Applied Geothermal Energy Project Department

Applied Geothermal Energy Project educates students to design and sustainably operate commercial geothermal power and district-heating systems. Through thermal-reservoir simulation exercises, students learn to assess resource feasibility, then work hands-on with thermodynamic modeling to plan slim-hole drilling, balance production and injection wells, and design reinjection strategies. Paired with experience designing real-time monitoring scenarios, graduates gain the practical competency to manage reservoirs sustainably and lead geothermal projects.

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⭐ Muffler

Chair

💡 Geothermal Resource Assessment & Reservoir Engineering

Researchers (real GeoVerse Lab members) 14

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1774–1862

Jean-Baptiste Biot

Researcher

💡 Early quantitative study of heat conduction in solids (1804), precursor to the Biot number used in heat-transfer analysis

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1855–1921

Anthony Francis Lucas

Researcher

💡 Pioneered rotary drilling technology at the 1901 Spindletop gusher, launching modern rotary well-drilling practice

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1818–1889

James Prescott Joule

Researcher

💡 Established the mechanical equivalent of heat, foundational to the first law of thermodynamics

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1829–1901

Adolf Eugen Fick

Researcher

💡 Formulated Fick's laws of diffusion (1855)

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1853–1932

Wilhelm Ostwald

Researcher

💡 Founder of physical chemistry; foundational work on reaction kinetics and catalysis; Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1909)

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1863–1930

Auguste Rateau

Researcher

💡 Developed the multi-stage (Rateau-stage) steam turbine and was the first engineer to propose using Larderello's natural geothermal steam to generate electricity

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1766–1849

Jacob Perkins

Researcher

💡 Invented the first practical vapor-compression cycle machine (1834), founding the closed-loop working-fluid cycle engineering that binary geothermal plants use

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1796–1832

Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot

Researcher

💡 Founder of the second law of thermodynamics; established the theoretical maximum efficiency limit of heat engines (Carnot cycle, 1824)

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1917–1968

Phyllis Nicolson

Researcher

💡 Co-developed the Crank-Nicolson finite-difference numerical method for solving heat-conduction-type partial differential equations (1947)

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1875–1952

Charles Inglis

Researcher

💡 Derived the stress-concentration equation for elliptical cracks (1913), the direct mathematical precursor to Griffith fracture mechanics

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1851–1934

Arthur Schuster

Researcher

💡 Developed the periodogram/harmonic analysis method for detecting periodicities in geophysical time-series data

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1850–1914

Giuseppe Mercalli

Researcher

💡 Pioneer of systematic volcanology through direct observation of Vesuvius and Italian volcanoes; author of the Mercalli intensity scale

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1860–1953

Charles Gordon Curtis

Researcher

💡 Invented the Curtis impulse steam turbine stage, widely used in compact turbine-generator units

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1835–1882

William Stanley Jevons

Researcher

💡 Founded resource-depletion economics with "The Coal Question" (1865), analyzing sustainable extraction limits of a finite energy resource