Kamy Sepehrnoori

Graduate Advisor, Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (1996 - 2003, 2004 - present).
Associate Director, Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (1997 - present).
Bank of America Centennial Professor in Petroleum Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (1995 - present).
Associate Chairman, Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2004 - 2008).
Frank W. Jessen Professor in Petroleum Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (1989 - 1995).
Professor of Petroleum Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (1989 - present).
Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (1985 - 1989).
Assistant Professor of Petroleum Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (1981 - 1985).
Visiting Professor, Department of Petroleum Engineering, The University of Southwestern Louisiana (Summer 1982).
Teaching Assistant, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin (Fall 1975).

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Summer job training at Dresser Atlas and Shell Oil Company, Houston (Summer 1983).
Research Engineer - Scientist Associate, Center for Energy Studies and Petroleum Engineering Department, The University of Texas at Austin (1978 - 1981).
Research Associate, Department of Petroleum and Geological Engineering, University of Oklahoma (Summer 1979).
Research Engineer - Scientist Assistant, Bureau of Engineering Research, The University of Texas at Austin (1973 - 1977).

CONSULTING:

Conoco, CRA Technological Resources (Australia), INTERA, Inc.

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HONORS AND AWARDS:

Sigma Gamma Tau
Phi Theta Kappa
Phi Kappa Phi
Outstanding Teaching Award, Graduate School (2004)
Teaching Excellence Award, Student Engineering Council (2003)
Bank of America, N.A., Centennial Professorship in Petroleum Engineering (1995 - present)
Departmental Award for Excellence in Engineering Teaching (2000)
Frank W. Jessen Professorship in Petroleum Engineering (1989 - 1995)
Faculty Excellence Award (1993)
Departmental Award for Excellence in Engineering Teaching (1991)
GIGAFLOP Performance Award, Cray Research, Inc. (1989)
Recipient of Sun Exploration and Production Company Centennial Fellowship (1983 - 1989)
Award of Excellence, Halliburton Education Foundation (September 1984)
Recipient of DEC Grant for the Development of Computer Graphics in Petroleum Engineering (1982)

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL AND HONORARY SOCIETIES:

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)

UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering (1985 - present)
Computer Committee, Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering (1983 - present)
Graduate Studies Committee, Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering (1982 - present)
Computer/Information Technology Committee, Cockrell School of Engineering (1981 - present)
Promotions Committee, Cockrell School of Engineering (on Ad Hoc basis) (1996, 2007)
Faculty Awards Committee, The University of Texas at Austin (on Ad Hoc basis) (2002 - 2003)
Graduate Assembly, The University of Texas at Austin (1998 - 2004)
Computer Committee, Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering (1983 - 2001)
Information Technology Coordinating Council, The University of Texas at Austin (1996 - 1999)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES (CURRENT AND PREVIOUS):

Associate Editor, Journal of Petroleum Science and Technology (2001 - present)
General Editor, In Situ (1990 - 2000)
Program Committee on Reservoir Simulation, Society of Petroleum Engineers of AIME (1998, 2000)

GRANTS AND CONTRACTS:

Industrial Affiliates: "Reservoir Simulation Joint Industry Project (JIP)," with G.A. Pope and M. Delshad, ($310,000), September 2008 - August 2009.
Industrial Affiliates: "Reservoir Simulation Joint Industry Project (JIP)," with G.A. Pope and M. Delshad, ($764,500), September 2001 - August 2008.
"Modeling Wettability Alteration Using Chemical EOR Processes in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs," with M. Delshad, and G.A. Pope, U.S. Department of Energy ($296,666), October 2004 - September 2007.
"A Framework to Design and Optimize Improved Oil Recovery Processes," State of Texas, ATP ($113,000), January 2004 - December 2005.
"Dell Computer Equipment Grant," ($35,000), November 2003.
"A Framework to Design and Optimize Chemical Flooding Processes," with M. Delshad, and G.A. Pope, Department of Energy ($390,000), September 2003 - August 2006.
Industrial Affiliates: "CO₂ Sequestration Modeling," with G.A. Pope, S. L. Bryant, L.W. Lake, ($75,000), April 2003 - December 2005.
"Reservoir Simulation on High Performance Clusters of PCs," Dell Computers ($70,000), September 2002 - August 2003.
"Equipment Grant," Dell Computers ($2,500), September 2002 - August 2003.
"Unrestricted Grant for Reservoir Simulation Development," Petrotel Inc. ($5,000), January 2002 - December 2002.
"Equipment Grant," Dell Computers ($106,400), September 2001 - August 2002.
"A New Generation Chemical Flooding Simulator," with M. Delshad, G.A. Pope, and P. Wang, Department of Energy ($930,801), July 2001- August 2004.
Industry Affiliates: "Well Deliverability in Gas Condensate Reservoirs," with G.A. Pope and M. Sharma, ($45,000), January 2001 - December 2005.
"Relative Permeability Behavior for the Description of CO2 Recovery Processes," with M. Delshad, L. Lake, G.A. Pope, and M. Sharma, BPAmoco ($40,000), January 2000 - May 2000.
"SW Center for Electrical Engineering NSDEG Graduate Fellowship Program," ($21,250), September 1999 - August 2000.
"Development of a General Purpose Parallel EOS (Equation of State) Compositional Reservoir Simulator," with M.A. Miller, G.A. Pope, and P. Wang, Reservoir Engineering Research Program ($25,000), January 1999 - December 1999.
"Intel Equipment Grant," Intel Corporation ($48,000), November 1998.
"Development of an Improved Simulator for Chemical and Microbial IOR Methods," with G.A. Pope and M. Delshad, Department of Energy - National Petroleum Technical Office ($849,452), October 1998 - September 2001.
"Development of an Improved Simulator for Chemical Improved Oil Recovery Processes," with M. Delshad and G.A. Pope, Reservoir Engineering Research Program ($55,000), September 1998 - December 1999.
"Development of a General Purpose Parallel EOS (Equation of State) Compositional Reservoir Simulator," with M.A. Miller, G.A. Pope, and P. Wang, Reservoir Engineering Research Program ($30,123), January 1998 - August 1998.
"Unrestricted Research Grant," with Gary A. Pope, Intratech ($95,000), January 1998.
"National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship," SCEEE Services Corporation ($21,250), September 1997 - August 1998.
"Intel Equipment Grant," with A. Hill, L. Lake, and G.A Pope, Intel Corporation ($105,000), September 1997.
"National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program," SW Center for Electrical Engineering ($49,750), September 1997 - August 2000.
"UTCHEM Model Development," with G.A. Pope and D.C. McKinney, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers - Water Experiment Station ($252,000), September 1996 - September 1999.
"Research on the Physical Behavior of Gas-Condensate Systems," with G.A. Pope and M.K. Sharma, Mobil and Aramco ($350,000), July 1996 - July 2000.
"New Generation Framework for Petroleum Reservoir Simulation," with G.A. Pope, L.W. Lake, D.C. McKinney, and M.F. Wheeler, Argonne National Laboratories ($1,549,887), June 1995 - September 1999.
"Modeling the Characterization and Remediation of Subsurface Contaminants," with G.A. Pope, Cray Research Inc. ($25,000), January 1995 - December 1995.
"Application of UTCHEM Simulator for Field-Scale Problems on CRAY T3D," with G.A. Pope, Cray Research Inc. ($20,000), January 1995 - December 1995.
"Delineation of Contaminated Mass and Distribution of Field Test Cell Using a Partitioning Tracer," with G.A. Pope, ManTech Environmental Research Services Corporation ($50,000), September 1994.
"Porting UTCHEM Simulator to Cray T3D," with G.A. Pope, Cray Research Inc. ($29,000), January 1994 - December 1994.
"Three-Dimensional NAPL Fate and Transport Model," with G.A. Pope, M.M. Sharma, D.C. McKinney, and G.E. Speitel, Jr., Environmental Protection Agency ($451,470), October 1993 - September 1996.
"Development of Parallel Reservoir Simulators for a Distributed Computing Environment," Digital Equipment Corporation ($131,011), September 1993 - April 1995.
"Simulation of Contaminant Transport in Permeable Media," with G.A. Pope, Cray Research Inc. ($24,500), January 1993 - December 1993.
"Simulation of Polymerflooding Using Horizontal Wells," with G.A. Pope, Cray Research Inc. ($24,500), January 1993 - December 1993.
"Large-Scale Numerical Computing for Reservoir Simulation," Digital Equipment Corporation ($90,000), December 1992 - November 1993.
"Development of Cost-Effective Surfactant Flooding Technology," with G.A. Pope, Department of Energy ($765,557), September 1992 - September 1995.
"Parallel Algorithms for Modeling Flow in Permeable Media," with G.A. Pope, Department of Energy ($370,000), September 1992-February 1994.
"Simulation of Groundwater Cleanup," with G.A. Pope, Cray Research Inc. ($35,000), January 1992 - December 1992.
"Simulation of Tracers in Oil Reservoirs," with G.A. Pope, Cray Research Inc. ($25,000), January 1992 - December 1992.
"Fractured Media," with M.A. Miller and W. Rossen, The University of Texas at Austin - Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering's Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery Research Program ($134,000), April 1991 - March 1993.
