Ahmad Sakhaee-Pour

Faculty

Ahmad Sakhaee-Pour

Associate Professor

Office Location Building 9, Room 155

Phone 713-743-6709

Email asakhaee [at] central.uh.edu

Website NanoGeo

Education

Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Texas, USA, 2012-2014

Ph.D., Petroleum Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA, 2012

M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2007

B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2005

Teaching

Unconventional Resource Engineering (PETR 6340)

Selected Professional Activities/Honors

None

Research Interests

Porous media (please visit NanoGeo for more info)

Selected Publications

Kasha, A., Sakhaee-Pour, A., and Hussein, I. (in press). Machine Learning for Capillary Pressure Estimation. SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering.
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.
Esatyana, E., Alipour, M., and Sakhaee-Pour, A. (2021). Characterizing anisotropic fracture toughness of shale using nanoindentation. SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sakhaee-Pour, A., and Li, W. (2019). Two-scale geomechanics of shale. SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering, 22(01), 161 – 172.
Tran, H., and Sakhaee-Pour, A. (2019). The compressibility factor (Z) of shale gas at the core scale. Petrophysics, 60(04), 494 – 506.
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.
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.
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.
Li, W., and Sakhaee-Pour, A. (2018). Two-scale geomechanics of carbonates. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 51(12), 3667 – 3679.
Sakhaee-Pour, A., and Agrawal, A. (2018). Predicting breakdown pressure and breakdown cycle in cyclic fracturing. SPE Production & Operations, 33(04), 761 – 769.
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.
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.
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.
Tran, H., and Sakhaee-Pour, A. (2017). Viscosity of shale gas. Fuel, 1, 87 – 96.
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.
Zapata, Y., and Sakhaee-Pour, A. (2017). Pore-body and -throat size distributions of The Geysers. Geothermics, 65, 313 – 321.
Sakhaee-Pour, A., and Wheeler, M. F. (2016). Effective flow properties for cells containing fractures of arbitrary geometry. SPE Journal, 21(03), 965 – 80.
Li, W., and Sakhaee-Pour, A. (2016). Macroscale Young’s moduli of shale based on nanoindentations. Petrophysics, 57(6), 597 – 603.
Zapata, Y., and Sakhaee-Pour, A. (2016). Modeling adsorption-desorption hysteresis in shales: acyclic pore model. Fuel, 181, 557 – 565.
Sakhaee-Pour, A. (2016). Pore-scale modeling of The Geysers. Geothermics, 60, 58 – 65.
Sakhaee-Pour, A., and Li, W. (2016). Fractal dimensions of shale. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 30, 578 – 582.
Sakhaee-Pour, A. (2016). Fractality of The Geysers. Geothermal Energy, 4(1), 1 – 10.
Sakhaee-Pour, A., and Bryant, S. (2015). Pore structure of shale. Fuel, 143, 467 – 475.
Sakhaee-Pour, A., and Bryant, S. (2014). Effect of pore structure on the producibility of tight-gas sandstones. AAPG Bulletin, 98(4), 663 – 694.
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.
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.
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.
Sakhaee-Pour, A., and Vafai, A. (2010). Natural frequencies of C60, C70, and C80 fullerenes. Applied Physics Letters, 96(2), 1903.
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.
Sakhaee-Pour, A. (2009). Elastic buckling of single-layered graphene sheet. Computational Materials Science, 45(2), 266 – 270.
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.
Sakhaee-Pour, A., Ahmadian, M. T., and Naghdabadi, R. (2008). Vibrational analysis of single-layered graphene sheets. Nanotechnology, 19(8), 1 – 7.
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.
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.
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.