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Overview

Hui-Hai Liu is affiliated with Saudi Aramco in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of engineering. Their work extensively covers several subfields including ocean engineering, mechanical engineering, mechanics of materials, environmental engineering, and nuclear and high energy physics.

Their main research topics focus on hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, reservoir engineering and simulation methods, drilling and well engineering, oil and gas production techniques, groundwater flow and contamination studies, and NMR spectroscopy and applications.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Incorporation of Physics into Machine Learning for Production Prediction from Unconventional Reservoirs: A Brief Review of the Gray-Box Approach (2021), SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering
  • Transfer Learning with Recurrent Neural Networks for Long-Term Production Forecasting in Unconventional Reservoirs (2022), SPE Journal
  • Modeling gas relative permeability in shales and tight porous rocks (2020), Fuel
  • Scale-dependent permeability and formation factor in porous media: Applications of percolation theory (2021), Fuel
  • Matrix permeability measurement from fractured unconventional source-rock samples: Method and application (2020), Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Hui-Hai Liu include Syamil Mohd Razak, Jodel Cornelio, Ravimadhav Vaidya, Behnam Jafarpour, and Feng Liang.

The scientist's research has been published predominantly in peer-reviewed venues such as SPE Journal, International Petroleum Technology Conference, Fuel, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, and Journal of Hydrology. Among these, the highest number of publications appear in SPE Journal and International Petroleum Technology Conference.

Best Publications

  • A New Coal-Permeability Model: Internal Swelling Stress and Fracture–Matrix Interaction

    Hui-Hai Liu;Jonny Rutqvist

  • On the relationship between stress and elastic strain for porous and fractured rock

    Hui-Hai Liu;Jonny Rutqvist;James G. Berryman

  • Fractional Brownian motion and fractional Gaussian noise in subsurface hydrology: A review, presentation of fundamental properties, and extensions

    F. J. Molz;H. H. Liu;J. Szulga

  • A triple-continuum approach for modeling flow and transport processes in fractured rock.

    Yu-Shu Wu;H.H. Liu;G.S. Bodvarsson

  • An active fracture model for unsaturated flow and transport in fractured rocks

    H. H. Liu;C. Doughty;G. S. Bodvarsson

  • Relationships between permeability, porosity and effective stress for low-permeability sedimentary rock

    Jiangtao Zheng;Jiangtao Zheng;Liange Zheng;Hui-Hai Liu;Yang Ju;Yang Ju

  • Coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical processes in the near field of a high-level radioactive waste repository in clay formations

    Chin-Fu Tsang;Chin-Fu Tsang;J. D. Barnichon;J. Birkholzer;X. L. Li

  • A water retention curve and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity model for deformable soils: consideration of the change in pore-size distribution

    R. Hu;Y.-F. Chen;H.-H. Liu;C.-B. Zhou

  • Modeling of Coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Processes with Links to Geochemistry Associated with Bentonite-Backfilled Repository Tunnels in Clay Formations

    Jonny Rutqvist;Liange Zheng;Fei Chen;Hui-Hai Liu

  • On the impact of temperatures up to 200 °C in clay repositories with bentonite engineer barrier systems: A study with coupled thermal, hydrological, chemical, and mechanical modeling

    Liange Zheng;Jonny Rutqvist;Jens T. Birkholzer;Hui-Hai Liu

  • Field-Scale Effective Matrix Diffusion Coefficient for Fractured Rock: Results From Literature Survey

    Quanlin Zhou;Hui Hai Liu;Fred J. Molz;Yingqi Zhang

  • Multifractal analyses of hydraulic conductivity distributions

    H. H. Liu;F. J. Molz

  • A Corrected and Generalized Successive Random Additions Algorithm for Simulating Fractional Levy Motions

    Hui-Hai Liu;Gudmundur S. Bodvarsson;Silong Lu;Fred J. Molz

  • On the relationship between water-flux and hydraulic gradient for unsaturated and saturated clay

    Hui-Hai Liu;Jens Birkholzer

  • Normal-stress dependence of fracture hydraulic properties including two-phase flow properties

    Hui-Hai Liu;Ming-Yao Wei;Jonny Rutqvist

  • A theoretical derivation of the Hoek–Brown failure criterion for rock materials

    Jianping Zuo;Huihai Liu;Hongtao Li

  • Two-phase flow properties of a horizontal fracture: The effect of aperture distribution

    Zuyang Ye;Zuyang Ye;Hui-Hai Liu;Qinghui Jiang;Qinghui Jiang;Chuangbing Zhou;Chuangbing Zhou

  • Constitutive relations for unsaturated flow in a fracture network

    Hui-Hai Liu;Gudmundur S. Bodvarsson

  • Modeling flow and transport in unsaturated fractured rock: an evaluation of the continuum approach.

    Hui-Hai Liu;Charles B. Haukwa;C.Fredrik Ahlers;Gudmundur S. Bodvarsson

  • An active region model for capturing fractal flow patterns in unsaturated soils: model development.

    Hui-Hai Liu;R. Zhang;R. Zhang;Gudmundur S. Bodvarsson

  • A triple-continuum approach for modeling flow and transport processes in fractured rock

    Yu-Shu Wu;H.H. Liu;G.S Bodvarsson;K .E. Zellmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Gudmundur S. Bodvarsson
Gudmundur S. Bodvarsson Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jonny Rutqvist
Jonny Rutqvist Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jens Birkholzer
Jens Birkholzer Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Quanlin Zhou
Quanlin Zhou Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Fred J. Molz
Fred J. Molz Clemson University
Stefan Finsterle
Stefan Finsterle Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Chuangbing Zhou
Chuangbing Zhou Nanchang University
Yu-Shu Wu
Yu-Shu Wu Colorado School of Mines
Yi-Feng Chen
Yi-Feng Chen Wuhan University
Eric Sonnenthal
Eric Sonnenthal Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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