Ali H. Dogru, Ph.D.

Ali Dogru 

Ali H. Dogru, Ph.D.

Herman Brown Chair of Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering (by Courtesy)
Member of US National Academy of Engineering

Office Location: Embrey 301G

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Education

  • M.Sc. & B.Sc. combined, Istanbul Technical University

  • Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering with minor in Applied Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin 

Biography

Worked for Saudi Aramco for twenty-eight years with the last eleven years as Saudi Aramco Fellow.
Prior to his Aramco career, he worked for Mobil R&D company (now ExxonMobil) for fourteen years. Earlier industrial career covered Core Labs Engineering Numerics company in Dallas for four years. He has been associated with MIT since 2011. He has received MIT ERL Fellow title by 2018. His other research and teaching experience includes California Institute of Technology, Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Mechanical Engineering, UT Dallas Math Department, The Norwegian Institute Of Technology and Istanbul Technical University in Petroleum Engineering.

Honors and Awards

  • Member of US National Academy of Engineering, Honorary Member Award

  • Distinguished Member Award, John Franklin Carrl Award

  • Reservoir Description and Dynamics Awards from The Society of Petroleum Engineers

  • World Oil Innovative Thinker Award from World Oil

  • Best Technology Award, ADIPEC

  • Received over 25 US Patents

     


Research

  • Large scale simulation -High performance Computing 
  • Computational modeling of CO2 sequestration, Geothermal Systems, H2 storage
  • Mathematical Modeling of flow of complex fluid mixtures through pipes and networks
  • Multiphase flow in in porous media  
  • Numerical solution of coupled partial differential equations involving heat and mass transport

Recent Publications

  • Noval Methods for Simulating Reservoirs with Tilted Fluid Contacts, IPTC-24411-MS, Feb12, 2024
    ; Kashinat,Jaysinghe,Dow,Middya,Dogru

  • “A fast algorithm for calculating isothermal phase behavior using machine learning” (Journal of Fluid Phase Equilibria, Volume, Pages 73-82, Elsevier, 2018/4/15). A. Kashinath, ML Szulczewski, AH Dogru.
    A fast algorithm for calculating isothermal phase behavior using machine learning - ScienceDirect

  • “Aquifer Acceleration in Parallel Implicit Field-Scale Reservoir Simulation”, (SPE Journal, 2018/2/1).
    S. Du, L. Fung, A. Dogru.

  • “Correction to: Interior boundary-aligned unstructured grid generation and cell-centered versus vertex-centered CVD-MPFA performance”, (Computational Geosciences, pages : 231-231, 2018/2/1). S. Manzour , M. Edwards, A. Dogru, T. AlShaalan,

  • “Equivalent Wellblock Radius for Partially Perforated Vertical Wells--Part I: Anisotropic Reservoirs With Uniform Grids” (SPE Journal, Vol. 15, No. 4, December, 2010). Dogru, Ali H.