"Simulation Technology for EOR Processes," with G.A. Pope and G. Carey, The University of Texas at Austin - Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering's Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery Research Program ($202,000), April 1991 - March 1997.
"Simulation of Enhanced Oil Recovery Using Horizontal Wells," with G.A. Pope, Cray Research Inc. ($50,000), April 1991 - March 1992.
"Vectorization of Phase-Equilibria Routines in a 3D Compositional Simulator," with G.A. Pope, Cray Research Inc. ($34,500), April 1991 - March 1992.
"Consolidated Research Program, U.S. Gulf Coast Geopressured-Geothermal Program," EG&G Idaho Inc. ($27,764), January 1991 - January 1992.
"Research and Development in Petroleum Engineering Discipline," Digital Equipment Corporation ($986,600), January 1991 - December 1993.
"Innovative Techniques for the Description of Reservoir Heterogeneity Using Tracers," with G.A. Pope, Department of Energy ($366,471), August 1990 - August 1993.
"Simulation of Crosslinked Polymer Conformance Treatments," with G.A. Pope, The University of Texas at Austin - Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering's Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery Research Program ($200,000), April 1990 - March 1996.
"Construction of Data Base Model," State of Texas' Center for State Lands Energy Resource Optimization (SLERO) ($41,694), September 1989 - August 1993.
"Data Base Assembly," State of Texas' Energy Research Applications Program (ERAP) ($43,000), February 1989 - January 1993.
"Carbon Dioxide Flooding," with G.A. Pope, Amoco Production Company ($15,000), March 1988.
"Development of Expert Systems for Oil and Gas Recovery Processes," Digital Equipment Corporation ($187,995), September 1987.
"Unrestricted Grant," Digital Equipment Corporation ($40,000), September 1987.
"Unrestricted Grant," Digital Equipment Corporation ($20,000), September 1986.
"Compositional Steam Simulation," with G.A. Pope, The University of Texas at Austin - Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering's Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery Research Program ($150,000), April 1986 - March 1993.
"Application of Vector Processors in Enhanced Oil Recovery Simulation," with G.A. Pope, Cray Research, Inc. ($239,575), April 1986 - March 1991.
"Characterization of Fluid and Energy Transport in Naturally Fractured Geological Systems," with M.A. Miller, The University of Texas at Austin - Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering's Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery Research Program ($54,000), April, 1986 - March 1991.
"Development of an Integrated Well and Reservoir Database for Geological and Petroleum Engineering," The University of Texas at Austin - Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering's Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery Research Program ($36,000), April 1986 - March 1989.
"Digital Equipment Corporation External Research Grant," Digital Equipment Corporation ($950,000), December 1985 - December 1990.
"Field Tracer Studies Using a Compositional Simulator," with G.A. Pope, The University of Texas at Austin - Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering's Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery Research Program ($280,000), April 1985 - March 1998.
"Research Program in Iterative Solution and Finite Element Analysis in Computational Mechanics," with G.F. Carey, D.M. Young, and D.R. Kincaid, Department of Energy ($134,000), August 1984 - July 1985.
"Coordination of Geological and Engineering Research in Support of Gulf Coast Co-production Program," with M. Dorfman and R. Morton, Gas Research Institute ($268,900), May 1984 - April 1985.
"Chemical Flooding," with G.A. Pope, The University of Texas at Austin - Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering's Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery Research Program ($340,000), April 1984 - March 1998.
"Miscible Gas Flooding," with G.A. Pope, The University of Texas at Austin - Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering's Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery Research Program ($370,000), April 1984 - March 1998.
"Analysis of Reservoir Simulation Techniques for the Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes," with G.A. Pope, The University of Texas at Austin - Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering's Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery Research Program ($123,000), April 1984 - March 1991.
"Simulation of Crosslinked Polymer Conformance Treatments," with A.D. Hill, The University of Texas at Austin - Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering's Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery Research Program ($106,000), April 1984 - March 1990.
"Development of Blowout Data Base," with A.L. Podio, Texas Petroleum Research Committee ($20,362), September 1983 - August 1984.
"Analysis of Reservoir Simulation Techniques for the Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes," with G.A. Pope, The University of Texas at Austin - Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering's Enhanced Oil and Gas Recovery Research Program ($10,000), January 1983 - January 1984.
"Development of Improved Numerical Reservoir Simulation Techniques for the Enhanced Oil Recovery Process," Texas Petroleum Research Committee ($21,300), May 1982 - August 1983.
"Digital Equipment Corporation Special Equipment Grant for Computer Graphics" Digital Equipment Corporation ($25,000), 1982.
"Geopressured-Geothermal Aquifer Simulation," with E. Peters and M. Dorfman, Department of Energy ($214,559), November 1981 - September 1985.
"Research Program in Iterative Solution and Finite Element Analysis in Computational Mechanics," with G.F. Carey, D.M. Young and D.R. Kincaid, Department of Energy ($531,192), July 1981 - July 1986.
"Geopressured-Geothermal Information System," with M. Dorfman, Department of Energy ($598,980), November 1980 - September 1989.

