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Dave Chan
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Latest papers
Sediment characteristics and accumulation in catch basins: a case study in Calgary, Canada.
Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research · 2026
Evaluation of numerical schemes for capturing shock waves in modeling proppant transport in fractures.
Petroleum science · 2017 · senior author
Latest funding
- $144,000
Constitutive and numerical modelling of wet granular flow and deformation
NSERC · 2017 · Principal investigator
- $787,499
Comprehensive laboratory and numerical investigation of SAGD completions
NSERC · 2015 · Co-investigator
- $624,000
Investigation of pilot tube micro-tunneling (PTMT) and pipe bursting construction risks
NSERC · 2013 · Co-investigator
2 publications.
Sediment characteristics and accumulation in catch basins: a case study in Calgary, Canada.
Zhang R, Zhu DZ, Chan D, van Duin B
Evaluation of numerical schemes for capturing shock waves in modeling proppant transport in fractures.
Roostaei M, Nouri A, Fattahpour V, Chan D
Constitutive and numerical modelling of wet granular flow and deformation
Principal investigators: Chan, Dave
Comprehensive laboratory and numerical investigation of SAGD completions
Principal investigators: Nouri, Alireza
Investigation of pilot tube micro-tunneling (PTMT) and pipe bursting construction risks
Principal investigators: Bayat, Alireza
Constitutive and numerical modeling of granular assembly and debris flow
Principal investigators: Chan, Dave
Risk assessment and mitigation development for HDD construction
Principal investigators: Bayat, Alireza
Investigation of sand production and hydraulic fracturing in petroleum sandstone reservoirs
Principal investigators: Nouri, Alireza
Numerical modeling of ground movement and soil mobility
Principal investigators: Chan, Dave
Development of computer models for sand deformation and mobility analysis
Principal investigators: Chan, Dave
Development of liquefaction and fracture models for granular materials
Principal investigators: Chan, Dave
Discrete element modelling for oil sand lumps
Principal investigators: Chan, Dave
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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