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[Dec 1-17, 2020] Juanes Research Group attends the AGU Fall Meeting 2020, online everywhere. See the schedule of presentations in the JRG itinerary.
[Nov 30, 2020] Xiaojing (Ruby) Fu and Luis Cueto's paper, in collaboration with Joaquin Jimenez-Martinez from ETH Zurich and collaborators at Los Alamos National Lab, on how crustal fingering facilitates free-gas methane migration through the hydrate stability zone, published in PNAS. (Read the paper)
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[Nov 26, 2020] Ehsan Haghighat's paper, on SciANN: A Keras/TensorFlow wrapper for scientific computations and physics-informed deep learning using artificial neural networks, published in CMAME. (Read the paper)
[Nov 24, 2020] Perspective on multiphase flow and granular mechanics, with Yue (Olivia) Meng and Bauyrzhan Primkulov, published in Physical Review Fluids in the collection 2020 Invited Papers, associated with the invited talks presented at the 72st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics. (Read the paper)
[Oct 23, 2020] Bauyrzhan Primkulov, Jane Chui, Amir Pahlavan, and Chris MacMinn's paper, on characterizing dissipation in fluid–fluid displacement using constant-rate spontaneous imbibition, published in Physical Review Letters. (Read the paper)
[Sep 1, 2020] Graduate student Ruofei Jia joins the group.
[Aug 12, 2020] Josimar da Silva successfully defended his PhD dissertation, titled Multiphase flow and fault poromechanics: understanding earthquake triggering and seismic hazard. Congratulations, Dr. da Silva!! (Pictures)
[Aug 4, 2020] Jane Chui successfully defended her PhD dissertation, titled Mixing with complex patterns: the impact of viscous fingering and the effects of motile bacteria. Congratulations, Dr. Chui!! (Pictures)
[Jul 20, 2020] Aziz Beljadid and Luis Cueto's paper on a continuum model of unstable infiltration in porous media endowed with an entropy function, published in Advances in Water Resources. (Read the paper)
[Jun 15, 2020] Maryam Alghannam's paper on understanding rate effects in injection-induced earthquakes, published in Nature Communications. (Read the paper)
[Jun 11, 2020] Lluis Salo received MIT's School of Engineering 2020-21 MATLAB Engineering Fellowship. Congratulations!
[Jun 3, 2020] Josimar Silva's paper, in collaboration with Hannah Byrne, Andreas Plesch and John Shaw from Harvard, revisiting the classic experiment on earthquake control at Rangely, published in Geophysical Research Letters. (Read the paper)
[Apr 13, 2020] Yue (Olivia) Meng and Bauyrzhan Primkulov's paper, in collaboration with Zhibing Yang from Wuhan University and Fiona Kwok from Hong Kong University, on jamming transition and emergence of fracturing in wet granular media, published as a Rapid Communication in Physical Review Research. (Read the paper)
[Apr 3, 2020] Ehsan Haghighat's paper, in collaboration with Fatemeh Rassouli and Mark Zoback from Stanford, on a viscoplastic model of creep in shale, published in Geophysics. (Read the paper)
[Mar 24, 2020] Luis Cueto's paper, in collaboration with Xiaojing (Ruby) Fu, on the interplay between fingering instabilities and initial soil moisture in solute transport through the vadose zone, published in Water. (Read the paper)
[Mar 23, 2020] Luis Cueto's paper, in collaboration with Xiaojing (Ruby) Fu, on simulation of unstable preferential flow during water infiltration into heterogeneous dry soil, published in Water. (Read the paper)
[Jan 29, 2020] Christos Nicolaides and Luis Cueto's paper, in collaboration with Marta Gonzalez from UC Berkeley, on hand-hygiene mitigation strategies against global disease spreading, just published in the special issue Risk Analysis & Coronaviruses. (Read the paper)
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[Jan 24, 2020] Bauyrzhan Primkulov's paper, in collaboration with Amir Pahlavan, Lydia Bourouiba and John Bush, on spin coating of capillary tubes, published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics. (Read the paper)
[Dec 9-13, 2019] Juanes Research Group attends the AGU Fall Meeting 2019 in San Francisco. See the schedule of presentations in the JRG itinerary.
[Nov 23-26, 2019] Juanes Research Group attends the APS DFD Meeting 2019 in Seattle. See the schedule of presentations in the JRG itinerary.
[Sep 1, 2019] Bauyrzhan Primkulov received MIT's School of Engineering MATLAB Engineering Fellowship. Congratulations!
[Jul 31, 2019] Amir Pahlavan's work on the universality of bubble formation in confined environments, and its connections with singularities in cosmology and other branches of physics, featured in an article by Charlie Wood in Quanta Magazine. (Read the story).
