Elizaveta Gordeliy

Senior Software Engineer

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Elizaveta Gordeliy is a scientist with over ten years of academic and industrial experience in the geomechanics field.

Prior to joining ResFrac, Elizaveta worked as a Research Engineer at École Polytechnique (France), where she worked on the modeling of salt caverns used for hydrogen storage. Before that, Elizaveta worked in several research positions, where she developed numerical models for fractures, faults, and hydraulic fracture propagation: in the Department of Geosciences at École Normale Supérieure (France) as a postdoctoral researcher, in Schlumberger-Doll Research Center as a Visiting Scientist and a Research Scientist, in the Department of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia as a Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow, and in the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Minnesota as a Postdoctoral Research Associate.

Elizaveta earned her Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota and an M.S. cum laude in Applied Mathematics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University.

In her free time, Elizaveta enjoys spending time with her kids, reading science news, and traveling.

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Elizaveta's posts

Automatic Report Generation in ResFracPro

This month’s release has a feature that I am particularly excited about – automatic report generation. The reports are generated automatically when a simulation finishes. Also, reports can be generated on-demand for simulations that have already been completed. The reports are highly customizable, allowing the user to generate different line plots, 3D visualizations, preview plots, and tabular data. The user can provide a template PPT, so that the report is made with their preferred PPT style.

Introducing ResFrac’s New Multisector Capability

This month’s ResFrac release has a ton of new capabilities. The most important is called ‘multisector’ – the ability to split different sections of the well across different computers. This capability provides a computationally efficient and practical way to run larger models and handle complex scenarios. Hats off to Danial Zeinabady and Michael Nole, who have been the main developers on this project. Beyond them, it’s been a big team effort, pulling in folks from cloud, simulator, and user-success. First, let’s review – what is sector modeling? Why do we need a ‘multi’ version of it?

Abstract illustration with multiple outlined maps over a green-to-yellow gradient and light beams.

The influence of well configuration on water loss in Enhanced Geothermal Systems

Recently, ‘water loss’ has been a hot topic of discussion for EGS. Fervo reported that they have been producing only 70% of the fluid volumes that they have been injecting at their Project Red. The FORGE project reported a roughly 10% water loss rate. Because projects will have finite water rights, these results have led to concern that growth of EGS will be limited by excessive water consumption. This is a valid concern, and water availability is a legitimate factor in site-selection and project engineering. However, I believe that the problem has been overstated.