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Regional-Scale Estimation of Soil Hydraulic Conductivity Using the Kansas Mesonet
Behzad Ghanbarian, Andres Patrignani
In soil physics, saturated hydraulic conductivity, K_sat, is among the most important hydraulic properties with broad applications to modeling flow and transport under saturated co…
Effects of particle shape and size distribution on hydraulic properties of grain packs: An experimental study
Elnaz Rezaei, Kamran Zeinalzadeh, Behzad Ghanbarian
Uniform and multi-dispersed grain packs have been frequently used to conceptually study flow in porous media. Numerical simulations were previously used to address the effect of pa…
Determining effective permeability at reservoir scale: Numerical simulations and theoretical modeling
Barnabas Adeyemi, Behzad Ghanbarian, C. L. Winter +1
Determining the effective permeability (keff) of geological formations has broad applications to site remediation, aquifer discharge or recharge, hydrocarbon production, and enhanc…
Incorporating effects of surface roughness and probing molecule size for estimation of soil specific surface area
Behzad Ghanbarian, Allen G. Hunt, Marco Bittelli +2
The pore-solid interface and its characteristics play a key role in chemical interactions between minerals in the solid soil matrix and the liquid in pore space and, consequently,…
Scale-dependent permeability and formation factor in porous media: Applications from percolation theory
Misagh Esmaeilpour, Behzad Ghanbarian, Feng Liang +1
Understanding porous media properties and their scale dependence have been an active subject of research in the past several decades in hydrology, geosciences and petroleum enginee…
Gas relative permeability in unconventional reservoir rocks
Behzad Ghanbarian, Feng Liang, Hui-Hai Liu
Accurate modeling of gas relative permeability has practical applications in oil and gas exploration, production and recovery of unconventional reservoirs. In this study, we apply…
Modeling single-phase permeability in uniform grain packs
Behzad Ghanbarian
Accurate estimation of single-phase permeability (k) has broad application in numerous areas, particularly modeling flow and transport in porous materials. Various techniques have…
Modeling water relative permeability in uniform grain packs
Behzad Ghanbarian
Accurate estimation of water relative permeability has been of great interest in various research areas because of its broad applications in soil physics and hydrology as well as o…
Surface fractal dimension and its theoretical relationship with adsorbed water content
Behzad Ghanbarian
Surface fractal dimension Ds is a quantity describing the roughness of pore-solid interface where all interactions between solid matrix and fluid in the pore space occur. Ds also q…
Wetting-phase relative permeability in porous media with bi-modal pore size distributions
Behzad Ghanbarian
Modeling fluid flow in dual-porosity media with bi-modal pore size distributions has practical applications to understanding transport in multi-scale systems such as natural soils.…
Gas transport in partially-saturated sand packs
Behzad Ghanbarian, Shoichiro Hamamoto, Ken Kawamoto +4
Understanding gas transport in porous media and its mechanism has broad applications in various research areas, such as carbon sequestration in deep saline aquifers and gas explora…
Application of effective medium theory to estimate gas permeability in tight-gas sandstones
Behzad Ghanbarian, Carlos Torres-Verdin, Larry W. Lake +1
Upscaling Klinkenberg-corrected gas permeability, k, in unconventional tight sandstones has numerous practical applications, particularly in gas exploration and production. In this…
A geometrical aperture-width relationship for rock fractures
Behzad Ghanbarian, Edmund Perfect, Hui-Hai Liu
The relationship between fracture aperture (maximum opening; dmax) and fracture width (w) has been the subject of debate over the past several decades. An empirical power law has b…