MOHAMMADREZA KHORSAND - Amirkabir University of Technology

Supervised PhD Theses

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Determining the effect of acentric factor, and critical properties shift on phase behavior of nanoconfined fluids

HESAM HASANNATAJ

2026 Apr

Supervised MSc Theses

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1

Optimization of gas storage parameters in one of the depleted gas Reservoirs(Case study)

PEYMAN ALYANI
Other Supervisor: MOHAMMAD SHARIFI

2024 Mar

2

Evaluation of interwell connectivity and determination of injectivity productivity index in reservoir water flooding process by using artificial intelligence methods

MOHAMMAD MAHDI JALILI BAL & Yousef Rafiei
Other Supervisor:

2023 Oct

3

A Pore-Scale Simulation of CO2-EOR Process in Oil Reservoirs

PARISA BEHNOUD

2023 Sep

4

Studying the Effect of Alfa Function in Phase Equilibria of Confined Fluids

MAHNAZ HASANI MIREHJIN

2023 May

5

Phase Behavior Prediction of Confined Fluids Using Cubic Equations of State

MOHAMMAD HUMAND

2022 Oct

6

Drilling path optimization and wellbore stability analysis by using well logging data( case study: one of Iranian southwest fields)

ZOHREH ZAREI

2022 Oct

7

investigation of injection rate on low saline water flooding in carbonated oil reservo

SAYYED RASOUL AHMADI GHAHDERIJANI

2022 Jun

8

Tracer Testing in miscible gas injection operation and determining its performance

ZAHRA PIRI
Other Supervisor: Fariborz Rashidi

2022 Mar

9

Study of the effective parameters on well bore instability in one of the Doroud field holes by using log interpretation and drilling fluid formulation used in 12,1/4 hole section

ARMIN HOMAEI & PARVIZ MAAREFVAND
Other Supervisor:

2021 Sep

10

Modeling of stabilized coumumn of gas condensate refinery using new approachs of multi compenet separation

ALI KHOSRAVINAR

2021 Aug

11

Prediction of vapor pressure for pure components using 3 parameters of state and comparing corresponding results with empirical correlations

HOOMAN NASIRI

2021 Apr

12

Prediction of minimum miscibility pressure for supercritical fluid based on solubility parameter

AHMADREZA AHMADPOUR TORKAMANI

2020 Nov

13

Bit performance analysis using image processing

HADI AHMADI

2020 Feb

14

Tuning of reservoir fluid model, considering solubility parameter

SOROUSH SHARIATY

2020 Feb

15

reservoir rock typing by using core and logs data(study case)

ALIREZA GHASEMI TOUSI

2019 Jul

16

Investigation the effect of oil composition and injected gas impurities on minimum miscibility pressure in CO2 injection process (Representing an empirical correlation)

FATEMEH BARJASTE DELFOROUZ

2018 Oct

17

A new solution for well test modeling at constant pressure production

MOBARAKEH MOHAMMADPOUR

2018 Jul

18

Base reservoir management for an oil reservoir under miscible gas injection process

SADRA ROSTAMI & Fariborz Rashidi
Other Supervisor:

2018 Feb

19

Simulation study of chemically enhance water alternative gas injection

HANIE SEYDI

2018 Feb

20

well placement optimization by combination of particle swarm algorithm (PSO) and artificial neural networks (ANN)

MAHSA NAZEMI ASHANI

2018 Feb

21

Micro-model experimental study on heterogeniety effect in layered systems for oil production by Water-flooding mechanism

AILIN ASSADI

2018 Feb

22

Using Algorithms Base on Equation of State in Prediction Minimum Miscibility Pressure

MAHDI HOSSEINI

2016 Nov

23

Study on Velocity Increase Effect in Well Performance and Production in Gas Condensate Reservoir

FARZANEH KHAKPASH

2016 Oct

24

Modeling of performance behavior in gas condensate reservoirs using a variable mobility concept

SAEED SARVAZIZI

2016 Feb

25

comparison between experimental and software simulation for cuttings transportation problems in Explorational drilling

BEHNAM AMANNA & PARVIZ MAAREFVAND
Other Supervisor:

2015 Oct

26

Simulation of PVT tests by using modified flash algorithm in vapour-liquid equilibrium calculations

SEYED SAJJAD HOSSEINI

2015 Oct

27

Investigation of effective parameters in simulation of enhanced oil recovery to achieve minimum miscible enrichment

FATEMEH SALARI SARDARI

2014 Oct

28

simulation of carbonate water injection for enhanced oil recovery in hydrocarbon reservoir

GHOLAMREZA HADIZADEHFAHADAN

2013 Oct

29

Prediction of characteristic parameters of plus fractions in heavy hydrocarbon reservoir fluids

