Zihao Li 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/zihao-li-2280a4186/ Email: zihaoli@utexas.edu Education and Training B.S. Petroleum Engineering China University of Petroleum, East China 2017 Research and Professional Experience Graduate Research Assistant The University of Texas at Austin 2017-present Undergraduate Research Assistant University of New South Wales 2016-2017 Research Topic My research interests include reservoir geomechanics, multiphase flow in porous media, discrete element modeling, digital rock petrophysics, reservoir simulation and polymer enhanced oil recovery. Publications Li, Z., Sun, Z., Balhoff, M. T., & Espinoza, D. N. (2020, September). Coupled CFD-DEM Modeling of Immiscible Fluid Injection into Granular Media. In 54th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium. American Rock Mechanics Association. Li, Z., Sun, Z., Espinoza, D. N., & Balhoff, M. T. (2020, August). Grain-Scale Modeling of Polymer-driven Fracture Initiation and Wellbore Injectivity. In SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference. Society of Petroleum Engineers. Sun, Z., Li, Z., Espinoza, D. N., & Balhoff, M. T. (2020). Fluid-driven fractures in granular media: Insights from numerical investigations. Physical Review E, 101(4), 042903. Cao, J., Meng, L., Zheng, S., Li, Z., Jiang, J., & Lv, X. (2016). Self-healing supramolecular hydrogels fabricated by cucurbit [8] uril-enhanced π-π interaction. International Journal of Polymeric Materials and Polymeric Biomaterials, 65(10), 537-542.
