Toshinori Nakashima Near-well upscaling and a framework for linkage of different well models
  Jerome Onwunalu
Algorithms for optimizing well patterns and 
time-dependent well placement.
  Mohammad Shahvali
Compositional Space 
Parameterization for Flow Simulation
  Rami Younis Nonlinear waves and numerical solution methods that understand them
  Hui Zhou
Multiscale formulation for multiphase flow and transport in porous media
     
Current M.S. Students Project
 
  Hamid Bazargan Stochastic flow in a porous media
  Alireza Iranshahr Parameterization of the Compositional Space, with Focus on the Super-critical Region
  Obiajulu Isebor  
  Yulin Jin  
  Hyung Ki Kim Condensate Banking Near a Well in Gas-Condensate Reservoir
  Mohammed Moravvej-Farshi  
  Xiaochen Wang
PDF Method in Particle Transport
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  Yifan Zhou
Automatic Differentiation for General Purpose Simulation
 
Former PhD Students
 
  Hui Cao (Ph.D. 6/02) General Purpose Compositional Modeling
  Yuguang Chen (Ph.D. 6/05) Subgrid Modeling of Reservoir Displacements
  Bin Gong (Ph.D. 6/07) Fractured Reservoir Modeling and Upscaling
  Chuanping He (Ph.D. 6/04) Structured 3D Gridding and Upscaling
  Marc Hesse (Ph.D. 12/07) Mathematical Modelling and Multiscale Simulation of CO2 storage in Saline Aquifers
  Robin Hui (Ph.D.6/05) Two-phase Upscaling in the Near Well Region
  Mathieu Prévost (Ph.D. 12/03) Unstructured Gridding and Upscaling
  Pallav Sarma (Ph.D. 6/06) Optimal Control of Petroleum Reservoirs under Uncertainty
  Jing Wan (Ph.D. 11/02) Combined Modeling of Fluid Flow and Rock Mechanics
  Pengju Wang (Ph.D. 3/03) Optimization of Surface Facilities
  Christian Wolfsteiner (Ph.D. 6/02) Simulation of Nonconventional Well Performance
  Burak Yeten (Ph.D. 6/03) Optimization of Non-conventional Well Performance
     
Former Ms Students
 
  Inegbenose Aitokhuehi
(MS 6/04)
Semi-Analytical Modeling in Gas Reservoirs
  Banu Alkaya (MS 8/02) Drift-flux Modeling of Wellbore Flows
  Romande Loubens de Verdalle Construction of High Order Adaptive Implicit Methods for Reservoir Simulation
  Hiroshi Fukugawa (MS 12/02) Practical Modeling of Non-conventional Wells
  Amit Kumar (MS 8/02) Modeling of Gas Cap Blowdown
  Anand Nagoo (MS 6/06) Real-time Model Updating & Calibration for Automated Surface Production Facilities
  Luis R. Díaz Terán Ortegón (MS 6/03)  
  Vincent Rigot (MS 6/03) New Well Optimization in Mature Fields
  Ritesh Sablok (MS 6/04) Uncertainty in Reservoir Performance Predictions
  Jerôme Serve (MS 6/02) Semi-analytical Modeling of Non-conventional Wells
  Jones Shu (MS 6/05)  
  Lisa Stright (MS 6/06) Real-time Optimization and History Matching of Smart Wells
  Tao Shu (MS 6/03) Coupled Geomechanics and Fluid Flow Modeling
  Jose Villa (MS 6/03) Optimization of Multilateral Well Trajectories
  Wentao Zhou Uncertainty Assessment of Subsurface Flow by PDF Method
     
Visiting Researchers
  Cedric Fraces Compositional Thermal simulation for Multiphase Flow