News

Drs. Gary Pope, Mojdeh Delshad, and Phil Bennett from The University of Texas at Austin and Dr. Marianne Walck from Sandia National Laboratory will attend DOE's Managerial Review meeting at the Germantown on May 14th, 2010.


Dr. Fenves Dean of Cockrell School of Engineering  highlighted the vision and focus of CFSES to college's external advisory board. (PDF document)
                                         

Outreach Program
CDI and CFSES funded by NSF and DOE held a successful outreach program at the University of Texas at Austin JJ Pickle Research Center on the June 15-16, 2010. 
Directors Meeting
This meeting was held in Washington D.C. on the March 1st, 2010.  Drs. Gary Pope and Mary Wheeler presented their report at this meeting from the University of Texas at Austin  

As soon as other events' dates and places are confirmed, they will be posted promptly. 

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Research Summary

The nation has embarked on a mission to ensure an energy-secure future, and the starting point of that mission lies beneath the Earth's surface.

This gives rise to better understanding of coupled physical processes that operate across a vast range of scales, from the atom to large geological formations, from nanoseconds to millennia. 

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Strategic Management Team

The University of Texas will manage and operate the CFSES with a close collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories (SNL). CFSES pulls strategic partnership with the Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering (CPGE), The Institute of Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES), The Cockrell School of Engineering (CSE), and Jackson School of Geosciences (JSG).

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Center for Frontiers of Subsurface Energy Security (CFSES)

Our goal is a scientific understanding subsurface physical, chemical and biological processes from the very small scale to the very large scale so that we can predict the behavior of CO2 and other by product of energy production that may need to be stored in the subsurfaces.  Therefore, We  need to integrate and expand our knowledge of subsurface phenomena across scientific disciplines using both experimental and modeling approaches to better understand and quantify behavior far from equilibrium.

The unique aspect of this approach is the uncertainty and complexity of fluids in geologic media from the molecular scale to the basin scale.

Ultimately, we will obtain capabilities to predict log term behavior of subsurface storage.

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Management Structure and Project Leaders


 

 

  • Coupled physical and biogeochemical complexity at the subpore scale; Phillip Bennett, Susan Altman
  • Multiphase reactive flow and mechanics at pore to continuum scales; Steven Bryant, Thomas Dewers
  • Coupled mechanics, reactions, flow, and transport at the continuum to field scales; Sanjay Srinivasan, Sean McKenna
  • Simulation of multiscale, multiphysics, heterogeneous systems; Todd Arbogast, Mike Stone


Highlights
  •  Dr. Gary Pope the CFSES director has been named the recipient of Oil-Chem Technologies LLP; 2010 award for outstanding contribution to chemical enhanced oil recovery .
  • Dr. Mary Wheeler a PI and associate director of CFSES was interviewed by Cockrell School of Engineering to discuss the role of computation in engineering.      Read More
  • Dr. Mary Wheeler has been elected a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences for her outstanding contribution to her profession, nation and the world.         Read More