Manojkumar Gudala

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Post-Doctoral Fellow

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Research Interests

Currently working on the extraction of heat energy from geothermal reservoirs, CO2 storage and utilization, Hydrogen Storage, Machine and Deep Learning application to flow through Porous media.

Selected Publications

  • Gudala, M., Govindarajan, S.K., Yan, B.*, Sun, S.Y.*. 2022.  Numerical investigations of the PUGA geothermal reservoir with multistage hydraulic fractures and well patterns using fully coupled thermo-hydro-geomechanical modeling. Energy, Vol. 253: 124173.
  • Gudala, M., T.K. Naiya, and S K Govindarajan. 2022. Heavy oil-water dispersed flows in horizontal pipelines using bio-additives with energy analysis: experimental and numerical investigations. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 211:110142.
  • Gudala, M., and S K Govindarajan. 2022. Numerical investigations on a geothermal reservoir using fully coupled thermo-hydro-geomechanics with integrated rsm-machine learning and arima models. Geothermics, 96, 102174.
  • Gudala, M., and S K Govindarajan. 2021. Numerical investigations on two-phase fluid flow in a fractured porous medium fully coupled with geomechanics. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 199: 108328.
  • Gudala, M., T.K. Naiya, and S K Govindarajan. 2020. Remediation of heavy oil transportation problems via pipelines using biodegradable additives: an experimental and artificial intelligence approach. SPE Journal 26: 1050-1071.



Education

  • Ph. D., Petroleum Engineering, IIT(ISM), Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India, 2019
  • M. Tech, Petroleum Engineering, IIT(ISM), Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India, 2013
  • B.E, Mechanical Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, 2011

Professional Profile

  • 2019-2022: Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, IIT Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Scientific and Professional Membership

  • Society of Petroleum Engineers

KAUST Affiliations

Research Interests Keywords

THM Modeling Geothermal CCUS Machine/Deep Learning Pipeline Flows Geological Hydrogen Storage