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Ph.D. SUPERVISIONS COMPLETED:

64.	Okuno, Ryosuke, "Modeling of Multiphase Behavior for Gas Flooding Simulation," Ph.D. dissertation, co-supervised with Russell Johns, August 2009.
63.	Najafabadi, Nariman Fathi, "Modeling Chemical EOR Processes Using IMPEC and Fully Implicit Reservoir Simulators," Ph.D. dissertation, co-supervised with Mojdeh Delshad, August 2009.
62.	Varavei, Abdoljalil, "Development of an Equation-of-State Thermal Flooding Simulator," PhD dissertation, May 2009.
61.	Tarahhom, Farhad, "Development of an Implicit Full-Tensor Dual Porosity Compositional Reservoir Simulator," Ph.D. dissertation, December 2008.

60.	Farhadinia, Mohammad Ali, "Development and Implementation of a Multi-dimensional Reservoir Souring Module in a Chemical Flooding Simulator (UTCHEM)," Ph.D. dissertation, co-supervised with S.L. Bryant, December 2008.

59.	Sayapour, Morteza, "Development and Application of Capacitance-Resistive Models in Water/CO2 Floods," Ph.D. dissertation, co-supervised with Larry Lake, August 2008.

58.	Ghorbani, Davood "Development of Methodology for Optimization and Design of Chemical Flooding," Ph.D. dissertation, co-supervised with Mojdeh Delshad, August 2008.

