We are glad to welcome our SFB 1313 guest Farzaneh Nazari from the University of Manchester (UK), who will stay at the Institute of Applied Mechanics (CE) of the University of Stuttgart from 7 October to 7 December 2024 for a research stay of two months. Farzaneh Nazari is a doctoral researcher in the research group of SFB 1313 Mercator Fellow Vahid Joekar-Niasar. She will be working in research project Z02.
About Farzaneh Nazari
Farzaneh Nazari holds both a bachelor's and a master's degree in subsurface reservoir engineering. During her MSc studies, she primarily developed expertise in thermodynamics and fluid phase behavior. Her master's research, in collaboration with industry, focused on the challenges of precipitation and deposition in hydrocarbon reservoirs. During this time, she also developed software solutions to address issues related to asphaltene/wax precipitation and deposition in hydrocarbon reservoirs.
In 2021, she began her PhD at the University of Manchester to further pursue her ambitions as a researcher and her goal of contributing to a sustainable energy future. Her research focuses on the physics and challenges associated with underground hydrogen storage as a green energy alternative. Her key contributions to the field so far include: 1) Investigating three-phase wettability and surface forces at the pore scale in hydrogen storage systems; 2) Conducting two-phase flow modeling in porous media to assess the effects of capillary pressure hysteresis and operational conditions during hydrogen storage in aquifers; and 3) Developing a single-phase, multi-component, compressible model to study hydrogen mixing and spreading in depleted gas reservoirs at both pore and Darcy scales.