About
Aaditya Khanal, Ph.D., has a combined expertise in chemical and petroleum engineering with a research focus on modeling the flow of fluids in porous media with direct application to energy extraction and climate change mitigation. He is interested in CO2 sequestration in saline aquifers, hydrogen storage, hydrocarbon production forecasting for unconventional reservoirs, phase behavior modeling of hydrocarbons, and machine learning applications to solve complex engineering problems. He uses both numerical simulations and experiments for his research.
Education
- Ph.D., The University of Houston
Research interests and areas of expertise
- Numerical reservoir simulation
- Carbon sequestration
- Underground hydrogen storage
- Machine learning