Advanced Geomechanics Fracture & Reservoir Application Consortium (AGFRAC)
Dr. Kan Wu
Consortium Director and Founder
Dr. Kan Wu
Associate Professor
Class of '75 DVG Career Development Professor
3116 TAMU - 501Q Richardson Building
College Station, TX 77843-3116
Tel: 979-862-7654
Email: kan.wu@tamu.edu
Current Graduate Students
PhD Candidate
Lene Wang
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PhD Candidate
Xueling Song
PhD Candidate
Ziwei Liu
MS Student
Botong Deng
PhD Candidate
Aishwarya Srinivasan
PhD Candidate
Khaled Aldhayee
PhD Candidate
Mingliang Han
PhD Candidate
Wei Ma
PhD Candidate
Jingyu Liu
MS Student
Pipit Amorokhman
MS Student
Tarun Joshi
Alumni
Lihua Zuo
Post-Doctoral researcher
Sep. 2017 - Aug. 2018
Fatima Almarzoog
Graduated Master Student
Graduated Aug. 2024
Dinghan Wang
Graduated Master Student
Graduated Aug. 2024
Sajan Zaverbhai Khatara
Graduated Master Student
Graduated May 2024
Shaowen Mao
Graduated December 2022
Dissertation: Numerical investigation of proppant transport in complex fracture geometries for unconventional reservoir development
Yongzan Liu
Graduated PhD student
Graduated August 2021
Dissertation: Hydraulic fracture geometry characterization using low-frequency distributed acoustic sensing data: forward modeling, inverse modeling, and field applications
Seunghwan Chun
Graduated PhD student
Graduated August 2021
Dissertation: Experimental study of proppant transport for slickwater fracturing in unconventional reservoirs
Ning Li
Graduated PhD student
Graduated May 2021
Dissertation: Study of stress changes in unconventional reservoirs with coupled flow and geomechanics simulations
Anusarn Sangnimuan
Graduated PhD student
Graduated December 2019
Dissertation: Development of efficiently coupled fluid flow and geomechanics model for highly fractured reservoirs
Xuyang Guo
Graduated PhD student
Graduated August 2018
Dissertation: A study of interwell interference and well performance in unconventional reservoir based on coupled flow and geomechanics modeling with improved computational efficiency
Jizhou Tang
Graduated PhD student
Graduated August 2018
Dissertation: A coupled three-dimensional hydraulic fracture propagation model accounting for the effect of bedding layers
Zhuo Zhang
Graduated MSc student
Graduated May 2020
Dissertation: Numerical simulation of proppant transport in field-scale fractures with the multi-phase particle-in-cell method
Jiawei Li
Graduated MSc student and PhD student
Graduated August 2018; Graduated August 2022
Dissertation: Integration of fracture propagation model and reservoir simulation model for analyzing the impact of fracture complexity
Ross Patterson
Graduated Msc student
Graduated May 2017
Dissertation: Characterizing complex fracture geometry through data integration in the Permian Basin
Xiaodong Hu
Visiting Scholar from China University of Petroleum (Beijing)
Zhengming Xu
Visiting Scholar from China University of Petroleum (Beijing)
Heqian Zhao
Visiting Scholar from China University of Petroleum (Beijing)