Research Areas: Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering
Education Background: • Ph.D. in petroleum engineering from the University of Oklahoma
• M.Sc. in mechanical engineering from Sharif University of Technology
• B.Sc. in petroleum engineering from Sharif University of Technology
• B.Sc. in mechanical engineering from Sharif University of Technology
About:
Amin Mehrabian is an assistant professor of petroleum and natural gas engineering. He’s been at Penn State since 2017. Prior to coming to Penn State, he was a principal engineer at Houston Technology Center of Halliburton Energy Services. His research interest is in the mechanics and physics of porous media with applications to petroleum geomechanics. Mehrabian holds a B.Sc. in petroleum engineering, a B.Sc. in mechanical engineering and an M.Sc. in mechanical engineering from Sharif University of Technology and a Ph.D. in petroleum engineering from the University of Oklahoma. Mehrabian holds a U.S. patent grant on managed pressure drilling.
Research Interests:
• Mechanics and physics of porous media
• Geomechanics
• Drilling and completions
Mehrabian, A. and C. Liu, (2021). Mandel's problem reloaded, Journal of Sound and Vibration, v. 492, [115785], https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2020.115785.
Nguyen, K. and A. Mehrabian, (2021). Method of Images Solution for an Edge Dislocation and a Circular Cavity in Crystalline Solids, Physical Mesomechanics, v. 24 (1), pp. 20-31, https://doi.org/10.1134/S1029959921010045.
Nguyen, K., A. Mehrabian, A. Santra, and D. Phan, (2021). Tensile Failure and Fracture Width of Partially Permeable Wellbores with Applications in Lost Circulation Material Design, SPE Journal, pp. 1-23, doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/204585-PA.
Su, X. and A. Mehrabian, (2021). Coupled poroelastic solutions for the reservoir and caprock layers with the overburden confinement effects, Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, v. 25, [100215], https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gete.2020.100215.
Zhang, W. and A. Mehrabian, (2021). Dimensionless Solutions for the Time-Dependent and Rate-Dependent Productivity Index of Wells in Deformable Reservoirs, SPE Journal, v. 26 (05), pp. 2814-2836.
Zhang, W. and A. Mehrabian, (2021). Nonlinear and non-local analytical solution for Darcy-Forchheimer flow through a deformable porous inclusion within a semi-infinite elastic medium, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, v. 911, [A49], https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2020.1024.
Zhang, W. and A. Mehrabian, (2021). Poroelastic solution for the nonlinear productivity index of wells in stress-sensitive reservoir rocks, SPE Journal, v. 26 (1), pp. 68-82, https://doi.org/10.2118/195947-PA.
Mehrabian, A. and Y Abousleiman, (2020). Poroelastic solution to the Brazilian test, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, v. 126, [104201].
Nguyen, K. and M. Mehrabian, (2020). Method of images solution for an edge dislocation and a circular cavity in crystalline solids, Физическая мезомеханика, v. 23 (4), pp. 31-42.
Nguyen, K., A. Mehrabian, and A. Santra, (2020). Multi-modal particle size distribution of lost circulation material blend for controlling fluid losses from multiple fractures around inclined wellbores, Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Asia Pacific Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition 2020, APOG 2020, 9781613997093.
