Energy
- Research into Geosequentration of Carbon Dioxide( CO2), including geomechnical behviour due to the stored supercritical CO2, Formation and swelling behaviour of rock media, Migration of CO2 due to change in insitu stresses.
- Activation of fault due to the injection of high fluid pressures.
- Slope stbility of large deep, open cut mines.
- Slope stability of large deep, open cut mines.
- Stability of wellbore analysis.
- Underground longwall mining.
- Enhanced coal bed methane recovery, ECBM.
- Hydro-fracturing and other simulation methods for depleted and tight reservoirs.
- Two-phase and multiphase flow in fractured rock media.
- Coupled Hydro-mechanical behavior of fractured and porous rocks.
- Gas outburst and groundwater inundation in mines.
- Rock physics under high pressure conditions.
- Contaminant transport through rock.
- Storage of chemical/nuclear waste in underground caverns.