Luis Ayala

Affiliate Researcher
Titles and Affiliations
William A. Fustos Family Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
FCMG Chair in Fluid Behavior and Rock Interactions, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)

Research Summary

Natural gas engineering, numerical modeling of unconventional gas reservoirs, performance prediction of gas shale reservoirs and tight sands with retrograde gases, compositional reservoir simulation and thermodynamics of hydrocarbon fluids, multiphase flow in pipelines and gas network analysis, and artificial intelligence applications.

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Recent Publications

Modeling of anomalous gas transport in heterogeneous unconventional reservoirs using a nonlinear generalized diffusivity equation

Garcez, J., Zhang, M. & Ayala, L. F., May 15 2023, In: Fuel. 340, 127519.

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Fugacity-based lattice Boltzmann method for multicomponent multiphase systems

Soomro, M., Ayala, L. F., Peng, C. & Ayala, O. M., Jan 2023, In: Physical Review E. 107, 1, 015304.

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Green's function-based type curves for multi-fractured horizontal gas wells in unconventional reservoirs

Garcez, J. & Ayala, L. F., Jul 15 2022, In: Fuel. 320, 123713.

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Two pressure boundary conditions for multi-component multiphase flow simulations using the pseudo-potential lattice Boltzmann model

Wang, Z., Soomro, M., Peng, C., Ayala, L. F. & Ayala, O. M., Nov 15 2022, In: Computers and Fluids. 248, 105672.

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The Dual-Reciprocity Boundary Element Analysis for Hydraulically Fractured Shale Gas Reservoirs Considering Diffusion and Sorption Kinetics

Zhang, M. & Ayala, L. F., Apr 2022, In: Transport in Porous Media. 142, 3, p. 531-557 27 p.

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Experimental study of gas/liquid diffusion in porous rocks and bulk fluids to investigate the effect of rock-matrix hindrance

Lou, X., Chakraborty, N., Karpyn, Z. T., Ayala, L. F., Nagarajan, N. & Wijaya, Z., Jun 2021, In: SPE Journal. 26, 3, p. 1174-1188 15 p.

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A thermodynamically consistent pseudo-potential lattice Boltzmann model for multi-component, multiphase, partially miscible mixtures

Peng, C., Ayala, L. F. & Ayala, O. M., Mar 15 2021, In: Journal of Computational Physics. 429, 110018.

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Fluid-wall interactions in pseudopotential lattice Boltzmann models

Peng, C., Ayala, L. F. & Ayala, O. M., Sep 2021, In: Physical Review E. 104, 3, 035301.

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Experimental and numerical study of gas diffusion and sorption kinetics in ultratight rocks

Zhang, M., Chakraborty, N., Karpyn, Z. T., Emami-Meybodi, H. & Ayala, L. F., Feb 15 2021, In: Fuel. 286, 119300.

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The linear-analog method: A more efficient and effective linearization method for natural gas transportation optimization

Chen, Z., Kleit, A. N., Lei, Z., An, H., Ayala, L. F. & Pruvot, A. J. C. J., Aug 2020, In: Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering. 80, 103305.

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A robust semi-analytical method based on integral formulations for modeling unconventional gas wells with variable production constraints

Garcez, J., Zhang, M. & Ayala, L. F., Nov 2020, In: Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering. 83, 103522.

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Transient pressure behavior for unconventional gas wells with finite-conductivity fractures

Nguyen, K. H., Zhang, M. & Ayala, L. F., Apr 15 2020, In: Fuel. 266, 117119.

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Attainment of rigorous thermodynamic consistency and surface tension in single-component pseudopotential lattice Boltzmann models via a customized equation of state

Peng, C., Ayala, L. F., Wang, Z. & Ayala, O. M., Jun 2020, In: Physical Review E. 101, 6, 063309.

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Use of a new thermodynamics-based saturation/pressure relationship in two-phase rate-transient analysis of boundary-dominated gas/condensate reservoirs

Sun, Q. & Ayala, L. F., 2020, In: SPE Journal. 25, 4, p. 1636-1656 21 p.

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Explicit Determination of Reserves for Variable-Bottomhole-Pressure Conditions in Gas Rate-Transient Analysis

Wang, Y. & Ayala, L. F., Feb 2020, In: SPE Journal. 25, 1, p. 369-390 22 p.

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