Luis F. Ayala
Email:
Phone:
814-865-4053
Office Address:
222 Hosler Building
Title:
Head and Professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Energi Simulation Chair in Fluid Behavior and Rock Interactions
Endowed Title:
William A. Fustos Family Professorship in Energy and Mineral Engineering
Unit:
John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering
Research Interests:
- Natural gas engineering
- Numerical modeling of unconventional gas reservoirs
- Performance predicition of gas shale reservoirs and tight sands with retrograde gases
- Interpretation of temperature transient response in wellbores
- Compositional reservoir simulation and thermodynamics of hydrocarbon fluids
- Multiphase flow in pipelines and gas network analysis
- Artificial intelligence applications
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