Publications
Oilfield water handling, Water Injection / Injector Performance / Fractured Injectors
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A. Suri, M. M. Sharma, and E. J. Peters, “Estimates of Fracture Lengths in an Injection Well by History Matching Bottomhole Pressures and Injection Profile”, SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering, vol. 14, no. 04, pp. 385–397, 2011, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/132524-PA.
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F. R. Chaban, M. M. Sharma, A. Suri, and G. T. Gibson, “Method Optimizes Waterflood Projects”, The American Oil & Gas Reporter, vol. 52, pp. 122–129, 2010.
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F. R. Chaban, M. M. Sharma, A. Suri, and G. T. Gibson, “A Unified, Multidisciplinary Approach to the Planning and Design of Deepwater Waterflooding Projects”, in SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A., October 4-7, 2009: Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2009. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/124857-MS.
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Z. Zhai and M. M. Sharma, “A New Approach to Modeling Hydraulic Fractures in Unconsolidated Sands”, in SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Dallas, Texas, U.S.A., October 9-12, 2005: Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2005. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/96246-MS.
Oilfield water handling, Water Injection / Injector Performance / Fractured Injectors, Hydraulic Fracturing
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K. Lee, C. Huh, and M. M. Sharma, “Impact of Fracture Growth on Well Injectivity and Reservoir Sweep during Waterflood and Chemical EOR Processes”, in SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A., October 30-November 2, 2011: Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2011. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/146778-MS.
Oilfield water handling, Water Filtration and Desalination
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E. M. Van Wagner, A. C. Sagle, M. M. Sharma, Y. H. La, and B. D. Freeman, “Surface Modification of Commercial Polyamide Desalination Membranes Using Poly (Ethylene Glycol) Diglycidyl Ether to Enhance Membrance Fouling Resistance”, Journal of Membrane Science, vol. Volume 367, 2011, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2010.11.001.
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E. M. Van Wagner, A. C. Sagle, M. M. Sharma, and B. D. Freeman, “Effect of Crossflow Testing Conditions, Including Feed pH and Continuous Feed Filtration, on Commerical Reverse Osmosis Membrane Performance”, Journal of Membrance Science, vol. 345, no. 1-2, pp. 97–109, 2009, doi: 10.1016/j.memsci.2009.08.033.
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A. C. Sagle, H. Ju, B. D. Freeman, and M. M. Sharma, “PEG-Based Hydrogel Membrane Coatings”, Polymer, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 756–766, 2009, doi: 10.1016/j.polymer.2008.12.019.
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A. C. Sagle, E. M. Van Wagner, H. Ju, B. D. McCloskey, B. D. Freeman, and M. M. Sharma, “PEG-Coated Reverse Osmosis Membranes: Desalination Properties and Fouling Resistance”, Journal of Membrane Science, vol. 340, no. 1+2, pp. 92–108, 2009, doi: 10.1016/j.memsci.2009.05.013.
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E. M. Van Wagner, M. M. Sharma, and B. D. Freeman, “Surface Modification to Enhance the Fouling Resistance of Commercial Reverse Osmosis Membranes”, 2009 AlChE Annual Meeting. AlChE, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A., November 8-13, 2009, 2009.
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H. Ju et al., “Synthesis and Characterization of Surface Coated Ultrafiltration Membranes to enhanced Oil/Water Fouling Resistance”, ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering, vol. 95. American Chemical Society, San Francisco, California, U.S.A., September 10-14, 2006, p. 68, 2006.
Oilfield water handling, Formation Damage, Water Injection / Injector Performance / Fractured Injectors
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A. Suri, M. M. Sharma, and E. J. Peters, “Estimating Fracture Lengths and Injection Profile in an Injection Well by History Matching Bottom Hole Pressures”, in SPE Western Regional Meeting, Anaheim, California, U.S.A., May 27-29, 2010: Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2010. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/132524-MS.
