[Sep 20, 2024] News article published on our interactions with the Center for Quantitative Imaging (CQI) at Penn State. [link]

[Aug 27, 2024] Ali Nayem joins our group as a PhD student. Welcome Ali. [link]

[Aug 26, 2024] Tahmid Siddiqui joins our group as a PhD student. Welcome Tahmid. [link]

[Aug 16, 2024] Zahid Laku joins our group as a PhD student. Welcome Zahid. [link]

[Aug 15, 2024] Sabit Khan completes a successful internship at Geothermal Technologies Inc collaborating with scientists at Johns Hopkins University, Maryland. Welcome back Sabit. [link]

[June 23, 2024] We are organizing a session on "Pore-Scale Physics: Advances in Experiments, Modeling, and Theory" with Bo Guo, Wen Song, and Vitalii Starchenko in the upcoming American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference in Washington D.C. from Dec 9-13. Abstract sumission is open from now until July 31, 2024. [link]

[June 23, 2024] We are organizing a session on "Pore-scale processes of multiphase flow, transport, and geomechanics: modeling, model-data interaction, numerical algorithms, and upscaling" with Xiaojing (Ruby) Fu, Julien Maes, and Sidian Chen in the upcoming Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR) conference in Tucson, Arizona from Sep 30 to Oct 3. [link]

[June 1, 2024] Yashar Mehmani and Prof. Anne Menefee at Penn State record a podcast with Kevin Sliman from the Institute of Energy and the Environment (IEE) at Penn State on Underground Carbon Storage as part of the Growing Impact series. [ link]

[April 30, 2024] Sabit Khan receives supplemental funding from the National Science Foundation to complete an internship on geothermal energy extraction at Geothermal Technologies Inc. during Summer 2024. Congratulations Sabit.

[Dec 16, 2023] Group attends the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference in San Francisco, California, and presents their work. (Dec 10-15). [ link1, link2, link3 ]

[Dec 15, 2022] Organized session on "Pore-Scale Physics: Recent Advances in Experimental and Computational Methods" with Bo Guo, Benzhong (Robin) Zhao, and Lauren Beckingham in the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference. [link]

[Dec 15, 2022] Organized session on "Underground Storage of Carbon and Energy: Understanding the Physics and the Regulatory Landscape" with Saman Aryana, Qingwang Yuan, and Bolivia Vega in the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference. [link]

[Nov 13, 2023] Congratulations to Sabit Khan for successfully passing his PhD comprehensive exam.

[Sep 25, 2023] We have a fully-funded PhD opening in our group for a start date of Fall 2024 or earlier. [apply here]

[July 25, 2023] Yashar Mehmani publishes opinion piece on role of porous media in the energy transition (July 23-27). [link]

[May 11, 2023] Congratulations to Nicolas Bueno for successfully passing his PhD comprehensive exam.

[April 27, 2023] Yashar Mehmani will deliver a talk in the SIAM Mathematical & Computational Issues in the Geosciences (GS23) conference in Bergen, Norway (June 19-22). [link]

[April 27, 2023] Congratulations to Kangan Li for receiving the USNCCM17 Travel Award to attend the 17th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM) in Albuquerque, New Mexico (July 23-27). [link]

[April 19, 2023] Group will attend the 17th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM) in Albuquerque, New Mexico (July 23-27). [link]

[March 30, 2023] Group will attend virtually the 15th Annual International Conference on Porous Media (InterPore2023) in Edinburgh, Scotland. (May 22-25). [link]

[March 13, 2023] Group publishes a paper on a multiscale formulation of elastic deformation in fractured porous materials. Congratulations to Kangan Li, our postdoc who led this work. [link]

[March 6, 2023] Group publishes a paper on a multiscale preconditioner for fracture mechanics computations in porous media. [link]

[March 2, 2023] Group receives grant to explore CO2 storage by mineralization in porous rocks.Penn State News. [link]

[Dec 14, 2022] Group attends the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference and presents their work. [link1, link2, link3, link4]

[Dec 14, 2022] Organized session on "Pore-Scale Physics: Recent Advances in Experimental and Computational Methods" with Bo Guo, Xiaojing (Ruby) Fu, and Vernonica Morales in the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference. [link]

[Oct 18, 2022] Group has a PhD opening in subsurface characterization and modeling. Contact Yashar Mehmani (yzm5192@psu.edu).

[Oct 18, 2022] Group will attend the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference in Chicago (Dec 11-16). [link]

[May 31, 2022] Yashar Mehmani delivers a talk at the Interpore conference. [link]

[May 30, 2022] Organized a minisymposium on "Pore-scale modeling" with Bo Guo, Ke Xu, Yongfei Yang, and Stephane Zeleski at the InterPore conference (May 30 - June 2, 2022). [link]

[May 18, 2022] Group publishes paper on modeling solute-driven ganglion evolution in porous media. [link]

[May 9, 2022] Kangan Li joins our group as a postdoctoral scholar. [link]

[March 8, 2022] Yashar Mehmani receives the NSF CAREER award. [link 1, link 2]

[Feb 9, 2022] Group publishes paper on modeling and theory of Ostwald ripening in porous media. [link]

[Jan 20, 2022] Postdoctoral position opens up in the group on computational mechanics (expected start Aug 2022). [application link]

[Jan 1, 2022] Sabit Mahmood Khan joins the group. [link]

[Dec 17, 2021] Organized session on "Advances in the Study of Nonequilibrium Geochemical and Physical Processes in Extreme Subsurface Environments" with Takeshi Kurotori, Pania Newell, and Vincent Noel in the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference. [link]

[Dec 14, 2021] Organized session on "Pore-Scale Physics: Recent Advances in Experimental and Computational Methods" with Bo Guo, Francisco Carrillo, and Hamdi Tchelepi in the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference. [link]

[Dec 13, 2021] Yashar Mehmani delivers invited talk at the American Geophyisical Union (AGU) conference. [link]

[Dec 7, 2021] Yashar Mehmani becomes an affiliate of the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) at Penn State. [link]

[Dec 1, 2021] PhD position available in the group in the area of multiphase flow in porous media. [link]

[Nov 4, 2021] Group publishes review article on scale translation of physicochemical processes in microstructurally complex geomaterials such as shales with collaborators from Stanford University, University of Wyoming, and Delft University. [link]

[Oct 26, 2021] Organizing a minisymposium on "Pore-scale Modelling" with Bo Guo, Ke Xu, Yongfei Yang, and Stephane Zeleski in the upcoming InterPore conference (May 30 - June 3, 2022). [link]

[Oct 12, 2021] Yashar Mehmani joins the Consortium for Integrated Energy Systems (CIES) at Penn State's Institutes of Energy and the Environment (IEE).Penn State News. [link]

[Aug 16, 2021] Jungin (Donna) Lee joins the group. [link]

[Aug 13, 2021] Group receives grant to explore interplay between infrared imaging and geomechanics.Penn State News. [link]