57.	Lee, Hee Jae "Simulation and Interpretation of Formation-Tester Measurements Acquired in the Presence of Mud-Filtrate Invasion and Geo-Mechanical Deformation," Ph.D. dissertation, co-supervised with Carlos Torres-Verdin, May 2008.
56.	Ghomian, Yousef, "Reservoir Simulation Studies for Coupled CO₂ Sequestration and Enhanced Oil Recovery," Ph.D. dissertation, co-supervised with Gary Pope, May 2008.
55.	Malik, Mayank, "Numerical Simulation and Interpretation of Formation-Tester Measurements Acquired in the Presence of Mud-Filtrate Invasion," Ph.D. dissertation, co-supervised with Carlos Torres-Verdin, May 2008.
54.	Taghizadeh, Okhtay, "Sweep Efficiency for Solvent Injection into Heavy Oil Reservoirs at Grain-scale Displacement of Extremely Viscous Fluid," Ph.D. dissertation, co-supervised with S.L. Bryant, December 2007.
53.	Pourafshary, Peyman, "A Coupled Wellbore/Reservoir Simulator to Model Multiphase Flow and Temperature Distribution," Ph.D. dissertation, co-supervised with A. Podio, December 2007.
52.	Liang, Baosheng, "A Weighted Ensemble Kalman Filter for Automatic History Matching," Ph.D. dissertation, December 2007.
51.	Vicencio, O.A., "Nitrogen Injection Into Naturally Fractured Reservoirs," Ph.D. dissertation, May 2007.
50.	Asakawa, Kazuhiro, "A Generalized Analysis of Partitioning Interwell Tracer Tests," Ph.D. dissertation, co-supervised with G.A. Pope, December 2005.
49.	Alpak, Faruk Omer, "Algorithms for Numerical Modeling and Inversion of Multi-Phase Fluid-Flow and Electromagnetic Measurements," co-supervised with C. Torres-Verdin, May 2005.
48.	Zhang, Jiang, "IRSS: An Integrated Reservoir Simulation System," August 2005.
47.	Naimi-Tajdar, Reza, "Development and Implementation of a Naturally Fractured Reservoir Model into a Fully Implicit, Equation-of-State Compositional, Parallel Simulator," co-supervised with M. Miller, August 2005.
46.	Wu, Jianghui, "Numerical Simulation of Multi-Phase Mud Filtrate Invasion and Inversion of Formation Tester Data," co-supervised with C. Torres-Verdin, April 2004.
45.	Lopez Manriquez, Alberto, "Finite Element Modeling of the Stability of Single Wellbores and Multilateral Junctions," co-supervised with A.L. Podio, May 2003.
44.	Miguel-Hernandez, Nemesio, "Scaling Parameters for Characterizing Gravity Drainage in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs," co-supervised with M.A. Miller, August 2002.
43.	Hu, Yujie, "An Effective Method of Stochastic Simulation of Complex Large-Scale Transport Processes in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs," co-supervised with M.A. Miller, May 2002.
42.	Li, Bowei, "Implementation of Full Permeability Tensor Representation in a Dual Porosity Reservoir Simulator," co-supervised with M.A. Miller, August 2001.
41.	Barreto Filho, Manuel de Almeida "Estimation of Average Reservoir Pressure and Completion Skin Factor of Wells that Produce using Sucker Rod Pumping," co-supervised with A.L. Podio, May 2001.
40.	Aldejain, Abdulaziz, "Implementation of a Dual Porosity Model in a Chemical Flooding Simulator," co-supervised with M.A. Miller, August 1999.
39.	Kapur, Loveena, "Investigation of Artificial Neural Networks, Alternating Conditional Expectation, and Bayesian Methods," co-supervised with L.W. Lake, December 1998.
38.	Carvalho Paulo, M., "Modeling the Electrical Submersible Jet Pump Producing High Gas-Liquid-Ratio Petroleum Wells," co-supervised with A.L. Podio, December 1998.
37.	Embid Droz, Sonia M., "Modeling Capillary Pressure and Relative Permeability for Systems with Heterogeneous Wettability," co-supervised with L.W. Lake, December 1997.
36.	Biswar, Deepankar, "Least Squares Finite Element Method For Hydrocarbon Transport in Porous Media," co-supervised with G.F. Carey, August 1997.
35.	Campozana, Fernando Placido, "Incorporating Dynamic Data into Geostatistical Reservoir Modeling," co-supervised with L.W. Lake, May 1997.
34.	Liang, Zhiyue, "Development of a New Dual Porposity Thermal Simulator for Steam Injection in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs," co-supervised with M.A. Miller, May 1997.
33.	Guevara Baro, Francisco Jose, "Improved Methodologies for Stochastically Forecasting Oil Recovery Processes," co-supervised with M.A. Miller, May 1997.
32.	Dwarakanath, Varadarajan, "Characterization and Remediation of Aquifers Contaminated by nonaqueous Phase Liquids Using Partitioning Tracers and Surfactants," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, May 1997.
31.	Sanchez Bujanos, Jose Luis, "Scaling Parameters for Characterizing Wateflood Recovery from Anisotropic Matrix Blocks in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs," co-supervised with M.A. Miller, December 1996.
