2026 Shahab Ayatollahi: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	63	1819	1734	23	23	270	12009

Overview

Shahab Ayatollahi is affiliated with Sharif University of Technology in Iran. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Engineering, with a significant focus on subfields such as Ocean Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering, Analytical Chemistry, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's frequent topics of work include:

Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques
Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
Petroleum Processing and Analysis
Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
Drilling and Well Engineering
Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions

Shahab Ayatollahi has published extensively, with research appearing frequently in venues such as:

Journal of Molecular Liquids
Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
SSRN Electronic Journal
Geoenergy Science and Engineering
Energy & Fuels

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Shahab Ayatollahi include:

"Nano-coated condensation surfaces enhanced the productivity of the single-slope solar still by changing the condensation mechanism" (2020), Journal of Cleaner Production
"Efficiency improvement of solar stills through wettability alteration of the condensation surface: An experimental study" (2020), Applied Energy
"The effect of brine salinity and oil components on dynamic IFT behavior of oil-brine during low salinity water flooding: Diffusion coefficient, EDL establishment time, and IFT reduction rate" (2020), Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
"Challenges in the simulation of underground hydrogen storage: A review of relative permeability and hysteresis in hydrogen-water system" (2023), Journal of Energy Storage
"Experimental investigation on the dominating fluid-fluid and rock-fluid interactions during low salinity water flooding in water-wet and oil-wet calcites" (2021), Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

Their collaborative work includes frequent contributions with co-authors such as Hassan Mahani, Mohammad Koleini, Mohammad Hasan Badizad, Mobeen Fatemi, and Davood Zivar.

Best Publications

Toward mechanistic understanding of heavy crude oil/brine interfacial tension: The roles of salinity, temperature and pressure

Farzaneh Moeini;Abdolhossein Hemmati-Sarapardeh;Mohammad-Hossein Ghazanfari;Mohsen Masihi

305
Citations
Asphaltene Deposition during CO2 Injection and Pressure Depletion: A Visual Study

Peyman Zanganeh;Shahab Ayatollahi;Abdolmohammad Alamdari;Ali Zolghadr

258
Citations
The Impacts of Aqueous Ions on Interfacial Tension and Wettability of an Asphaltenic–Acidic Crude Oil Reservoir during Smart Water Injection

Mostafa Lashkarbolooki;Shahab Ayatollahi;Masoud Riazi

249
Citations
Investigating the effect of ionic liquid (1-dodecyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride ([C12mim] [Cl])) on the water/oil interfacial tension as a novel surfactant

Ali Zeinolabedini Hezave;Samira Dorostkar;Shahab Ayatollahi;Moein Nabipour

235
Citations
Biosurfactant production under extreme environmental conditions by an efficient microbial consortium, ERCPPI-2

Parviz Darvishi;Shahab Ayatollahi;Dariush Mowla;Ali Niazi

228
Citations
Experimental Determination of Interfacial Tension and Miscibility of the CO2–Crude Oil System; Temperature, Pressure, and Composition Effects

Abdolhossein Hemmati-Sarapardeh;Shahab Ayatollahi;Mohammad-Hossein Ghazanfari;Mohsen Masihi

220
Citations
Dynamic interfacial tension behavior between heavy crude oil and ionic liquid solution (1-dodecyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride ([C12mim][Cl] + distilled or saline water/heavy crude oil)) as a new surfactant

Ali Zeinolabedini Hezave;Samira Dorostkar;Shahab Ayatollahi;Moein Nabipour

218
Citations
Nanotechnology-Assisted EOR Techniques: New Solutions to Old Challenges

Shahab Ayatollahi;Mohammad M. Zerafat

190
Citations
Effect of Salinity, Resin, and Asphaltene on the Surface Properties of Acidic Crude Oil/Smart Water/Rock System

Mostafa Lashkarbolooki;Shahab Ayatollahi;Masoud Riazi

188
Citations
Low salinity injection into asphaltenic-carbonate oil reservoir, mechanistical study

Mostafa Lashkarbolooki;Masoud Riazi;Farzad Hajibagheri;Shahab Ayatollahi

174
Citations
Experimental study of nanoparticle-surfactant-stabilized CO2 foam: Stability and mobility control

Hamed Farhadi;Siavash Riahi;Shahab Ayatollahi;Hossein Ahmadi

170
Citations
Synergy effects of ions, resin, and asphaltene on interfacial tension of acidic crude oil and low–high salinity brines

Mostafa Lashkarbolooki;Masoud Riazi;Shahab Ayatollahi;Ali Zeinolabedini Hezave

169
Citations
Temperature and Composition Effect on CO2 Miscibility by Interfacial Tension Measurement

Ali Zolghadr;Mehdi Escrochi;Shahab Ayatollahi

166
Citations
Study of Absorption Enhancement of CO2 by SiO2, Al2O3, CNT, and Fe3O4 Nanoparticles in Water and Amine Solutions

Behnaz Rahmatmand;Peyman Keshavarz;Shahab Ayatollahi

160
Citations
The in situ microbial enhanced oil recovery in fractured porous media

Alireza Soudmand-asli;S. Shahab Ayatollahi;Hassan Mohabatkar;Maryam Zareie

159
Citations
Effect of water salinity on oil/brine interfacial behaviour during low salinity waterflooding: A mechanistic study

Peyman Rostami;Mohammad Fattahi Mehraban;Mohammad Sharifi;Morteza Dejam

155
Citations
Mechanistic study of wettability alteration of oil-wet calcite: The effect of magnesium ions in the presence and absence of cationic surfactant

Mahvash Karimi;Rashid S. Al-Maamari;Shahab Ayatollahi;Nasir Mehranbod

152
Citations
Effect of different families (imidazolium and pyridinium) of ionic liquids-based surfactants on interfacial tension of water/crude oil system

Ali Zeinolabedini Hezave;Samira Dorostkar;Shahab Ayatollahi;Moein Nabipour

147
Citations
Automatic recognition of oil reservoir models from well testing data by using multi-layer perceptron networks

Behzad Vaferi;Reza Eslamloueyan;Shahab Ayatollahi

136
Citations
Analysis of CO2 separation and simulation of a partially wetted hollow fiber membrane contactor

P. Keshavarz;J. Fathikalajahi;S. Ayatollahi

133
Citations
Wettability alteration and oil recovery by spontaneous imbibition of low salinity brine into carbonates: Impact of Mg2+, SO42− and cationic surfactant

Mahvash Karimi;Rashid S. Al-Maamari;Shahab Ayatollahi;Nasir Mehranbod

113
Citations