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Refereed Journal Articles

  1. Alipour, A., and Sakhaee-Pour, A. (2023). Application of Young-Laplace with size-dependent contact angle and interfacial tension in shale. Geoenergy Science and Engineering, 231, 212447.
  2. Kasha, A., Myers, M., Hathon, L., Sakhaee-Pour, A., Sadooni, F., Nasser, M., Hussein, I., and Al-Kuwari, H. A. (2023). Integrated approach for closure correction of mercury injection capillary pressure measurements. Geoenergy Science and Engineering, 230, 212245.
  3. Sadooni, F.N., Al-Kuwari, H.A.S., Sakhaee-Pour, A. and Mattar, W.S. (2023). Microporosity evolution and destruction in the Jurassic Arab D reservoir, Qatar. Carbonates and Evaporites, 38(2), 45.
  4. Siddiqui, M. A. Q., Khadri, S. O., Liu, Y., Roshan, H., Regenauer-Lieb, K., Sadooni, F., Sakhaee-Pour, A., and Hussein, I. A. (2023). Fluid-rock interactions in tight gas reservoirs: Wettability, pore structural alteration, and associated multiphysics transport. In Developments in Petroleum Science, 78, 135–179.
  5. Alessa, S., Sakhaee-Pour, A., and Alipour, A. (2022). Safe Pressure for Hydrogen Storage in Subsurface. Energy Reports, 8, 15702–15711.
  6. Sakhaee-Pour, A., and Alessa, S. (2022). Hydrogen Permeability in Subsurface. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 47(63), 27071–27079.
  7. Alessa, S., Sakhaee-Pour, A., Sadooni, F., and Al-Kuwari, H. (2022). Capillary Pressure Correction of Cuttings. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 217,110908.
  8. Alipour, M., Kasha, A., Sakhaee-Pour, A., Sadooni, F., and Al-Kuwari, H. (2022). Empirical Relation for Capillary Pressure in Shale. Petrophysics, 63 (05): 591–603.
  9. Kasha, A., Sakhaee-Pour, A., and Hussein, I. (2022). Machine Learning for Capillary Pressure Estimation. SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering, 25 (01): 1–20.
  10. Berdiyorov, G. R., Elbashier, E., Carchini, G., Hussein, I. A., and Sakhaee-Pour, A. (2021). The effect of vacancy defects on the adsorption of methane on calcite 104 surface. Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 14, 3051–3058.
  11. Esatyana, E., Alipour, M., and Sakhaee-Pour, A. (2021). Characterizing anisotropic fracture toughness of shale using nanoindentation. SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering.
  12. Alessa, S., Sakhaee-Pour, A., Sadooni, F., and Al-Kuwari, H. (2021). Comprehensive pore size characterization of Midra shale. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 203, 108576.
  13. Elbashier, E., Hussein, I., Carchini, G., Sakhaee-Pour, A., Berdiyorov. G.R. (2021). Effect of strain on gas adsorption in tight gas carbonates: A DFT study. Computational Materials Science, 188, 110186.
  14. Alipour, M., Esatyana, E., Sakhaee-Pour, A., Sadooni, F., and Al-Kuwari, H. (2021). Characterizing fracture toughness using machine learning. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 200, 108202.
  15. Esatyana, E., Sakhaee-Pour, A., Sadooni, F., and Al-Kuwari, H. (2020). Nanoindentation of shale cuttings and its application to core measurements. Petrophysics, 61(05), 404–416.
  16. Tran, H., Kasha, A., Sakhaee-Pour, A., and Hussein, I. (2020). Predicting carbonate formation permeability using machine learning. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 195, 107581.
  17. Onawole, A. T., Hussein, I. A., Carchini, G., Sakhaee-Pour, A., and Berdiyorov, G. R. (2020). Effect of surface morphology on methane interaction with calcite: a DFT study. RSC Advances, 10(28), 16669 –16674.
  18. Sakhaee-Pour, A., and Li, W. (2019). Two-scale geomechanics of shale. SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering, 22(01), 161–172.
  19. Tran, H., and Sakhaee-Pour, A. (2019). The compressibility factor (Z) of shale gas at the core scale. Petrophysics, 60(04), 494–506.
  20. Tran, H., and Sakhaee-Pour, A. (2018). Critical properties (Tc, Pc) of shale gas at the core scale. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 127, 579–588.
  21. Tran, H., Sakhaee-Pour, A., and Bryant, S. L. (2018). A simple relation for estimating shale permeability. Transport in Porous Media, 124(3), 883–901.
  22. Yu, C., Tran, H., and Sakhaee-Pour, A. (2018). Pore size of shale based on acyclic pore model. Transport in Porous Media, 124(2), 345–368.
  23. Li, W., and Sakhaee-Pour, A. (2018). Two-scale geomechanics of carbonates. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 51(12), 3667–3679.
