Chuan Lu

instructional research staff

phone 801.587.8368
faX 801.585.3540

EMAIL
CLU@egi.utah.edu

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Languages

• English
• Chinese

Professional research interests and expertise

• Carbon Sequestration
• High performance computing in geoscience
• In-situ combustion for enhanced oil recovery
• Multiphase reactive flow in porous media

Education –

• 1995 B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, P.R. China
• 1998 M.S. in Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, P.R. China
• 2003 Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, University of Southern California

Professional Memberships–

• AICHE
• SPE

Publications –

Lu, C., and Yortsos, Y.C., Dynamics of Forward Filtration Combustion at the Pore-Network Level, AIChEJ, 51(4), 1279 (2005) 

Lu, C., and Yortsos, Y.C., Pattern Formation in Reverse Filtration Combustion, Phys.Rev.E 72, 036201 (2005).

Lu, C., and Yortsos, Y.C., Percolation Phenomena in Filtration Combustion, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 43, 3008 (2004).

Presentations -

Hammond, G., P. Lichtner, and C. Lu (2007) Subsurface multiphase flow and multicomponentreactive transport modeling using high-performance computing, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser., 78, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/78/1/012025.

Lu, C. and P. C. Lichtner(2007) High resolution numerical investigation on the effect of convective instability on long term CO2 storage insaline aquifers, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser., 78, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/78/1/012042

Lichtner, P. C. Lu, C., Development of the Massively Parallel Computer Model PFLOTRAN with Application to CO2 Sequestration, paper presented at SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences (March 19, 2007 , Santa Fe)

Lichtner, P. C. Lu, C., Numerical Investigation of CO2 Sequestration in Geologic Media Using the Massively Parallel Computer Code PFLOTRAN, paper presented at the Computational Methods in Water Resources – XVI Meeting (June 19, 2006 , Copenhagen, Denmark)

Lu, C., Lichtner, P. C. and Tsimpanogiannis, I.N., Parametric Study of CO2 Sequestration in Geologic Media Using the Massively Parallel Computer Code PFLOTRAN, abstract submitted, paper presented at the 2005 AGU Fall Meeting (December 5-9, San Francisco)

Akkutlu, IY; Lu, C.; Yortsos, YC, Insights into In-situ Combustion by Analytical and Pore-network Modeling, paper presented in SPE/PS-CIM/CHOA International Thermal Operations and Heavy Oil Symposium Proceedings, 2005; v.2005, p.B397-B411

Lu, C. and Lichtner, P.C., PFLOTRAN: Massively Parallel 3-D Simulator for CO2 Sequestration in Geologic Media, paper presented at the Fourth Annual Conference on Carbon Capture & Sequestration Alexandria, Virginia (May 2-5, 2005)

Lu, C., Kechagia, P., Yortsos, Y. C., and Lichtner, P., Non-Local Upscaling of Reaction-Transport in Porous Media Using a Hybrid Algorithm, paper presented at the AIChE Fall Meeting, Reno, NV (November 5-8, 2001).

Lu, C., and Yortsos, Y.C., A Pore-Network Model of Combustion in Porous Media, paper SPE 69705 presented at the International Thermal Operations and Heavy Oil Symposium (ITOHOS), Margarita Island, Venezuela (March 12-14, 2001).

Lu, C., and Yortsos, Y. C., A Pore-Network Model of Smoldering Combustion, paper presented at the AIChE Fall Meeting, Los Angeles, CA (November 12-17, 2000).

Lu, C. and Yortsos, Y.C., The Dynamics of Combustion in Porous Media at the Pore-Network Scale, paper presented at the 7th European Conference on the Mathematics of Oil Recovery, Baveno, Lago Maggiore, Italy (Sept. 5-8, 2000).