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ROOSTAEI, M., Nouri, A., and Chan, D. (Submitted) Examination of the Performance of Several Mathematical Techniques in the Simulation of Proppant Transport in Hydraulic Fractures, Journal of Applied Mathematical Modeling, 25 pages.
RAHMATI, E. FATTAHPOUR, V., Nouri, A. and Trivedi, J. (Submitted) A Numerical Assessment of the Maximum Operating Pressure for Anisotropic Caprock in SAGD Projects, Submitted to JCPT, (Also to be presented in 2015 SPE Heavy Oil Conference, Calgary, Alberta).
JAFARPOUR, M., Nouri, A., and Chan, D. (Submitted) Numerical Modelling of Waterhammer Pressure Pulse Propagation in Sand Reservoirs, Submitted to the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 20 pages.
GAO, G., Dang, R., Nouri, A., Jia, H., Li, L., Feng, X., and Dang, B. (Submitted) Real-time Sand Monitoring in Heavy Oil Production, Submitted to JCPT, 15 pages.
GAO, G., Ruirong, D., Nouri, A., Jia, H., Feng, X., Li, L., and Dang, B. (Submitted) Sand Rate Monitoring and Data Processing Method Using Non-Intrusive Ultrasonic Measurements, Submitted to the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 16 pages.
RAHMATI, H., Nouri, A., Chan, D., and Vaziri, H. (Submitted) Effect of Sandstone Micro- and Macro-properties on the Breakout Type around Boreholes, Submitted to JCPT, 25 pages.
TAGHIPOOR, S., Nouri, A., and Chan, D. (Submitted) Numerical Modeling of Hydraulic Fracturing in Cohesionless Sand: Validation Against Laboratory Experiments, Submitted to JCPT, 36 pages.
RAHIMI, M., Chan, D., and Nouri, A. (Submitted) A Bounding Surface Constitutive Model for Cemented Sand under Monotonic Loading, Submitted to the International Journal of Geomechanics, 30 pages.
RAHIMI, M., Chan, D., and Nouri, A. (Submitted) Constitutive Model for Monotonic and Cyclic Behaviour of Cohesionless Sand, Submitted to Geotechnics and Geoengineering, 30 pages.
Bahadori, A., MAHMOUDI, M., and Nouri, A. (2015) Prediction of Heavy-Oil Viscosities with a Simple Correlation Approach, SPE Oil and Gas Facilities Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1:66-72 (also presented in the 2012 SPE Heavy Oil Conference, Calgary, Alberta), Feb.
HAFTANI, M., Bohloli, B., Nouri, A., Maleki Javan, M. R., and Moosavi, M. (2015) Influence Penetration Rate and Indenter Diameter in Strength Measurement by Indentention on Small Rock Specimens, Journal of Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, Vol. 48, pp. 527-534.
RAHMATI, H., Nouri, A., Chan, D. and Vaziri, H. (2014) Simulation of Drilling-Induced Compaction Bands Using Discrete Element Method, International Journal of Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, Vol. 38, No. 1: 37-50, January.
HAFTANI, M., Bohloli, B., Nouri, A., Maleki Javan, M. R., and Moosavi, M. (2014) Size Effect in Rock Strength Assessment by Indentation Testing on Rock Fragments, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, Vol. 65: 141-148, January.
HAFTANI, M., Bohloli, B., Moosavi, M., Nouri, A. and Moradi, M. (2013) A New Method in Correlating Rock Strength to Indentation Test Results, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol. 112, December.
RAHMATI, H., Nouri, A., Chan, D. and Vaziri, H., and RAHMATI, E. (2013) Systematic Calibration Procedure for DEM Parallel-bond Models, Canadian Energy Technology & Innovation, Vol. 1, No. 4, November.
RAHMATI, H., JAFARPOUR, M., AZADBAKHT, S., Nouri, A., Vaziri, H., Chan, D. and Xiao, Y. (2013) Review of Sand Production Prediction Models, Journal of Petroleum Engineering, Vol. 2013.
TAGHIPOOR, S., Nouri, A., Chan, D. and Vaziri, H. (2013) Numerical Modeling of Hydraulic Fracturing in Weakly Consolidated Sandstones using Smeared Fracture Approach, Canadian Energy Technology and Innovation Journal, Vol.1, No. 2, April.
