PhD Student
Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Website: www.linkedin.com/in/zihao-li-2280a4186/ |
Education and Training |
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B.S. Petroleum Engineering | China University of Petroleum, East China | 2017 |
Research and Professional
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Experience |
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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.