[Jul 25, 2019] Bauyrzhan Primkulov's paper, in collaboration with Amir Pahlavan, Xiaojing Fu, Robin Zhao and Chris MacMinn on signatures of fluid-fluid displacement in porous media: wettability, patterns, and pressures, published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics. (Read the paper)
[Jul 15, 2019] Josimar da Silva's paper, in collaboration with Peter Kang, Zhibing Yang and Luis Cueto, on the impact of confining stress on capillary pressure behavior during drainage through rough fractures, published in Geophysical Research Letters. (Read the paper)
[Jul 9, 2019] Robin Zhao, Chris MacMinn, Luis Cueto and Bauyrzhan Primkulov's paper, in collaboration with 24 others, on a comprehensive comparison of pore-scale models for multiphase flow in porous media, published in PNAS. (Read the paper; Supplementary Material (60 MB))
[Jul 9, 2019] Amir Pahlavan's paper, in collaboration with Gareth McKinley from MechE and Howard Stone from Princeton, on restoring universality to the pinch-off of a bubble, published in PNAS. (Read the paper)
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[Jun 15, 2019] Xiaojing Fu and Luis Cueto's paper, in collaboration with William Waite from USGS, on xenon hydrate as an analogue of methane hydrate in geologic systems out of thermodynamic equilibrium, published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. (Read the paper)
[Jun 15, 2019] Peter Kang's paper on stress-induced anomalous transport in natural fracture networks, published in Water Resources Research. (Read the paper)
[May 17, 2019] Ehsan Haghighat received the CEE Postdoctoral Scholar Mentoring, Teaching and Excellence Award. Congratulations!
[March 4-8, 2019] Juanes Research Group attends the APS March Meeting 2019 in Boston. (JRG itinerary)
[Feb 15, 2019] Jane Chui received the AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Award for her poster titled Impact of motile bacteria on viscous fingering. Congratulations!
[Jan 24-26, 2019] Bauyrzhan Primkulov received the best poster prize at the Princeton workshop on Transport in Disordered Environments for his poster titled Capillary invasion in disordered porous media. Congratulations!
[Dec 10-14, 2018] Juanes Research Group itinerary for the 2018 AGU Fall Meeting in Washington, DC. (JRG itinerary; Pictures)
[Oct 24, 2018] Paper in collaboration with Nima Shokri of University of Manchester on pore geometry control of apparent wetting in porous media, published in Scientific Reports. (Read the paper)
[Oct 11, 2018] Bauyrzhan Primkulov's paper on quasi-static fluid-fluid displacement in porous media: invasion-percolation through a wetting transition, published in Physical Review Fluids. (Read the paper)
[Sep 1, 2018] Graduate students Yue (Olivia) Meng and Yu (Rachel) Qiu join the group.
[Aug 14, 2018] Luis Cueto and Xiaojing Fu's paper on pore-scale modeling of phase change in porous media, published in Physical Review Fluids. (Read the paper)
[Aug 6, 2018] Amir Pahlavan successfully defended his PhD dissertation, titled Moving Contact Lines and Interfacial Instabilities in Confined Environments. Congratulations, Dr. Pahlavan!! (Pictures)
[Apr 27, 2018] Amir Pahlavan and Luis Cueto's paper on thin films in partial wetting, in collaboration with Peko Hosoi and Gareth McKinley from MIT Mechanical Engineering, published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics. (Read the paper)
[Apr 2, 2018] Xiaojing Fu and Luis Cueto's paper on nonequilibrium thermodynamics of hydrate growth on a gas–liquid interface, published in Physical Review Letters and featured as Editor's Suggestion. (Read the paper)
[Mar 1, 2018] Postdoctoral associate Ke Xu joins the group.
