Wei Fu
Senior Geomechanics Engineer
Dr. Fu’s expertise centers on computational geomechanics and coupled multiphysics simulations in the subsurface. He specializes in continuum and discontinuum modeling of geomechanics and fluid flow, with applications in oil and gas, geothermal, geotechnical, and mining industries.
Dr. Fu’s experience spans a variety of engineering problems, including numerical and mathematical modeling of hydraulic fracture–natural fracture interactions, upscaling modeling of fracture swarms, reservoir stimulation modeling for enhanced geothermal systems, hydro-thermal-mechanical modeling for radioactive waste disposal in deep geological repositories, optimization of preconditioning in cave mining, multi-scale simulation of rock spalling and fracturing behaviors, hydraulic fracturing experiments, and surrogate modeling methods.
Education
Ph.D. (Major: Civil Engineering, Minor: Mechanical Engineering), 2018
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
M.Sc. (Tunnel and Underground Engineering), 2013
Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
B.Eng. (Civil Engineering), 2011
Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China