Researcher

Associate Professor Hamid Roshan

My Expertise

THMC Experimental and Computational Modelling in CCUS, Coal Seam Gas and Shale Gas Engineering
Geophysics and Data driven Rock Mass Characterization - Borehole Geotechnical Logging
In-situ Stress Measurement and Estimation
Fundamentals of Rock Mechanics - Multiphysics Geomechanics

Keywords

Fields of Research (FoR)

Geomechanics and Resources Geotechnical Engineering, Petroleum and Reservoir Engineering, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

Biography

Dr Hamid Roshan graduated with a PhD in Petroleum Geomechanics Engineering from the School of Petroleum Engineering at UNSW Sydney in 2012 followed by 3.5 years postdoc training in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He was later appointed in UNSW School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering in 2016. Prior to his PhD study, Hamid worked with the Underground Gas Storage Company where he gained invaluable industry...view more

Dr Hamid Roshan graduated with a PhD in Petroleum Geomechanics Engineering from the School of Petroleum Engineering at UNSW Sydney in 2012 followed by 3.5 years postdoc training in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He was later appointed in UNSW School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering in 2016. Prior to his PhD study, Hamid worked with the Underground Gas Storage Company where he gained invaluable industry experience and knowledge of state-of-the-art technologies in underground gas storage including successful gas storage project in Sarajeh field. Currently, Dr Roshan and his team work on multiphysics geomechanics and rock characterization including theoretical, numerical and experimental developments with applications in Mining, Civil and Petroleum Engineering. Dr Roshan team has also developed and patented field-scale downhole logging tools for stress - mechanical property measurements as well as software solution for mining industry. Since 2017, Dr Roshan has been developing the advanced multiphysics laboratory (GeoEngineering Research Lab: https://www.georesearch-lab.com/) in UNSW where the next generation of equipment for coupled geomechanics - rock characterization has been designed and built offering state-of-the-art academic and technical services to Mining, Civil and Petroleum sectors.

Research Interests

THMC Experimental and Computational Modelling in CCUS, Coal Seam Gas and Shale Gas Engineering
Geophysics and Data driven Rock Mass Characterization - Borehole Geotechnical Logging
In-situ Stress Measurement and Estimation
Fundamentals of Rock Mechanics - Multiphysics Geomechanics

Individuals with strong academic background and good publication record are strongly encouraged to contact me to explore the scholarship opportunities.

My Grants

CO2 Geological Storage (2023-2024) NSW Government
In-situ stress estimation (2023-2024) Industry Project
DilaStress: the new generation of downhole in-situ stress measurement tools (2023-2024) ACARP Project
Time-lapse Seismic Survey for Formation and Gas Content Characterization (2022-2023) ACARP Project
Methodology for efficient design of the pattern of drainage holes based on stress variation and gas flow behaviour in coal seams (2020-2022) ACARP Project
New effective stress law for coal: experimental, theoretical and numerical development (2020-2024) Industry Project
Parenting Geophysical Strata Rating (GSR) and numerical modelling optimum characterisation of rock mass (2019-2021) ACARP Project
Quantification of Multiphysics phenomena of Gas flow in organic rich shales (2021-2023) Australian Research Council Discovery Project
Effective Stress coefficient measurements of sandstone samples (2019-2021) Industry Project
Biot coefficient of soft rocks (2021-2022) TfNSW
Deployment of silica gels for improved CO2 containment and risk mitigation (2019-2020) CINSW Seed Project
Advances in acoustic logs to predict the stress redistribution in coal strata as a result of degassing-dewatering (2018-2020) ACARP Project
Productivity optimisation of tight sandstone reservoirs by multi-technique approach (2017-2018) Industry Project
Gas sorption induced damage in coal (2017-2018) Industry Project
Multiphysics instabilities during diagenesis of shale gas reservoirs (2017-2020) Australian Research Council Discovery Project
Permeability testing of sediment core (2015-2016) WA State Government Project

My Research Supervision

Areas of supervision

Thermal-hydraulic-mechanical-chemical (THMC) experimental and numerical modelling with applications in CCUS, coal seam and shale gas engineering
Fundamental of rock mechanics - geomechanics
Rock mass characterization using geophysical methods
In-situ stress characterisation and mapping