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Engineering and Technology

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60
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2210
National Ranking
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Earth Science

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Overview

Yu-Shu Wu is affiliated with the Colorado School of Mines in the United States and has a research portfolio primarily situated in the field of Engineering. Their work spans several specialized subfields, including Ocean Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Environmental Engineering, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The scientist has contributed to topics related to Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis, Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis, Drilling and Well Engineering, Groundwater Flow and Contamination Studies, Rock Mechanics and Modeling, and CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions.

Among the frequent publication venues where Yu-Shu Wu's work appears are arXiv (Cornell University), SPE Reservoir Simulation Conference, SPE Journal, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Fuel.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Shihao Wang, Di Yuan, Philip H. Winterfeld, Xianmin Zhou, and Zhaoqin Huang.

Recent notable papers authored or coauthored by Yu-Shu Wu include:

  • An Efficient Hybrid Model for 3D Complex Fractured Vuggy Reservoir Simulation, 2020, SPE Journal
  • Review of Carbon dioxide utilization and sequestration in depleted oil reservoirs, 2024, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • An embedded 3D fracture modeling approach for simulating fracture-dominated fluid flow and heat transfer in geothermal reservoirs, 2020, Geothermics
  • Feasibility study of gas injection in low permeability reservoirs of Changqing oilfield, 2020, Fuel
  • Automatic fracture optimization for shale gas reservoirs based on gradient descent method and reservoir simulation, 2021, ADVANCES IN GEO-ENERGY RESEARCH

Best Publications

  • A modeling approach for analysis of coupled multiphase fluid flow, heat transfer, and deformation in fractured porous rock

    J. Rutqvist;Y.-S. Wu;C.-F. Tsang;G. Bodvarsson

  • Gas flow in porous media with Klinkenberg effects

    Yu-Shu Wu;Karsten Pruess;peter Persoff

  • Advances in improved/enhanced oil recovery technologies for tight and shale reservoirs

    Lei Wang;Ye Tian;Xiangyu Yu;Cong Wang

  • A Generalized Framework Model for the Simulation of Gas Production in Unconventional Gas Reservoirs

    Yu-Shu Wu;Jianfang Li;Didier-Yu Ding;Cong Wang

  • Robust numerical methods for saturated-unsaturated flow with dry initial conditions in heterogeneous media

    P.A. Forsyth;Y.S. Wu;K. Pruess

  • A multiple-porosity method for simulation of naturally fractured petroleum reservoirs

    Yu-Shu Wu;Karsten Pruess

  • Cryogenic fracturing for reservoir stimulation – Laboratory studies

    Minsu Cha;Xiaolong Yin;Timothy Kneafsey;Brent Johanson

  • User's Guide for TOUGH2-MP - A Massively Parallel Version of the TOUGH2 Code

    Keni Zhang;Yu-Shu Wu;Karsten Pruess

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

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

  • Waterless fracturing technologies for unconventional reservoirs-opportunities for liquid nitrogen

    Lei Wang;Bowen Yao;Minsu Cha;Naif B. Alqahtani

  • Numerical Simulation of Single-Phase and Multiphase Non-Darcy Flow in Porous and Fractured Reservoirs

    Yu-Shu Wu

  • The Effect of Osmotic Pressure on Improve Oil Recovery from Fractured Shale Formations

    Perapon Fakcharoenphol;Basak Kurtoglu;Hossein Kazemi;Sarinya Charoenwongsa

  • A multiple-continuum model for simulating single-phase and multiphase flow in naturally fractured vuggy reservoirs

    Yu-Shu Wu;Yuan Di;Zhijiang Kang;Perapon Fakcharoenphol

  • Thermodynamically consistent modelling of two-phase flows with moving contact line and soluble surfactants

    Guangpu Zhu;Jisheng Kou;Bowen Yao;Yu Shu Wu

  • Flow and Displacement of Bingham Non-Newtonian Fluids in Porous Media

    Y.S. Wu;K. Pruess;P.A. Witherspoon

  • A site-scale model for fluid and heat flow in the unsaturated zone of Yucca Mountain, Nevada

    Yu-Shu Wu;Charles Haukwa;G.S Bodvarsson

  • A novel fully-coupled flow and geomechanics model in enhanced geothermal reservoirs

    Litang Hu;Litang Hu;Philip H. Winterfeld;Perapon Fakcharoenphol;Yu-Shu Wu

  • Numerical simulation of non-isothermal multiphase tracer transport in heterogeneous fractured porous media

    Yu-Shu Wu;Karsten Pruess

  • A three-dimensional multiphase flow model for assesing NAPL contamination in porous and fractured media, 1. Formulation

    P.S. Huyakorn;S. Panday;Y.S. Wu

  • A fully coupled thermal-hydrological-mechanical-chemical model for CO2 geological sequestration

    Ronglei Zhang;Xiaolong Yin;Philip H. Winterfeld;Yu-Shu Wu

  • 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

  • Waterless fracturing technologies for unconventional reservoirs-opportunities for liquid nitrogen

    Lei Wang;Bowen Yao;Yu-Shu Wu;Timothy Kneafsey

Frequent Co-Authors

Gudmundur S. Bodvarsson
Gudmundur S. Bodvarsson Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Karsten Pruess
Karsten Pruess Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Timothy J. Kneafsey
Timothy J. Kneafsey Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hossein Kazemi
Hossein Kazemi Colorado School of Mines
Hui-Hai Liu
Hui-Hai Liu Saudi Aramco (United States)
George J. Moridis
George J. Moridis Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jun Yao
Jun Yao China University of Petroleum, Beijing
Chris Ding
Chris Ding Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Stefan Finsterle
Stefan Finsterle Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Baojun Bai
Baojun Bai Missouri University of Science and Technology

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