Biography
Hangkai earned his BEng and MEng from Xi’an Jiaotong University, graduating in June 2023. During his time there, he worked with Professor Li Chen on multiphase reactive flow in porous media. In October 2023, he joined the Poromechanics Lab in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford as a DPhil student, supervised by Professor Chris MacMinn.
His current research focuses on multiphase flow in soft porous media. In particular, he uses laboratory experiments and simplified models to investigate the coupling between gas–water two-phase flow and the deformation of soft porous media—processes relevant to phenomena such as methane venting from seabed sediments.
Research Interests
- Multiphase flow
- Porous materials
- Soft materials
