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Dr. Lakshminarasimhan has experience in simulation of buoyancy-driven flows using commercial and research simulation software and evaluation of the effect of physical and petrophysical properties on buoyancy-driven flows. He has studied the effect of fingering phenomenon on geological sequestration of carbon dioxide, as well as stability and characteristic behavior of brine-displacing-CO2 fronts. He has also worked in modeling and inclusion of the effect of soil erosion into the model for low-concentration turbulent turbidity currents; development of robust numerical code to simulate the flow of low concentration three-dimensional turbidity currents over erodible bed.
Education
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, August 1993
M.S. Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, May 1997
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, February 2004
Awards
Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 1994–1996
Top 1% of Students, Joint Entrance Examinations, Indian Institute of Technology, 1989
Selected Publications
Lakshminarasimhan, Srivatsan, Bryant, Steve, Ozah, R. C., and Pope, G. A., 2005, A simulations-based study of the flow of CO2 in brine aquifers (abs.), in Annual Review Meeting of Geological CO2 Storage Research Program, Austin.
Bonnecaze, R. T., and Lakshminarasimhan, Srivatsan, 2004, Characterization of turbiditic oil reservoirs based on geophysical models of their formation: Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, technical report prepared for U.S. Department of Energy.
Lakshminarasimhan, Srivatsan, Bonnecaze, R. T., and Lake, L. W., 2004, Scaling analysis of deposition from turbidity currents: Geo-Marine Letters, v. 24, no. 2, p. 63–74.
Bonnecaze, R. T., and Lakshminarasimhan, Srivatsan, 2003, Characterization of turbiditic oil reservoirs based on geophysical models of their formation: Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, technical report prepared for U.S. Department of Energy.
Lakshminarasimhan, Srivatsan, and Bonnecaze, R. T., 2002, Flow of and deposition from two-dimensional high concentration turbidity currents (abs.), in DFD-APS Conference, November.
Lakshminarasimhan, Srivatsan, Lake, L. W., and Bonnecaze, R. T., 2000, Characterization of oil reservoirs via turbidite modeling (abs.), in Shell's Integrated Subsurface Conference, October.
Kumaran, V., and Lakshminarasimhan, Srivatsan, 1998, Stability of fluid flow past a membrane: European Physical Journal B, v. 2, p. 259–266.
Lakshminarasimhan, Srivatsan, and Kumaran, V., 1997, Flow induced instability of the interface between a fluid and a gel: Journal de Physique II France, v. 7, no. 6, p. 947–963.
Lecturing
A simulations-based study of the flow of CO2 in brine aquifers: presented at Annual Review Meeting of Geological CO2 Storage Research Program, Austin, Texas, March 2005.
Flow of and deposition from two-dimensional high concentration turbidity currents: presented at DFD-APS Conference, Austin, Texas, November 2002.
Characterization of oil reservoirs via turbidite modeling: presented at Shell's Integrated Subsurface Conference, Austin, Texas, October 2000.
Contact
Srivatsan Lakshminarasimhan
Postdoctoral Fellow
Bureau of Economic Geology
The University of Texas at Austin
University Station, Box X
Austin, Texas 78713-8924
E-mail:
Telephone: 512-475-9507
Professional Summary (Word format)
March 2006