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Dr. Matthew Balhoff is a Professor and Chair of the Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on geologic carbon storage, enhanced oil recovery, integrated reservoir characterization, hydraulic fracturing, reservoir geomechanics, reservoir engineering, unconventional resources, petrophysics, and pore-scale processes. He aims to model and understand the fundamental flow and transport behavior of subsurface fluids in applications related to hydrocarbon recovery, carbon sequestration, and groundwater remediation. Dr. Balhoff employs advanced mathematical and computational tools, including pore-scale models and reservoir simulations, to conduct his research. He categorizes his research into four specific areas: developing methods to simulate multiscale flow and transport processes in subsurface media; predicting and quantifying nonlinear flow behavior in porous media; modeling and characterizing non-Newtonian fluid flow in hydrocarbon recovery; and discovering new techniques for recovering unconventional hydrocarbons. He has received numerous awards throughout his career for excellence in engineering teaching and contributions to the field of petroleum engineering.
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