Research Areas: Carbon Dioxide Capture, Conversion & Sequestration
Civil Engineering
Geosciences
Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering
Unconventional Oil & Gas
Education Background: • Postdoc, Stanford University
• PhD, The University of Texas at Austin
• BSc, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
About:
Yashar Mehmani is an assistant professor in the Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering (EME) at the Pennsylvania State University. He is also a co-funded faculty in the Institutes of Energy and the Environment (IEE). His research interests are broadly related to porous media flow and mechanics with a special focus on computing and scale translation. He is particularly interested in how microscale physics affect macroscopic observations and how predictive tools based on such knowledge can be built. Applications that motivate his research relate to sustainability aspects of subsurface energy production, groundwater contamination, and renewables. He did his undergraduate years at Sharif University of Technology, Iran, followed by a PhD at the University of Texas at Austin. He was then a postdoctoral fellow and later a research associate at the Energy Resources Engineering Department at Stanford University.
Research Interests:
• Porous media
• Computational fluid & solid mechanics
• Multiscale imaging of geomaterials
Memberships & Committees:
• American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• International Society for Porous Media (InterPore)
Honors & Awards:
• Center for Frontiers of Subsurface Energy Security award (2017)
• Graduate Student Professional Development Awards(2014)
• Gulf Coast regional SPE student paper contest 2nd place (2014)
• Graduate and Industry Networking (GAIN) Shell award (2014)
Lee, J., O. J. Cook, A. P. Argüelles, and Y. Mehmani, (2023). Imaging geomechanical properties of shales with infrared light, Fuel, v. 334, [126467].
Lee, J., O. J. Cook, A. P. Argüelles, and Y. Mehmani, (2023). Imaging geomechanical properties of shales with infrared light, Fuel, v. 334, [126467].
Mehmani, Y. and K. Li, (2023), A multiscale preconditioner for microscale deformation of fractured porous media, Journal of Computational Physics, v.482, [112061].
Mehmani, Y. and K. Xu, (2022). Pore-network modeling of Ostwald ripening in porous media: How do trapped bubbles equilibrate? Journal of Computational Physics, v. 457, [111041].
Mehmani, Y. T. Anderson, Y. Wang, S. A. Aryana, I. Battiato, H. A. Tchelepi, and A. R. Kovscek, (2021). Striving to translate shale physics across ten orders of magnitude: What have we learned?, Earth-Science Reviews, v. 223, [103848].
Mehmani, Y., N. Castelletto, and H. A. Tchelepi, (2021). Nonlinear convergence in contact mechanics: Immersed boundary finite volume, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, v. 383, [113929].
Mehmani, Y., N. Castelletto, and H. A. Tchelepia, (2021). Multiscale formulation of frictional contact mechanics at the pore scale, Journal of Computational Physics, v. 430, [110092].
Wang, C., Y. Mehmani, and K. Xu, (2021). Capillary equilibrium of bubbles in porous media, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 118 (17), [e2024069118].
Yuan, Q., Y. Mehmani, A. K. Burnham, A. Lapene, J. Wendebourg, and H. A. Tchelepia, (2020). Scaling analysis of coupled compaction, kerogen conversion, and petroleum expulsion during geological maturation, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, v. 192, [107285].
Mehmani, Y. and H. A. Tchelepi, (2018). Multiscale computation of pore-scale fluid dynamics: Single-phase flow, Journal of Computational Physics, v. 375 (15), pp.1469-1487.
