University of Southern California Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science The USC Andrew and Erna Viterbi School of Engineering USC
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Kristian Jessen


Assistant Professor 

Kristian Jessen

Research Topics

  • Flow and transport in porous media
  • Phase behavior and transport properties of non-ideal mixtures
  • CO2 sequestration in depleted oil and gas reservoirs, saline aquifers and coal beds
  • High order accurate numerical schemes for systems of conservation equations
  • Analytical methods for systems of hyperbolic conservation equations
  • Compositional streamline simulation
 
 
Contact Information


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E-mail:                       
jessen@usc.edu
Mailing Address:      
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
University of Southern California
925 Bloom Walk, HED 311
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1211                 

Office Location:
       
HED 311
Office Phone:          
(213) 740-2073
Fax:                         
(213) 740-0324

 
Education


Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, 2000
M.S. Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, 1996
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Danish Engineering Academy, 1994


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Selected Publications


Cinar, Y, Jessen, K. Berenblyum, R., Juanes, R and Orr, F.M Jr.: “An Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Cross-Flow Effects in Two-Phase Displacements”, SPE Journal 11 (2), p216-226, June 2006.

Mallison, B., Gerritsen, M., Jessen, K. and Orr, F.M. Jr: “High Order Upwind Schemes for Two-Phase, Multicomponent Flow”, SPE Journal, 10 (3), p297-311, (Sep. 2005)

Jessen, K., Kovscek, A, Orr, F.M. Jr.: “Increasing CO2 storage in Oil Recovery”, Energy Conversion and Management, 46, (2005), p. 293-311.

Jessen, K. and Orr, F.M. Jr. “Gas Cycling and the Development of Miscibility in Condensate Reservoirs”, SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering, 7(5), p. 334-341, (2004).

Jessen, K., Stenby, E.H. and Orr, F.M. Jr. “Interplay of Phase Behavior and Numerical Dispersion in Finite Difference Compositional Simulation”, Society of Petroleum Engineers Journal, 9(2), p. 193-201, (2004).