Yashar Mehmani

IEE Faculty Member
Titles and Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering (EME)

My research interests are broadly related to porous media flow and mechanics with a special focus on computing and scale translation. I am interested in how microscale physics affect macroscopic observations and how predictive tools based on such knowledge can be built. Applications that motivate my research are sustainability aspects of subsurface energy production, CO2 storage, groundwater contamination, and renewables.

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Projects

Recent Publications

Effect of Pore-Wall Roughness and Péclet Number on Conservative Solute Transport in Saturated Porous Media

Ghanbarian, B., Mehmani, Y. & Berkowitz, B., Feb 2023, In: Water Resources Research. 59, 2, e2022WR033119.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Imaging geomechanical properties of shales with infrared light

Lee, J., Cook, O. J., Argüelles, A. P. & Mehmani, Y., Feb 15 2023, In: Fuel. 334, 126467.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

A pore-level multiscale method for the elastic deformation of fractured porous media

Li, K. & Mehmani, Y., Jun 15 2023, In: Journal of Computational Physics. 483, 112074.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

A multiscale preconditioner for microscale deformation of fractured porous media

Mehmani, Y. & Li, K., Jun 1 2023, In: Journal of Computational Physics. 482, 112061.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Bubble Coarsening Kinetics in Porous Media

Yu, Y., Wang, C., Liu, J., Mao, S., Mehmani, Y. & Xu, K., Jan 16 2023, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 50, 1, e2022GL100757.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Capillary equilibration of trapped ganglia in porous media: A pore-network modeling approach

Mehmani, Y. & Xu, K., Aug 2022, In: Advances in Water Resources. 166, 104223.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Pore-network modeling of Ostwald ripening in porous media: How do trapped bubbles equilibrate?

Mehmani, Y. & Xu, K., May 15 2022, In: Journal of Computational Physics. 457, 111041.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Preface to the Special Issue: Interfacial Phenomena in Multiphase Systems at Pore Scale

Xu, K., Mehmani, Y. & Zitha, P. L. J., Aug 2022, In: Transport in Porous Media. 144, 1, p. 1-2 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review

Multiscale formulation of frictional contact mechanics at the pore scale

Mehmani, Y., Castelletto, N. & Tchelepi, H. A., Apr 1 2021, In: Journal of Computational Physics. 430, 110092.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Nonlinear convergence in contact mechanics: Immersed boundary finite volume

Mehmani, Y., Castelletto, N. & Tchelepi, H. A., Sep 1 2021, In: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 383, 113929.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Striving to translate shale physics across ten orders of magnitude: What have we learned?

Mehmani, Y., Anderson, T., Wang, Y., Aryana, S. A., Battiato, I., Tchelepi, H. A. & Kovscek, A. R., Dec 2021, In: Earth-Science Reviews. 223, 103848.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

Capillary equilibrium of bubbles in porous media

Wang, C., Mehmani, Y. & Xu, K., Apr 27 2021, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118, 17, e2024069118.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Scaling analysis of coupled compaction, kerogen conversion, and petroleum expulsion during geological maturation

Yuan, Q., Mehmani, Y., Burnham, A. K., Lapene, A., Wendebourg, J. & Tchelepi, H. A., Sep 2020, In: Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. 192, 107285.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Multiscale formulation of pore-scale compressible Darcy-Stokes flow

Guo, B., Mehmani, Y. & Tchelepi, H. A., Nov 15 2019, In: Journal of Computational Physics. 397, 108849.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Multiscale formulation of two-phase flow at the pore scale

Mehmani, Y. & Tchelepi, H. A., Jul 15 2019, In: Journal of Computational Physics. 389, p. 164-188 25 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review