Contact:
614 River Terrace
Rocco Building Room 308
Hoboken, NJ 07030
Phone: 201-216-5536
Email: cchen6 at stevens dot edu
B.S. Tsinghua University, 2003
M.S. Northwestern University, 2005
Ph.D. Northwestern University, 2008
Single and multiphase flow in porous and fractured media
Multiscale numerical modeling of flow and transport in geologic formations
Granular geomechanics
Data analytics and machine learning
Applications to subsurface energy, water, and environmental systems, such as oil and gas recovery, geological carbon sequestration, geological disposal of nuclear waste, subsurface environmental remediation, subsurface hydrogen storage, geothermal energy recovery, and groundwater flow
Dr. Chen’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Defense (DoD), American Chemical Society (ACS), and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Some of the current and past research projects are:
High-Temperature Testing of Proppants for EGS and Simulation of Electromagnetic Fracture Mapping Using Electrically-Conductive Proppants (DOE and Utah-FORGE)
Impact of Permeability Heterogeneity on Solute Dispersion in Unsaturated Porous Media (NSF)
Development of full understanding of mechanical-chemical coupling in bentonite THMC processes using experimental and deep learning methods (DOE)
Fundamentals of particulate amendment transport and compaction in hydraulic fractures and the application to effective remediation in low-permeability clay (DoD)
Development of a machine-learning-based, scale-bridging data assimilation framework with applications to geologic carbon sequestration (DOE)
The role of a heterogeneous permeability field on miscible density-driven convection in porous media and the applications to geological carbon sequestration (NSF)
Fundamentals of proppant compaction and embedment in hydraulic fractures (ACS)
The role of temperature on non-Darcian flow in low-permeability porous media and the applications to geological disposal of high-level nuclear waste (DOE)
The influences of heterogeneous surface wettability and varying dimensionless numbers (Capillary number, viscosity ratio, contact angle, etc.) on the multiphase flow properties in geologic formations (DOE)
Enhanced oil recovery in shale-oil reservoirs using cyclic CO2 huff-and-puff
Effects of streambed heterogeneity and anisotropy on hyporheic exchange
Fluid Mechanics
Numerical Methods for Civil and Environmental Engineering
Numerical Methods for Fluid Flow in Petroleum Reservoirs
Flow and Transport in Porous Media
Groundwater Engineering
Geoenergy Engineering Fundamentals
Graduate Seminar
Associate Editor, SPE Journal, 2016 - 2019