People
Faculty
Margot Gerritsen - Computer simulation, numerical analysis. Gas injection, in-situ combustion
Computer modeling and laboratory experiments of flows through porous media with particular emphasis on gas injection and in-situ combustion processes. Simulation of coastal ocean processes. Energy resources analysis. Computational mathematics with special interests in large scale linear and nonlinear solvers, and search algorithms.
Franklin M. Orr, Jr. - Modeling, lab experimentation. Gas injection, carbon sequestration, coal bed methane and coal fires
Enhanced oil recovery by gas injection processes, prediction of performance of field-scale flooding, mathematics of multiphase, multicomponent flow with equilibrium phase behavior, and thermodynamics of phase behavior.
Jim Lambers - Computer simulation, numerical analysis
Marco Thiele - Streamline simulation
Streamline simulation and its broad application to reservoir engineering and management, including flood optimization, upscaling, and history matching.
Sally Benson - Lab experimentation. Carbon sequestration
Postdoctoral Fellows
Jean-Christophe Perrin - Manager carbon sequetration laboratory (Benson Lab)
Jeremy Kozdon - Asynchronous time stepping
Students
- Suguru Ide - Analysis and extinction of coal bed fires
Golnaz Alipour - Stress propagation in reservoirs
Thanapong Boontaeng - Multi-phase flow
Louis-Marie Jacquelin - Experimental investigation of crossflow effects in multi-phase flows
Zhouyuan Zhu - Simulation of thermal recovery processes
Victoria Chang - Simulation of in-situ combustion processes
Emmet Caulfield - Parallel asynchronous time stepping
Visiting research associate with CEES (Geophysics) and SUPRI-C (ERE).
Ariel Esposito - Carbon sequestration
Staff
- Thuy Nguyen - Affiliate Program manager, administrative support
Managing SUPRI-C (Gas Injection), SCRF(Reservoir Forecasting) and GCEP (Global Climate & Engergy)research programs.