Zhonghao Sun, Ph.D.
Associate Professor in Civil Engineering
School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering
Home page - 孙 中豪
Department of Civil Engineering
School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering
Xi'an Jiaotong University
Email: zhonghao.sun@xjtu.edu.cn
2021 Associate Professor, Xi'an Jiaotong University
2019 Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin
2018 Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
2015 MSCE, Georgia Institute of Technology
2013 B.S., Tsinghua University
Dr. Sun's research focuses on advancing the fundamental understanding of multiphase flow and coupled processes in porous media from micro to macro scales, which contribute to solving flow-related problems in various applications such as rainfall infiltration, oil and gas recovery, and CO2 geological storage. Results have been published in leading journals, including Nature Communications, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, and Water Resources Research.
2020 Editors' Highlights, Nature Communications, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19054-8
2019 Editors' Suggestion, Physical Review E, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.100.023115
2010-2012 Academic First Class Scholarship
ARTICLES
Sun, Z.*, Mehmani, A., Torres-Verdin, C. (2021), Pore-Scale Investigation of the Electrical Resistivity of Saturated Porous Media: Flow Patterns and Porosity Efficiency. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. (accepted)
Liu, Q.#, Sun, Z.#, and Santamarina, J. C. (2021). Self-assembled nanoparticle-coated interfaces: Capillary pressure, shell formation and buckling. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 581(A), 251-261.
Sun, Z.*, Mehmani, A., Torres-Verdin, C. (2020), Subpore-scale trapping mechanisms following imbibition: a microfluidics investigation of surface roughness effects. Water Resources Research, 57(2), e2020WR028324.
Nauruzbayeva#, J., Sun, Z.#, Junior, A. G.#, Ibrahim, M., Santamarina, J. C., Mishra, H. (2020), Electrification at water-hydrophobe interfaces. Nature Communications, 11, 5285(2020).
Sun, Z.* and Santamarina, J.C. (2019). Haines jumps: Pore scale mechanisms. Physical Review E, 100(2), 023115.
Liu, Q., Sun, Z.*, and Santamarina, J. C. (2019). Transport and adsorption of silica nanoparticles in carbonate reservoirs: A sand column study. Energy & Fuels, 33(5), 4009-4016.
Sun, Z.* and Santamarina, J.C. (2019), Grain-displacive gas migration in fine-grained sediments. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 124(3), 2274-2285.
Sun, Z.*, Jang, J., and Santamarina, J.C. (2018), Time-dependent pore filling. Water Resources Research, 54(12), 10242-10253.
Jang, J., Sun, Z., and Santamarina, J.C. (2016), Capillary pressure across a pore throat in the presence of surfactants. Water Resources Research, 52, 9586-9599.
Book Chapters
Santamarina, J. C., Park, J., Terzariol, M., Cardona, A., Castro, G. M., Cha, W., Garcia, A., Hakiki, F., Lyu, C, Salva, M., Shen, Y., Sun, Z., and Chong, S. H. (2019). Soil properties: physics inspired, data driven. In Geotechnical fundamentals for addressing new world challenges (pp. 67-91). Springer, Cham.
PROCEEDINGS
Sun, Z.*, Mehmani, A., Torres-Verdin, C. (2020), Pore-scale investigation of porosity-resistivity-permeability relationships: implications for petrophysical rock typing. SPWLA 61st Annual Logging Symposium-Online.
Santamarina, J.C. and Sun, Z. (2017), Mixed fluid conditions: Capillary phenomena. Poromechanics VI: Proceedings of the Sixth Biot Conference on Poromechanics, Paris.
