Yaxin Liu is a Well Control Product Analyst at Schlumberger Technology Corporation. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Tulsa, where he served as a teaching assistant who supports the professor in planning and presenting lessons and teaches undergraduate students basic petroleum engineering lab experiments.

His research is on investigation of counter-current flow during bullheading operations, transient modelling of two-phase flow, fluid mechanics, and well control. He is focusing both on advanced modelling as well as numerical analysis (computational fluid dynamics, machine learning etc.). Yaxin Liu has authored and coauthored more than 25 technical papers. He holds the bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering and master’s degree in oil and gas well engineering from the Southwest Petroleum University.

Drilling fluids; Rheology; Non-Newtonian; Fluid Mechanics; CFD; Well Control; Two-Phase Flow Modelling; Drilling; Multiphase Flow; Managed Pressure Drilling