Faculty - Ruben Juanes

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Ruben Juanes

ARCO Assistant Professor in Energy Studies

MIT
77 Massachusetts Ave
Room 48-319
Cambridge, MA, 02139

Telephone: 617.253.7191 e-mail: juanes@mit.edu Website: http://juanesgroup.mit.edu

 

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Education

  • Ingeniero de Caminos 1997, University of La Coruna, Spain
  • MS 1999, UC Berkeley
  • PhD 2003, UC Berkeley

Research Interests

My research is geared toward the understanding, modeling, simulation and quantitative prediction of multiphase flow in complex geophysical systems, with special application to petroleum reservoir engineering, groundwater hydrology, geological CO2 sequestration and gas hydrates in ocean sediments. My students and I develop analytical theories and numerical techniques that capture the multiscale phenomena ubiquitous to flow and transport in the environment.

Teaching Interests

  • 1.72 - Groundwater Hydrology
  • 1.723 - Computational Methods for Flow in Porous Media
  • 1.035 - Structural and Soil Mechanics

Selected Publications

  1. R. Juanes, C. W. MacMinn, and M. L. Szulczewski. The footprint of the CO2 plume during carbon dioxide storage in saline aquifers: storage efficiency for capillary trapping at the basin scale. Transport in Porous Media, in press (2009).
  2. L. Cueto-Felgueroso and R. Juanes. A phase-field model of unsaturated flow. Water Resources Research, 45, W10409 (2009).
  3. A. K. Jain and R. Juanes. Preferential mode of gas invasion in sediments: grain-scale mechanistic model of coupled multiphase fluid flow and sediment mechanics. Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, B08101 (2009).
  4. L. Cueto-Felgueroso and R. Juanes. Nonlocal interface dynamics and pattern formation in gravity-driven unsaturated flow through porous media. Physical Review Letters, 101, 244504 (2008).
  5. R. Juanes and F.-X. Dub. A locally-conservative variational multiscale method for the simulation of flow in porous media with multiscale source terms. Computational Geosciences, 12(3):273-295 (2008).
  6. R. Juanes, E. J. Spiteri, F. M. Orr, Jr., and M. J. Blunt. Impact of relative permeability hysteresis on geological CO2 storage. Water Resources Research, 42, W12418 (2006).