SOCIAL MEDIA RESEARCH FEATURES
We started a new feature this year on the department Facebook page. Every Friday during the school year a new #ResearchFeature post about some of the research being done in the department went live. Check out these snippets and photos from many of the posts from the past academic year, then make sure to follow us on Facebook to see this year’s features.
Thanks to student office worker Kailyn Regidor for contacting facul - ty and students and writing the posts!
Graduate student Xiangyu Yu, worked with Professor Yu-Shu Wu on an EGS Collab project with geological, geophysical and engineering exploration and
monitored tools that directly operated on a geothermal reservoir in South
Dakota. Those tools were used to stimulate hydraulic fractures into which
cold water could be injected for heat production. Below shows the model produced from the exploration data and the temperature distribution results
of our simulation when we consider a natural fracture network.
This features PhD student Ola Akrad and her research on Particulate Diversion Experimental Studies under the FAST consortium. Particulate diversion method
works by pumping diverting particles into the wellbore where they block
the path of least resistance and create a barrier. Pictured above is the APPA
equipment used and below are the diverters.
Ph.D. students Kagan Kutun and Aleksi Titov are working on the Fiber Optics Research Program. Their research consists of on-campus experimentation as well as research at the Edgar Mine. Fiber Optics Research Program is a multidisciplinary collaboration between P.E. and Geophysics research groups (FAST and RCP) and professors Dr. Jennifer Miskimins, Dr. Ali Tura, Dr. Ge Jin, Dr. Yilin Fan. The program's research focuses on subsurface distributed fiber optics
sensing methods via field data analysis, modeling, and experimentation. The picture above left depicts the flow loop experimentation in Alderson Hall. In which, the fiber, through DTS and DAS interrogation, is used to characterize the multiphase flow and heat transfer within the pipe. The second picture
belongs to the larger flow loop currently being constructed in Mines’s Edgar Mine.
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