Earth Sciences Division Staff: Yu-shu Wu

Biographical Summary

Yu-Shu Wu is a professor in Petroleum Engineering, at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM), Golden CO, and he is also a guest scientist at the Earth Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) since 2008. At CSM, Yu-Shu is teaching courses in petroleum reservoir engineering, supervising graduate students, and conducting research in the areas of multiphase fluid and heat flow in subsurface, and CO2-EOR and sequestration in reservoirs, reservoir simulation, and geothermal energy since 2008. Previously, he was a Staff Scientist with the Earth Sciences Division of LBNL for 14 years (1995-2008). When at LBNL, he led a multidisciplinary team in quantitative investigation of multiphase fluid and heat flow and radionuclide transport in the Yucca Mountain unsaturated zone, and developed the 3-D, site-scale, unsaturated zone flow and transport model and the 3-D mountain-scale thermal-hydrological model for the Yucca Mountain unsaturated zone, which are being used by the US DOE for its current effort of license application of the high-level radioactive waste repository at the Yucca Mountain unsaturated zone system.

Yu-Shu has been one of the developers of the TOUGH2 family of codes at LBNL. In particular, he has led the efforts in developing (1) the Yucca Mountain version of TOUGH2, (2) the T2R3D code (radionuclide transport module), and (3) the TOUGH2_MP (massive parallel version of TOUGH2, the most required TOUGH2 code).  Currently, he is leading DOE-funded multi-year modeling research collaboration efforts between CSM and LBNL in the area of CO2 sequestration and enhanced geothermal systems (EGS). Over his career, Yu-Shu has authored and co-authored 70+ peer-reviewed journal papers as well as 100+ research reports and conference papers.

Research Interests

• Reservoir dynamics and simulation
• Mathematical modeling of flow and transport in geologic media 
• Coupled processes of multiphase fluid flow, multicomponent chemicals transport, CO2 flooding and sequestration, and heat transfer in EOR/IOR processes
• Fractured reservoir characterization
• Hydro-mechanical coupling of fluid flow and rock deformation
• Well testing analysis

Education

• Ph.D.           Reservoir Engineering, University of California at Berkeley
• M.S.            Reservoir Engineering/Hydrogeology, University of California at Berkeley
• M.S.            Reservoir Engineering, Southwest Petroleum Inst., China
• B.S. (Eqv.)   Reservoir Engineering, Daqing Petroleum Inst., China

Professional Experience

• 8/08-present, Professor, Dept. of Petroleum Engineering, Colorado School of Mines (CSM), Golden CO, USA
• 1/09-present, Guest Scientist, Earth Sciences Division (ESD), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, University of California, USA
• 3/95-12/08, Staff Scientist, Earth Sciences Division (ESD), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, University of California, USA
• 12/06-present, Adjunct Professor, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China
• 12/06-present, Adjunct Professor, College of Petroleum Engineering, Daqing Petroleum Inst., Daqing, China
• 5/90-3/95, Senior Hydrogeologist, consulting service and research in the area of groundwater resources with HydroGeoLogic, Inc., Herndon, VA, USA
• 3/85-5/90, GSRA, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, University of California, USA.
• 1/82-2/85, Petroleum Engineer, reservoir simulation with Petroleum Research Inst., Beijing, China
• 10/76-10/78, Instructor, reservoir engineering, Daqing Petroleum Inst., Daqing, China