RAHMATI, H., Nouri, A., Vaziri, H. and Chan, D. (2012) Validation of Predicted Cumulative Sand and Sand Rate against Physical Model Test, Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology, Vol. 51, No. 5, September.
JAFARPOUR, M., RAHMATI, H., AZADBAKHT, S., Nouri, A., Chan, D. and Vaziri, H. (2012) Determination of Mobilized Strength Properties of Degrading Sandstone, Soils and Foundations, Vol. 52, No. 4, August.
Bahadori, A. and Nouri, A. (2012) Prediction of Critical Oil Rate for Bottom Water Coning in Anisotropic and Homogeneous Formations, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vols. 82-83, Pages 125-129, February.
RAHMATI, H., Nouri, A., Pishvaie, M.R. and Bozorgmehri, R. (2011) A Modified Differential Evolution Optimization Algorithm with Random Localization for Generation of Best-Guess Properties in History Matching, Journal of Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects, Vol. 33, No. 9, pp. 845-858.
Nouri, A., Kuru, E. and Vaziri, H. (2009) Elastoplastic Modelling of Sand Production Using Fracture Energy Regularization Method, Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 64-71, April (Also presented at 2007 CIPC Conference)
Vaziri, H., Nouri, A., Knut, H. and Wang, J. (2008) Computation of Sand Production in Water Injectors. SPE Production & Operations, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 518-524, Nov. (Also presented at the 2007 European Formation Damage Conference held in Scheveningen).
Nouri, A., Vaziri, H., Belhaj, H. and Islam, M.R. (2007) Comprehensive Transient Modeling of Sand Production in Horizontal Wellbores. SPEJ, Vol. 12, No.4, pp. 468-474, Dec. (Also presented at the 2003 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Denver, Colorado).
Nouri, A., Vaziri, H., Kuru, H., Belhaj, H. and Islam, M.R. (2007) Physical and Analytical Studies of Sand Production from a Supported Wellbore in Unconsolidated Sand Media with Single- and Two-Phase Flow. Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology (JCPT), pp. 41-48, June.
Nouri, A., Vaziri, H., Belhaj, H. and Islam, M.R. (2006) Sand-Production Prediction: A New Set of Criteria for Modeling Based on Large-Scale Transient Experiments and Numerical Investigation. SPE Journal, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 227-237 (Also presented in the 2004 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Houston, TX).
Nouri, A., Vaziri, H., Kuru, E. and Islam, M.R. (2006) A Comparison of Two Sanding Criteria in a Physical and Numerical Modeling of Sand Production. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol. 50, pp. 55-70.
Nouri, A., Vaziri, H., Belhaj, H., Shomakhi, N., Butt, S., Donalds, A. and Islam, M.R. (2005) Experimental Study of Sand Production from a Supported Wellbore in Weakly Consolidated Sandstone. Geotechnical Testing Journal (ASTM), Vol. 28, No. 5.
Biazar, J., Babolian, E., Kember, G., Nouri, A. and Islam, M.R. (2003) An Alternate Algorithm for Computing Adomian Polynomials in Special Cases. Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 138, No. 2-3, pp. 523-529, June.
Nouri, A., Vaziri, H., Al-Darbi., M. and Islam, M.R. (2002) A New Theory and Methodology for Modeling Sanding during Oil Production. J. Energy Sources, Vol. 24, No. 11, pp. 995-1007, November.
Al-Darbi, M.M., Jaralla, A.A., Nouri, A. and Islam, M.R. (2002) The Inhibitive Characteristics of Mixed Inhibitor Combinations under Heat and Mass Transfer Conditions. J. Energy Sources, Vol. 24, No. 11, pp. 1019-1030, November.
Nouri, A., Komak Panah, A., Pak, A., Al-Darbi., M., Vaziri, H. and Islam, M.R. (2002) Evaluation of Hydraulic Fracturing Pressure in A Porous Medium by Using the Finite Element Method. J. Energy Sources, Vol. 24, No. 8, pp. 715 – 724, August.
Nouri, A., Vaziri, H., Al-Darbi., M. and Islam, M.R. (2002) Deflection Criteria for Numerical Assessment of the Sand Production Potential in an Openhole Completion. J. Energy Sources, Vol. 24, No. 7, pp. 685- 702.
