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    <h1>Ruben Juanes</h1>
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I am a geoscientist with a strong interest in the physics of multiphase flow in porous media.<<BR>> My research focuses on advancing our fundamental understanding and predictive capabilities of the simultaneous flow of two or more fluids through rocks, soils and other porous materials.<<BR>> Research in my group combines theory, simulation and experiments that elucidate fundamental aspects of multi-fluid flow, which we then apply for prediction of large-scale Earth science problems in the areas of energy and the environment, including geological carbon sequestration, methane hydrates, and ecohydrology of arid environments.

Loosely speaking, our research areas are:

 * '''Methane:''' methane hydrates in nature; methane venting from freshwater sediments
 * '''CO2:''' Geological carbon sequestration; capillary and solubility trapping; geomechanics
 * '''Oil:''' Enhanced oil recovery; flow instabilities; mixing; flow through fractured media
 * '''Water:''' Water infiltration; gravity fingering; ecohydrology of arid environments

I teach courses in computer programming (undergraduate), soil mechanics (undergraduate), groundwater hydrology (graduate) and computational methods for flow in porous media (advanced graduate). My current teaching schedule is:

 * ''Fall 2021:''
  . ''1.000:'' Computer Programming for Scientific and Engineering Applications
 * ''Previous semesters:''
  . ''1.723:'' Computational Methods for Flow in Porous Media ([[http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/1/fa18/1.723/|stellar website]])
  . ''1.079:'' Rock-on-a-chip
  . ''1.035:'' Structural and Soil Mechanics ([[http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/1/fa13/1.035/|stellar website]])
  . ''1.72:'' Groundwater Hydrology ([[http://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/1/fa13/1.72/|stellar website]])
 * ''Courses at other institutions''
  . ''PGE383:'' Computational Geomechanics (UT Austin)
  . ''PE120:'' Fundamentals of Petroleum Engineering (Stanford)
  . ''PE224:'' Advanced Topics in Reservoir Simulation (Stanford)
  . ''PE260:'' Environmental Aspects of Petroleum Engineering (Stanford)
  . ''PE281:'' Applied Mathematics in Reservoir Engineering (Stanford)
  . ''E77:'' Introduction to Computer Programming for Scientists and Engineers (UC Berkeley)
  . ''CE100:'' Elementary Fluid Mechanics (UC Berkeley)

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