Computational fluid dynamics with a focus on geological and geophysical flows
Discrete fracture network and discrete fracture matrix modeling
Upscaling techniques for fractured porous media
Computational geometry
Explosive volcanism
Compressible flow phenomena of multiparticle-gas mixtures
Education
Ph.D., Geology
University at Buffalo
2018
M.S., Geology
University at Buffalo
2014
B.S., Applied Mathematics and Geology
University of Vermont
2012
Positions
1/2018 - Present | Postdoctoral Research Associate
Awards
Dr. Duane Champion Research Award (for summer fieldwork), University at Buffalo, 2016
Solène Pouget Memorial Award for Scientific Contributions to Society, University at Buffalo, 2016
Dean's Fellowship, University at Buffalo, 2014 - 2018
Graduate Research Assistantship, University at Buffalo, 2015 - 2018
Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University at Buffalo, 2012 - 2015
IAVCEI travel grant for 5th International Maar Conference, Querétaro, MX - 2014
Tinker Memorial Grant (for best undergraduate geology student), University of Vermont, 2011 - 2012
Professional Societies
American Geophysical Union
International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Publications
Sweeney M.R., Gable C.W., Karra S., Stauffer P.H., Pawar R.J., Hyman J.D. (2019) Upscaled discrete fracture matrix model (UDFM): an octree-refined continuum representation of fractured porous media, Computational Geosciences, doi:10.1007/s10596-019-09921-9
Sweeney M.R., Grosso Z.S., Valentine G.A. (2018) Topographic controls on a phreatomagmatic maar-diatreme eruption: field and numerical results from Holocene Dotsero volcano (Colorado, USA). Bulletin of Volcanology, 80: 78, doi:10.1007/s00445-018-1253-x
Valentine G.A., Sweeney M.R. (2018) Compressible flow phenomena at inception of lateral density currents fed by collapsing gas-particle mixtures. Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, 123, 1286-1302, doi:10.1002/2017JB015129
Sweeney M.R., Valentine G.A. (2017) Impact zone dynamics of dilute mono- and polydisperse jets and their implications for the initial conditions of pyroclastic density currents. Physics of Fluids, 29, 093304, doi:10.1063/1.5004197
Sweeney M.R., Valentine G.A. (2015) Transport and mixing dynamics from explosions in debris-filled volcanic conduits: Numerical results and implications for maar-diatreme volcanoes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 425, 64-76, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.05.038
