谢驰宇/Chiyu XIE Full Professor School of Astronautics Beihang University, Beijing Email: chiyu.xie/at/gmail.com

Work Experiences

Full Professor (2024-)

Beihang University

Associate Professor (2021-)

School of Civil and Resource Engineering @ University of Science and Technology Beijing

Technical Consultant (2020-)

Total E&P USA, Inc., Houston

Postdoctoral Fellow (2018-2021)

Center for Subsurface Energy and the Environment @ The University of Texas at Austin

Visiting Researcher (2015-2016)

Pore scale modeling group @ Imperial College London

Education

Doctor of Engineering (2012~2018)

Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Aerospace, Tsinghua University

Thesis: Pore Scale Modeling and Multiscale Analysis of Non-Newtonian Multiphase Flow in Micro Porous Media

Supervisor: Prof. Moran Wang

Bachelor of Engineering (2008-2012)

School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology

Ranking: Top 3 of 400 in the School, GPA: 91/100

Thesis: Mechanism and Experimental Investigation of underfill flow in a circular flip-chip

Research Interests

1. Interfacial mechanics

2. Non-Newtonian fluid dynamics

3. Multiphase flow in porous media (with heterogeneity)

4. Pore-scale modeling and microfluidic experiment

5. Multiscale strategies (molecular → mesoscale → core scale → field scale)

6. Artificial intelligence in reservoir engineering

7. Biofluids

Lattice Boltzmann modeling of three-phase flow

Newtonian Viscoelastic Newtonian Viscoelastic

Bubble rising processes in Newtonian & Viscoelastic

Multiphase transport in porous media A falling droplet on a plastic wall (Experiment .vs. modeling)

Honors and Awards

2020 Best Young Researcher Presentation Award CMWR 2020 Conference, Stanford

2018 Tsinghua Friendship Scholarship – Sijimuge Scholarship Tsinghua University, Beijing

2016 National Prize for Graduate Students (top 5%) Tsinghua University, Beijing

2015 Tsinghua Friendship Scholarship – IHI Scholarship Tsinghua University, Beijing

2010 Outstanding Student of HUST (top 1%) Huazhong University of S & T, Wuhan

Publications

In Journals

1. C. Xie, W. Lei, M.T. Balhoff, M. Wang* and S. Chen. Self-adaptive preferential flow control using dispersed polymers in heterogeneous porous media. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 906: A10, 2021. (Front Cover)

Comparison of the displacements of oil by dispersed polymer and by water

2. L. Cha, C. Xie*, Q. Feng^#, and M.T. Balhoff. Geometric criteria for the snap-off of a nonwetting droplet in pore-throat channels with rectangular cross-sections. Water Resources Research. 57: e2020WR029476, 2021.

Geometric criteria for the snap-off of a nonwetting droplet in pore-throat channels with rectangular cross-sections

3. C. Xie* and M.T. Balhoff. Lattice Boltzmann Modeling of the Apparent Viscosity of Thinning-Elastic Fluids in Porous Media. Transport in Porous Media. 137: 63–86, 2021.

Thickening of Thinning-Elastic Fluids at high shear rates in Porous Media (modeling .vs. experiment)

4. L. Mejia, M. Mejia, C. Xie, Y. Du, A. Sultan, K. Mohanty and M.T. Balhoff*. Viscous Fingering of Irreducible Water. Advances in Water Resources. 153(5): 103943, 2021.

5. C. Xie*, K. Xu, K. Mohanty, M. Wang and M.T. Balhoff*. Non-wetting droplet oscillation and displacement by viscoelastic fluids. Physical Review Fluids. 5: 063301, 2020.

The oscillation of a non-wetting droplet displaced by viscoelastic fluids due to the elastic turbulence

6. W. Lei, T. Liu, C. Xie, T. Wu and M. Wang*. EOR Mechanism and recovery performance of micro-gel particle suspensions by microfluidic experiments. Energy Science & Engineering. 8: 986– 998, 2020.

7. W. Lei, C. Xie, T. Wu, X. Wu and M. Wang*. Transport mechanism of deformable micro-gel particle through micropores with mechanical properties characterized by AFM. Scientific Reports, 9: 1453, 2019.

8. C. Xie, W. Lei and M. Wang*. Lattice Boltzmann model for three-phase viscoelastic fluid flow. Physical Review E, 97: 023312, 2018.

9. C. Xie, W. Lv, and M. Wang*. Shear-thinning or Shear-thickening Fluid for Better EOR? — A Direct Pore-scale Study. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. 161: 683-691, 2018.

