
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

PhD Candidate
Jingyu Liu

MS Student
Pipit Amorokhman
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PhD Candidate
Xueling Song

PhD Candidate
Ziwei Liu

MS Student
Botong Deng

PhD Candidate
Khaled Aldhayee

PhD Candidate
Mingliang Han

MS Student
Mohammed Almoagal
Alumni

Aishwarya Srinivasan
Graduated Phd student
Sep. 2020 - Dec. 2024

Wei Ma
Graduated Phd student
Sep. 2019 - Dec. 2024

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)