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R. Suarez-Rivera, J. Stenebraten, P. B. Gadde, and M. M. Sharma, “An Experimental Investigation of Fracture Propagation During Water Injection”, in International Symposium and Exhibition on Formation Damage Control, Lafayette, Louisiana, U.S.A., February 20-21, 2002: Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2002. doi: 10.2118/73740-MS.
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M. Yu, P. B. Gadde, and M. M. Sharma, “Process-Based Decomposition On Distributed Systems-A Strategy To Solve Large Scale Simulation Problems”, in SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A., September 29 - October 2, 2002: Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2002. doi: 10.2118/77721-MS.
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P. B. Gadde and M. M. Sharma, “Growing Injection Well Fractures and Their Impact on Waterflood Performance”, in SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A., September 30 - October 03, 2001: Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2001. doi: 10.2118/71614-MS.
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M. M. Sharma, S. Pang, K. E. Wennberg, and L. N. Morgenthaler, “Injectivity Decline in Water Injection Wells: An Offshore Gulf of Mexico Case Study”, SPE Production & Facilities, vol. 15, pp. 6–13, 2000, doi: 10.2118/60901-PA.
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K. P. Saripalli, M. M. Sharma, and S. L. Bryant, “Modeling Injection Well Performance during Deep-well Injection of Liquid Wastes”, Journal of Hydrology, vol. 227, no. 1-4, pp. 41–55, 2000, doi: 10.1016/S0022-1694(99)00164-X.
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K. S. Saripalli, S. L. Bryant, and M. M. Sharma, “Role of Fracture Face and Formation Plugging in Injection Well Fracturing and Injectivity Decline”, in SPE/EPA Exploration and Production Environmental Conference, Austin, Texas, U.S.A., March 1-3, 1999: Society of Petroleum Engineers, 1999. doi: 10.2118/52731-MS.
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S. Pang and M. M. Sharma, “A Model For Predicting Injectivity Decline in Water Injection Wells”, SPE Formation Evaluation, vol. 12, no. 03, pp. 194–201, 1997, doi: 10.2118/28489-PA.
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K. E. Wennberg and M. M. Sharma, “Determination of the Filtration Coefficient and the Transition Time for Water Injection”, in SPE European Formation Damage Conference, The Hague, Netherlands, June 2-3, 1997: Society of Petroleum Engineers, 1997. doi: 10.2118/38181-MS.
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S. Pang and M. M. Sharma, “Evaluating the Performance of Open-Hole, Perforated and Fractured Water Injection Wells”, in SPE European Formation Damage Control Conference, The Hague, Netherlands, May 15-16, 1995: Society of Petroleum Engineers, 1995. doi: 10.2118/30127-MS.
Oilfield water handling, Profile Control and Polymer Injection
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I. Benson, L. Nghiem, S. L. Bryant, M. M. Sharma, and C. Huh, “Development and Use of a Simulation Model for Mobility/Conformance Control Using a pH-Sensitive Polymer”, 2007 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. 2007.
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C. Huh, S. K. Choi, and M. M. Sharma, “A Rheological Model for pH Sensitive Ionic Polymer Solutions for Optimal Mobility Control Applications”, in SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Dallas, Texas, U.S.A., October 9-12, 2005: Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2005. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/96914-MS.
Oilfield water handling, Water Injection / Injector Performance / Fractured Injectors, Profile Control and Polymer Injection
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S. K. Choi, Y. M. Ermel, S. L. Bryant, C. Huh, and M. M. Sharma, “Transport of a pH-Sensitive Polymer in Porous Media for Novel Mobility-Control Applications”, in SPE/DOE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery, Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A., April 22-26, 2006: Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2006. doi: 10.2118/99656-MS.
Oilfield water handling, Formation Damage, Profile Control and Polymer Injection
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H. A. Al-Anazi and M. M. Sharma, “Use of a pH Sensitive Polymer for Conformance Control”, in International Symposium & Exhibition on Formation Damage Control, Lafayette, Louisiana, U.S.A., February 20-21, 2002: Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2002. doi: 10.2118/73782-MS.
