PhD Students
Karent Jerez Rojas
Karent obtained her undergraduate degree in Petroleum Engineering from Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia. She worked on the development of a simulation model using PipeSim and PipePhase software to determine the efficiency of collection lines, evaluating technical, financial, and business cases to identify production volume for potential wells. She applied Huff and Puff processes using natural gasoline to simulate oil flow, designed models to determine the effectiveness of oil dilution using NAPHTHA, GLP, and gasoline, and created a simulation model using Computer Modeling Group (CMG) software to assess the impact of using gasoline to reduce oil viscosity in the reservoir. More recently she completed her MS degree in Materials Science and Engineering at The Catholic University of America, in the spring of 2024. She is currently working towards her doctorate in Materials Science and Engineering. In her research she utilizes molecular simulation to study the influence of surface charge distributions on local fluid organization and flow profiles in fluid-structure interaction problems. She is also interested in quantum mechanics topics, in particular quantum electrodynamics (QED, the quantum field theory that describes the interaction between electromagnetic fields and charged particles) and quantum tunneling (a phenomenon in quantum mechanics where particles can pass through energy barriers that would be classically forbidden). Understanding the behavior of dynamic charged particles at surfaces with specific charge distributions can provide insights into how these interactions affect fluid organization and flow profiles, while tunneling can help elucidate how charged particles interact with surfaces and transition between different preferred configurations, influencing fluid behavior at the molecular level.
Karent obtained her undergraduate degree in Petroleum Engineering from Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia. She worked on the development of a simulation model using PipeSim and PipePhase software to determine the efficiency of collection lines, evaluating technical, financial, and business cases to identify production volume for potential wells. She applied Huff and Puff processes using natural gasoline to simulate oil flow, designed models to determine the effectiveness of oil dilution using NAPHTHA, GLP, and gasoline, and created a simulation model using Computer Modeling Group (CMG) software to assess the impact of using gasoline to reduce oil viscosity in the reservoir. More recently she completed her MS degree in Materials Science and Engineering at The Catholic University of America, in the spring of 2024. She is currently working towards her doctorate in Materials Science and Engineering. In her research she utilizes molecular simulation to study the influence of surface charge distributions on local fluid organization and flow profiles in fluid-structure interaction problems. She is also interested in quantum mechanics topics, in particular quantum electrodynamics (QED, the quantum field theory that describes the interaction between electromagnetic fields and charged particles) and quantum tunneling (a phenomenon in quantum mechanics where particles can pass through energy barriers that would be classically forbidden). Understanding the behavior of dynamic charged particles at surfaces with specific charge distributions can provide insights into how these interactions affect fluid organization and flow profiles, while tunneling can help elucidate how charged particles interact with surfaces and transition between different preferred configurations, influencing fluid behavior at the molecular level.