Arash Dahi Taleghani PhD, P.E. Professor John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering Email: arash.dahi@psu.edu

Researchers

Maryam Tabatabaei Assistant Research Professor Research interests Continuum mechanics, Cementing and well integrity

Livio Yang Santos Postdoc Research Topic Well integrity, well cementing and hydraulic fracturing

 

 

PHD STUDENTS

 

Faras Al Balushi Research Topic Rock-fluid interactions

 

Qitao Zhang Research Topic Geothermal and geomechanics

 

Rui Wang Research Topic Numerical and analytical Flowback analysis

 

Sai Liu Research Topic Geothermal

 

 

 

MASTERS STUDENTS

Cassian Henriques Research Topic Modelling granular processes

 

 

Tristin Findlay Research Topic Drilling engineering and drilling fluid hydraulics.

 

 

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Ali Ahmed Al-Hasan Research Topic Drilling and Completion

 

 

Previous Lab Members

Lu Lee (PhD 2022) Research interests: Numerical modelling of LCM Transport and fracture sealing

Guanzhou Chen (MSc, 2022)  Research interests: Numerical modelling of sand production and screen completion

Yuzhe Cai (PhD 2021) Research interests:  Flowback and DFIT analysis

Salih Koc (MSc 2021) Research interests: Scratch Test and PDC cutter performance analysis (Experimental)

Yibo Song (MSc, 2020) Research interests: Modelling of Proppant transport

Xinghua Wang (Visiting Scholor, PhD, 2019) Research interests: Natural fracture characterization

Ching Lin (Visiting Scholor, PhD, 2019)  Research interests: Numerical modelling of LCM and fracture bridging

Tiejun Lin (Visiting Faculty, 2019) Research interests: Geomechanics and PDC bit modelling

Sophie Jung (Visiting Scholor, PhD, 2018) Research interests: Flowback and fracture closure

Hao Yu (Visiting Scholor, PhD, 2018)  Research interests:  Casing deformation and hydraulic fracturing

Kui Liu (Visiting Scholor, PhD, 2018)  Research interests: Fault slippage and wellbore shearing

Youshi Jiang (Visiting Scholor, PhD, 2017)  Research interests: Enriched finite element analysis for gas flow in fractured reservoirs

Livio Santos(MSc, 2017) Research topic: Smart expandable proppants

Ahmed Mansour(MSc, 2017) Research topic: Smart loss circulation materials (LCM)

Juan Bautista (MSc, 2015) Research topic: Injectivity in unconsolidated formations

Volkan Kanat (MSc, 2015) Research topic: Drill bit and rock interactions

Kian Sheikhrezaei (PhD, 2019) Research interests: Drill bit and rock interactions (experimental research)

Denis Klimenko (PhD, RIP2017) Research interests: Geothermal, Hydraulic fracturing modeling, XFEM

Milad Ahmadi (PhD, 2016) Research interests: Geothermal, Hydraulic fracturing, FEM

Ping Puyang (MSc, May 2015) Research interests: Integrated modeling in hydraulic fracturing

Amir Shojaei (Postdoc, October 2014) Research interests: Damage mechanics

Houman Bedayat (PhD, August 2014) Research interests: Microporoelasticity

Chennv Fan (MSc, May 2014) Research interests: Intermediate field effect for microseismics interpretation

Wei Wang (PhD, January 2014) Research interests: Well integrity and underground blowout

Siyamak Rostami (MSc, December 2013) Research interests: Geomechanics analysis of injector wells

Previous undergraduate Researchers: Anwar Alghamdi, Ross Teichman, Jack Cadigan, Sohrab Lahooty