Students & Postdocs
Ammar Alali
Ph.D. Student
Ammar's research focuses on developing efficient and accurate finite-volume discretization schemes for numerical modeling. This includes capillary-dominated multiphase flow interactions applied to subsurface heterogeneous and fractured porous media with particular interest in CCS applications.
YooJin (Sharon) Cha
Ph.D. Student
YooJin’s research focuses on numerical methods for flow and transport in porous media and elasticity in geomechanics. Her work develops robust, efficient and structure-preserving numerical discretizations for complex geological models with applications to reservoir simulation, carbon storage and subsurface energy systems.
Nik Markus Leuenberger
Ph.D. Student
Nik's current research involves pore-scale modeling of batteries through virtual microscopy and simulations.
Ralph Piazza
Ph.D. Student
Ralph focuses on numerical reservoir simulation in his research, specifically working to enhance nonlinear solvers through domain decomposition techniques.
Yu Qiu
Postdoctoral Scholar
Yu's current research focuses on modeling unstable two-phase flow in disordered media to assess the feasibility of subsurface hydrogen storage. More broadly, her work includes the fundamental analysis and upscaling of viscous fingering.
Changgyun Son
Ph.D. Student
Changgyun aims to address the high costs associated with simulating large reservoirs in his research, proposing a method that partitions the reservoir into smaller domains for more cost-effective simulations.
Catherine Spurin
Postdoctoral Scholar
Catherine's research is focused on understanding how subsurface heterogeneity can be exploited to increase the amount of CO2 that is residually trapped. This increases storage security and minimizes the spread of the CO2 plume. This research makes up part of the GeoCquest consortium with Melbourne University, Cambridge University and CO2CRC.
Brea Swartwood
Ph.D. Student
Brea works on numerical methods, numerical analysis, and high-performance computing algorithm design for flow and transport in porous media. She aims to understand the nonlinear coupling of partial differential equation systems with applications in reservoir simulation and fluid dynamics.
Dimitri Trifunac
Ph.D. Student
Dimitri's research focuses on coupled multiphase flow and geomechanics simulations to advance understanding of fault slip physics and assess caprock integrity for geologic carbon storage applications.
Sohail Waziri
Ph.D. Student
In his research, Sohail focuses on enhancing computational efficiency and algorithmic understanding in geothermal simulations.