[Mar 12, 2018] David Santillan and Luis Cueto's paper on phase-field modeling of hydraulic fracturing in poroelastic media, published in Journal of Geophysical Research. (Read the paper)
[Feb 26, 2018] Marie-Julie Dalbe's paper on morphodynamics of fluid-fluid displacement in 3D deformable granular media, published in Physical Review Applied. (Read the paper)
[Feb 23, 2018] Benzhong Zhao, Amir Pahlavan and Luis Cueto's paper on forced wetting transition and bubble pinch-off in a capillary tube, published in Physical Review Letters. (Read the paper)
[Feb 21, 2018] Zhibing Yang's paper on grain-scale analysis of pore pressure control on fault slip, published in Physical Review E. (Read the paper)
[Feb 8, 2018] Ruben Juanes promoted to Full Professor
[Feb 6, 2018] Paper on inferring fault frictional and reservoir hydraulic properties from injection-induced seismicity, in collaboration with Youssef Marzouk's group at MIT, published in Geophysical Research Letters. (Read the paper)
[Jan 22, 2018] Paper on wettability control of droplet durotaxis, in collaboration with Jesus Bueno and Hector Gomez from Purdue University, and Yuri Bazilevs from UCSD, published in Soft Matter. (Read the paper)
[Dec 22, 2017] Pietro de Anna's paper on prediction of velocity distribution from pore structure, in collaboration with Bryan Quaife from Florida State and George Biros from UT Austin, published in Physical Review Fluids. (Read the paper)
[Oct 16-20, 2017] Ruben Juanes gave a series of lectures as Astor Visiting Lecturer at the University of Oxford, hosted by Prof. Chris MacMinn. (Astor Lectures Poster)
[Oct 9, 2017] Ruby Fu and Luis Cueto's paper on viscous fingering with partially miscible fluids, published in Physical Review Fluids. (Read the paper)
[Oct 3, 2017] Ruben Juanes gave the 2017/2018 inaugural lecture to the high school seniors at his alma mater, Colegio Santa María del Mar, in his native A Coruña, Spain. (Link)
[Sep 1, 2017] Peter Kang's paper on maximizing the value of pressure data in saline aquifer characterization, in collaboration with Seonkyoo Yoon and John Williams from MIT, published in Advances in Water Resources. (Read the paper)
[Jun 8, 2017] Robin Zhao and Ruby Fu celebrated their PhD at the hooding ceremony. Congratulations!! (Pictures)
[Jun 3, 2017] Ben Scandella's paper on persistence of bubble outlets in soft methane-generating sediments, in collaboration with Kyle Delwhiche and Harold Hemond, published in Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences. (Read the paper; Access datasets)
[May 18, 2017] Ruby Fu received the Maseeh Award for Excellence as a Teaching Assistant. Congratulations!
[May 12, 2017] Peter Kang's paper on improved characterization of heterogeneous permeability in saline aquifers from transient pressure data during freshwater injection, in collaboration with Peter Kitanidis from Stanford University, published in Water Resources Research. (Read the paper)
[May 3, 2017] Ruben Juanes (right) and John Shaw from Harvard (center) deliver the report on the study of the 2013 earthquake sequence near the Castor underground gas storage site to Spain's Minister of Energy Alvaro Nadal (left).
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[Apr 3, 2017] Xiaojing (Ruby) Fu successfully defended her PhD dissertation, titled Multiphase flow in porous media with phase transitions: from CO2 sequestration to gas hydrate systems. Congratulations, Dr. Fu!! (Pictures)
[Mar 30, 2017] Peter Kang's paper on anomalous transport in disordered fracture networks, in collaboration with Marco Dentz at the Spanish National Research Council and Tanguy Le Borgne at the University of Rennes, published in Advances in Water Resources. (Read the paper)
[Mar 22, 2017] David Santillan and Luis Cueto's paper on phase-field modeling of fluid-driven fracture in elastic media, published in Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth. (Read the paper)
[Mar 10, 2017] JRG releases a benchmark study on pore-scale modeling of multiphase flow in porous media, with particular emphasis on wettability effects. For more information, and a link to the experimental data, click here.
[Jan 16, 2017] Postdoctoral associate Ehsan Haghighat joins the group. Welcome!
[Jan 10, 2017] Paper on droplet motion driven by tensotaxis, in collaboration with Jesus Bueno and Hector Gomez from the University of A Coruna, and Yuri Bazilevs from UCSD, published in Extreme Mechanics Letters. (Read the paper)
[Dec 12-16, 2016] Juanes Research Group attends the 2016 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA. (JRG itinerary)
[Dec 6, 2016] Robin Zhao successfully defended his PhD dissertation, titled Multiphase flow in porous media: the impact of capillarity and wettability from field-scale to pore-scale. Congratulations, Dr. Zhao!! (Pictures)
[Nov 20-22, 2016] Juanes Research Group attends the 69th APS Fluids Meeting in Portland, OR. (JRG itinerary) Watch our submission to the Gallery of Fluid Motion (video).
[Sep 20, 2016] Ruby Fu and Luis Cueto's paper on thermodynamic coarsening arrest by viscous fingering in partially-miscible binary mixtures, published in Physical Review E. (Read the paper)
[Sep 6, 2016] Peter Kang's paper on the emergence of anomalous transport in stressed rough fractures, in collaboration with Steve Brown from EAPS, published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters. (Read the paper)
[Aug 24, 2016] Robin Zhao and Chris MacMinn's paper on wettability control on multiphase flow, published in PNAS. (Read the paper, cover story)
* News coverage: MIT News
[Jul 14, 2016] Birendra Jha's paper on coupled flow-geomechanics modeling of the 2012 Emilia-Romagna earthquakes, in collaboration with Brad Hager from MIT, John Shaw and Andreas Plesch from Harvard, Luciana Astiz from NSF, Jim Dieterich from UC Riverside, and Cliff Frohlich from UT Austin, published in Geophysical Research Letters. (Read the paper, Supporting Information)
[Jun 1, 2016] Postdoctoral fellow Alina Tyukhova and graduate student Mohammad Aladwani join the group.
