Energy, Environment and  Multiphase Flow (EEMF) 

April 2023: Western Region Center of Excellence IAC to be established at SFSU with SJSU and SDSU as partners through funding from the US Department of Energy.

May 2022: Awarded a grant from the Department of Energy to establish an Industrial Assessment Center at SJSU (news coverage).

May 2022: Samuel Simmons and Mingjia (Chris) Xu presented their work at the InterPore 2022 conference. 

Mar 2022: Attended the SEMI-THERM conference. Ty Kieger presented his work on microchannel heatsinks. 

Oct 2021: My review paper on carbon capture, sequestration and utilization was accepted for publication in Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology.

Jul 2021: Our paper on dynamics of multiphase flow of supercritical CO2 and water in porous media was accepted for publication in Frontiers in Water.

Mar 2021: Our paper on segmentation of raw PIV images was accepted for publication in Measurement Science and Technology.

Mar 2021: Attended (virtually) SEMI-THERM conference and presented Guotai's work on modeling of vapor chambers. 

Dec 2020: Our paper on flow over permeable beds with biofilm was accepted for publication in Water Resources Research.

Dec 2020: Attended (virtually) 2020 AGU Fall Meeting. Co-convened and chaired a session at with Yaofa Li of Montana State University. 

Aug 2020: Ty Kieger joined the group to pursue his MS thesis research. 

Jul 2020: Awarded a grant from American Chemical Society - Petroleum Research Fund to study heat transfer in porous media.

Feb 2020: Awarded a grant from California Air Resources Board (CARB) to study carbon utilization technologies.

Dec 2019: Attended 2019 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, where Michaela had an oral presentation on interfacial curvature and capillary pressure in scCO2-water flow in micromodels.

Aug 2019: Moved to San José State University. 

May 2019: Attended InterPore 2019 in Valencia, Spain and presented Michaela's poster on interfacial curvature and capillary pressure in scCO2-water flow in micromodels.

Nov 2018: Review paper on use of microfluidics in porous media studies published Transport in Porous Media [link].

Aug 2018: Awarded a grant from NSF to study  intermittency in multiphase flow [link].

Jun 2018: New experimental course ENGR 296A - Experimental Methods for Fluids proposed by Dr. Kazemifar and Dr. Poindexter from Civil Engineering department is approved for Fall 2018.

May 2018: Offered "Micromodels for Porous Media Research: Fabrication and Optical Measurement Techniques" short-course at InterPore 2018 together. 

Dec 2017: Attended AGU Fall Meeting in New Orleans, organized a session and presented a poster on our work with undergraduate student Ava Hurlock.