Anna Herring

Dr Anna Herring is a fellow at The Australian National University, affiliated with the PHY department. Her research focuses on multiphase fluid flow and trapping in porous media, the impact of fluid property variation on flow behavior, forces controlling pore-scale fluid-fluid interactions, and novel descriptors of fluid and media morphology and topology. She also investigates surface and interfacial interactions during fluid flows, utilizing X-ray microtomographic imaging and data visualization. Her work enables efficient design and optimization of technologies for climate change mitigation, including carbon dioxide storage in geological formations and construction cements. Herring's research is experimental, employing advanced visualization techniques to observe and quantify fluid-solid interactions at a micro-scale.

Anna Herring is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville, specializing in environmental engineering with a focus on CO2 sequestration, CCUS, and multiphase flow in porous media. Her research explores the mechanisms of nonwetting phase trapping, capillary pressure, and fluid topology in geological systems, with applications to geologic CO2 storage. Herring's work integrates experimental and computational methods to characterize pore-scale processes, including the impact of wettability alteration, flow rate, and interfacial tension on fluid behavior. Her studies contribute to understanding the efficiency of capillary trapping and the role of microstructural features in subsurface fluid dynamics.