  24. Sakhaee-Pour, A., and Agrawal, A. (2018). Predicting breakdown pressure and breakdown cycle in cyclic fracturing. SPE Production & Operations, 33(04), 761–769.
  25. Tran, H., and Sakhaee-Pour, A. (2018). Slippage in shale based on acyclic pore model. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 126, 761–772.
  26. Sakhaee-Pour, A., and Agrawal, A. (2018). Integrating acoustic emission into percolation theory to predict permeability enhancement. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 160, 152–159.
  27. Sakhaee-Pour, A., and Tran, H. (2017). The permeability of a representative carbonate volume with a large vug. Transport in Porous Media, 120(3), 515–534.
  28. Tran, H., and Sakhaee-Pour, A. (2017). Viscosity of shale gas. Fuel, 1, 87–96.
  29. Sakhaee-Pour, A. (2017). Decomposing J-function to account for the pore structure effect in tight gas sandstones. Transport in Porous Media, 116(2), 453–471.
  30. Zapata, Y., and Sakhaee-Pour, A. (2017). Pore-body and -throat size distributions of The Geysers. Geothermics, 65, 313–321.
  31. Sakhaee-Pour, A., and Wheeler, M. F. (2016). Effective flow properties for cells containing fractures of arbitrary geometry. SPE Journal, 21(03), 965–80.
  32. Li, W., and Sakhaee-Pour, A. (2016). Macroscale Young’s moduli of shale based on nanoindentations. Petrophysics, 57(6), 597–603.
  33. Zapata, Y., and Sakhaee-Pour, A. (2016). Modeling adsorption-desorption hysteresis in shales: acyclic pore model. Fuel, 181, 557–565.
  34. Sakhaee-Pour, A. (2016). Pore-scale modeling of The Geysers. Geothermics, 60, 58–65.
  35. Sakhaee-Pour, A., and Li, W. (2016). Fractal dimensions of shale. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 30, 578–582.
  36. Sakhaee-Pour, A. (2016). Fractality of The Geysers. Geothermal Energy, 4(1), 1–10.
  37. Sakhaee-Pour, A., and Bryant, S. (2015). Pore structure of shale. Fuel, 143, 467–475.
  38. Sakhaee-Pour, A., and Bryant, S. (2014). Effect of pore structure on the producibility of tight-gas sandstones. AAPG Bulletin, 98(4), 663–694.
  39. Ganis, B., Mear, M. E., Sakhaee-Pour, A., Wheeler, M. F., and Wick, T. (2014). Modeling fluid injection in fractures with a reservoir simulator coupled to a boundary element method. Computational Geosciences, 18(5), 613–624.
  40. Sakhaee-Pour, A., and Bryant, S. (2012). Gas permeability of shale. SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering, 15(04), 401–409.                              Top 10 most downloaded articles of SPE, 11/2012 – 6/2015.
  41. Sakhaee-Pour, A., Gowhari-Anaraki, A. R., and Hardy, S. J. (2010). The effect of stiffness on stress intensity factor for a crack in annular disc under constant central torque. International Journal of Damage Mechanics, 19(8), 1001–1015.
  42. Sakhaee-Pour, A., and Vafai, A. (2010). Natural frequencies of C60, C70, and C80 fullerenes. Applied Physics Letters, 96(2), 1903.
  43. Sakhaee-Pour, A. (2009). Elastic properties of single-layered graphene sheet. Solid State Communications, 149(1), 91–95.                                 Top 5 most cited articles of the journal, 10/2012 – 5/2014.
  44. Sakhaee-Pour, A. (2009). Elastic buckling of single-layered graphene sheet. Computational Materials Science, 45(2), 266–270.
  45. Sakhaee-Pour, A., Ahmadian, M. T., and Vafai, A. (2009). Vibrational analysis of single-walled carbon nanotubes using beam element. Thin-walled structures, 47(6), 646–652.
  46. Sakhaee-Pour, A., Ahmadian, M. T., and Naghdabadi, R. (2008). Vibrational analysis of single-layered graphene sheets. Nanotechnology, 19(8), 1–7.
  47. Sakhaee-Pour, A., Ahmadian, M. T., and Vafai, A. (2008). Potential application of single-layered graphene sheet as strain sensor. Solid State Communications, 147(7), 336–340.
  48. Sakhaee-Pour, A., Ahmadian, M. T., and Vafai, A. (2008). Applications of single-layered graphene sheets as mass sensors and atomistic dust detectors. Solid State Communications, 145(4), 168–172.
  49. Sakhaee-Pour, A., Ahmadian, M. T., and Gerami, A. (2008). Development of an equation to predict radial modulus of elasticity for single-walled carbon nanotubes. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 222(6), 1109–1115.