Pore-scale results demonstrate that merely shear-thinning effect does not contribute too much for conformance control in heterogeneous rock

10. J. Zheng, Z. Chen, C. Xie, Z. Wang, Z. Lei, Y. Ju and M. Wang*. Characterization of spontaneous imbibition dynamics in irregular pores by lattice Boltzmann modeling. Computers & Fluids, 168: 21-31, 2018.

11. C. Xie, A.Q. Raeini, Y. Wang, M. Blunt* and M. Wang*. An improved pore-network model including viscous coupling effects using direct simulation by the lattice Boltzmann method. Advances in Water Resources. 100: 26-34, 2017.

The upscaling strategy from LBM to the pore network simulation

12. C. Xie, G. Liu and M. Wang*. Evaporation Flux Distribution of Drops on a Hydrophilic or Hydrophobic Flat Surface by Molecular Simulations. Langmuir, 32(32): 8255-8264, 2016.

Absorption Effect on Evaporation Flux Distribution

13. C. Xie, J. Zhang, V. Bertola and M. Wang*. Lattice Boltzmann Modeling for Multiphase Viscoplastic Fluid Flow. Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 234: 118-128, 2016.

Two-phase Co-current Bingham flow (Simulation .vs. Analytical solution).

14. C. Xie, J. Zhang, V. Bertola and M. Wang*. Droplet evaporation on a horizontal substrate under gravity field by mesoscopic modeling. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 463: 317-323, 2016.

The phase-field LBM with evaporation scheme to determine when does the gravity effect become negligible at smaller sizes.

15. Z. Chen, C. Xie, Y. Chen and M. Wang*. Bonding Strength Effects in Hydro-Mechanical Coupling Transport in Granular Porous Media by Pore-Scale Modeling. Computation, 4(1): 15, 2016.

16. C. Xie, J. Wang, N. Pan, D. Wang and M. Wang*. Lattice Boltzmann Modeling of Thermal Conduction in Composite Materials with Thermal Contact Resistance. Communications in Computational Physics, 17: 1037-1055, 2015.

TCR impact on the effective conductivity of composite materials

17. C. Xie, J. Zhang and M. Wang*. Lattice Boltzmann modeling of non-Newtonian multiphase fluid displacement. (In Chinese) Chinese Journal of Computational Physics, 33(2): 147-155, 2016.

18. C. Xie and M. Wang*. Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Drop Evaporation on a Horizontal Solid Substrate. (In Chinese) Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 35(3): 247-253, 2014.

In International Conferences

1. Oral: Non-Wetting Droplet Oscillation and Displacement by Viscoelastic Fluids. Computational Methods in Water Resources XXIII, December 2020, Stanford University, USA. (Best Young Researcher Presentation)

2. Oral: Lattice Boltzmann Modeling of the Apparent Viscosity of Thinning-Elastic Fluids in Porous Media. 12th International Conference on Porous Media & Annual Meeting, Aug 2020, Online.

3. Oral: Self-Adaptive Preferential Flow Control Using Dispersed Polymers in Heterogeneous Porous Media. AGU Fall Meeting, December 2019, San Francisco, USA.

4. Invited talk: Surface Flux Distribution of an Evaporating Sessile Droplet. 2017 EMN Meeting on Surface & Interface, May 2017, Jeju, Korea.

5. Poster: Shear-thinning or Shear-thickening Fluid for Better EOR? — A Direct Pore-scale Study. 9^th International Conference on Porous Media & Annual Meeting, May 2017, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

6. Oral: Lattice Boltzmann Modeling for Multiphase Yield-stress Fluid Flow. 1^st International Conference of Microfluidics, Nanofluidics and Lab-on-a-chip, June 2016, Dalian, China.

7. Oral: Predictions of Relative Permeability for Low Permeability Reservoirs and its Scale Effect. SPE Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition, October 2016, Perth, Australia.

8. Oral: Pore-Scale Modeling of Non-Newtonian Fluid Displacement in Microporous Media. 7^th International Conference on Porous Media & Annual Meeting, May 2015, Padova, Italy.

Non-Newtonian Effect on Relative Permeability

9. Oral: Modeling Evaporation of a Small Drop on a Horizontal Substrate. 12^th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels, Aug 2014, Chicago, USA.

10. Oral: Mesoscopic Modeling of Gravity Effects on Drop Evaporation on a Horizontal Substrate. 13^th International Thermal Engineering Conference of Tsinghua-Seoul-Kyoto Universities, Nov 2013, Beijing, China.

11. Oral: Lattice Boltzmann model for thermal conduction in composite materials with thermal contact resistance. 10^th International Conference for Mesoscopic Methods in Engineering and Science, Jul 2013, Oxford University, UK.