[May 13, 2016] Marie-Julie Dalbe received the CEE Postdoctoral Scholar Mentoring, Teaching and Excellence Award. Congratulations!
[May 11, 2016] Benjamin Scandella successfully defended his PhD dissertation, titled Spatiotemporal variability of methane ebullition from lake sediments. Congratulations, Dr. Scandella!! (Pictures)
[May 4, 2016] Ben Scandella's paper on ephemerality of discrete methane vents in lake sediments, in collaboration with Tom Weber from UNH, Carolyn Ruppel from USGS and Harry Hemond from MIT, published in Geophysical Research Letters. (Read the paper)
[Feb 29, 2016] Luis Cueto's paper on discrete-domain description of multiphase flow and the origin of hysteresis in porous media, published in Geophysical Research Letters. (Read the paper)
[Feb 18, 2016] Ruben Juanes receives joint faculty appointment in the department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.
[Feb 17, 2016] Christos Nicolaides and Luis Cueto's paper on self-organization of network dynamics into local quantized states, published in Scientific Reports. (Read the paper)
[Feb 12, 2016] Peter Kang's paper on joint flow-seismic inversion for improved characterization of fractured media, in collaboration with seismologists from the Earth Resources Lab, published in Water Resources Research. (Read the paper)
[Dec 14-18, 2015] Juanes Research Group attends AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, CA. (JRG itinerary)
[Nov 22-24, 2015] Juanes Research Group attends 68th APS Fluids Meeting in Boston, MA. (JRG itinerary)
[October 28, 2015] Jane Chui and Pietro de Anna's paper on interface evolution during radial miscible viscous fingering, published as a Rapid Communication in Physical Review E. (Read the paper)
[Sep 29, 2015] Ruben Juanes delivers keynote address titled "Computational Modeling of Induced Seismicity" at the TOUGH Symposium.
[September 8, 2015] Ruben Juanes named director of CEE's Pierce Laboratory. (Read more)
[September 1, 2015] PhD student Na-Hyun Jung and research scientist David Castineira join the group. Welcome!
[August 30, 2015] Peter Kang's paper on the impact of conductivity heterogeneity and mixing at fracture intersections on anomalous transport in regular fracture networks, in collaboration with Marco Dentz at the Spanish National Research Council and Tanguy Le Borgne at the University of Rennes, published in Physical Review E. (Read the paper)
[August 26, 2015] Birendra Jha's paper on reservoir characterization using joint inversion of flow and geodetic data, published in International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics. (Read the paper)
[July 17, 2015] Amir Pahlavan and Luis Cueto's paper on thin films in partial wetting, in collaboration with Gareth McKinley from MIT Mechanical Engineering, published in Physical Review Letters. (Read the paper)
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[June 18, 2015] Ruby Fu featured in MIT News for her work on methane bubbles. Watch a video explaining her research here.
[June 9, 2015] Ruben Juanes featured in Energy Futures magazine. Read faculty profile and description of new undergraduate subject Reservoir-on-a-Chip.
[May 28, 2015] Luis Cueto's paper on the stochastic structure of critical transitions in water-stressed ecosystems, in collaboration with Marco Dentz at the Spanish National Research Council, published in Physical Review E. (Read the paper)
[May 21, 2015] Mathias Trojer and Michael Szulczewski's paper on stabilizing fluid-fluid displacements in porous media through wettability alteration, published in Physical Review Applied. (Read the paper)
[April 21, 2015] Christos Nicolaides, Birendra Jha, and Luis Cueto's paper on the impact of viscous fingering and permeability heterogeneity on fluid mixing, published in Water Resources Research. (Read the paper)
[April 10, 2015] Jane Chui and Ruby Fu, honored as MIT Graduate Women of Excellence. Congratulations! (Read more)
- [Mar 20, 2015] Juanes Group welcomes Dr. David Santillan from the Technical University of Madrid, Spain as a visitor for the spring semester.
[Mar 19, 2015] Prof. Amos Nur from Stanford University visits group and gives CEE Pierce Lab seminar "Imaging and Computing: Digital Rock Physics for Reservoir Characterization, Simulation, and Monitoring": Thu, Mar 19 @4:00pm, Bldg 1-131.
[Mar 15, 2015] Postdoctoral associate Marie Julie Dalbe joins the group.
