Kuldeep Singh (Chaudhary)
Biography
I integrate geology with rock and fluid mechanics to study a variety of physio-chemical processes spanning from pore-scale to basin-wide geosystems, with emphasis on improving mechanistic description of the coupled flow and transport phenomenon in heterogenous porous media. Once we understand how geology modify the flow and transport phenomenon, we can investigate how do these rock-fluid systems evolve and transform under natural and anthropogenic forcings, for example, storage of human wastes and climate change.
I enjoy teaching courses with emphasis on the role of physical phenomenon in a variety of natural geosystems. These courses include Hydrogeology, Contaminant Hydrology, Water and the environment, and Computational modeling
Research interests include:
- Computation fluid dynamics and digital rock physics
- Flow and reactive transport processes of porous media
- Multiscale-Multiphysics: Upscaling
- Imaging and experimental fluid mechanics
- Wettability and multiphase flow
- Surface water - Groundwater Hydrodynamics
Education
M.S., Geological Science, Indiana University at Bloomington, 2007
M.Sc., Geology, University of Delhi, India, 2001
B.Sc., Geology (Honors), University of Delhi, India, 1998
Publications
- Bradley, J., Singh, K., et al. 2023. Intrapore Geometry and Flow Rate Controls on the Transition of Non-Fickian to Fickian Dispersion. Water Res., 59 (1): e2022WR032833
- Wang, L., Zheng, L., Singh, K., Wang, T., Liu-Zeng, J., Xu, S., Chen, X., 2022. The effective pore volume of multiscale heterogenous fracture-porous media systems derived from the residence time of an inert tracer. J Hydrol, 610: 127839
- Shahidul Huqe Muzemder, A.T.M., Singh, K., 2021. Intra-pore tortuosity and diverging-converging poregeometry controls on flow enhancement due to liquid boundary slip. J Hydrol: 126475
- Zheng, L., Wang, L., Wang, T., Singh, K., Zhou, J.-Q., Shuai, P., Wang, Z.-L., Chen, X., 2021. Characterizing shear-thinning fluids transitioning from rheology- to inertia-dominated flow regimes in porous media. J Hydrol, 601: 126498
- Singh, K. (2020). How boundary slip controls emergent Darcy flow of liquids in tortuous and in capillary pores. Physical Review E, 102(1), 013101
- Lizhi Zheng, Lichun Wang, Tiejun Wang, Kuldeep Singh, Zhong-Liang Wang, Xi Chen (2020), Can homogeneous slip boundary condition affect effective dispersion in single fractures with Poiseuille flow? Journal of Hydrology, Volume 581, ISSN 0022-1694
- Singh, K., (2019), How Hydraulic Properties of Organic Matter Control Effective Liquid Permeability of Mudrocks. Transport in Porous Media. doi:10.1007/s11242-019-01305-y
- Tenney, C. M., Dewers, T., Chaudhary, K., Matteo, E. N., Cardenas, M. B., & Cygan, R. T. (2016) Experimental and simulation study of carbon dioxide, brine, and muscovite surface interactions. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, ISSN 0920-41
- Chaudhary, K., M. Bayani Cardenas, E. Guiltinan, J. A. Maisano, R. A. Ketcham, and P. C. Bennett (2015a) Wettability measurement under high P-T conditions using X-ray imaging with application to the brine-supercritical CO2 system, Geochemistry, Geophysi
- Gauteplass, J., K. Chaudhary, A. R. Kovscek, and M. A. Fernø (2015b), Pore-level foam generation and flow for mobility control in fractured systems, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 468, 184-192
