Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
  PhD in Chemical Engineering, September 2000.
  Thesis: "Multiscale Molecular Modeling of Aqueous Systems from Ambient to Supercritical Conditions."
• University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
  Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, May 1994.

Experience

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA.  Scientist.  Research on the thermodynamics and transport of aqueous systems in the subsurface, research on the thermodynamics of gas hydrates.

Sandia National Laboratories, Combustion Research Facility, Livermore, CA.  Term Technical Staff.  Research on uncertainty quantification and application to chemical systems modeling and reacting flow.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Research Assistant.  Research on the molecular simulation of supercritical water solutions.

Research Interests

• Thermodynamics of gas hydrates
• Physical properties and phase behavior of nonideal fluids and real gases
• Online applications and collaborative tools
• Online applications and collaborative tools
• Parametric uncertainty propagation in complex dynamical systems

Projects

• WebGasEOS

Publications

Reagan, M.T., Najm, H.N., Pebay, P.P., Knio, O.M., and R.G. Ghanem, “Quantifying Uncertainty in Chemical Systems Modeling.” Int. J. Chem. Kinetics 37, 6, 368-382 (2005).

Reagan, M.T., Najm, H.N., Ghanem, R.G., Knio, O.M., and O.P. LeMaître, "Spectral Stochastic Uncertainty Quantification in Chemical Systems." Combust. Theory and Modeling 8, 3, 607-632 (2004).

LeMaître, O.P., Reagan, M.T., Debusschere, B.J., Najm, H.N., Ghanem, R.G., and O.M. Knio, "Natural Convection in a Closed Cavity under Stochastic, Non-Boussinesq Conditions." SIAM J. Sci. Comp. 26, 2, 375-394 (2004).

Najm, H.N., Reagan, M.T., Knio, O.M., Ghanem, R.G., and O.P. LeMaître, "Uncertainty Quantification in Reacting Flow Modeling." Technical Report SAND2003-8598, Sandia National Labs, Livermore, CA (2003).

Reagan, M.T., Najm, H.N., Ghanem, R.G., and O.M. Knio, "Uncertainty Quantification in Reacting Flow Simulations Through Non-Intrusive Spectral Projection." Combustion and Flame 132, 3, 545-555 (2003).

LeMaître, O.P., Reagan, M.T., Najm, H.N., Ghanem, R.G., and O.M. Knio, "A  Stochastic  Projection Method for Fluid Flow. II. Random Process." J. Comp. Phys. 181, 9-44 (2002).

Reagan, M.T. and J.W. Tester, "The Zeno (Z=1) Behavior of Water: A Molecular Simulation Study." Int. J. Thermophysics 22, 1, 149-160 (2001).

Kutney, M.C., Reagan, M.T., Smith, K.A., Tester, J.W., and D.R. Herschbach, "The Zeno (Z=1) Behavior of Equations of State: An Interpretation Across Scales from Macroscopic to Molecular."  J. Phys. Chem. B 104, 10, 9513-9525 (2000).

Ciric, A.R., Mumtaz, H.S., Corbett, G., Reagan, M.T., Seider, W.D., Fabiano, L.A., Kolesar, D.M., and S. Widagdo, "Azeotropic Distillation with an Internal Decanter."  Comp. Chem. Eng. 24, 2435-2446 (2000).

Reagan, M.T., Harris, J.G. and J.W. Tester, "Molecular Simulation of Dense Hydrothermal NaCl-H2O Solutions from Subcritical to Supercritical Conditions." J. Phys. Chem. B 103, 37, 7935-7941 (1999).

Tester, J.W., Marrone, P.A., DiPippo, M.M., Sako, K., Reagan, M.T., Arias, T.A., and W.A. Peters, "Chemical Reactions and Phase Equilibria of Model Halocarbons and Salts in Sub- and Supercritical Water (200 to 300 bar, 100 to 600 oC)." J. Supercritical Fluids 13 225-240 (1998).

Matthew Reagan
Scientist

Hydrogeology Department

Phone: 510-486-6517 
Fax: 510-486-5686
Email:    MTReagan@lbl.gov