Lecture Title: Recent Challenges and Advances in Flow Simulation of Unconventional Tight Reservoirs: From Models to Algorithms
Prof. Shuyu Sun
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Shuyu Sun is a Professor of Earth Science and Engineering, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science and Energy Resource and Petroleum Engineering, Director of Computation Transport Phenomena Laboratory at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). He is a founding faculty member of KAUST since 2009. He holds or held a number of adjunct faculty positions across the world, including Adjunct Faculty in Clemson University, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Xi’an Jiao Tong University, China University of Petroleum and China University of Geosciences. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in computational and applied mathematics from The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Sun has published 330+ refereed journal articles and numerous conference papers. Based on Google Scholar, his total citation number (as of 1 March 2022) is 8420 with an h-index of 45. He has four papers recognized as “Highly Cited in Field in Web of Science”, and recently he published a book with Elsevier entitled “Reservoir Simulation: Machine Learning and Modeling”. Currently he is the president of InterPore (International Society for Porous Media) Saudi Chapter. He is also an editorial board member for Computational Geoscience, Gas Science and Engineering, and Journal of Computational Physics, three top journals in his field.