Yun Chen

Visiting PhD Student Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering The University of Texas at Austin 200 E Dean Keeton CPE#3.118A Austin TX 78712 Email: yun.chen@austin.utexas.edu

 

 

Education and Training
B.S. Petroleum Engineering	China University of Petroleum, Beijing	2014
Research and Professional	Experience
Visiting Scholar	The University of Texas at Austin	2019-present
Graduate Research Assistant	The University of Western Australia	2016-present

 

Research Topic

I mainly focus on numerical simulation of multi-phase and multi-physical coupled problems in fractured porous media during my PhD study. The simulation includes the geothermal development considering fracture networks, oil productivity evaluation, and matrix and fracture acidizing in 3D fractured carbonate reservoirs. Before joining UWA in 2016, my research area was petroleum related rock mechanics. I have done researches including experimental study of hydraulic fracturing and mechanical interactions between fractures, theoretical and experimental analyses of rock brittleness, and rock mechanics analysis software design.

 

Publications

• Chen Y, Ma GW, Jin Y, Wang HD, Wang Y. Productivity evaluation of unconventional reservoir development with three-dimensional fracture networks. Fuel. 2019;244:304-313.
• Wang Y, Li Tuo, Chen Y, Ma GW. Numerical analysis of heat mining and geological carbon sequestration in supercritical CO2 circulating enhanced geothermal systems inlayed with complex discrete fracture networks. Energy. 2019.
• Chen Y, Ma GW, Wang HD, Li T, Wang Y. Application of carbon dioxide as working fluid in geothermal development considering a complex fractured system. Energy Convers. Manage. 2019;180:1055-1067.
• Ma GW, Li T, Wang Y, Chen Y. Numerical simulations of nuclide migration in highly fractured rock masses by the unified pipe-network method. Comput. Geotech. 2019;111:261-276.
• Ma GW, Wang Y, Li T, Chen Y. A mesh mapping method for simulating stress-dependent permeability of three-dimensional discrete fracture networks in rocks. Comput. Geotech. 2019;108:95-106.
• Ma GW, Wang HD, Fan LF, Chen Y. A unified pipe-network-based numerical manifold method for simulating immiscible two-phase flow in geological media. J. Hydrol. 2019;568:119-134.
• Chen Y, Ma GW, Wang HD, Li T. Evaluation of geothermal development in fractured hot dry rock based on three-dimensional unified pipe-network method. Appl. Therm. Eng. 2018;136:219-228.
• Chen Y, Ma GW, Wang HD. Heat extraction mechanism in geothermal reservoir with rough-walled fracture networks. Int. J. Heat. Mass. Tran. 2018;126:1083-1093.
• Chen Y, Ma GW, Li T, Wang Y, Ren F. Simulation of wormhole propagation in fractured carbonate rocks with unified pipe-network method. Comput. Geotech. 2018;98:58-68.
• Chen Y, Ma GW, Wang HD. The simulation of thermo-hydro-chemical coupled heat extraction process in fractured geothermal reservoir. Appl. Therm. Eng. 2018;143:859-870.
• Ma GW, Chen Y, Jin Y, Wang HD. Modelling temperature-influenced acidizing process in fractured carbonate rocks. Int. J. Rock. Mech. Min. Sci. 2018;105:73-84.
• Ma GW, Wang HD, Fan LF, Chen Y. Segmented two-phase flow analysis in fractured geological medium based on the numerical manifold method. Adv. Water. Resour. 2018;121:112-129.
• Chen Y, Jin Y, Chen M, Yi ZC, Zheng XJ. Quantitative evaluation of rock brittleness based on the energy dissipation principle, an application to type II mode crack. J. Nat. Gas. Sci. Eng. 2017;45:527-536.
• Cao RH, Cao P, Lin H, Ma GW, Chen Y. Failure characteristics of intermittent fissures under a compressive-shear test: Experimental and numerical analyses. Theor. Appl. Fract. Mech. 2017.
• Chen Y, Jin Y, Chen M. A rock brittleness evaluation method based on energy dissipation. C. J. Theor. Appl. Mech. 2015;47(6):984-993.