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Research Summary:

The research of my group concentrates on complex fluids and the flow of complex fluids in porous media. For this purpose, we are developing a combination of computer simulation techniques (including lattice-Boltzmann, Multi-Particle Collision Dynamics and Molecular Dynamics) and experimental techniques (micro-fluidics of pore scale flow, rheology and confocal laser scanning microscopy). After spending 15 years in the oil industry research with Schlumberger Cambridge Research, I have moved to Imperial College in 2009, to take up a position as Senior Lecturer in the Chemical Engineering Department. In this position, I am one of the Principal Investigators for the Qatar Carbonates and Carbon Storage Research Centre (QCCSRC), responsible for the research program on pore scale physics of CO2, brine and oil transport in porous media.

Keywords:

Asphaltenes, Calcite, Carbon, Intercalated Materials, Microporous Materials, Water, Colloids, Atomic Force Microscopy, Capillarity, Confined Fluids, Crystal Growth, Fluctuation Theorems, Fluid-Solid Interactions, Foams, Fracture, High Pressure, Interfaces, Nucleation, Self-Assembly, Self-Healing, Soft Condensed Matter, van der Waals, Clay-Polymer Systems, Membranes, Micromechanics, Nanofluids, Nanoparticles, Nanopores, Porous Media, Roughness, Surfactants, Free Energy, Rare Events, Coarse Graining Techniques, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Grand Canonical Monte Carlo, High-End Computing, Implicit Solvent Methods, Kinetic Monte Carlo, Massively Parallel Computing, Mesoscale Modelling, Monte Carlo Techniques, Petascale Computing, Porosity, Colloids, Clay-Polymer Systems, Membranes, Micromechanics, Nanofluids, Nanoparticles, Nanopores, Porous Media, Roughness, Surfactants, Free Energy, Rare Events

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