Project Technical Support

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Los Alamos, NM

Posted:

October 06, 2012

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Zhiming Lu, Ph.D.

Computational Earth Sciences Group (EES-16)

Earth and Environmental Sciences

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos, NM 87545

Tel: 505-***-****

Fax: 505-***-****

Email: *******@****.***

Homepage: http://www.ees.lanl.gov/staff/zhiming/

SPECIAL SKILLS

Highly skilled in mathematical modeling, statistical analysis, stochastic analysis, and

numerical simulation of flow and contaminant transport in porous media

Familiarity in hydrological and hydro-chemical models such as, MODFLOW, PATH3D, MT3D,

ZBSOFT, MMOC, MINTEQA2, PHREEQC, LEHGC

Extensive programming experience in C, C++, FORTRAN, Java, UNIX script, and PL/SQL

Management of SGI and IBM/RS6000 UNIX workstations

EDUCATION

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ PhD, major in Hydrology and Water Resources, minor in

Computer Science, 2000

Stanford University, Stanford, CA M.S. in Applied Earth Sciences, specializing in

Geomathematics, 1995

Zhijiang University, P. R. China M.S. in Geology, 1985

Zhejiang University, P. R. China B.S. in Mathematics, major in Statistics, 1982

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2002-Present Los Alamos National Laboratory Technical Staff Member, Earth and

Environmental Sciences

Analytical solutions for unsaturated flow in layered, heterogeneous media (Lu and Zhang,

2004, AWR);

Analytical solutions for unsaturated flow in with root uptake (Yuan and Lu, 2005, VZJ);

Uncertainty quantification for flow in heterogeneous media using Karhunen-Loeve

decomposition:

Methodology development Zhang and Lu, 2004a;

Comparison of efficiency and accuracy of KLME, MC, and ME methods (Lu and Zhang, SIAM,

2004 );

for unsaturated flow (Yang, Zhang, and Lu, 2004);

for conditional saturated hydraulic conductivity field ( Lu and Zhang, AWR, 2004);

for two-phase flow ( Chen, Zhang, Kelley, and Lu, WRR, 2004 );

for 3D transient saturate flow (Lu and Zhang, submitted to The 2005 SPE Reservoir

Simulation Symposium );

Solving inverse problem using the Markov Chain Monte Carlo method (Lu, Higdon, and Zhang,

2004);

Analytical solutions to quantifying uncertainty for two-dimensional transient flow in

heterogeneous media (Lu and Zhang, WRR, 2004)

2000-2002 Los Alamos National Laboratory PostDoc, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Working on higher-order moments for saturated flow in heterogeneous porous media; solute

transport in multimodal heterogeneous porous media; transport of reactive solute in

randomly heterogeneous porous media; and Yucca Mountain project. Accomplished the

following studies:

Stochastic simulation of flow and transport in Busted Butte project;

Upscaled flow and transport properties in heterogeneous unsaturated media (Khaleel, Yeh,

and Lu, 2002);

Importance sampling technique in Monte Carlo simulations (Lu and Zhang, 2003c);

Solute transport in nonstationary flow in bounded heterogeneous unsaturated-saturated

media; (Lu and Zhang, 2003a);

Well capture zones in heterogeneous media; (Lu and Zhang, 2003b; Zhang and Lu, 2004);

Stochastic model for flow in randomly heterogeneous media with multi-modal systems (Lu

and Zhang, 2002b);

Stochastic model for flow in the integrated unsaturated/saturated heterogeneous media

(Zhang and Lu, 2002; Lu and Zhang, 2002a).

6/1995-2000University of Arizona Research Associate, Department of Hydrology and Water

Resources

Working on an NSF project entitled "A paradigm for the analysis of transient unsaturated

flow and transport in randomly heterogeneous soils". Responsibilities include developing

moment equations for nonlocal transient unsaturated flow with random boundary conditions

and a random source term, solving these equations numerically using the finite element

method, and comparing the corresponding Monte Carlo simulations.

Performed flow and transport simulation for defining effective hydraulic conductivity and

transport properties for unsaturated zone at Hanford site, Washington. Click here to view

the report.

Developed and implemented an algorithm for hydrological inverse problem using the maximum

likelihood method, and compared against the iterative stochastic inverse approach.

Conducted uncertainty analysis on the analytical solution for one-dimensional unsaturated

flow in heterogeneous soils with a variable infiltration rate.

Investigated the behavior of the variable Cadmium concentration in groundwater system in

Pinal Creek, Arizona.

Simulated the evolution of the chloride plume at Borden landfill, Borden, Ontario, using

a modified method of characteristics and a finite element model.

Managed a cluster of five UNIX IBM RS/6000 workstations and network.

1992-1995Stanford University, Stanford, CA Research Assistant, Department of Geological

and Environmental Sciences.

Developed a three-dimensional computer simulation model for turbidity flows (TurbFlow).

Implemented a three-dimensional diffusion model with a graphic user-interface.

Calibrated SEDimentary basin SIMulation (SEDSIM) model, co-organized SEDSIM affiliates

meeting, offered workshops on Introduction to Using SEDSIM and TURBFLOW, and provided

technical support for SEDSIM users.

Managed SGI UNIX workstations and Macintoshes in Geomathematics Laboratory.

Consulted on developing a mathematical model for turbidity flows, Chevron Oil Company

1985-1992Zhejiang University, P. R. China Lecturer, Department of Earth Sciences

Participated in designing a computer expert system for tungsten deposits, responsibility

including building the conceptual model, collecting field data, and calibrating the model.

Developed a statistical model for predicting concealed ore bodies, Shandong, P. R. China.

Supervised undergraduate theses.

AWARDS

2001 Editors' Citation for Excellence in Scientific Refereeing for Water Resource

Research, American Geophysics Union.

Bao Yu-Kong Scholarship for Chinese Students and Scholars Studying Abroad, 1991.

Excellent paper award on the Second National Conference on Microcomputer Applications,

1986.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATES

American Geophysics Union

American Water Resources Association

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Proceeding Papers

Lu, Z., B. Robinson, and C. Lu, Identification of geological structures using the level

set method, MODFLOW and More Conference, 2006.

Liu, G., Lu Z., and D. Zhang, MODFLOW-STO: Stochastic modeling of flow in saturated

porous media using MODFLOW-2000, MODFLOW and More Conference, 2006.

Zhang, D., Z. Lu, and G. Liu, An efficient stochastic decomposition approach for large-

scale subsurface flow problems, 16th International Conference on Computational Methods in

Water Resources, 2006.

Lu, Z., Parameter identification using the level set methods, the 16th International

Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources, 2006.

Zhang, D., Lu, Z., and Y. Chen, Dynamic reservoir data assimilation with an efficient,

dimension-reduced Kalman filter, The 2005 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, SPE95277, 2005.

Lu, Z., and D. Zhang, Accurate, efficient quantification of uncertainty for flow in

heterogeneous reservoirs using the KLME approach, The 2005 SPE Reservoir Simulation

Symposium, SPE93452, 2005.

Lu, Z., D. Higdon, and D. Zhang, A Markov Chain Monte Carlo method for the groundwater

inverse problem, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computational Methods

in Water Resources, 1273-1283, 2004.

Lu, Z., and D. Zhang, An efficient approach for simulating saturated flow in randomly

heterogeneous porous media conditioned on hydraulic conductivity measurements, Proceedings