[Mar 4, 2015] Dr. Joshua White from Lawrence Livermore National Lab visits group and gives CEE Pierce Lab seminar: Wed, Mar 4 @4:00pm, Bldg 1-131. (Read the abstract)
[Feb 18, 2015] Peter Kang's paper on the impact of velocity correlation and distribution on transport in fractured media, in collaboration with Tanguy Le Borgne and Olivier Bour at the University of Rennes, and Marco Dentz at the Spanish National Research Council, published in Water Resources Research. (Read the paper)
[Feb 10, 2015] Juanes Group celebrates the opening of our new Subsurface Energy and Mechanics Lab (SEaM Lab) during the ribbon cutting ceremony. (Pictures)
[Jan 20, 2015] Ruby Fu and Luis Cueto's paper on rock dissolution during convective mixing, in collaboration with Diogo Bolster at University of Notre Dame, published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics. (Read the paper)
[Jan 7, 2015] Jane Chui received the Outstanding Student Paper Award for the work she presented at the 2014 AGU Fall Meeting, titled "The Impact of Miscible Viscous Fingering on Mixing." Congratulations!
[Dec 15-19, 2014] Juanes Research Group attends AGU Fall Meeting. (Read presentation titles)
[Dec 14, 2014] Postdoctoral fellow Zhibing Yang joins the group.
[Oct 20, 2014] Luis Cueto's paper on phase-field modeling of two-phase Hele-Shaw flows, published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics. (Read the paper, Supp. Video)
[Sep 15, 2014] Peter Kang and Pietro de Anna's paper on the pore-scale origin of anomalous transport in 3D porous media, in collaboration with Martin Blunt's group at Imperial College, published in Geophysical Research Letters. (Read the paper)
[Sep 3, 2014] Robin Zhao's paper on capillary pinning and blunting of immiscible gravity currents in porous media, in collaboration with Chris MacMinn and Herbert Huppert, published in Water Resources Research. (Read the paper)
[June 6, 2014] Birendra Jha, Peter Kang and Christos Nicolaides celebrate their PhD at the hooding ceremony. Congratulations!! (Pictures)
[May 14, 2014] Birendra Jha's paper on coupled multiphase flow and poromechanics: a computational model of pore-pressure effects on fault slip and earthquake triggering, published in Water Resources Research. (Read the paper)
[May 13, 2014] Catherine Cheng won the MIT CEE Leadership and Community Award, while Birendra Jha won the MIT CEE Best Doctoral Thesis Award (link). Congratulations to both!
[Mar 8, 2014] Ruben Juanes quoted in Catherine Brahic's story Lock up your carbon, in NewScientist.
[Feb 17, 2014] Michael Szulczewski and Chris MacMinn's paper on how pressure and migration can both constrain CO2 storage capacity, published in International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control. (Read the paper)
[Jan 31, 2014] Michael Chen and Amir Pahlavan passed their Qualifying Exams. Congratulations!
[Jan 28, 2014] Focus on Fluids article by Diogo Bolster discusses Michael Szulczewski's paper on carbon dioxide dissolution from structural and stratigraphic traps, published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics. (FoF article (open access); Read the paper)
[Jan 8, 2014] Mathias Trojer successfully defended his PhD dissertation, titled Fluid-fluid invasion patterns and their relevance for geological CO2 storage. Congratulations, Dr. Trojer!!
[Dec 20, 2013] Birendra Jha successfully defended his PhD dissertation, titled Flow through porous media: From mixing of fluids to triggering of earthquakes. Congratulations, Dr. Jha!!
[Dec 9-13, 2013] Juanes Research Group attends AGU Fall Meeting. (Read presentation titles; JRG itinerary)
[Dec 8, 2013] Paper on coupling of geomechanics and multiphase flow with strong capillarity, in collaboration with Jihoon Kim from LBNL and Hamdi Tchelepi from Stanford, published in SPE Journal. (Read the paper)
[Dec 5, 2013] Prof. Tanguy Le Borgne from Geosciences Rennes visits group and gives Environmental Sciences seminar: Thu, Dec 5 @4:00pm, Bldg 48-316. (Read the abstract)
[Dec 3, 2013] Luis Cueto's commentary on forecasting long-term gas production from shale, published in PNAS. (Read the paper)
[Dec 1, 2013] The special issue on 'Computational Methods in Geologic CO2 Sequestration', edited by Ruben Juanes and Holger Class, published in Advances in Water Resources. (Read the Editorial; Link to special issue)
[Dec 1, 2013] Juan Hidalgo and Chris MacMinn's paper on the dynamics of convective dissolution from a migrating current of carbon dioxide, published in Advances in Water Resources, as part of the special issue on 'Computational Methods in Geologic CO2 Sequestration'. (Read the paper)
[Nov 6, 2013] Michael Szulczewski's paper in collaboration with Marc Hesse from UT Austin on carbon dioxide dissolution from structural and stratigraphic traps, published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics. (Read the paper; Journal cover; Spotlight: Focus on Fluids article by Diogo Bolster)
[Nov 4, 2013] Xiaojing Fu and Luis Cueto's paper on pattern formation and coarsening dynamics in 3D convective mixing in porous media, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. (Read the paper; Videos)
[Oct 4, 2013] Birendra Jha and Luis Cueto's paper on synergetic fluid mixing from viscous fingering and alternating injection, published in Physical Review Letters. (Read the paper; Videos)
[Sep 16, 2013] Ruben Juanes featured on MIT News: MIT Homepage Spotlight, MIT News story
[Sep 6, 2013] Dr. Alexandre Tartakovsky from Pacific Northwest National Lab visits group.
