My research takes a pore-scale modeling approach to examining how fluid and solid transport in porous media. In particular I focus on developing upscaling techniques for different phenomena, such as solid entrapment in porous filters. I am experienced in numerical modeling of fluid and particulate flow in complex geometries.
Other areas of research and professional interest
* Engineering education and classroom technologies
* CO2 leakage prevention from subsurface storage reservoirs
* Closed-loop geothermal systems
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| Maryam Mirabolghasemi |
| Ph.D. |
News
* February 2025: ASEE Southeastern Section annual conference is coming to Starkville this March
* April 2021: New conference paper online: A Comparative Produced Water Management Decision Making WorkFlow: MSEEL Case Study
* June 2019: New paper published: Understanding the Effectiveness of Using VR to Support Teaching Drilling
Trajectory Concepts
* February 2019: New paper published: 3D Microscale Flow Simulation of Shear-Thinning Fluids in a Rough Fracture
* September 2017: New paper published: Study of formation damage caused by retention of bi-dispersed particles using combined pore-scale simulations and particle flooding experiments
Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering
Academic Experience
2024 - present, Associate Professor, Mississippi State University
2017 - 2024, Assistant Professor, Mississippi State University
Educational Qualifications
Ph.D., 2017, The University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum Engineering
B.S., 2005, Sharif University of Technology, Petroleum Engineering
B.S., 2005, Sharif University of Technology, Mechanical Engineering
Professional Membership
Society of Petroleum Engineers
American Geophysical Union
American Society for Engineering Education
Selected Publications
Quan, Laihmen, and Maryam Mirabolghasemi. "Exploration of CO2-Sensitive Chemicals as Potential Sealing Agents for Subsurface CO2 Storage." In SPE Western Regional Meeting. OnePetro, 2024.
Dickerson, Clayton, and Maryam Mirabolghasemi. "A Comparative Produced Water Management Decision Making WorkFlow: MSEEL Case Study." In SPE Western Regional Meeting. OnePetro, 2021.
Mirabolghasemi, Maryam, et al. "Understanding the Effectiveness of Using VR to Support Teaching Drilling
Trajectory Concepts." ASEE 126th Annual Conference & Exposition (2019).
Zhang, Min, et al. "3D Microscale Flow Simulation of Shear-Thinning Fluids in a Rough Fracture." Transport in Porous Media (2019).
Khan, Hasan J., et al. "Study of formation damage caused by retention of bi-dispersed particles using combined pore-scale simulations and particle flooding experiments." Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 158 (2017): 293-308.
Victor, Rodolfo A., et al. "Minimum divergence viscous flow simulation through finite difference and regularization techniques." Advances in water resources 95 (2016): 29-45.
Mirabolghasemi, Maryam, et al. "Prediction of empirical properties using direct pore-scale simulation of straining through 3D microtomography images of porous media." Journal of Hydrology 529 (2015): 768-778.
Invited Talks
March 2022 (virtual). Comparative Case Study of Latest Desalination Technologies for High-Salinity Produced-Water Treatment. Department of Petroleum Engineering seminar series, University of Wyoming.
November 2019. Learning about subsurface in a virtual world. Geosciences Seminar Series, Department of Geosciences, Mississippi State University.
February 2018. What We Learned from Micro-scale Modeling of Particulate Flow in Porous Media. Geosciences Seminar Series, Department of Geosciences, Mississippi State University.
Current Graduate Students
Laihmen Quan
Project: Preventive sealing of subsurface CO2 storage reservoirs with CO2-sensitive chemicals
Current Undergraduate Students
Hayden Rogers
Project: Experimental measurement of capillary rise rate
Former Undergraduate Students
Mohammed Al Otmi
Project: Synthetic adsorbing resin for the removal of metals from oilfield produced water
Clayton Dickerson
Project: A comprehensive produced water management decision-making workflow for the MSEEL field
Blake Shelton
Project: Harvesting geothermal energy from abandoned oil and gas wells in Mississippi
Courses Taught
PTE 3912: Petroleum Engineering Lab 2
PTE 3953: Petroleum Reservior Rock Properties and Fluid Flow
PTE 4913: Petroleum Reservoir Engineering 2