Vaziri, H., Xiao, Y., Islam, M.R. and Nouri, A. (2002) Numerical Modeling of Seepage-Induced Sand Production in Oil and Gas Reservoirs. J. Pet. Sci. Eng., Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 71-87.
Pak, A., Sadr Nejad, A. and Nouri, A. (1999) Effects of the Initial Effective Stresses on Hydraulic Fracture in Soils. Scientia Iranica, Vol.6, No. 3, pp. 207-212.

Conference Proceedings

RAHMATI, E. FATTAHPOUR, V., Nouri, A. and Trivedi, J. (Accepted) A Numerical Assessment of the Maximum Operating Pressure for Anisotropic Caprock in SAGD Projects, To be presented in 2015 SPE Heavy Oil Conference, Calgary, June.
TAGHIPOOR, S., ROOSTAEI, M., Nouri, A. and Chan, D. (2014) A Numerical Investigation of Hydraulic Fracturing Mechanism in Oil Sands, SPE Heavy Oil Conference, Calgary, June.
RAHMATI, E. and Nouri, A. (2014) Caprock Integrity Analysis During a SAGD Operation Using an Anisotropic Elasto-plastic Model, SPE Heavy Oil Conference, Calgary, June.
RAHMATI, E., RAHMATI, H. and Nouri, A. (2013) Numerical Assessment of Caprock Integrity in SAGD Operations, SPE Heavy Oil Conference, Calgary, AB, June 2013.
AZADBAKHT, S., Nouri, A., Vaziri, H. and Chan, D. (2012) A Numerical Model for Predicting the Rate of Sand Production in Injector Wells, SPE 156394, presented in the SPE Drilling and Completion Conference, Galveston, Texas, 8 pages.
Bahadori, A and Nouri, A. (2012) Rapid Estimation of Heavy Oil Viscosities Using a Novel Predictive Tool Approach, presented in the SPE Heavy Oil Conference, Calgary, Alberta, 12 pages.
FENIK, D.R., Nouri, A. and Deutsch, C.V. (2009) Ranking Realizations for SAGD Performance Prediction. Paper presented at 11th meeting of the Centre for Computational Geostatistics (CCG), Edmonton, Alberta.
FENIK, D., Nouri, A. and Deutsch, C. V. (2009) Criteria for Ranking Realizations in the Investigation of SAGD Reservoir Performance. Paper presented at the 10 th Canadian International Petroleum Conference (CIPC), Calgary, Alberta, 10 pages.
FENIK D., Nouri, A. and Deutsch, C.V. (2008) Comparison of Ranking Measures for Reservoir Management. Paper presented at 10 th Centre for Computational Geostatistics Meeting (CCG), Edmonton, Alberta.
Nouri, A., WANG, X. and Vaziri, H. (2008) A Review of Sand Production Mechanisms in Cold Heavy Oil Production. paper CIPC 2008-207 presented at 9th Canadian International Petroleum Conference (CIPC), Calgary, Alberta, June, 11 pages.
Belhaj, H., Nouri, A. (2007) Reservoir Rock Behavior Pre- and Post- Pore Collapse during Production. paper SPE 11657, presented at the International Petroleum Technology Conference, Dubai, U.A.E., December, 9 pages.
Nouri, A., Kuru, E. and Vaziri, H. (2007) Enhanced Modeling of Sand Production through Improved Deformation and Stress Analysis. paper CIPC 2007-172 presented at 8th Canadian International Petroleum Conference (CIPC), Calgary, Alberta, June, 11 pages.
Vaziri, H., Nouri, A., Knut, H. and Wang, J. (2007) Computation of Sand Production in Water Injectors. Paper SPE 107695, presented at the European Formation Damage Conference held in Scheveningen, The Netherlands, 30 May–1 June, 7 pages.
Nouri, A., Vaziri, H. and Kuru, E. (2006) Numerical Investigation of Sand Production under Realistic Reservoir/Well Flow Conditions. paper CIPC 2006-093, Canadian International Petroleum Conference, Calgary, June, 7 pages.
Nouri, A., Vaziri, H., Kuru, E. and Islam, M.R. (2005) A Laboratory Study of the Effect of Installation of Reticulated Expandable Liners on Sand Production in Weakly Consolidated Sandstone Formations. paper SPE 96151, SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, OCT 05, Dallas, TX, October, 10 pages.
