Overview
Research Interests
- Influence of heterogeneities on flow in porous media
- Diffusion and dispersion in porous media
- Experimental studies of physics of flow in porous media and comparison with analytic/numerical models
- Upscaling single, miscible and multiphase flow
- Movement of fluids on geological time-scales in the sub-surface
- Storage of carbon dioxide in subsurface reservoirs
Current PhD Students
Abdulaziz Alsaleh (co-supervised with Martin Blunt): field scale simulation of thermal polymer degradation
Idris Bukar (main supervisor Sam Krevor): field scale modelling of geologic CO2 storage to better understand the impacts of geological heterogeneity on its migration and trapping .
Catrin Harris (co-supervised with Sam Krevor): capillary trapping of carbon dioxide in subsurface brine aquifers
Irfan Tai : upscaling of polymer flooding in the near well bore region
Nele Wenck (main supervisor Sam Krevor): impact of capillary heterogeneities on rate dependent flow during subsurface storage of carbon dioxide in brine aquifers