Porous Media Research Lab

Books

Percolation theory for flow in porous media

Book chapters

Fractals concepts and applications in geoscience

Ghanbarian, B. (2021). Estimating single-phase permeability of porous media using critical-path analysis. In Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Ghanbarian, B., & Hunt, A. G. (2021). Modeling flow and transport in variably-saturated porous media: Applications from percolation theory and effective-medium approximation. In "Flow and Transport in Fractal Porous Media", Elsevier.
Hunt, A. G., Skinner, T. E., Ghanbarian, B., & Ewing, R. P. (2014). Percolation theory to reaction and flow in geochemical systems in soil and rock. In Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science (pp. 1-31), Springer, New York.

Journal articles

Hunt, A. G., Faybishenko, B., & Ghanbarian, B. (2021). Predicting characteristics of the water cycle from scaling relationships. Water Resources Research doi: 10.1029/2021WR030808.
Hunt, A. G., Faybishenko, B., & Ghanbarian, B. (2021). Non-linear hydrologic organization. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics doi.org/10.5194/npg-2021-4.
Ghanbarian, B. & Yokeley, B. A. (2021). Soil classification: A new approach for grouping soils using unsaturated hydraulic conductivity data. Water Resources Research doi.org/10.1029/2021WR030095.
Yokeley, B. A., Ghanbarian, B., & Sahimi, M. (2021). Rock typing based on wetting-phase relative permeability data and critical pore sizes. SPE Journal doi.org/10.2118/206715-PA.
Esmaeilpour, M., Ghanbarian, B., Liang, F., & Liu, H. H. (2021). Scale-dependent permeability and formation factor in porous media: Applications of percolation theory. Fuel 301, 121090.
Ghanbarian, B. (2021). Unsaturated hydraulic conductivity in dual-porosity soils: Percolation theory. Soil and Tillage Research 212, 105061.
Ghanbarian, B., Hunt, A. G., Bittelli, M., Tuller, M. & Arthur, E. (2021). Estimating specific surface area: Incorporating the effect of surface roughness and probing molecule size. Soil Science Society of America Journal 85, 534-545.
Ghanbarian, B., & Male, F. (2021). Theoretical power-law relationship between permeability and formation factor. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 198, 108249.
Nozari, H., Liaghat, A., Azadi, S., Poursadri, A., & Ghanbarian, B. (2021). Simulation of real-time variations of saline drainage water: comparing system dynamics with DRAINMOD-S. Water Practice and Technology. doi.org/10.2166/wpt.2021.060
Mirzaei-Paiaman, A., & Ghanbarian, B. (2021). A note on dynamic rock typing and TEM-function for grouping, averaging and assigning relative permeability data to reservoir simulation models. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering 87, 103789.
Mirzaei-Paiaman, A., & Ghanbarian, B. (2021). A new methodology for grouping and averaging capillary pressure curves for reservoir models. Energy Geoscience 2, 52-62.
Hunt, A. G., Faybishenko, B., & Ghanbarian, B. (2020). Predicting the water balance from optimization of plant productivity. GSA Today 30, 2.
Ghanbarian, B., Liang, F., Liu, H. H. (2020). Modeling gas relative permeability in shales and tight porous rocks. Fuel, 272, 117686.
Ghanbarian, B. (2020). Applications of critical path analysis to uniform grain packings with narrow conductance distributions: II. Water relative permeability. Advances in Water Resources, 137, 103524.
Ghanbarian, B. (2020). Applications of critical path analysis to uniform grain packings with narrow conductance distributions: I. Single-phase permeability. Advances in Water Resources, 137, 103529.
Hunt, A. G., Faybishenko, B., Ghanbarian, B., Egli, M., & Yu, F. (2020). Predicting water cycle characteristics from percolation theory and observational data. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, 734 (Featured).
Rijfkogel, L. S., Ghanbarian, B., Hu, Q., & Liu, H. H. (2019). Clarifying pore diameter, pore width, and their relationship through pressure measurements: A critical study. Marine and Petroleum Geology 107, 142-148.
Ghanbarian, B., Lake, L. W., Sahimi, M. (2019). Insights into rock typing: A critical study. SPE Journal, 24, 230-242.
Ghanbarian, B., Torres-Verdín, C., Lake, L. W., & Marder, M. (2019). Gas permeability in unconventional tight sandstones: Scaling up from pore to core. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 173, 1163-1172.
Ghanbarian, B., Perfect, E., & Liu, H. H. (2019). A geometrical aperture-width relationship for rock fractures. Fractals 27(1), 1940002.
Ghanbarian, B., Hamamoto, S., Kawamoto, K., Sakaki, T., Moldrup, P., Nishimura, T., & Komatsu, T. (2018). Saturation-dependent gas transport in sand packs: Experiments and theoretical applications. Advances in Water Resources 122, 139-147.
Ghanbarian, B., Ebrahimian, H., Hunt, A. G., & van Genuchten, M. T. (2018). Theoretical bounds for the exponent in the empirical power-law advance-time curve for surface flow. Agricultural Water Management 210, 208-216.
Ghanbarian, B., Aslannejad, H., Raoof, A. (2018). Modeling water imbibition into coated and uncoated papers. Chemical Engineering Science 189, 33-42.
Sadeghi, M., Ghanbarian, B., & Horton, R. (2018). Derivation of an explicit form of the percolation-based effective-medium approximation for thermal conductivity of partially saturated soils. Water Resources Research 54, 1389-1399.
Cousins, T. A., Ghanbarian, B., & Daigle, H. (2018). Three-dimensional lattice-Boltzmann simulations of single-phase permeability in random fractal porous media with rough pore-solid interface. Transport in Porous Media, 122, 527-546.
Ghanbarian, B., Ioannidis, M., & Hunt, A. G. (2017). Theoretical insight into the empirical tortuosity-connectivity factor in the Burdine-Brooks-Corey water relative permeability model. Water Resources Research, 53, 10395-10410.

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