Research Interests

My research focuses on discretization methods and nonlinear and linear solvers for coupled partial differential equations describing a variety of subsurface processes, involving flow, transport and geomechanics. I focus on developing advance algorithms suitable for modern HPC architectures. I am one of the developers of the GEOSX code. Applications of interest include geologic carbon sequestration, geothermal energy, induced seismicity and oil & gas.

PhD, Geo-engineering, Delft University of Technology, 2019

MS, Engineering, Ecole Centrale Paris, 2014

MS, Energy Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 2014

BS, Energy Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 2012

Google scholar page

M. Cusini, J. A. White, N. Castelletto, and R. R. Settgast. Simulation of coupled multiphase flow and geomechanics in porous media with embedded discrete fractures. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 2020.

L. D. Carciopolo, M. Cusini, L. Formaggia, and H. Hajibeygi. Adaptive multilevel space-time-stepping scheme for transport in heterogeneous porous media (adm-lts). Journal of Computational Physics: X, 6:100052, 2020.

M. Cusini, R. Gielisse, H. Groot, C. van Kruijsdijk, and H. Hajibeygi. Incomplete mixing in porous media: Todd-longstaff upscaling approach versus a dynamic local grid refinement method. Computational Geosciences, 23(2):373–397, 2019.

M. Cusini, B. Fryer, C. van Kruijsdijk, and H. Hajibeygi. Algebraic dynamic multilevel method for compositional flow in heterogeneous porous media. Journal of Computational Physics, 354:593–612, 2018.

M. HosseiniMehr, M. Cusini, C. Vuik, and H. Hajibeygi. Algebraic dynamic multilevel method for embedded discrete fracture model (f-adm). Journal of Computational Physics, 373:324–345, 2018.

M. Cusini, C. van Kruijsdijk, and H. Hajibeygi. Algebraic dynamic multilevel (adm) method for fully implicit simulations of multiphase flow in porous media. Journal of Computational Physics, 314:60–79, 2016.

M. Cusini, A. A. Lukyanov, J. Natvig, and H. Hajibeygi. Constrained pressure residual multiscale (cpr- ms) method for fully implicit simulation of multiphase flow in porous media. Journal of Computational Physics, 299:472–486, 2015.