ALI SADAT SHOJAEI

2013 Aug

30

Improvement of K-value initial estimation methods for crude oil plus fractions

ASHKAN VATANDOOST

2013 Aug

31

Pores-scale simulation of CO2-EOR and storage process in fractured reservoirs

BAHMAN HASSANZADEHSHISHEGARAN
Other Supervisor: MOHAMMAD SHARIFI

2026 Mar

32

: Investigating and analysis of the Effect of Injected Gas Composition on Asphaltene Precipitation in Gas Injection Processes into Oil reservoirs

MOHAMMAD MAHDI ZARAFSHAN

2025 Mar

33

A pore-scale optimization of multiphase flow in CO2-Enhanced oil recovery process

PEYMAN ROSTAMI

2025 Feb

34

: Prediction of Minimum Miscibility Pressure using the Vanishing Interfacial Tension Method (VIT) and PC-SAFT Equation of State

ATEFEH NAZARI

2025 Apr

Journal Papers

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M. Mohammadpour, , M. Khorsand, "Develop an empirical flow rate correlation to model wellbore storage phenomenon for wells produced at a constant wellhead pressure", Scientific Reports, 2023 Oct vol. 13, no. 17726, pp.1-15, 2023.

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P. Kharazi Esfahani, K. Peiro Ahmady Langeroudy, M. Khorsand, "Enhanced machine learningensemble method for estimation of oil formation volume factor at reservoir conditions", Scientific Reports, 2023 Sep vol. 13, no. 15199, pp.1-19, 2023.

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P. Behnoud, M. Khorsand, E. Sabooniha, "Numerical analysis of pore-scale CO2-EOR at near-miscible flow condition to perceive the displacement mechanism", Scientific Reports, 2023 Aug vol. 13, no. 12632, pp.1-16, 2023.

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M. Humand, M. Khorsand, M. Mohammadpour, Guillermo J. Zarragoicoechea, M. Abbaszadeh, "Advances in critical temperature shift modeling of confined pure fluids using the Kihara potential function", Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, 2023 May vol. 1, no. 1, pp.1-20, 2023.

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M. Parvazdavani, M. Khorsand, "Prediction of electrostatic properties of reservoir rock in low salinity water injection into carbonate reservoirs", Scientific Reports, 2023 May vol. 13, no. 8782, pp.1-18, 2023.

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M. Humand, M. Khorsand, "Critical temperature shift modeling of confined fluids using pore size dependent energy parameter of potential function", Scientific Reports, 2023 Mar vol. 13, no. 4842, pp.1-22, 2023.

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P. Behnoud, M. Khorsand, M. Keshavarz Moraveji, "Numerical Simulation of Two-Phase Flow of CO2-Oil in Pore-Scale at Near Miscible Condition Using Computational Fluid Dynamic Technique", Petroleum Research, 2023 Feb vol. 32, no. 126, pp.95-109, 2023.

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K. Peiro Ahmady Langeroudy, P. Kharazi Esfahani, M. Khorsand, "Enhanced intelligent approach for determination of crude oil viscosity at reservoir conditions", Scientific Reports, 2023 Jan vol. 13, no. 1666, pp.1-16, 2023.

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M. Parvazdavani, M. Khorsand, S. Ali Mousavi Dehghani, "Low salinity water flooding: Evaluating the effect of salinity on oil and water relative permeability curves using coupling of DLVO and", Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2022 May vol. 215, no. 110677, pp.1-22, 2022.

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A. Nabizadeh, , J. Siavashi, M. Sharifi, M. Khorsand, "Fluid flow modeling through pressure-dependent porous media: An analytical solution and a computational fluid dynamics approach", Groundwater For Sustainable Development, 2022 Apr vol. 18, no. 100776, , 2022.

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M. Khorsand, M. Humand, K. Peiro Ahmady Langeroudy, E. Khajehvandi, P. Behnoud, "Adopting a Residual-Energy-Based Approach to Calculate the Solubility Parameters of n-Alkanes", Chemical Engineering and Technology, 2022 Mar vol. 45, no. 5, pp.834-843, 2022.

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Mohammad Reza Kasiri Bidhendi, M. Khorsand, M. Humand, Mohammad Bazargan, "Enhancing acid fracture design in carbonate formationusing a dynamic up-scaling procedure to convert discretefracture network to dual continuum", Petroleum Science and Technology, 2022 Feb vol. 40, no. 18, pp.2284-2304, 2022.

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P. Behnoud, M. Khorsand, M. Humand, "Comments on Semi-analytical nanoscale-extended surface tension correlation", Aiche Journal, 2021 Nov vol. 1, no. 1, pp.1-3, 2021.

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E. Khajehvandi, M. Khorsand, "A consistent three-parameter cubic EOS for precise prediction of volumetric and saturation properties through wide-temperature-ranged adjusted critical compressibility factor", Fluid Phase Equilibria, 2021 Nov vol. 554, no. 1, pp.1-11, 2021.

