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Abbas Firoozabadi

Abbas Firoozabadi

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
88
Citations
23474
World Ranking
329
National Ranking
111

Abbas Firoozabadi publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Abbas Firoozabadi sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 354 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Abbas Firoozabadi D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Abbas Firoozabadi sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 88 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to oil and gas recovery processes through application of surface science and thermodynamics.

Overview

Abbas Firoozabadi is affiliated with Rice University in the United States and has extensively contributed to the field of engineering, particularly focusing on enhanced oil recovery techniques and hydraulic fracturing. Their research encompasses a broad range of topics including hydrocarbon exploration, CO2 sequestration, phase equilibria, petroleum processing, and drilling engineering.

Their publication record highlights work across multiple prominent journals and conferences. Frequent publication venues include:

  • SPE Journal
  • Fuel
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition
  • International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control

Among recent papers authored or coauthored, key works include:

  • "Assessment of low salinity waterflooding in carbonate cores: Interfacial viscoelasticity and tuning process efficiency by use of non-ionic surfactant" (2021, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science)
  • "Swelling of Kimmeridge kerogen by normal-alkanes, naphthenes and aromatics" (2020, Fuel)
  • "Phase-Field Simulation of Hydraulic Fracturing by CO2, Water and Nitrogen in 2D and Comparison With Laboratory Data" (2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth)
  • "Surfactant-Enhanced Spontaneous Emulsification Near the Crude Oil-Water Interface" (2021, Langmuir)
  • "Hydromechanical Modeling of Nonplanar Three-Dimensional Fracture Propagation Using an Iteratively Coupled Approach" (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Abbas Firoozabadi include:

  • Taniya Kar
  • Tianhao Wu
  • Tomás Eduardo Chávez-Miyauchi
  • Luís Fernando Mercier Franco
  • Jakub Solovský

Their research spans several subfields within engineering, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach. These subfields include:

  • Ocean Engineering
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Biomedical Engineering

Main topics addressed in their body of work feature:

  • Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis
  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
  • Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics
  • Petroleum Processing and Analysis
  • Drilling and Well Engineering

Abbas Firoozabadi was recognized as a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2011 for contributions to oil and gas recovery processes through application of surface science and thermodynamics.

Best Publications

  • Thermodynamics of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs

    Abbas. Firoozabadi

  • Induction time in crystallization of gas hydrates

    Dimo Kashchiev;Abbas Firoozabadi

  • Nucleation of gas hydrates

    Dimo Kashchiev;Abbas Firoozabadi

  • Predicting Phase Behavior of Condensate/Crude-Oil Systems Using Methane Interaction Coefficients

    D.L. Katz;A. Firoozabadi

  • Numerical Modeling of Diffusion in Fractured Media for Gas-Injection and -Recycling Schemes

    Hussein Hoteit;Abbas Firoozabadi

  • Numerical Simulation of Water Injection in 2D Fractured Media Using Discrete-Fracture Model

    M. Karimi-Fard;A. Firoozabadi

  • Numerical modeling of two-phase flow in heterogeneous permeable media with different capillarity pressures

    Hussein Hoteit;Abbas Firoozabadi

  • Thermodynamics of Wax Precipitation in Petroleum Mixtures

    C. Lira-Galeana;A. Firoozabadi;John M. Prausnitz

  • An efficient numerical model for incompressible two-phase flow in fractured media

    Hussein Hoteit;Abbas Firoozabadi

  • Relative Permeability Modification in Gas/Liquid Systems Through Wettability Alteration to Intermediate Gas Wetting

    Guo-Qing Tang;Abbas Firoozabadi

  • Driving force for crystallization of gas hydrates

    Dimo Kashchiev;Abbas Firoozabadi

  • Thin liquid films in improved oil recovery from low-salinity brine

    Philip C. Myint;Philip C. Myint;Abbas Firoozabadi

  • Numerical Simulation of Water Injection in Fractured Media Using the Discrete-Fracture Model and the Galerkin Method

    Mohammad Karimi-Fard;Abbas Firoozabadi

  • Control‐volume method for numerical simulation of two‐phase immiscible flow in two‐ and three‐dimensional discrete‐fractured media

    J. E. P. Monteagudo;A. Firoozabadi

  • Cocurrent and Countercurrent Imbibition in a Water-Wet Matrix Block

    Mehran Pooladi-Darvish;Abbas Firoozabadi

  • Effect of water on methane and carbon dioxide sorption in clay minerals by Monte Carlo simulations

    Zhehui Jin;Abbas Firoozabadi

  • An Analysis of High-Velocity Gas Flow Through Porous Media

    Abbas Firoozabadi;Donald L. Katz

  • Fast and Robust Algorithm for Compositional Modeling: Part I - Stability Analysis Testing

    Abbas Firoozabadi;Huanquan Pan

  • Thermodynamic Modeling of Phase Behavior in Shale Media

    Zhehui Jin;Abbas Firoozabadi

  • Multicomponent fluid flow by discontinuous Galerkin and mixed methods in unfractured and fractured media

    H. Hoteit;A. Firoozabadi

  • Molecular-thermodynamic framework for asphaltene-oil equilibria

    Jianzhong Wu;John M. Prausnitz;Abbas Firoozabadi

Frequent Co-Authors

Khalid Aziz
Khalid Aziz Stanford University
Zhehui Jin
Zhehui Jin University of Alberta
Dimo Kashchiev
Dimo Kashchiev Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
John M. Prausnitz
John M. Prausnitz University of California, Berkeley
Shuyu Sun
Shuyu Sun King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Lamia Goual
Lamia Goual University of Wyoming
Roussos Dimitrakopoulos
Roussos Dimitrakopoulos McGill University
Jianzhong Wu
Jianzhong Wu University of California, Riverside
Dongxiao Zhang
Dongxiao Zhang Southern University of Science and Technology
Gerald G. Fuller
Gerald G. Fuller Stanford University

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