Education Background

2013.09-2018.12, China University of Petroleum-Beijing, Ph.D.,

2009.09-2013.06, China University of Petroleum-Beijing, B.Sc.,

Career Experience

2025.04--Present: Associate professor, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University

2021.09--2025.04: Assistant professor, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University

2019.02--2021.06: Postdoctoral Fellow, Earth System Science Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

2018.10--2019.01: Research Assistant, Earth System Science Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

2016.05-- 2018.01: Honorary Research Assistant, Earth System Science Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Research

• Rock physics and fluid flow
• Rock mechanics and engineering
• Digital rock physics
• Effective stress law for permeability and deformation of porous rocks
• The evolution of permeability with stress in limestones and sandstones
• Poromechanics and failure of shales
• Compaction and failure mode of porous rocks under True-Triaxial stress conditions

Lectures

（1）Rock mechanics (For undergraduate)

（2）Foundation Treatment Technology (For undergraduate)

（3）Engineering Ethics (For graduate student)

Publications

Meng, F.*, Huang, L., Baud, P., & Wong, T. F. Strain localization in 4D imaged by X-ray computed tomography and digital volume correlation: Discrete compaction bands in Leitha limestone[J]. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2023, 171, 105160.

Meng, F., Huang, L., Baud, P., Wong, T. F. Spatiotemporal Evolution of Strain and Compaction Localization in Leitha Limsestone: Synchrotron Tomographic Imaging and Digital Volume Correlation. In: Pasternak, E., Dyskin, A. (eds) Multiscale Processes of Instability, Deformation and Fracturing in Geomaterials (pp.31 -40). IWBDG 2022. Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering. Springer, Cham. 2023.

Meng F.*, Li, X., Baud, P., & Wong, T. F. Bedding anisotropy and effective stress law for the permeability and deformation of clayey sandstones[J]. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 2021, 54(10): 5167-5184.

Meng F.*, Li, X., Baud, P., & Wong, T. F. Effective stress law for the permeability and pore volume change of clayey sandstones[J]. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2020, 125(8): e2020JB019765.

Meng, F.*, Baud, P., Ge, H., & Wong, T. F. The effect of stress on limestone permeability and effective stress behavior of damaged samples. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2019, 124(1), 376-399.

Wang, Y., Meng, F.*, Wang, X., Baud, P., & Wong, T. F. Effective stress law for the permeability and deformation of four porous limestones. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2018, 123(6), 4707-4729.

Meng, F.*, Ge, H., Yan, W., Wang, X., Wu, S., & Wang, J. Effect of saturated fluid on the failure mode of brittle gas shale[J]. Journal of Natural Gas Science & Engineering, 2016, 35,624-636.

Academic service

Journal Reviewer: JGR:solid earth, RMRE, IJRMMS, geofluids