Xiaolong Yin
Assistant
Professor
Petroleum
Engineering
Colorado
School of Mines
223
Alderson Hall
Golden,
Colorado 80401
Ph:
(303)384-2449
Fax:
(303)273-3189
Email:
xyin@mines.edu
Contents
Education
PhD,
Chemical Engineering,
MS,
Mechanical Engineering,
BS,
Theoretical & Applied Mechanics,
Research
Interest
Suspension,
multiphase flow, transport and reactions in porous media, laboratory enhanced
oil recovery (EOR) and fluid PVT studies.
Research Projects
§ Dynamics of gas-solid and liquid-solid suspensions
§ Numerical modeling of CO2 sequestration
in saline aquifers (Funded by US DOE NETL, 2009-2013)
§ Pore-scale modeling of multiphase flow in porous
media (Funded by RPSEA, 2010-2013)
§ Cryogenic hydraulic fracturing (Funded by RPSEA,
2012-2015)
§ Experimental study of porosity/permeability change
induced by stress
§ Laboratory study of gas EOR and sequestration
Group Members
§ Feng Xiao
(PhD): Lattice-Boltzmann simulation of multiphase flow in porous media.
§ Lei Wang
(PhD): Simulation of non-continuum flow in porous media
§ Ronglei Zhang
(PhD): Numerical modeling of geochemical reactions during CO2
geological sequestration in saline aquifers (co-advise with Professor Yu-Shu
Wu).
§ Wei Xu (MS):
Multiphase flow in microfluidic porous media analogs.
§ Midowa
Gbededo (MS): Lattice-Boltzmann modeling of slip flow of gases in nano-sized pores.
§ Vladimir
Petunin (MS): Effect of cyclic pressure / stress on rock porosity /
permeability.
§ Kelly Ramirez
(MS): Slim tube study of CO2 injection into saline aquifer and CO2-EOR.
Graduated
Group Members
§ Michael Newman (MS May 2010): “Lattice-Boltzmann Study of Non-Darcy Flows in Synthetic 2D and 3D Porous Media Models and Numerical Characterization of Tortuosity”
Publications
§ Yin XL, Koch
DL, Verberg R. Lattice-Boltzmann
method for simulating spherical bubbles with no tangential stress boundary
conditions. Phys. Rev. E. 73:026301, 2006.
§ Yin XL, Koch
DL. Hindered settling velocity and
microstructure in suspensions of solid spheres with moderate Reynolds numbers.
Phys. Fluids, 19:093302, 2007.
§ Yin XL, Koch
DL. Velocity variance and hydrodynamic
diffusion in finite-Reynolds-number sedimenting
suspensions. Phys. Fluids 20:043305, 2008.
§ Yin XL, Koch
DL. The lift force on a bubble in a
sheared suspension in a slightly inclined channel. J. Fluid Mech.
615:27-51, 2008.
§ Yin XL, Koch
DL. Lattice-Boltzmann simulation of
finite Reynolds number buoyancy-driven bubbly flows in periodic and
wall-bounded domains. Phys. Fluids 20:103304, 2008.
§ Yin XL,
Sundaresan S. Drag law for bidisperse gas-solid suspensions
containing equally sized spheres. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 42:227-241,
2009.
§ Wang LY, Koch
DL, Yin XL, Cohen C. Hydrodynamic
diffusion and mass transfer across a sheared suspension of neutrally buoyant
spheres. Phys. Fluids 21:033303, 2009.
§ Yin
XL, Sundaresan S. Fluid-particle drag in low-Reynolds-number polydisperse gas-solid
suspensions. AIChE J. 55:1352-1368, 2009.
§ To D, Yin XL,
Dave R, Sundaresan S. Deagglomeration of nanoparticle
aggregates via rapid expansion of high-pressure suspensions. AIChE J. 55:2807-2826, 2009.
§ Holloway W,
Yin XL, Sundaresan S. Fluid-particle drag
in inertial polydisperse gas-solid suspensions. AIChE J. 56:1995-2004, 2010.
§ Yang C, Zhang
JS, Koch DL, Yin XL. Mass/heat transfer
from a neutrally buoyant sphere in simple shear flow at finite Reynolds and Peclet numbers. AIChE J.
57:1419-1433, 2010.
§ Yong YM, Yang
C, Jiang Y, Joshi A, Shi YC, Yin XL. Numerical
simulation of immiscible liquid-liquid flow in microchannels
using lattice-Boltzmann method. Sci. China Chem. 54:244-2256, 2011.
Conference Papers
§ Yin XL, Xiao
F, Sundaresan S. Permeability in fixed
beds of spheres with size distributions and stochastically generated porous
media analogs. In Porous Media and
Its Applications in Science, Engineering, and Industry, AIP Conference
Proceedings 1254:15-20, 2010.
§ Petunin VV,
Tutuncu AN, Prasad M, Kazemi H, Yin XL. An
experimental study for investigating the stress dependence of permeability in
sandstones and carbonates. ARMA 11-279, 2011.
§ Newman M, Yin
XL. Lattice Boltzmann simulation of
non-Darcy flow in stochastically generated 2D porous media geometries. SPE
146689, 2011.
§ Petunin VV,
Yin XL, Tutuncu AN. Stress permeability
behavior of sandstones and carbonates and correlation to rock texture. SPE
147401, 2011.
Links
Marathon
Center of Excellence in Reservoir Studies (MCERS)
Biographical
Information
In
construction.
Last revised: 08-04-2011