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Yannis C. Yortsos

Yannis C. Yortsos


Zohrab A. Kaprielian Dean's Chair in Engineering
Chester Dolley Professor 


Yannis C Yortsos

General Research Interests
  • Fluid flow, transport, and reaction in porous media
  • Viscous flows in porous media geometries
  • Phase change in porous media
  • Applications to the recovery of subsurface fluids (oil recovery, a soil remediation)

 
Contact Information

Web Site: 
E-mail:                       
yortsos@usc.edu
Mailing Address:      
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University of Southern California
3650 McClintock Ave., OHE 200
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1450                   
Office Location:       
OHE 200
Office Phone:          
(213)740-0617
Fax:                         
(213) 740-8493

 
Education

Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1979
M.S., Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1979
B.S., Chemical Engineering, National Technical University, Athens, Greece, 1973
Specific Research Interest 
  • Miscible flows in Hele-Shaw cells
  • Vapor-Liquid Flow in Porous Media
  • Transport and Displacement in Heterogeneous and Fractured Media
  • Scale-Up of Displacement Processes in Heterogeneous Media
  • Flow of Fluids with Yield Stress in Porous Media
  • Darcian Dynamics
  • Heterogeneity Identification
  • Filtration Combustion
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Selected Publications

 Yiotis, A., Tsimpanogiannis, I.N., Stubos, A.K., and Yortsos, Y.C., Coupling between external and internal mass transfer during drying of a porous medium, Water Resources Research, 43, W06403, doi:10.1029/2006WR005558 (2007).

Mahadevan, J., Sharma, M.M., and Yortsos, Y.C., Water Removal from Porous Media by Gas Injection: Experiments and Simulation, Transport in Porous Media, 66 (3), 287-309 (2007).

Chen, M., Yortsos, Y.C., and Rossen, W., A Pore-Network Study of the Mechanisms of Foam Generation in Porous Media, Phys. Rev. E,  73 (2), no3, id. 036304 (2006).


Mahadevan, J., Sharma, M.M., and Yortsos, Y.C., Flow-Through Drying of Porous Media, AIChEJ 52, 2367-2380 (2006).

Amili, P., and Yortsos, Y.C., Darcian Dynamics: A New Approach to the Mobilization of a Trapped Phase in Porous Media, TiPM 64, 25-49 (2006).

Yortsos, Y.C., and Salin, D., On the Selection Principle for Viscous Fingering in Porous Media, J. Fluid Mech. 557, 225-236 (2006).

Coutelieris, F.A., Kainourgiakis, M.E., Stubos, A.K., Kikkinides E.S., and Yortsos, Y.C., Multiphase Mass Transport with Partitioning and Inter-phase Transport in Porous Media, Chem. Eng. Sci. 61, 4650-4661 (2006).

Yiotis, A., Tsimpanogiannis, I.N., Stubos, A.K., and Yortsos, Y.C., Pore-Network Study of the Characteristic Periods in the Drying of Porous Materials, J. Colloid Interface Sci., 297(2), 738-748 (2006).

Mahadevan, J., Sharma, M.M., and Yortsos, Y.C., Factors Affecting Cleanup of Water Blocks: A Laboratory Investigation,” SPEJ, 238-246 (2005).

Mahadevan, J., Sharma, M.M., and Yortsos, Y.C., Evaporative Clean-up of Water-Blocks in Gas Wells, J. Pet. Tech., 66-68 (2005.

Yiotis, A., Boudouvis, A.G., Stubos, A.K., Tsimpanogiannis, I.N.,  and  Yortsos, Y.C.,* */Pore-Network Modeling of Isothermal Drying in Porous Media/, Transport in Porous Media, *58 *(1-2), 63-86 (2005).

Akkutlu, Y.I, and Yortsos, Y.C., /The Effect of Heterogeneity on In-situ Combustion: Propagation of Combustion Fronts in Layered Porous Media/,/ /SPEJ, accepted (2005)

Lu, C., and Yortsos, Y.C., /Pattern Formation in Reverse Filtration Combustion/, Phys. Rev. E accepted (2005).

Amili, P., and Yortsos, Y.C., /Darcian Dynamics: A New Approach to the Mobilization of a Trapped Phase in Porous Media/, TiPM, accepted (2005).

Chen, M., Yortsos, Y.C., and Rossen, W., /A //Pore-Network Study of the Mechanisms of Foam Generation in Porous Media/, Phys. Rev.E submitted (2005).

 Chen, M., Yortsos, Y.C., and Rossen, W., /Insights on the     Mechanisms of Foam Generation in Porous Media from Pore-Network Studies/, Colloids and Surfaces, *256/2-3*, 181-189 (2005).

Yiotis, A., Stubos, A.K., Boudouvis, A.G., Tsimpanogiannis, I.N., and Yortsos, Y.C., /Pore Network Modeling Of Isothermal Drying In Porous Media/, in Upscaling Multiphase Flow in Porous Media: *From Pore to Core and Beyond*, Das, D.B. and Hassanizadeh, S.M. (Eds.), Springer, 2005.

Chen, M., Rossen, W., and Yortsos, Y.C., /The Flow and Displacement in Porous Media of Fluids with Yield Stress/, Chem. Eng. Sci., *60 (15)*, 4183-4202 (2005).

Lu, C., and Yortsos, Y.C., /The Dynamics of Forward Filtration Combustion at the Pore-Network Level/, AIChEJ *51* (4), 1279-1296 (2005).

Talon, L., Martin, J., Rakotomalala, N., Salin, D., and Yortsos,Y.C., /Crossing the Elliptic Region in Quasilinear Hyperbolic Systems with Change-of-Type Behavior Arising in Flow Between Parallel Plates/, Phys. Rev. E *69*, 066318 (2004).

Shariati, M., Talon, L., Martin, J., Rakotomalala, N., Salin, D., and Yortsos, Y.C., /Physical Origins of the Change of Type from Hyperbolic to Elliptic Equations: Fluid Displacement Between two Parallel Plates/, J. Fluid Mech.* 519, *105-132 (2004).