[July 31, 2013] Christos Nicolaides and Luis Cueto's paper on the price of anarchy in contagion dynamics, published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface. (Read the paper)
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[May 15, 2013] Ruben Juanes and Jack Germaine receive the Maseeh Award for Excellence in Teaching at MIT.
[May 9, 2013] Prof. Marco Dentz from the Spanish National Research Council visits group and gives Environmental Sciences seminar: Thu, May 9 @4:00pm, Bldg 48-316. (Read the abstract)
[May 3, 2013] Ruben Juanes awarded tenure at MIT.
[May 2, 2013] Prof. Martin Blunt from Imperial College London visits group and gives Environmental Sciences seminar: Thu, May 2 @4:00pm, Bldg 48-316. (Read the abstract)
[April 25, 2013] Peter Kang was selected as a Martin Fellow for Sustainability.
[April 17, 2013] Mike Szulczewski successfully defended his PhD dissertation, titled The Subsurface Fluid Mechanics of Geologic CO2 Storage. Congratulations, Dr. Szulczewski!! (pictures)
[Apr 11, 2013] Chris MacMinn's paper on buoyant currents arrested by convective dissolution, accepted in Geophysical Research Letters.
[March 14, 2013] Prof. Diogo Bolster from University of Notre Dame visits group and gives Environmental Sciences seminar: Thu, March 14 @4:00pm, Bldg 48-316. (Read the abstract)
[Mar 7, 2013] Jane Chui received the Outstanding Student Paper Award for the work she presented at the 2012 AGU Fall Meeting, titled "The three regimes of miscible viscous fingering." Congratulations! (AGU citation)
[Feb 20, 2013] Michael Szulczewski's paper on the evolution of miscible gravity currents in horizontal porous layers, published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics. (Read the paper)
[Feb 19, 2013] Robin Zhao, Chris MacMinn and Mike Szulczewski's paper in collaboration with Herbert Huppert and Jerome Neufeld from the University of Cambridge, on interface pinning of immiscible gravity-exchange flows in porous media, published in Physical Review E. (Read the paper)
[Feb 5, 2013] Luis Cueto's paper in collaboration with Hector Gomez from the University of A Coruna, on three-dimensional simulation of unstable gravity-driven infiltration, published in Journal of Computational Physics. (Read the paper)
[Feb 4, 2013] Ruby Fu passed her Qualifying Exams. Congrats!
[Dec 28, 2012] Juan Hidalgo and Luis Cueto's paper in collaboration with Jaime Fe from the University of A Coruna, on scaling of convective mixing in porous media, published in Physical Review Letters. (Read the paper)
[Dec 3-7, 2012] Juanes Research Group attends AGU Fall Meeting. (Read presentation titles; JRG itinerary)
[Nov 18-20, 2012] Juanes Research Group attends APS Fluids Meeting. (JRG itinerary)
[Sep 25, 2012] Postdoctoral fellow Pietro De Anna joins the group.
[Sep 1, 2012] PhD student Michael Chen joins the group.
[July 19, 2012] Christos Nicolaides and Luis Cueto's paper in collaboration with Marta Gonzalez, on a metric of influential spreading during contagion dynamics through the air transportation network, published in PLoS ONE. (Link to paper (open access))
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[June 28, 2012] Ran Holtzman and Mike Szulczewski's paper on capillary fracturing in granular media was published in Physical Review Letters. (Read the paper; Supp. Mat.; Spotlight in ''Physics'')
[June 1, 2012] PhD student Amir Pahlavan joins the group.
[May 25, 2012] Ruben Juanes featured in Spectrvm Magazine (Read the story).
[July 23-25, 2012] Ruben Juanes, Howard Herzog and John Parsons 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.
[June 17-21, 2012] 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 (Deadline for abstract submission: October 14, 2011). Conference website; Special session description; Link to abstract submission.
[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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[March 22, 2012] Prof. Jesus Carrera from the Spanish National Research Council (IDAEA-CSIC) visits group and gives EFM / Hydrology seminar: Thu, March 22nd @4:00pm, Bldg 48-316. (Read the abstract)
[March 9, 2012] Prof. Marco Thiele from Streamsim Technologies / Stanford University visits group and gives SPE distinguished lecture: Friday, March 9 @12:00pm, Bldg 48-316.
