weili08@mit.edu
Wei Li
- Postdoctoral Associate 2019-2022
- 2019 Alumnus (PhD)
- PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., 2019
- MSc, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech, 2014
- BEng, Hydraulic engineering, Tsinghua U., 2012
Biographical Overview
Wei Li was a postdoctoral researcher working with Professor Ruben Juanes in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT. He is now on the faculty at Stony Brook University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree at MIT in 2019 under the supervision of Professor Herbert H. Einstein. He is strongly interested in the geosystems centered on infrastructure and energy. His Ph.D. work focused on developing mathematical and experimental models to understand how the flow and dissolution create cavities, with applications to sinkhole hazard evaluation and enhanced oil production. In his postdoc research, he developed novel experimental techniques, such as a laboratory earthquake system and photoporomechanics, to study the mechanics and physics of induced earthquakes and granular media.
“4D computed tomography of granular force chains”, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2022.
, “Fluid-filled granular media in confined geometries: a photoporomechanics study”, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2022.
, “Force chains in 3D granular media”, APS March Meeting. American Physical Society, 2022.
, “Photo-poromechanics: visualizing the evolving effective stress in fluid-filled granular media”, AGU Fall Meeting 2021. American Geophysical Union, 2021.
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“An Experimental Study of Wormhole Formations Using Gypsum Core Flood Tests (poster)”, MIT Water Night. 2018.
, “Transport-Controlled Dissolution in Underground Cavities: an Experimental Validation of the Extended Graetz Solution”, Proceedings of the 52nd U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium. 2018.
, “GEOFRAC and its applications”, ARMA e-Newsletters, vol. Spring 2017. pp. 2-11, 2017.
, “Theoretical and Numerical Investigation of the Cavity Evolution in Gypsum Rock”, Water Resources Research, pp. 9988 - 10001, 2017.
, “Reactive Transport in a Pipe in Soluble Rock: a Theoretical and Experimental Study (poster)”, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting. 2015.
, “Applicability of GEOFRAC to Model a Geothermal Reservoir: a Case Study”, Thirty-Ninth Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering. 2014.
, “Heat Transfer between Fluid Flow and Fractured Rocks”, GRC 2013 Annual Meeting. 2013.
, “Centrifuge Modeling of Vertical Bearing Behavior of Bolt-Shotcrete Supported Slope”, Advanced Materials Research, vol. 446-449, pp. 1468-1471, 2012.
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