Abdullah Cihan

Staff Scientist

Building 074, Room 0203

M/S 74R316C

Phone: 510-495-2997

Biography

Abdullah Cihan is a Staff Scientist in the Energy Geosciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His general research area is transport phenomena in subsurface environments, with emphasis on theoretical description of flow and transport processes affected by heterogeneities across scales. His research applications have been related to geologic carbon sequestration, gas/oil production from unconventional reservoirs, evaporation from soil, land-mine detection in soil and groundwater remediation.

Awards

Best graduate student award, with professional promise in Biosystems Engineering, Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science Department, University of Tennessee Knoxville, 2008
Graduate student grant to attend the Kirkham Conference, University of California Davis, February 24-26th, 2008
Graduate Student Travel fund to attend the 2007 American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, by Office of the Dean of Students, University of Tennessee, 2007
Scholarship (tuition, board, and lodging) for attending The Summer School in Geophysical Porous Media, funded by The National Science Foundation (NSF), Purdue University, July 17-28th, 2006
Graduate student scholarship, the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), 2004

Code Development

Brine flow simulator, Mix3d_H2O_NaCl (The Finite Volume Method-based numerical solution of water and NaCl mixing in porous media). This code has been used for NRAP project studies for the DOE-BEST project.
MDPD, Many-body dissipative particle dynamics simulator. This is a computer code solving Newton’s equations for fluid particles/molecules at pore-scale. The code has been used for the project ‘Understanding Water Controls on Shale Gas Mobilization into Fractures’ funded by NETL.
CDE, Constrained differential evolution algorithm for optimization. The code has been used for CCSMR, NRAP and DOE-BEST projects.
TP3D_HYST, Hysteretic two-phase flow modeling code. The code, including new hysteretic capillary pressure-saturation-relative permeability models has been used for multiple CO₂ storage projects.
ASLMA, Analytical Solution for leakage in multilayered aquifers. Its development was funded by EPA. The code has been used in multiple projects.
MIP, Macroscopic invasion percolation simulator. The code was used for the DOE project in partnership with Princeton University.
MIPDLA- Numerical solution of two-phase flow in heterogeneous systems combining diffusion-limited aggregation and macroscopic invasion percolation methods. The code was used for investigations during the DOE project in partnership with Princeton University.
IP3D- Computer code simulating quasi-steady multiphase flow processes at pore-network systems. The code was used for upscaling studies in the DOE project in partnership with CSM and NRAP projects.
UPSCALE2PF- Upscaling two-phase flow parameters for large-scale simulations using subgrid scale measurements. Software developed for upscaling two-phase flow properties in heterogeneous large-scale reservoirs using invasion percolation method, analytical methods and numerical solution of flow equations. Funded through 'NRAP, National Risk Assessment Partnership' project by DOE-FE.