[March 1, 2012] Prof. Al Valocchi from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign visits group and gives EFM / Hydrology seminar: Thu, March 1st @4:00pm, Bldg 48-316. (Read the abstract)
[Jan 15, 2012] Jane Chui and Robin Zhao passed their Qualifying Exams. Congrats!
[January 1, 2012] Birendra Jha's image on fluid mixing from viscous fingering was selected as the Back Scatter image for the January 2012 issue of Physics Today, and as a Kaleidoscope image for Physical Review E. (See ''Back Scatter'' image; See ''Kaleidoscope'' image)
[December 16, 2011] Birendra Jha and Luis Cueto's paper on quantifying mixing in viscously unstable porous media flows was published in Physical Review E. (Read the paper)
[Dec 15, 2011] Chris MacMinn successfully defended his PhD dissertation, titled Migration and Trapping of CO2 in Saline Aquifers. Congratulations, Dr. MacMinn!! (pictures)
[Dec 5-9, 2011] Juanes Research Group attends AGU Fall Meeting. (Read presentation titles)
[Dec 1-2, 2011] Prof. Knut Jorgen Maloy from the University of Oslo visits group and gives EFM / Hydrology seminar: Thu, Dec 1st @4:00pm, Bldg 48-316. (Read the abstract)
[November 23, 2011] Chris MacMinn and Mike Szulczewski's paper on CO2 sequestration by combined capillary and solubility trapping was published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics. (Read the paper)
- [October 24-31, 2011] Prof. Marco Dentz from the Spanish National Research Council (IDAEA-CSIC) visits group and gives a special EFM / Hydrology seminar: Fri Oct 28st @12:00pm, Bldg 48-316.
[October 27, 2011] Peter Kang's paper in collaboration with Marco Dentz and Tanguy Le Borgne, on a spatial Markov model of anomalous transport through random lattice networks, was published in Physical Review Letters. (Read the paper)
[October 21, 2011] Chris MacMinn and Robin Zhao present poster titled Fluid mechanics of geological carbon dioxide storage at the 2011 MIT Energy Night: Fri Oct 21st, 5:30-8pm, MIT Museum. (Read abstract)
- [October 21, 2011] Scott Backhaus from Los Alamos National Lab visits group and gives a special EFM / Hydrology seminar: Fri Oct 21st @12:00pm, Bldg 48-316.
[October 20, 2011] Prof. Dani Or visits group and speaks at the Environmental Fluid Mechanics / Hydrology seminar: Thu Oct 20th @4:00pm, Bldg 48-316. (Read abstract)
[October 13, 2011] Ruben Juanes speaks at the Computational Sustainability Seminar Series: Nonequilibrium physics and computation of water infiltration in dry soil: Implications for the ecohydrology of arid regions - Thursday, Oct. 13th, 3-4pm, MIT Room 32-D463 (Read abstract).
[September 12, 2011] Prof. Insa Neuweiler visits group and speaks at the Environmental Fluid Mechanics / Hydrology seminar: Thu Sep 15th @4:00pm, Bldg 48-316. (Read abstract)
[September 8, 2011] A paper in collaboration with the DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory, on the X-ray imaging of the mode of gas migration in water-saturated sediments, appeared in Geophysical Research Letters. Controlled experiments elucidate the preferential mode of gas migration in sediments, and show that capillary invasion dominates in coarse sediments; conduit opening in fine sediments. (Read the paper)
[July 21, 2011] Ran Holtzman's paper on overpressure caused by hydrate dissociation appeared in Geophysical Research Letters. In this paper we show, by means of a fully-coupled pore-scale model, that dissociation kinetics and fluid displacement at the pore scale control the overpressure from hydrate dissociation. (Read the paper; auxiliary material; auxiliary videos)
[July 18-20, 2011] Ruben Juanes, Howard Herzog and John Parsons offer the third edition of the Summer short course on Carbon Capture and Storage: Science, Technology and Policy, through the MIT Professional Education Short Programs.
[May 12, 2011] Birendra Jha and Luis Cueto's paper on fluid mixing from viscous fingering appeared in Physical Review Letters. In this paper we explain how mixing efficiency can be enhanced by exploiting the unstable displacement of fluids with different viscosities. (Read the paper; Suppl. videos; MIT Homepage Spotlight; MIT News; CEE News; On Balance Newsletter; New Scientist)
Ruben Juanes and Luis Cueto are co-organizing a session at the AGU Fall Meeting 2011.
NG10: Pattern Formation in Earth System Sciences
Deadline for abstract submission: August 4, 2011.
[May 10, 2011] Peter Kang's team wins MIT Global Challenge competition with Project AQUA.