Oilfield water handling, Formation Damage, Water Filtration and Desalination, Basic Surface and Colloid Science, Colloid Transport
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S. Vitthal and M. M. Sharma, “A Stokesian Dynamics Model for Particle Deposition and Buildup in Granular Media”, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, vol. 153, no. 02, pp. 314–336, 1992, doi: 10.1016/0021-9797(92)90325-G.
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M. M. Sharma and Y. C. Yortsos, “A Network Model for Deep Bed Filtration Processes”, AIChE Journal, vol. 33, 1987.
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M. M. Sharma and Y. C. Yortsos, “Transport of Particulate Suspensions in Porous Media. Model Formulation”, AIChE Journal, vol. 33, 1987.
Oilfield water handling, Formation Damage, Water Filtration and Desalination, Basic Surface and Colloid Science, Colloid Transport, Inorganic Precipitation
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G. Wu and M. M. Sharma, “A Model for Precipitation and Dissolution Processes with Precipitate Migration”, AIChE Journal, vol. 35, 1989.
Proppant Placement, Particle Transport
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S. Mondal, C.-H. Wu, and M. M. Sharma, “Coupled CFD-DEM simulation of hydrodynamic bridging at constrictions”, International Journal of Multiphase Flow, vol. Volume 84, pp. 245–263, 2016, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2016.05.001.
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C.-H. Wu and M. M. Sharma, “Effect of Perforation Geometry and Orientation on Proppant Placement in Perforation Clusters in a Horizontal Well”, in SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference, The Woodlands, Texas, U.S.A., February 9-11, 2016: Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2016. doi: 10.2118/179117-MS.
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S. Mondal and M. M. Sharma, “Role of flying buttresses in the jamming of granular matter through multiple rectangular outlets”, Journal of Granular Matter, vol. Volume 16, pp. pp 125–132, 2014, doi: 10.1007/s10035-013-0461-5.
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S. Malhotra and M. M. Sharma, “Experimental Study of Settling of Spherical Particles in Unbounded and Confined Shear Thinning Viscoelastic Fluids”, 65th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Mechanics. American Physical Society Division of Fluid Mechanics, San Diego, California, U.S.A., November 18-20, 2016, 2012.
Hydraulic Fracturing, Proppant Placement, Particle Transport, Fracture modeling
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S. Malhotra and M. M. Sharma, “A General Correlation for Proppant Settling in VES Fluids”, in SPE Hydraulics Fracturing Technology Conference, The Woodlands, Texas, U.S.A., January 24-26, 2011: Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2011. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/139581-MS.
Hydraulic Fracturing, Proppant Placement, Fracture modeling, Perforation design
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S. S. Yi, C.-H. Wu, and M. M. Sharma, “Optimization of Plug-and-Perf Completions for Balanced Treatment Distribution and Improved Reservoir Contact”, in SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference & Exhibition, The Woodlands, TX, U.S.A., February 5-7, 2019: Society of Petroluem Engineers, 2019.
Hydraulic Fracturing, Peridynamics, Fracture modeling
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S. Agrawal and M. M. Sharma, “Impact of Pore Pressure Depletion on Stress Reorientation and its Implications on the Growth of Child Well Fractures”, in Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, Houston, TX, U.S.A., July 23-25, 2018: Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTeC), 2018. doi: 10.15530/urtec-2018-2875375.
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H. Ouchi, A. Katiyar, J. T. Foster, and M. M. Sharma, “A Peridynamics Model for the Propagation of Hydraulic Fractures in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs”, SPE Journal, vol. 22, no. 04, pp. 1082–1102, 2017, doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/173361-PA.
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H. Ouchi, J. T. Foster, and M. M. Sharma, “Effect of Reservoir Heterogeneity on the Vertical Migration of Hydraulic Fractures”, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, vol. 151, pp. 384–408, 2017, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2016.12.034.
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H. Ouchi, S. Agrawal, J. T. Foster, and M. M. Sharma, “Effect of Small Scale Heterogeneity on the Growth of Hydraulic Fractures”, in SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference and Exhibition, The Woodlands, Texas, U.S.A., January 24-28, 2017: Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2017. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/184873-MS.