30.	Wu, Wei-Jr, "Optimum Design of Field-Scale Chemical Flooding Using Reservoir Simulation," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, August 1996.
29.	Rocha, Paulo S.D., "A Succession-of-States Model for the In-Situ Combustion Recovery Process," co-supervised with M.A. Miller, May 1996.
28.	Bendakhlia, Hichem, "A Simulation Study of Polymer Flooding and Surfactant Flooding Using Horizontal Wells," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, August 1995.
27.	Jin, Minquan, "Surfactant Enhanced Remediation and Interwell Tracer Test for Characterization of Aquifers Contaminated by NAPLs," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, August 1995.
26.	Kim, Hyun-Soo, "Simulation Study of Gel Conformance Treatments," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, May 1995.
25.	Lee, Kun Sang, "A Computationally-Efficient Method for Direct Long-Time Solutions of the Diffusivity Equation in Closed Systems," co-supervised with M.A. Miller, May 1995.
24.	Lima, Luiz C., "Large-Scale Conditional Simulation: Domain and Matrix Decomposition and the Moving Template Model," co-supervised with L.W. Lake, May 1995.
23.	Sumotarto, Untung, "Sandstone Acidizing Simulation: Development of an Expert System," co-supervised with A.D. Hill, May 1995.
22.	Maroongroge, Vichai, "Modeling and Application of Tracers for Reservoir Characterization," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, December 1994.
21.	Ribeiro, Paulo, "Finite Element Modeling of Annular Flows with Application to Slim Hole Drilling Hydraulics," co-supervised with A.L. Podio, May 1994.
20.	Xiao, Shengyou, "Multigrid Methods with Applications to Reservoir Simulation," co-supervised with D.M. Young, May 1994.
19.	Lim, Min Teong, "Field-Scale Numerical Modeling of Multiple Contact Miscible Processes Using Horizontal Wells in Heterogeneous Reservoirs," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, August 1993.
18.	Liu, Jianchun, "High-Resolution Methods for Enhanced Oil Recovery Simulation," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, August 1993.
17.	Chen, Jianping, "New Approaches to Dual Porosity Modeling of Waterflooding in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs," co-supervised with M.A. Miller, May 1993.
16.	Da Motta, Eduardo, "Selective Matrix Acidizing of Horizontal Wells," co-supervised with A.D. Hill, May 1993.
15.	Ganapathy, Seetharaman, "Simulation of Heterogeneous Sandstone Experiments Characterized Using CT Scanning," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, May 1993.
14.	Ferreira, Luiz, "Reservoir Characterization Using Single-Well Tracer Tests," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, December 1992.
13.	Khan, Sameer Ali, "An Expert System to Aid in Compositional Simulation of Miscible Gas Flooding," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, December 1992.
12.	Lea, Chen-Min, "Sandstone Acidizing of the Region Surrounding Perforations," co-supervised with A.D. Hill, May 1992.
11.	Brantferger, Ken, "Development of a Thermodynamically Consistent, Fully Implicit, Compositional, Equation-of-State, Steamflood Simulator," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, May 1991.
10.	Chang, Yih-Bor, "Development of a 3-D Compositional Simulator," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, August 1990.
9.	Dria, Dennis, "A Study of Three-Phase Relative Permeabilities and Dispersivities Under Carbon Dioxide Flooding Conditions in a Heterogeneous Carbonate," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, December 1989.
8.	Thrasher, Richard, "Uncoupled Moving Finite Elements," December 1989.
7.	Tsau, Jyun-Syung, "Laboratory Study of the Reformability of Xanthan/Chromium III Gels Used in Conformance Treatments," co-supervised with A.D. Hill, December 1989.
6.	Saad, Naji, "Field Scale Studies with a 3-D Chemical Flooding Simulator," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, August 1989.
5.	Perschke, Douglas R., "Equation of State Phase Behavior Modeling for Compositional Simulation," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, December 1988.
4.	Liang, Jenn-Tai, "An Experimental Study of Conformance Treatments Using Crosslinked Polyacrylamide Polymer," co-supervised with A.D. Hill, August 1988.
3.	Taha, Rozlan, "Single Well Model for Field Studies of Sandstone Matrix Acidizing" co-supervised with A.D. Hill, December 1987.
2.	Hung, Ko Chi, "Modeling of Wormhole Behavior in Carbonate Acidizing," co-supervised with A.D. Hill, May 1987.
1.	Ohkuma, Hiroshi., "Numerical Simulation of Geopressured-Geothermal Aquifer Phenomena," co-supervised with R.M. Knapp, December 1986.

