pkkang@mit.edu

Peter K. Kang

Research Affiliate

PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., 2014
MSc, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., 2010
BSc, Civil, Urban, and Geosystem Engineering, Seoul National U., 2008

Biographical Overview

Dr. Kang is a research affiliate at MIT and a research scientist at Korea Institute of Science and Technology. His research interests include anomalous transport through porous and fractured media , reactive transport through porous and fractured media , and joint inversion for subsurface characterization.

Publications

P.K. Kang, S. Brown, R. Juanes, 2016, "Emergence of anomalous transport in stressed rough fractures", Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 454, 46 - 54
P.K. Kang, Y. Zheng, X. Fang, R. Wojcik, D. McLaughlin, S. Brown, M. Fehler, D. Burns, N.H. Jung, 2016, "Sequential approach to joint flow-seismic inversion for improved characterization of fractured media", Water Resources Research, 52, 903 - 919
P.K. Kang, M. Dentz, T. Le Borgne, N.H. Jung, 2015, "Anomalous transport on regular fracture networks: Impact of conductivity heterogeneity and mixing at fracture intersections", Physical Review E, 92
M. Dentz, P.K. Kang, T. Le Borgne, 2015, "Continuous time random walks for non-local radial solute transport", Advances in Water Resources, 82, 16 - 26
P.K. Kang, T. Le Borgne, M. Dentz, O. Bour, N.H. Jung, 2015, "Impact of velocity correlation and distribution on transport in fractured media: Field evidence and theoretical model", Water Resources Research, 51, 940 - 959
P.K. Kang, P. de Anna, J.P. Nunes, B. Bijeljic, M.J. Blunt, N.H. Jung, 2014, "Pore-scale intermittent velocity structure underpinning anomalous transport through 3-D porous media", Geophysical Research Letters, 41, 6184 - 6190
P.K. Kang, Y. Zheng, X. Fang, R. Wojcik, D. McLaughlin, S. Brown, M. Fehler, D. Burns, R. Juanes, 2013, "Joint flow-seismic inversion for characterizing fractured reservoirs: theoretical approach and numerical modeling"
P.K. Kang, M. Dentz, N.H. Jung, 2011, "Predictability of anomalous transport on lattice networks with quenched disorder", Physical Review E, 83
P.K. Kang, M. Dentz, T. Le Borgne, N.H. Jung, 2011, "Spatial Markov Model of Anomalous Transport Through Random Lattice Networks", Physical Review Letters, 107