Ali Papi
PhD Student
School of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Institute of Mechanical, Process & Energy Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, UK
Biography
Ali is a PhD student at Heriot-Watt University supervised by Prof. Mercedes Maroto-Valer, the director of the RCCS group. Coming with a strong fluid mechanics background, Ali’s focused interest is in multiphase flow simulation in porous media. Ali has a great passion for coding and simulation, and he has spent all his career doing projects in reservoir simulation and software development. During his PhD, he discovered a method to prevent salt precipitation in CO2 Storage processes in saline aquifers using CMG simulator. Also, Ali has developed various C++ codes for simulating fluid flows of CCS processes in aquifers.
In 2022, Ali joined the RCCS group at Heriot-Watt University as a PhD student, working on Evaporation, Salt precipitation and Reactive Transport Phenomena Modelling (RTM) of CO2 Storage processes in saline aquifers under the supervision of Prof. Mercedes Maroto-Valer. Ali has a multidisciplinary background with 2 MSc degrees and a focused interest in Reservoir Engineering. In 2019, he received the Fully funded Chevening Scholarship to study MSc Petroleum Engineering at Imperial College London. Ali was awarded this highly reputable scholarship by ranking in the top 3% of worldwide winners among 75,000 participants. Ali graduated from Imperial with Merit working on the MSc thesis Benchmarking of the Imperial College Finite Element Reservoir Simulator (IC-FERST): Mesh Adaptivity and Parallelisation. Ali received his 1st master’s degree in MSc Chemical Engineering – Hydrocarbon Reservoirs from Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran in 2016. He conducted his MSc thesis on the Simulation of the effect of Diffusion and Natural Convection in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs (NFR’s) in 2016 by coding in MATLAB. Ali completed his BSc in 2013 by studying HSE (Health, Safety and Environmental) Engineering at the Petroleum University of Technology (PUT), Iran, with a fully funded scholarship. Ali also has some industrial experiences between 2016 and 2019 such as working for the National Iranian South Oilfields Company (NISOC), the biggest Iranian Energy Company, as a graduate Reservoir Engineer. He also worked at bp in 2024 as summer intern – Computational Reservoir Engineer.
Roles & Responsibilities
PhD Student
Research interests
Reservoir Simulation, Numerical Modelling, Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS), Reactive Transport Modelling, Software Development