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Overview

David A. DiCarlo is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of engineering and environmental science, with significant contributions across several specialized subfields including ocean engineering, mechanical engineering, mechanics of materials, environmental engineering, and environmental chemistry.

Their work extensively covers topics related to hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, enhanced oil recovery techniques, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, CO2 sequestration and geologic interactions, methane hydrates and related phenomena, reservoir engineering and simulation methods, as well as drilling and well engineering.

Among recent academic publications, these notable papers are included:

  • Geologic Heterogeneity Controls on Trapping and Migration of CO2 (2022), published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • Hydrate is a Nonwetting Phase in Porous Media (2020), published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • Monitoring Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Operations (2022), published in PRX Energy
  • Monitoring methane emissions from oil and gas operations (2022), published in Optics Express
  • Experimental study on the formation damage caused by gas fracturing fluids (2020), published in Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

David A. DiCarlo frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Anuradha Radhakrishnan
  • Maša Prodanović
  • T. A. Meckel
  • Kehua You
  • R. Orbach

The scholar has multiple publications in these prominent venues:

  • SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition
  • SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Transport in Porous Media
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Their research is distributed broadly over 69 publications in engineering and 30 in environmental science. The subfields reflect a multidisciplinary approach that connects ocean and mechanical engineering to environmental and materials sciences. The main topics addressed by their work include methods and analyses relevant to energy extraction, carbon management, and environmental impact assessment.

Best Publications

  • Physics of water repellent soils

    T. W.J. Bauters;T. S. Steenhuis;David DiCarlo;J. L. Nieber

  • Preferential Flow in Water-Repellent Sands

    Tim W. J. Bauters;Tammo S. Steenhuis;Jean-Yves Parlange;David A. DiCarlo

  • Experimental measurements of saturation overshoot on infiltration

    David A. DiCarlo

  • Measurement of aperture distribution, capillary pressure, relative permeability, and in situ saturation in a rock fracture using computed tomography scanning

    Stephanie P. Bertels;David A. DiCarlo;Martin J. Blunt

  • Size-dependent properties of silica nanoparticles for Pickering stabilization of emulsions and foams

    Ijung Kim;Andrew J. Worthen;Keith P. Johnston;David A. DiCarlo

  • Soil water content dependent wetting front characteristics in sands

    T. W.J. Bauters;David DiCarlo;T. S. Steenhuis;J. Y. Parlange

  • Three-Phase Relative Permeability of Water-Wet, Oil-Wet, and Mixed-Wet Sandpacks

    D.A. DiCarlo;Sahni Akshay;M.J. Blunt

  • The effect of wettability on three-phase relative permeability

    David A. Dicarlo;Akshay Sahni;Martin J. Blunt

  • Experimental measurement of air-water interfacial area during gravity drainage and secondary imbibition in porous media

    C. E. Schaefer;David DiCarlo;M. J. Blunt

  • Enhancing Hydrocarbon Permeability After Hydraulic Fracturing: Laboratory Evaluations of Shut-Ins and Surfactant Additives

    Tianbo Liang;Rafael A. Longoria;Jun Lu;Quoc P. Nguyen

  • Visualization by light transmission of oil and water contents in transient two-phase flow fields

    Christophe J.G. Darnault;James A. Throop;David A. DiCarlo;Alon Rimmer

  • Stability of gravity‐driven multiphase flow in porous media: 40 Years of advancements

    David A. DiCarlo

  • Evaluation of wettability alteration and IFT reduction on mitigating water blocking for low-permeability oil-wet rocks after hydraulic fracturing

    Tianbo Liang;Fujian Zhou;Jun Lu;David DiCarlo

  • Chemical and Hydrodynamic Mechanisms for Long-Term Geological Carbon Storage

    Susan J Altman;Behdad Aminzadeh;Matthew T. Balhoff;Phillip C. Bennett

  • Measurement of fluid contents by light transmission in transient three‐phase oil‐water‐air systems in sand

    C. J G Darnault;David DiCarlo;T. W J Bauters;A. R. Jacobson

  • Lateral expansion of preferential flow paths in sands

    David A. DiCarlo;Tim W. J. Bauters;Christophe J. G. Darnault;Tammo S. Steenhuis

  • Aggregation of silica nanoparticles and its impact on particle mobility under high-salinity conditions

    Ijung Kim;Amir Taghavy;David DiCarlo;Chun Huh

  • Water Blocks in Tight Formations: The Role of Matrix/Fracture Interaction in Hydrocarbon-Permeability Reduction and Its Implications in the Use of Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques

    Rafael A. Longoria;Tianbo Liang;Uyen T. Huynh;Quoc P. Nguyen

  • Evaluating the Performance of Surfactants in Enhancing Flowback and Permeability after Hydraulic Fracturing through a Microfluidic Model

    Tianbo Liang;Ke Xu;Jun Lu;Quoc Nguyen

  • Capillary pressure overshoot as a function of imbibition flux and initial water content

    David A. DiCarlo

  • High-speed measurements of three-phase flow using synchrotron X rays

    David DiCarlo;T. W.J. Bauters;T. S. Steenhuis;J. Y. Parlange

Frequent Co-Authors

Tammo S. Steenhuis
Tammo S. Steenhuis Cornell University
Chun Huh
Chun Huh The University of Texas at Austin
Maša Prodanović
Maša Prodanović The University of Texas at Austin
Peter B. Flemings
Peter B. Flemings The University of Texas at Austin
Quoc Phuc Nguyen
Quoc Phuc Nguyen The University of Texas at Austin
Steven L. Bryant
Steven L. Bryant University of Calgary
Keith P. Johnston
Keith P. Johnston The University of Texas at Austin
Hassan Dehghanpour
Hassan Dehghanpour University of Alberta
Martin J. Blunt
Martin J. Blunt Imperial College London
Jean-Yves Parlange
Jean-Yves Parlange Cornell University

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