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Faruk Civan is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research focuses predominantly on engineering and earth sciences with a particular emphasis on mechanics of materials and mechanical engineering. The scope of their work also extends into ocean engineering, geology, and geophysics.

Their research covers a variety of topics related to hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, rock mechanics and modeling, drilling and well engineering, geological studies and exploration, reservoir engineering and simulation methods, as well as geotechnical and geomechanical engineering.

Civan has published extensively in several journals and conference proceedings. Recent notable papers include:

  • Effective-Stress Coefficients of Porous Rocks Involving Shocks and Loading/Unloading Hysteresis, 2020, SPE Journal
  • An Alternative Parameterization of Relative Permeability and Capillary Pressure Curves, 2020, SPE Journal
  • Parameterization of Biot-Willis Effective-Stress Coefficient for Deformation and Alteration of Porous Rocks, 2021, Transport in Porous Media
  • Can Moderately Rarefied Gas Transport Through Round and Flat Tight Channels of Fractured Porous Media be Described Accurately?, 2020, Transport in Porous Media
  • Correction to: Parameterization of Biot-Willis Effective-Stress Coefficient for Deformation and Alteration of Porous Rocks, 2021, Transport in Porous Media

Their work is frequently published in venues such as SPE Journal and Transport in Porous Media, alongside presentations at the SPE Western Regional Meeting and the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition.

The main publication venues are:

  • SPE Journal
  • SPE Western Regional Meeting
  • Transport in Porous Media
  • SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Faruk Civan's contributions mainly emphasize engineering disciplines with particular strengths in the areas of study that integrate earth sciences and environmental science perspectives. This multidisciplinary approach supports investigations into the behavior and modeling of porous media, reservoir dynamics, and rock deformation processes.

Best Publications

  • Effective Correlation of Apparent Gas Permeability in Tight Porous Media

    Faruk Civan

  • Shale-Gas Permeability and Diffusivity Inferred by Improved Formulation of Relevant Retention and Transport Mechanisms

    Faruk Civan;Chandra S. Rai;Carl H. Sondergeld

  • Reservoir Formation Damage: Fundamentals, Modeling, Assessment, and Mitigation

    Faruk Civan

  • Modification of Darcy's law for the threshold pressure gradient

    Alvaro Prada;Faruk Civan

  • Scale effect on porosity and permeability: Kinetics, model, and correlation

    Faruk Civan

  • Microscopic Dynamics of Water and Hydrocarbon in Shale-Kerogen Pores of Potentially Mixed Wettability

    Yinan Hu;Deepak Devegowda;Alberto Striolo;Anh Thi Van Phan

  • A Fully-Coupled Free and Adsorptive Phase Transport Model for Shale Gas Reservoirs Including Non-Darcy Flow Effects

    Xinya Xiong;Deepak Devegowda;Guillermo German Michel Villazon;Richard F. Sigal

  • Parametric Investigation of Shale Gas Production Considering Nano-Scale Pore Size Distribution, Formation Factor, and Non-Darcy Flow Mechanisms

    Guillermo German Michel Villazon;Richard F. Sigal;Faruk Civan;Deepak Devegowda

  • Differential quadrature for multi-dimensional problems

    Faruk Civan;C.M. Sliepcevich

  • Porous Media Transport Phenomena

    Faruk Civan

  • Non-isothermal Permeability Impairment by Fines Migration and Deposition in Porous Media including Dispersive Transport

    Faruk Civan

  • Phase Behavior of Gas Condensates in Shales Due to Pore Proximity Effects: Implications for Transport, Reserves and Well Productivity

    Deepak Devegowda;Kanin Sapmanee;Faruk Civan;Richard F. Sigal

  • Productivity Decline of Vertical and Horizontal Wells by Asphaltene Deposition in Petroleum Reservoirs

    Shaojun Wang;Faruk Civan

  • Correlation of the Non-Darcy Flow Coefficient

    X. Liu;F. Civan;R.D. Evans

  • Application of differential quadrature to transport processes

    Faruk Civan;C.M Sliepcevich

  • Determining Shale Permeability to Gas by Simultaneous Analysis of Various Pressure Tests

    Faruk Civan;Chandra S. Rai;Carl H. Sondergeld

  • Microscopic Dynamics of Water and Hydrocarbon in Shale-Kerogen Pores of Potentially Mixed-Wettability

    Yinan Hu;Deepak Devegowda;Alberto Striolo;Faruk Civan

  • Experimental and theoretical investigation of the Zaoyuan field heavy oil flow through porous media

    Shaojun Wang;Yanzhang Huang;Faruk Civan

  • Development and Evaluation of High-Temperature Conformance Polymer Systems

    J. Vasquez;E.D. Dalrymple;Larry Eoff;B.R. Reddy

  • Convenient formulae for determination of relative permeability from unsteady-state fluid displacements in core plugs

    Janos Toth;Tibor Bodi;Peter Szucs;Faruk Civan

Frequent Co-Authors

Alberto Striolo
Alberto Striolo University College London
Carl H. Sondergeld
Carl H. Sondergeld University of Oklahoma
Chandra Rai
Chandra Rai University of Oklahoma
Mustafa Versan Kok
Mustafa Versan Kok Middle East Technical University
Musharraf Zaman
Musharraf Zaman University of Oklahoma
Subhash N. Shah
Subhash N. Shah University of Oklahoma

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