Kuldeep Singh
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
- Muzemder, A. T. M. S. H., & Singh, K. (2024). Influence of sedimentary structure and pore-size distribution on upscaling permeability and flow enhancement due to liquid boundary slip: A pore-scale computational study. Advances in Water Resources, 190, 104
- Singh K, Huqe *Muzemder ATMS, Edey D, Colbert M, Maisano J, Shafei B. Time-lapse 3D Microtomography of Calcite Column Experiments to Study pH-Dependent Dynamic Dissolution Processes. Appl Geochem. 2024; 167:105980
- Singh K, *Paliwal N, **Kasamias K. Surface roughness characterization using representative elementary area (REA) analysis. Sci Rep-Uk. 2024;14(1):1785. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-52329-4
- Khalilinezhad, S.S., Duan, X., Singh, K., 2023. Pore-Scale Study on the Flow Dynamics of Coupled Low Salinity and Nanofluid Flooding in Carbonate Formations, SPE Caspian Technical Conference and Exhibition
- 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
