Zhuang Sun

PhD Student Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering The University of Texas at Austin 200 E Dean Keeton CPE#3.118A Austin TX 78712 Website: www.linkedin.com/in/zhuangsun Email: zhuangsun@utexas.edu

 

 

Education and Training
Ph.D Petroleum Engineering	The university of Texas at Austin	2019
B.S. Petroleum Engineering	Tsinghua University	2014
Research and Professional	Experience
Graduate Research Assistant	The University of Texas at Austin	2014-2019
Undergraduate Research Assistant	Tsinghua University	2010-2014

 

Research Topic

His research interest is geomechanics in petroleum engineering, include CO₂-related rock alteration, formation compaction, fault reactivation. Sun has authored or coauthored more than 10 technical papers. Sun also has industrial experience working as a summer intern for ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company (URC) and Aramco research company in Houston.

 

Publications

• Zhuang Sun, Hewei Tang, D. Nicolas Espinoza, Matthew T. Balhoff, John E. Killough (2018). Discrete Element Modeling of Grain Crushing and Implications on Reservoir Compaction. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. 171, 431-439.
• Zhuang Sun, D. Nicolas Espinoza, Matthew T. Balhoff (2018). Reservoir Rock Chemo-Mechanical Alteration Quantified by Triaxial Tests and Implications to Fracture Reactivation. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences.106, 250-258.
• Zhuang Sun, D. Nicolas Espinoza, Matthew T. Balhoff, Thomas A. Dewers (2017). Discrete Element Modeling of Micro-Scratch Tests: Investigation of Mechanisms of CO2 Alteration in Reservoir Rocks. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering. 50 (12), 3337-3348.
• Zhuang Sun, D. Nicolas Espinoza, Matthew T. Balhoff (2016). Discrete Element Modeling of Indentation Tests to Investigate Mechanisms of CO2-related Chemo-mechanical Rock Alteration. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 121 (11), 7867-7881.
• Zhuang Sun, Hewei Tang, D. Nicolas Espinoza, Matthew T. Balhoff, John E. Killough. Pore- to Reservoir-scale Simulations of Depletion-induced Compaction and Implications on Production Rate. SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. Dallas, TX, 24-26, September, 2018.
• Zhuang Sun, Matthew T. Balhoff, D. Nicolas Espinoza. Fluid Injection Induced Fracture Initiation Based on a Resolved CFD-DEM Approach. 52nd US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium. Seattle, WA, 20-22 June, 2018.
• Zhuang Sun, Matthew T. Balhoff, D. Nicolas Espinoza. Discrete Element Modeling of Micro-Scratch Tests on Rocks Altered by CO2. 51st US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium. San Francisco, CA, 25-28, June, 2017.
• Zhuang Sun, Matthew T. Balhoff, D. Nicolas Espinoza. Pore-Scale Modeling of the Effect of Cementation on Rock Indentation Test. 50th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium. Houston, TX, 26-29, June, 2016.