Luis Ayala

Affiliate Researcher
Titles and Affiliations
William A. Fustos Family Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
FCMG Chair in Fluid Behavior and Rock Interactions, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)

Research Summary

Natural gas engineering, numerical modeling of unconventional gas reservoirs, performance prediction of gas shale reservoirs and tight sands with retrograde gases, compositional reservoir simulation and thermodynamics of hydrocarbon fluids, multiphase flow in pipelines and gas network analysis, and artificial intelligence applications.

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Recent Publications

Ostwald ripening of multi-component bubbles in porous media: A theory and a pore-scale model of how bubble populations equilibrate

Bueno, N., Ayala, L. & Mehmani, Y., Dec 2023, In: Advances in Water Resources. 182, 104581.

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Modeling of anomalous gas transport in heterogeneous unconventional reservoirs using a nonlinear generalized diffusivity equation

Garcez, J., Zhang, M. & Ayala, L. F., May 15 2023, In: Fuel. 340, 127519.

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Unified early-to-late time forecasting method for multi-fractured horizontal wells in unconventional gas reservoirs with fracture interference effects

Garcez, J., Zhang, M. & Ayala, L. F., Feb 2023, In: Gas Science and Engineering. 110, 204884.

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Fugacity-based lattice Boltzmann method for multicomponent multiphase systems

Soomro, M., Ayala, L. F., Peng, C. & Ayala, O. M., Jan 2023, In: Physical Review E. 107, 1, 015304.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Unrestricted component count in multiphase lattice Boltzmann: A fugacity-based approach

Soomro, M. & Ayala, L. F., Sep 2023, In: Physical Review E. 108, 3, 035304.

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A Robust Density-Based Approach to Production Data Analysis of Oil/Water Multiphase Flow System

Tran, K., Garcez, J. & Ayala, L. F., Nov 1 2023, In: Journal of Energy Resources Technology, Transactions of the ASME. 145, 11, 112902.

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A Similarity-Based Solution for Nonlinear Gas Fractional Diffusivity Equation with Application to Rate Transient Analysis of Unconventional Heterogeneous Reservoirs

Zhang, M., Garcez, J. & Ayala, L. F., Jun 2023, In: SPE Journal. 28, 3, p. 1165-1182 18 p.

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A two-phase type-curve method with multiscale fluid transport mechanisms in hydraulically fractured shale reservoirs

Zhang, F. Y., Zou, L. J., Rui, Z. H., Emami-Meybodi, H., Ayala, L. F. & Zhang, Z. X., Aug 2023, In: Petroleum Science. 20, 4, p. 2253-2267 15 p.

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Flowback and early-time production modeling of unconventional gas wells using an improved semi-analytical method

Zhang, M., Nguyen, K., Wang, Z. Q. & Ayala, L. F., Dec 2023, In: Petroleum Science. 20, 6, p. 3441-3449 9 p.

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Green's function-based type curves for multi-fractured horizontal gas wells in unconventional reservoirs

Garcez, J. & Ayala, L. F., Jul 15 2022, In: Fuel. 320, 123713.

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Two pressure boundary conditions for multi-component multiphase flow simulations using the pseudo-potential lattice Boltzmann model

Wang, Z., Soomro, M., Peng, C., Ayala, L. F. & Ayala, O. M., Nov 15 2022, In: Computers and Fluids. 248, 105672.

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The Dual-Reciprocity Boundary Element Analysis for Hydraulically Fractured Shale Gas Reservoirs Considering Diffusion and Sorption Kinetics

Zhang, M. & Ayala, L. F., Apr 2022, In: Transport in Porous Media. 142, 3, p. 531-557 27 p.

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Experimental study of gas/liquid diffusion in porous rocks and bulk fluids to investigate the effect of rock-matrix hindrance

Lou, X., Chakraborty, N., Karpyn, Z. T., Ayala, L. F., Nagarajan, N. & Wijaya, Z., Jun 2021, In: SPE Journal. 26, 3, p. 1174-1188 15 p.

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A thermodynamically consistent pseudo-potential lattice Boltzmann model for multi-component, multiphase, partially miscible mixtures

Peng, C., Ayala, L. F. & Ayala, O. M., Mar 15 2021, In: Journal of Computational Physics. 429, 110018.

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Fluid-wall interactions in pseudopotential lattice Boltzmann models

Peng, C., Ayala, L. F. & Ayala, O. M., Sep 2021, In: Physical Review E. 104, 3, 035301.

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