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Professor Maxim Lebedev

Professor

Staff Member Details
Email: m.lebedev@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO27.M03  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1369-5844

Maxim is a Professor at the Centre for Sustainable Energy and Resources with over 30 years of research experience in physics, material science, and rock physics working at leading research organisations in Russia, Japan, and New Zealand. Maxim obtained his MSc in Physics and Engineering in 1986 and his PhD in Physics in 1990 from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers and is the inventor of 11 international patents. Maxim’s current research is focused on the properties of subsurface reservoir rocks and minerals, including elastic and inelastic properties of rocks at teleseismic, seismic, and ultrasonic frequencies; digital rock physics; mechanical properties of rocks at micro level (nanoindentation); and direct observation of multiphase fluid.

Research Areas and Interests

  • Gas storage (H2 and CO2)
  • X-ray micro-computed tomography
  • Multi-phase flow through porous media
  • Rock physics

Qualifications

  • Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Russian Federation, 1991.
  • Diploms (With Honours) Experimental Nuclear Physics, Russian Federation, 1986.

Research Outputs

Journal Articles

  • Farrokhrouz, M., Akhondzadeh, H., Yang, Y., Abdul Rahman, F., Iglauer, S., Lebedev, M., Keshavarz, A. (2024). Coal cleat network stimulation through a combination of acidizing and liquid nitrogen fracturing. Gas Science and Engineering, 125(2024), article number 205308. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgsce.2024.205308.
  • Mikhaltsevitch, V., Lebedev, M. (2024). Measurements of the Effective Stress Coefficient for Elastic Moduli of Sandstone in Quasi-Static Regime Using Semiconductor Strain Gauges. Sensors, 24(4), Article number 1122. https://doi.org/10.3390/s24041122.
  • Yaseri, AZ., Yekeen, N., Al-Mukainah, H., Sarmadivaleh, M., Lebedev, M. (2024). Snap-Off Effects and High Hydrogen Residual Trapping: Implications for Underground Hydrogen Storage in Sandstone Aquifer. Energy and Fuels, 38(4), 2983-2991. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.3c04261.
  • Zhao, Q., Guo, R., Jha, N., Sarmadivaleh, M., Lebedev, M., Yaseri, AZ., McClure, J., Chen, C. (2024). Using X-ray computed tomography and pore-scale numerical modeling to study the role of heterogeneous rock surface wettability on hydrogen-brine two-phase flow in underground hydrogen storage. Fuel, 366(2024), article number 131414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2024.131414.

Journal Articles

  • Roslin, A., Lebedev, M., Mitchell, T., Onederra, I., Leonardi, C. (2023). Processing of micro-CT images of granodiorite rock samples using convolutional neural networks (CNN). Part III: Enhancement of Scanco micro-CT images of granodiorite rocks using a 3D convolutional neural network super-resolution algorithm. Minerals Engineering, 195(April 2023), Article number 108028. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mineng.2023.108028.
  • Fei , J., Yaotian , G., Tsuji, T., Kato, Y., Mai, S., Esteban, L., Seyyedi, M., Pervukhina, M., Lebedev, M., Kitamura, R. (2023). Upscaling permeability using multiscale X‐ray‐CT images with digital rock modeling and deep learning techniques. Water Resources Research, 59(3), Article number e2022WR033267. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR033267.
  • Siegert, M., Gurris, M., Lebedev, M., Saenger, E. (2023). Numerical modeling of the permeability in Bentheim sandstone under confining pressure. Geophysics, 88(1), MR1-MR14. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2021-0718.1.
  • Ogbebor, J., Valenza, J., Ravikovitch, P., Karunarathne, A., Muraro, G., Lebedev, M., Gurevich, B., Khalizov, A., Gor, G. (2023). Ultrasonic study of water adsorbed in nanoporous glasses. Physical Review E, 108(2), article number 024802. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.108.024802.
  • Memon, S., Verrall, M., Lebedev, M., Giwelli, A., Keshavarz, A., Xie, Q., Sarmadivaleh, M. (2023). Nanoscale Analysis of Shale Matrix Alteration after Supercritical CO2 Treatment: Implications for scCO2 Fracturing in Shales. Energy and Fuels, 2023(Article in press), TBD. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.3c03291.
  • Mikhaltsevitch, V., Lebedev, M., Pevzner, R., Yurikov, A., Tertyshnikov, K. (2023). Low-frequency laboratory measurements of the elastic properties of solids using a distributed acoustic sensing system. Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 15(9), 2330-2338. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrmge.2023.05.002.

Research Projects

  • Polymer Enhanced Foam Injection for Underground Gas Storage and Enhanced Oil Recovery in Challenging Middle Eastern Carbonates: Towards Net Zero, Khalifa University, Grant, 2024 ‑ 2026, $126,794.
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