Alireza Nouri
Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Alberta
Canada
Biography
Numerical prediction and physical model testing of sand production from producer and injector wells Numerical simulation of hydraulic fracturing Linked hydraulic fracturing and proppant transport model in the simulation of frac-pack placement Geomechanics of oil shale and gas shale reservoirs Geomechanics of SAGD and CSS reservoirs Surface subsidence or heave Continuous rock failure prediction and model calibration Caprock integrity analysis for thermal and non-thermal reservoirs Numerical modelling of sand production from CHOPS wells Wellbore stability and formation damage issues Physical and mathematical modeling of borehole breakouts.
Research Interest
Laboratory investigation of sand production Numerical and physical model investigation of failure mechanism and geometry around an oil well in relation to rock properties Numerical modeling of sand production from producer wells Numerical simulation of hydraulic fracturing around injector wells Numerical simulation of frac-packing operation Numerical simulation of SAGD caprock integrity Rock degradation around injection wells Numerical simulation of sanding from injector wells in weakly consolidated sandstone formations Constitutive model development for weak sandstones Coupled geomechanical and reservoir modeling of cold heavy oil production with sand Investigation of sand consolidation under field conditions Numerical modeling of sand production using Discrete Element Method Study of regularization methods and their implementation in numerical analysis.
Publications
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JAFARPOUR, M., Nouri, A., and Chan, D. (Submitted) Numerical Modelling of Waterhammer Pressure Pulse Propagation in Sand Reservoirs, Submitted to the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 20 pages.
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RAHMATI, E. FATTAHPOUR, V., Nouri, A. and Trivedi, J. (Submitted) A Numerical Assessment of the Maximum Operating Pressure for Anisotropic Caprock in SAGD Projects, Submitted to JCPT, (Also to be presented in 2015 SPE Heavy Oil Conference, Calgary, Alberta).
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ROOSTAEI, M., Nouri, A., and Chan, D. (Submitted) Examination of the Performance of Several Mathematical Techniques in the Simulation of Proppant Transport in Hydraulic Fractures, Journal of Applied Mathematical Modeling, 25 pages.