Nouri, A., Vaziri, H., Kuru, E. and Islam, M.R. (2005) Sand Production Prediction in Oil Wellbores: A Set of Criteria for Design of Reticulated Expandable Completion Techniques Based on Large-Scale Transient Experiments. paper CIPC 2005-156, Canadian International Petroleum Conference, Calgary, June, 16 pages.
Nouri, A., Prior, D., Vaziri, H., Taheri, F. and Islam, M.R. (2005) A Novel Petroleum Well Completion Technique. Proceeding of the First International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization, Sharjah, U.A.E., February 1-3.
Belhaj, H., Ryan, B., Nouri A., Butt, S., Frempong, P. and Islam, M.R. (2004) A New Coupled Fluid Flow/Stress Model for Porous Media Behavior: Numerical Modeling and Experimental Investigation. paper SPE 90265, SPE International Petroleum Conference, Puebla, Mexico, November, 9 pages.
Nouri, A., Vaziri, H., Belhaj, H. and Islam, M.R. (2004) Sand Production Prediction: A New Set of Criteria for Modeling Based on Large Scale Transient Experiments and Numerical Investigation. paper SPE 90273, SPE Annual Technical Conference and exhibition, Houston, TX, October, 13 pages.
Nouri, A., Donald, A., Frempong, P., Butt, S., Vaziri, H. and Islam, M.R. (2003) Using Acoustic Measurements in Evaluating Pore Collapse Occurrence and Associated Sand Production. Canadian Society for Civil Engineering 31st Annual Conference, CSCE, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, June 4-7.
Donald, A., Frempong, P., Butt, S. D. and Nouri, A. (2003) Laboratory Acoustic Measurements of the Attenuation Factor Q during Simulated Pore Pressure Reduction. Canadian Society for Civil Engineering 31st Annual Conference, CSCE, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, June 4-7.
Rahman M.A., Belhaj, H.A., Nouri, A., Koksal, M. and Islam, M.R. (2003) Perforation by Drilling-An Alternative Technique. Canadian Society for Civil Engineering 31st Annual Conference, CSCE, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, June 4-7.
Nouri, A., Komak Panah, A., Pak, A., Vaziri, H. and Islam, M.R. (2003) Numerical Evaluation of Hydraulic Fracturing Experiments. Canadian Society for Civil Engineering 31st Annual Conference, CSCE, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, June 4-7.
Nouri, A., Vaziri, H., Belhaj, H. and Islam, M.R. (2003) Comprehensive Transient Modeling of Sand Production in Horizontal Wellbores. paper SPE 84500, SPE Annual Conference, Denver, October, 9 pages.
Nouri, A., Jafarpour, K. and Cheraghi, N. (2003) A Comprehensive Constitutive Law: Returning to The Principle of Physics, A New Way out of the Traditional Methods. EEC Innovation, Vol. 1, pp. 28-32.
Belhaj, H.A., Agha, K., Nouri, A., Butt, S., Vaziri, H. and Islam, M.R. (2003) Numerical Simulation of Non-Darcy Flow Utilizing the New Forchheimer’s Diffusivity Equation. paper SPE 81499, Proc. Middle East Oil Show, Bahrain, April 5-8, 10 pages.
Nouri, A., Vaziri, H., Belhaj, H. and Islam, M.R. (2003) A Comprehensive Approach for Modeling Sanding during Oil Production. paper SPE 81032, Proc. SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference, April, 7 pages.
Belhaj, H. A., Agha, K., Nouri, A., Butt, S. D. and Islam, M.R. (2003) Numerical and Experimental Modeling of Non-Darcy Flow in Porous Media. paper SPE 81037, Proc. SPE Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, West Indies, April, 9 pages.
Nouri, A., Vaziri, H., Belhaj, H. and Islam, M.R. (2003) Effect of Volumetric Failure on Sand Production in Oil-WellBores. paper SPE 80448, Proc. SPE Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition, Jakarta, Indonesia, April, 8 pages.
Belhaj, H.A., Agha, K., Nouri, A., Butt, S., Vaziri, H. and Islam, M.R. (2003) Numerical Modeling of Forchheimer’s Equation to Describe Darcy and Non-Darcy Flow in Porous Media. paper SPE 80440, Proc. SPE Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition, