Arash Dahi Taleghani PhD, P.E. Associate Professor Craft & Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering   Dr. Arash Dahi Taleghani Google Scholar   Email: a_dahi (at) lsu.edu

 

 

Ph.D. Students

Miguel Gonzalez-Chavez Research interests: Hydraulic fracturing modeling, Cohesive element methods

 

Milad Ahmadi Research interests: Geothermal, Hydraulic fracturing, FEM

 

Denis Klimenko Research interests: Hydraulic fracturing modeling, XFEM

 

Kian Sheikhrezaei Research interests: Drill bit and rock interactions (experimental research)

 

Hope Asala Research interests: Refracturing

 

Xu Zhou Research interests: Simulation of completion operations

 

Masters Students

Livio Santos Research interests: Smart proppants engineering

 

Ahmed Mansour Research interests: Lost circulation materials, wellbore stability

 

Previous Lab Members:

Mehdi Moayedi (M.Sc., Summer 2016) Research interests: SMP cement additive

Volkan Kanat (M.Sc., Summer 2016) Research interests: Drill bit and rock interactions

Juan Felipe Bautista (M.Sc., December 2015) Research interests: Injectivity in unconsolidated formations

Jack Cadigan (Undergraduate researcher)

Ross Teichman (Undergraduate researcher)

Ping Puyang (M.Sc., May 2015) Research interests: Integrated modeling in hydraulic fracturing

Amir Shojaei (Postdoc, October 2014) Research interests: Damage mechanics

Houman Bedayat (Ph.D., August 2014) Research interests: Micromechanics and poroelasticity

Chennv Fan (M.Sc., May 2014) Research interests: Intermediate field effect for microseismics interpretation

Wei Wang (Ph.D., January 2014) Research interests: Well integrity and underground blowout

Siyamak Rostami (M.Sc., December 2013) Research interests: Geomechanics analysis of injector wells