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M. Khorsand, "A Finite Volume Simulation of Viscoelastic Fluid Flow through an Annulus using the eXtended Pom-Pom Model", International Journal of Fluid Mechanics Research, 2020 Apr vol. 47, no. 2, pp.99-119, 2020.

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A. Vatandoost, M. Khorsand, "Enhanced Method-of-Characteristics Approach for Determination of Minimum Miscibility Pressure in Displacements with Bifurcated Phase Behavior", Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 2019 Aug vol. 0, no. 0, pp.1-14, 2019.

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F. Barjaste Delforouz, M. Khorsand, S. Shariaty, "New empirical correlations for predicting Minimum Miscibility Pressure (MMP) during CO2 injection; implementing the Group Method of Data Handling (GMDH) algorithm and Pitzer's acentric factor", Oil and Gas Science and Technology-Revue D Ifp Energies Nouvelles, 2019 Jul vol. 74, no. 64, pp.1-11, 2019.

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S. Shariaty, M. Khorsand, A. Vatandoost, "A new model for estimating the gas compressibility factor using Group Method of Data Handling algorithm - case study", Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2019 Feb vol. 0, no. 0, pp.1-13, 2019.

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M. Ghorbani Bavariani, M. Khorsand, "Comparison of Fractional Noise Distributions for Generating Heterogeneous Permeability Fields in Oil Reservoir Simulations: A case study", Fractals-Complex Geometry Patterns and Scaling In Nature and Society, 2018 May vol. 0, no. 0, pp.0-1, 2018.

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Z. Dermanaki Farahani, M. Khorsand, "Improving Oil Recovery Using Miscible Selective Simultaneous Water Alternating Gas (MSSWAG) Injection in One of the Iranian Reservoirs", Arabian Journal For Science and Engineering, 2017 Jun vol. 0, no. 0, , 2017.

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F. Salari Sardari, M. Khorsand, "A simulation approach to achieve the best miscible enrichment in gas flooding and chemical injection process for enhanced oil recovery", Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2016 Nov vol. 0, no. 0, , 2016.

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B. Amanna, M. Khorsand, "Cuttings transport behavior in directional drilling using computational fluid dynamics (CFD)", Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 2016 Aug vol. 34, no. 34, pp.670-679, 2016.

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A. Vatandoost, M. Khorsand, Seyyed Ali Mousavi Dehghani, "A new approach for predicting equilibrium ratios of hydrocarbon heavy fractions: Focus on the effect of mixture composition", Fluid Phase Equilibria, 2015 Dec vol. 410, no. 0, pp.42-55, 2015.

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A. Sadat Shojaei, M. Khorsand, Seyyed Ali Mousavi Dehghani, "Prediction of Sanchez-Lacombe equation of state characteristic parameters for plus fractions", Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2015 Jun vol. 93, no. 8, pp.1483-1489, 2015.

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M. Ghorbani, M. Khorsand, Mohsen Masihi, "Investigating the Effect of Heterogeneity on Buckley-Leverett Flow Model", Iranian Journal of Oil and Gas Science and Technology, 2014 Aug vol. 3, no. 4, pp.41-54, 2014.

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M. Moayed Mohseni, F. Rashidi, M. Khorsand, "Analysis of Forced Convection Heat Transfer for Axial Annular Flow of Giesekus Viscoelastic Fluid", Korean Chemical Engineering Research, 2014 Jul vol. 53, no. 1, pp.91-102, 2014.

Taught Courses

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Course title

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1

Fluid Flow in Porous Media

Mathematical Modeling and Analytical Solution of the Governing Equations for Fluid Flow in Porous Media Based on Darcy's Law

4051

2

Phase Behavior of Petroleum Reservoir Fluids

Prediction and analysis of the phase behavior of reservoir fluids with changes in temperature, pressure, and composition under equilibrium conditions

4051

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Oil & Gas Reservoir Engineering (I)

Mathematical Modelling to Describe Fluid Flow Behavior through Reservoir Porous Media, Based on Inherent Reservoir Characteristics (Fluid Type, Flow Regime, Reservoir Geometry), and Derivation of the Relevant Equations

4051

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Reservoir Fluids Properties

بررسی و پیش بینی خواص سیالات مخازن هیدروکربوری در شرایط گوناگون دما و فشار مخزن و ارائه مقدمه ا ی بر محاسبات تعادلات فازی

4042

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Phase Behavior of Reservoir Fluid

پیش بینی رفتار فازی سیالات مخازن هیدروکربوری در شرایط تعادل

4042

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Oil & Gas Reservoir Engineering (I)

4041

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Fluid Flow in Porous Media

4041

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Phase Behavior of Reservoir Fluid

4032

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Reservoir Fluids Properties

4032