We study the physics of multiphase flow in porous media.
We apply our theoretical, computational and experimental research
to a variety of energy-driven geophysical problems, such as
carbon sequestration, methane hydrates, and petroleum recovery.
Recent News
[May 11, 2012] Ran Holtzman and Mike Szulczewski's paper on capillary fracturing in granular media was accepted in Physical Review Letters. (Read the preprint; Supp. Mat.)
[April 28, 2012] Peter Kang received the Outstanding Student Paper Award for the work he presented at the 2011 AGU Fall Meeting, titled "Insights about the Origin of Anomalous Transport through Fractured Media: Modeling and Observations from a Field Test in Fractured Granite." Congratulations!
[April 25, 2012] Mike Szulczewski was selected as a Martin Fellow for Sustainability.
[April 6, 2012] Luis Cueto's paper on macroscopic phase-field modeling of partial wetting was published in Physical Review Letters. (Read the paper)
[April 5, 2012] Prof. Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe from Princeton University visits group and gives EFM / Hydrology seminar: Thu, April 5th @4:00pm, Bldg 48-316. (Read the abstract)
[April 3, 2012] Mike Szulczewski and Chris MacMinn's paper on the lifetime of carbon capture and storage as a climate-change mitigation technology, published in PNAS (Cover story; Link to paper; Read the paper; Suppl. Mat.).
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Announcements
[July 23-25, 2012] Ruben Juanes, Howard Herzog and John Parsons will offer the fourth edition of the Summer short course on Carbon Capture and Storage: Science, Technology and Policy, through the MIT Professional Education Short Programs.
CMWR 2012: CO2 Sequestration special session in the upcoming Computational Methods in Water Resources conference (CMWR 2012), to be held at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, June 17-21, 2012 (Deadline for abstract submission: October 14, 2011). Conference website; Special session description; Link to abstract submission.