M.S. SUPERVISIONS COMPLETED:

84.	Urun, Mehmet Barkin, "Economic Incentives for Coupled Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) and CO2 Sequestration in Hydrocarbon Reservoirs," M.S. thesis, co-supervised with C. Jabionosky, August 2009.
83.	Ramirez Salazar, Jorge E., "Coupled CO2 Sequestration and Enhanced Oil Recovery Optimization using Experimental Design and Response Surface Methodology," M.S. thesis, May 2009.
82.	Behseresht, Javad, "Infinite-Acting Physically Representative Networks for Capillarity- Controlled Displacements," M.S. thesis, co-supervised with S.L. Bryant, December 2008.

81.	Sangvaree, Thakerngchai, "Chemical Flooding Optimization using the Experimental Design and Response Surface Method," M.S. thesis, co-supervised with M. Delshad, August 2008.

80.	Fazelipour, Waleed, "Development of a Fully Implicit, Parallel, Equation-of-State Compositional Simulator to Model Asphaltene Precipitation in Petroleum Reservoirs," M.S. thesis, co-supervised with G.A. Pope, December 2007.
79.	Goodman, N., "Evaluation and Optimization of Hydraulic Fracture Treatments in Monell CO₂ Flood Project," May 2007.
78.	Fathi, Nariman, "Modeling Wettability Alteration in Naturally Fractured Reservoir," M.S. thesis, co-supervised with M. Delshad, December 2005.
77.	Jahanbajhsh, Amir, "Gas Condensate Well Test Analysis," co-supervised with E. Peters, August 2005.
76.	Garmeh, Gholamreza, "Simulation of Interwell Gas Tracer Test in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs," M.S. thesis, co-supervised with G.A. Pope, August 2005.
75.	Lalehrokh, Farshad, "Simulating Water Tracer Test in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs Using Discrete Fracture and Dual Porosity Models," M.S. thesis, co-supervised with G.A. Pope, August 2005.
74.	Ozah, Robin, "Numerical Simulation of the Storage of CO₂ and CO₂-H₂S Gas Mixture in Deep Saline Aquifers," M.S. thesis, co-supervised with G.A. Pope, May 2005.
73.	Kumar, Ajitabh, "A Simulation Study of Carbon Sequestration in Deep Saline Aquifers," M.S. thesis, co-supervised with G.A. Pope, August 2004.
72.	John, Abraham, K., "Development of a Hybrid Approach to Couple Chemical and Compositional Models in a Implicit, Parallel Simulator," M.S. thesis, co-supervised with G.A. Pope, December 2003.
71.	Funes, Antonio, M., "Well Test Analysis of Vertical Wells in Gas Condensate Reservoirs," M.S. report, co-supervised with E. Peters, December 2003.
70.	Sinha, Rohit, "Simulation of Natural and Partitioning Interwell Tracers to Calculate Saturations and Swept Volumes in Oil Reservoirs" M.S. thesis, co-supervised with G. A Pope, December 2003.
69.	Chowdhury, Nitin, "Reservoir Simulation of Asphaltene Precipitation and of Gas Condensates," M.S. thesis, co-supervised with G.A. Pope, December 2003.
68.	Chang Castillo, Lizbeth D., "Modeling Wettability Alteration using a Chemical Compositional Simulator, UTCHEM," August 2003.
67.	Sharma, Ravi, "Modeling Gas Condensate Reservoirs and Development of a New Hybrid Well Model," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, May 2003.
66.	Nalla, Gopi, "Implementation of Chemical Flooding Module into the General Purpose Adaptive Simulator," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, December 2002.
65.	Vikas, "Simulation of CO₂ Sequestration," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, August 2002.
64.	Luna Garcia, Alfredo, "Acid Etching Patterns, Measurement of Pressure Drop and Acid Penetration in Naturally-Fractured Carbonates, Reservoirs," co-supervised with A.D. Hill, May 2002.
63.	Jin, Minquan, "A Computer Program for Partitioning Interwell Tracer Test Data Analysis," co-supervised with D.E. Perry, December 2001.
62.	Uetani, Takaaki, "Parallel Reservoir Simulation on Clusters of PCs," August 2001.
61.	Johnson, Raymond Leslie, Jr., "A Methodology to Determine the Initial Field Development Strategy for a Naturally Fractured Shale Gas Resource," co-supervised with M.A. Miller, August 2000.
60.	Adduri, Kiran Kumar, "UTHIST: A Graphical User Interface for Post Processing History Output Files of UTCHEM," M.S. report, May 1999.
59.	Qin, Xiangjun, "Modeling Asphaltene Precipitation and Implementation of Group Contribution Equation of State into UTCOMP," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, August 1998.
58.	Hassan, Md. Rashidul, "Simulation of Cleanup of Contaminated Soil by Steam Injection," co-supervised with M.A. Miller, December 1997.
57.	Mogou Dessap, Jean-Paul, "Application of Laplace Transform Finite-Difference Method to a Groundwater Contaminant Simulator," December 1995.
56.	Ucpinar, Taskin, "Application of Parallel Programming to UTCHEM Simulator on Massively Parallel Computers and a Cluster of Workstations," August 1995.
55.	Aldejain, Abdulaziz A., "Simulation of the Performance of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs: A Literature Review," co-supervised with M.A. Miller, December 1994.
54.	Schoen, William R., "Steam Remediation of Contaminated Soil: A Simulation Study," co-supervised with M.A. Miller, December 1994.
53.	Marin, Horacio Daniel, "Generation of Three-Dimensional Random Anisotropic Fields Using the Source Point Method," May 1994.
52.	Biswas, Deepankar, "A Study of the Cyclic CO₂ Oil Recovery Process with a Compositional Simulator," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, December 1993.
51.	Brown, Chris, "Simulation of Surfactant Enhanced Remediation of Aquifers Contaminated with Dense Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, December 1993.
50.	Dinh, Vu Phuc, "Waterflood Feasibility Study North Adon Road Field," May 1993.
49.	Vu, Catherine Quynh, "Optimizing Hydraulic Fracturing Donnelly Field, Ector County, Texas," May 1993.
48.	Iijima, Masanari, "Fluid Characterization for Use in Thermal Reservoir Simulation Studies," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, December 1992.
47.	Kurimura, Hideki, "An Expert System to Select Acid Gas Treating Processes in Natural Gas Processing Plants," co-supervised with G.T. Rochelle, August 1992.
46.	Takagi, Sunao, "Field-Scale Simulation of Chateaurenard Polymer Pilot," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, May 1992.
45.	Birinci, Onur I., "Improved Solution Algorithms for a Compositional Reservoir Simulator," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, December 1990.