Peridynamics
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S. Agrawal, H. Ouchi, M. A. Tammar, and M. M. Sharma, “Mechanistic Explanation of the Impact of Pore Pressure on Hydraulic Fracture Propagation”, in 52nd US Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, Seattle, WA, U.S.A., June 17-20, 2018: American Rock Mechanics Association, 2018.
Hydraulic Fracturing, Peridynamics
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H. Ouchi, A. Katiyar, J. York, J. T. Foster, and M. M. Sharma, “A fully coupled porous flow and geomechanics model for fluid driven cracks: a peridynamics approach”, Computational Mechanics, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 561–576, 2015, doi: DOI 10.1007/s00466-015-1123-8.
Peridynamics, Fracture modeling
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H. Ouchi, A. Katiyar, J. T. Foster, and M. M. Sharma, “A Peridynamic Model for Hydraulic Fracture”, 13th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics. U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics, San Diego, California, U.S.A., July 27-30, 2015, 2015. [Online]. Available: http://13.usnccm.org/
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H. Ouchi, A. Katiyar, J. T. Foster, and M. M. Sharma, “A Peridynamics Model for the Propagation of Hydraulic Fractures in Heterogeneous, Naturally Fractured Reservoirs”, in SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference, The Woodlands, Texas, U.S.A., February 3-5, 2015: Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2015. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/173361-MS.
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A. Katiyar, J. T. Foster, H. Ouchi, and M. M. Sharma, “A Peridynamic Formulation of Pressure Driven Convective Fluid Transport in Porous Media”, Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 261, pp. 209–229, 2014.
Basic Surface and Colloid Science, Wettability and Thin Films, Surface Forces, Thin Films, Electrical Properties, Petrophysics and Formation Evaluation
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R. Knight et al., “Geophysics at the Interface: Response of Geophysical Properties to Solid-Fluid, Fluid-Fluid, and Solid-Solid Interfaces”, Reviews of Geophysics, vol. 48, no. 04, 2010, doi: 10.1029/2007RG000242.
Wellbore Stability, Electrical Properties, Petrophysics and Formation Evaluation, Shale Characterization, Shale-fluid interactions
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J. Zhang et al., “Compressive Strength and Acoustic Properties Changes in Shales with Exposure to Water-Based Fluids”, in Golden Rocks 2006, The 41st U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics (USRMS), Golden, Colorado, U.S.A., June17-21, 2006: American Rock Mechanics Association, 2006.
Wellbore Stability, Petrophysics and Formation Evaluation, Flow Properties, Shale Characterization, Shale-fluid interactions
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T. M. Al-Bazali, J. Zhang, M. E. Chenevert, and M. M. Sharma, “Measurement of the Sealing Capacity of Shale Cap-rocks”, in SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Dallas, Texas, U.S.A., October 9-12, 2005: Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2005. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/96100-MS.
Basic Surface and Colloid Science, Wettability and Thin Films, Surface Forces, Thin Films, Petrophysics and Formation Evaluation, Flow Properties
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M. Gladkikh, V. Jain, S. L. Bryant, and M. M. Sharma, “Experimental and Theoretical Basis for a Wettability-Interfacial Area-Relative Permeability Relationship”, in SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A., October 5-8, 2003: Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2003. doi: 10.2118/84544-MS.
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V. Jain, S. L. Bryant, and M. M. Sharma, “Influence of Wettability and Saturation on Liquid – Liquid Interfacial Area in Porous Media”, Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 584–591, 2003, doi: 10.1021/es020550s.
Formation Damage, Basic Surface and Colloid Science, Wettability and Thin Films, Surface Forces, Thin Films, Petrophysics and Formation Evaluation, Flow Properties, Wettability Alteration
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S. Chattopadhyay, V. Jain, and M. M. Sharma, “Effect of Capillary Pressure, Salinity, and Aging on Wettability Alteration in Sandstones and Limestones”, in SPE/DOE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium, Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A., April 13-17, 2002: Society of Petroleum Engineers, 2002. doi: 10.2118/75189-MS.