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Overview

Russell T. Johns is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. The primary field of study is engineering, with a focus on subfields including ocean engineering, mechanics of materials, mechanical engineering, environmental engineering, and analytical chemistry.

The main topics of research cover enhanced oil recovery techniques, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, reservoir engineering and simulation methods, petroleum processing and analysis, surfactants and colloidal systems, and CO2 sequestration and geologic interactions.

Frequent co-authors in Russell T. Johns's research include Daulet Magzymov, Zuleima T. Karpyn, Birol Dindoruk, Prakash Purswani, and Miral S. Tawfik.

Russell T. Johns has published extensively in various venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • SPE Journal
  • SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference
  • SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition
  • SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering
  • Frontiers in Water

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Russell T. Johns include:

  • "Measurement and Modeling of Minimum Miscibility Pressure: A State-of-the-Art Review," 2021, SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering
  • "Multicomponent Diffusion Modeling of Cyclic Solvent Injection in Ultratight Reservoirs," 2020, SPE Journal
  • "Capillary contact angle for the quartz-distilled water-normal decane interface at temperatures up to 200 °C," 2020, Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects
  • "Comparative Study of Traditional and Deep-Learning Denoising Approaches for Image-Based Petrophysical Characterization of Porous Media," 2022, Frontiers in Water
  • "Measurement of Minimum Miscibility Pressure: A State of the Art Review," 2020, SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference

Best Publications

  • Fundamentals of Enhanced Oil Recovery

    LW Lake;RT Johns;WR Rossen;GA Pope

  • Development of an Efficient Embedded Discrete Fracture Model for 3D Compositional Reservoir Simulation in Fractured Reservoirs

    Ali Moinfar;Abdoljalil Varavei;Kamy Sepehrnoori;Russell T. Johns

  • Effect of Capillary Pressure on Phase Behavior in Tight Rocks and Shales

    Bahareh Nojabaei;Russell T. Johns;Lifu Chu

  • Effect of Capillary Pressure on Fluid Density and Phase Behavior in Tight Rocks and Shales

    Bahareh Nojabaei;Russell Taylor Johns;Lifu Chu

  • Development of a Coupled Dual Continuum and Discrete Fracture Model for the Simulation of Unconventional Reservoirs

    Ali Moinfar;Abdoljalil Varavei;Kamy Sepehrnoori;Russell T. Johns

  • Analytical Theory of Combined Condensing/Vaporizing Gas Drives

    R.T. Johns;B. Dindoruk;F.M. Orr

  • Multiple-Mixing-Cell Method for MMP Calculations

    Kaveh Ahmadi;Russell T. Johns

  • Miscible Gas Displacement of Multicomponent Oils

    R.T. Johns;F.M. Orr

  • A Mechanistic Model for Wettability Alteration by Chemically Tuned Waterflooding in Carbonate Reservoirs

    Changhe Qiao;Li Li;Russell T. Johns;Jinchao Xu

  • Displacement Efficiency for Low-Salinity Polymer Flooding Including Wettability Alteration

    Saeid Khorsandi;Changhe Qiao;Russell T. Johns

  • Improved MMP Correlation for CO2 Floods Using Analytical Theory

    Hua Yuan;Russell T. Johns;Azubuike M. Egwuenu;Birol Dindoruk

  • Production Improvement of Heavy-Oil Recovery by Using Electromagnetic Heating

    Maylin Alejandra Carrizales;Larry Wayne Lake;Russell Taylor Johns

  • Improved MMP Correlations for CO2 Floods Using Analytical Gas Flooding Theory

    H. Yuan;R.T. Johns;A.M. Egwuenu;B. Dindoruk

  • A New Algorithm for Rachford-Rice for Multiphase Compositional Simulation

    Ryosuke Okuno;Russell Johns;Kamy Sepehrnoori

  • Development of miscibility in four-component CO2 floods

    F. M. Orr;Russell Taylor Johns;Birol Dindoruk

  • Effect of Dispersion on Local Displacement Efficiency for Multicomponent Enriched-Gas Floods Above the Minimum Miscibility Enrichment

    R.T. Johns;P. Sah;R. Solano

  • Development of a Novel and Computationally-Efficient Discrete-Fracture Model to Study IOR Processes in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

    Ali Moinfar;Abdoljalil Varavei;Kamy Sepehrnoori;Russell Taylor Johns

  • Modeling Low-Salinity Waterflooding in Chalk and Limestone Reservoirs

    Changhe Qiao;Russell Johns;Li Li

  • Coupled Geomechanics and Flow Simulation for an Embedded Discrete Fracture Model

    Ali Moinfar;Kamy Sepehrnoori;Russell T. Johns;Abdoljalil Varavei

  • A Screening Model for CO2 Flooding and Storage in Gulf Coast Reservoirs Based on Dimensionless Groups

    Derek J. Wood;Larry W. Lake;Russell T. Johns;Vanessa Nunez

  • Simplified Method for Calculation of Minimum Miscibility Pressure or Enrichment

    Hua Yuan;Russell T. Johns

Frequent Co-Authors

Kamy Sepehrnoori
Kamy Sepehrnoori The University of Texas at Austin
Franklin M. Orr
Franklin M. Orr Stanford University
Gary A. Pope
Gary A. Pope The University of Texas at Austin
Larry W. Lake
Larry W. Lake The University of Texas at Austin
William R. Rossen
William R. Rossen Delft University of Technology
Jinchao Xu
Jinchao Xu Pennsylvania State University
Mojdeh Delshad
Mojdeh Delshad The University of Texas at Austin
Turgay Ertekin
Turgay Ertekin Pennsylvania State University
Martin J. Blunt
Martin J. Blunt Imperial College London

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