[May 5, 2011] Ran Holtzman's paper on overpressure caused by hydrate dissociation was accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters.
[May 4, 2011] Prof. Herbert Huppert visits group and speaks at the Environmental Fluid Mechanics seminar (Wed May 4th @2:30pm, Bldg 48-316).
[April 14, 2011] Birendra Jha and Luis Cueto's paper on fluid mixing from viscous fingering was accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.
[April 12, 2011] Birendra Jha, Peter Kang and Chris MacMinn each received Outstanding Student Paper Awards for the work they presented at the 2010 AGU Fall Meeting. Birendra's paper is titled "Fluid mixing from viscous fingering." Peter's is titled "Effective transport in lattice fracture networks with uncorrelated and correlated velocity field." Chris's paper is titled "Spreading and dissolution of CO2 in horizontal aquifers: theory and experiments." Congratulations!
[April 6, 2011] Christos Nicolaides received a George and Marie Vergottis Fellowship.
[April 5, 2011] Ben Scandella was selected as a Martin Fellow for Sustainability.
[Mar 4, 2011] Peter Kang's paper on particle transport through a lattice network just appeared as a Rapid Communication in ''Physical Review E''. In this paper we introduce a two-particle process to address the predictability of transport through a lattice with random properties. (Read the paper)
[Feb 24, 2011] Ben Scandella's paper on methane venting from lake sediments was accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters. In this paper we present a simple, mechanistic model to predict the episodic bubbling of methane, shown here as a multicolored plume from sonar data and superposed on a blue seismic profile of a lake bottom. (Read the paper)
[Jan 28, 2011] Birendra Jha and Christos Nicolaides passed their Qualifying Exam. Congratulations!
[Oct 22, 2010] Juan Hidalgo, Jane Chui and Robin Zhao join the group. Welcome!
[Aug 11, 2010] Peter Kang receives Science Graduate Fellowship by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Congratulations! (MIT news)
[May 20, 2010] Birendra Jha and Mike Szulczewski each received Outstanding Student Paper Awards for the work they presented at the AGU Fall Meeting 2009. Birendra's paper is titled "Numerical Simulation of Mixing in Viscous-Fingering Displacements." Mike's is titled "Suppression of Mixing in Miscible Viscous Fingering in a Hele-Shaw Cell." Congratulations!
[Jan 28, 2010] Peter Kang and Ben Scandella passed their Qualifying Exam. Congratulations!
[Jan 14, 2010] Juanes receives DOE Early Career Award (DOE Announcement, MIT news)
[Jan 11, 2010] Figuring out where to put the carbon. New tools from MIT could help evaluate where to do it — and how to keep it contained (MIT News Story)
[Oct 5 - 7, 2009] Work on nonequilibrium physics of multiphase flow, and origin of gravity fingering during infiltration, presented at the Intl. Conference on Nonlinearities and Upscaling in Porous Media
[Sep 2, 2009] Paper in Journal of Geophysical Research elucidates model for escape of underground methane (MIT News; On Balance Newsletter; EurekAlert!; Science Daily; PhysOrg; Green Car Congress; Save The Planet News)
[Aug 3 - 7, 2009] Work on CO2 plume migration and storage capacity presented at the Intl. Workshop on Modeling and Risk Assessment of Geological Storage of CO2
[Mar 29 - Apr 3, 2009] Work on gravity fingers presented at the Intl. Conference on Unstable and Preferential Flow in Porous Media
[Mar 6, 2009] Poster on CO2 storage presented at the MIT Energy Conference and Showcase (pdf)
[Feb 24, 2009] MISTI selects project on carbon sequestration for the Hayashi Seed Fund (MIT News; MISTI Seed Funds)
[Jan 15, 2009] Postdoctoral associate Ran Holtzman joins the group
[Dec 12, 2008] Paper in Physical Review Letters explains the origin of gravity fingers (MIT News; TechTalk; CEE News; On Balance Newsletter; EurekAlert!; Science Daily; Scientific Blogging)
[Nov 17, 2008] Three papers from the research group presented at the GHGT-9 conference, including a model for the assessment of CO2 storage capacity at the basin scale(MIT News; TechTalk; CleanTech; BusinessGreen; Science Daily)
[Mar 31, 2008] Ruben Juanes featured in Boston Magazine ... as #2 among the 61 Best New Things in Boston ?? (Somewhere in an MIT Lab, a Researcher Is This Close to Saving the Planet)
[Feb 7, 2007] Paper in Water Resources Research elucidates the role of capillary trapping in CO2 storage (MIT News; TechTalk; On Balance Newsletter; EurekAlert!; Science Daily; New Scientist; Reuters; Lab News; Live Science; The Why Files; Green Car Congress; Environmental Research Web)