44.	Lim, Min Teong, "Field-Scale Numerical Modeling of Multiple-Contact-Miscible Processes Using Horizontal Wells in Heterogeneous Reservoirs," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, December 1990.
43.	Blakemore, David, "UTPETROS Relational Databases," co-supervised with W. van Rensburg, August 1990.
42.	Sumotarto, Untung, "Applications of Singular Value Decomposition, Surface Fitting, and Parallel Processing to the Streamline Simulator," co-supervised with B.H. Caudle, August 1990.
41.	Trussell, George, "A Heuristic Classification Program to Diagnose and Recommend Treatment for Near-Wellbore Production Problems," co-supervised with M.M. Sharma, May 1990.
40.	Descant, Frank, "Simulation of Single-Well Tracer Test - UTCHEM," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, December 1989.
39.	Krueger, Chris, "Viscous Fingering," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, December 1989.
38.	Wreath, Dana, "Polymer Flooding and Residual Oil Saturation," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, December 1989.
37.	Gharbi, Ridha, "Numerical Simulation of Unstable Displacements," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, August 1989.
36.	Phillips, Christopher G., "Vector/Parallel Processing Applications for Network Modeling of Pore-Level Flow in Porous Media," co-supervised with M.A. Miller, August 1989.
35.	Wu, Chien-I, "The Prediction of Erosional Velocity and the Wettability of the Inner Wall of the Production Tubing in a CO₂ - Rich Natural Gas Field," August 1989.
34.	Wu, Po-Yu, "The Role of HCI in Sandstone Acidizing," co-supervised with A.D. Hill, August 1989.
33.	Lea, Chen-Min, "A Gas-Condensate Numerical Simulator," May 1989.
32.	Alhamadah, Ahmad, "Analysis of Well Test Data Using Microcomputers," co-supervised with E.J. Peters, December 1988.
31.	Pashapour, Amin, "Vectorization and Microtasking of UTCHEM on the CRAY X-MP," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, December 1988.
30.	Shook, G. Michael, "Design and Scaleup of Micellar-Polymer Flooding in the Presence of Heterogeneity," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, December 1988.
29.	Suzuki, Hirofumi, "Modeling of Gravity Override of Condensing Steam," co-supervised with M.A. Miller, December 1988.
28.	Allison, Steve, "Analysis and Design of Field Tracers for Reservoir Description," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, August 1988.
27.	Ogino, Kiyoshi, "Compositional Simulation of Carbon Dioxide Oil Recovery Experiments," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, May 1988.
26.	Mamun, Chowdhury K., "Hydrocarbon Condensates in Geopressured Geothermal Reservoirs: A Simulation Study," December 1987.
25.	Vitthal, Sanji, "A One Dimensional Formation Damage Simulator for Damage Due to Fines Migration," co-supervised with M.M. Sharma, December 1987.
24.	Brantferger, Ken, "Application of Discontinuous Schemes to Numerical Reservoir Simulation," August 1987.
23.	Agca, Cuneyt, "Field Tracer Studies Using a Compositional Simulator," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, May 1987.
22.	Tayfun, Y, Umucu, "Numerical Oscillation and Higher Degree Finite Element for Convection-Diffusion," co-supervised with G.E. Carey, December 1986.
21.	Sevougian, S.D., "Optimization of Vertical Acid Fractures in Steady State Flow," co-supervised with R.S. Schechter, August 1986.
20.	Ueda, Yoshiaki, "Application of Multi-Dimensional Flux-Corrected Transport for Reservoir Simulation," co-supervised with A.D. Hill, August 1986.
19.	Chang, Yih-Bor, "An Interactive Computer Program for Openhole Well Log Analysis," May 1986.
18.	Rood, Joel, "A Comparison of Iterative Methods for Reservoir Simulation Problems on Vector Computers," May 1986.
17.	Okano, Tetsuya, "Further Numerical Investigations of a Micellar/Polymer Simulator," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, December 1985.
16.	Takeda, Hideaki, "Including Dispersion in an Equation of State Compositional Simulator," co-supervised with L.W. Lake, December 1985.
15.	Tsau, Jyun-Syung, "Modeling of Permeability Reducing Vertical Conformance Treatments," co-supervised with A.D. Hill, December 1985.
14.	Ishimoto, Koichiro, "One Dimensional Fully Implicit Compositional Model for Steam Flooding," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, August 1985.
13.	Datta Gupta, A., "Three-Dimensional Simulation of Chemical Flooding," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, May 1985.
12.	Andrade, E.D.F. "Comparison Study of Direct and Iterative Methods for Solving Linear Systems Arising from Waterflooding Problems," co-supervised with D.M. Young, December 1984.
11.	Andrade, M., "Analysis of Sweet Lake Geopressured-Geothermal Aquifer," December 1984.
10.	Arima, E., "Steam Flood Predictive Model," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, December 1984.
9.	Perschke, D.R., "Equation of State Phase Equilibria Calculation," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, December 1984.
8.	Ply, Janet, "A Comparison of Iterative and Direct Methods in Compositional and Geopressured-Geothermal Simulators," December 1984.
7.	Lau, Kwan Yiu, "An Integrated Oil and Reservoir Database System for Geological and Petroleum Engineering," co-supervised with L.W. Lake, August 1984.
6.	Satoh, Tohru, "Treatment of Phase Behavior and Associated Properties used in a Micellar-Polymer Flood Simulator," co-supervised with G.A. Pope, August 1984.
5.	Feitosa, Gilvan, S., "Determination of Average Pressure in Irregularly Shaped Multi-Well Reservoir," May 1984.
4.	Iatchuk, Sergio D.P., "A Multi-Well Production Potential Assessment of the Geopressured-Geothermal Reservoirs in the Brazoria Fairway," May 1984.
3.	Thele, K., "A Comparison of Three Equation-of-State Compositional Simulators," co-supervised with L.W. Lake, May 1984.
2.	Rubin, John Vincent, "Behavior of Decline Curves at Water Break Through," August 1983.
1.	Rago, Francis, M., "Reservoir Performance in Viscoelastic Porous Media," May 1982.

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Computational Methods, Reservoir Simulation, Parallel Computations, Applied Mathematics, Environmental Remediation Modeling, Enhanced Oil Recovery Modeling, CO₂ Sequestration, and Inverse Modeling.