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Matthew T. Balhoff is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Engineering, with significant contributions in several subfields including Ocean Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Environmental Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientific topics that Matthew T. Balhoff has extensively worked on include:

  • Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Drilling and Well Engineering
  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions

Their recent papers cover various aspects of fluid dynamics, reservoir analysis, and enhanced oil recovery. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Dynamic Contact Angle Reformulates Pore-Scale Fluid-Fluid Displacement at Ultralow Interfacial Tension", 2020, SPE Journal
  • "Geometric Criteria for the Snap-Off of a Non-Wetting Droplet in Pore-Throat Channels With Rectangular Cross-Sections", 2021, Water Resources Research
  • "Self-adaptive preferential flow control using displacing fluid with dispersed polymers in heterogeneous porous media", 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • "Optimization of subsurface CO2 injection based on neural network surrogate modeling", 2021, Computational Geosciences
  • "Enhanced oil recovery with anionic and zwitterionic surfactants in carbonate rocks: A CT-aided investigation", 2021, Fuel

Frequent co-authors of Matthew T. Balhoff include:

  • Moises Velasco-Lozano
  • Kishore K. Mohanty
  • Lucas Mejía
  • D. Nicolás Espinoza
  • Yujing Du

The venues where Matthew T. Balhoff most often publishes are:

  • SPE Journal
  • SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference
  • Fuel
  • Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
  • SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Best Publications

  • Assessing the utility of FIB-SEM images for shale digital rock physics

    Shaina Kelly;Hesham El-Sobky;Carlos Torres-Verdin;Matthew Thomas Balhoff

  • Numerical Analysis for Promoting Uniform Development of Simultaneous Multiple-Fracture Propagation in Horizontal Wells

    Kan Wu;Jon Olson;Matthew T. Balhoff;Wei Yu

  • Effect of Reservoir Heterogeneity on Primary Recovery and CO2 Huff 'n' Puff Recovery in Shale-Oil Reservoirs

    Cheng Chen;Matthew Thomas Balhoff;Kishore Mohanty

  • Reservoir simulation and optimization of Huff-and-Puff operations in the Bakken Shale

    Daniel Sanchez-Rivera;Kishore Mohanty;Matthew Thomas Balhoff

  • Intercomparison of 3D pore-scale flow and solute transport simulation methods

    Xiaofan Yang;Yashar Mehmani;William A. Perkins;Andrea Pasquali

  • Reduction of Residual Oil Saturation in Sandstone Cores by Use of Viscoelastic Polymers

    Pengpeng Qi;Daniel H. Ehrenfried;Heesong Koh;Matthew T. Balhoff

  • A Predictive Pore-Scale Model for Non-Darcy Flow in Porous Media

    Matthew Thomas Balhoff;Mary F Wheeler

  • Numerical Analysis for Promoting Uniform Development of Simultaneous Multiple Fracture Propagation in Horizontal Wells

    Kan Wu;Jon Olson;Matthew T. Balhoff;Wei Yu

  • Mortar coupling and upscaling of pore-scale models

    Matthew T. Balhoff;Sunil G. Thomas;Mary F. Wheeler

  • Coupling pore-scale networks to continuum-scale models of porous media

    Matthew T. Balhoff;Karsten E. Thompson;Martin Hjortsø

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

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

  • Rheological and yield stress measurements of non-Newtonian fluids using a Marsh Funnel

    Matthew Thomas Balhoff;Larry W Lake;Paul M. Bommer;Rebecca E. Lewis

  • Pore-scale and continuum simulations of solute transport micromodel benchmark experiments

    M. Oostrom;Y. Mehmani;P. Romero-Gomez;Y. Tang

  • Surfactant flooding in oil-wet micromodels with high permeability fractures

    Lucas Mejia;Mohsen Tagavifar;Ke Xu;Miguel Mejia

  • Multiblock Pore-Scale Modeling and Upscaling of Reactive Transport: Application to Carbon Sequestration

    Y. Mehmani;T. Sun;Matthew Thomas Balhoff;Peter Eichhubl

  • CO2 charged brines changed rock strength and stiffness at Crystal Geyser, Utah: Implications for leaking subsurface CO2 storage reservoirs

    D. Nicolas Espinoza;Hojung Jung;Jonathan R. Major;Zhuang Sun

  • Effect of Reservoir Heterogeneity on Improved Shale Oil Recovery by CO2 Huff-n-Puff

    Kishore K Mohanty;Cheng Chen;Matthew Thomas Balhoff

  • New Method To Reduce Residual Oil Saturation by Polymer Flooding

    Mehmet Z. Erincik;Pengpeng Qi;Matthew T. Balhoff;Gary A. Pope

  • Mesoscale and Hybrid Models of Fluid Flow and Solute Transport

    Yashar Mehmani;Matthew Thomas Balhoff

  • Pore‐Network Modeling of Particle Retention in Porous Media

    Hongtao Yang;Matthew T. Balhoff

  • Pore Network Modeling of Reactive Transport and Dissolution in Porous Media

    Joseph Tansey;Matthew T. Balhoff

  • Simulation of Fracture-to-Fracture Gas Injection in an Oil-Rich Shale

    Peixi Zhu;Matthew T. Balhoff;Kishore K. Mohanty

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlos Torres-Verdín
Carlos Torres-Verdín The University of Texas at Austin
Kishore K. Mohanty
Kishore K. Mohanty The University of Texas at Austin
Chun Huh
Chun Huh The University of Texas at Austin
Steven L. Bryant
Steven L. Bryant University of Calgary
Gary A. Pope
Gary A. Pope The University of Texas at Austin
Maša Prodanović
Maša Prodanović The University of Texas at Austin
Mary F. Wheeler
Mary F. Wheeler The University of Texas at Austin
Jon E. Olson
Jon E. Olson The University of Texas at Austin
Peter Eichhubl
Peter Eichhubl The University of Texas at Austin
Moran Wang
Moran Wang Tsinghua University

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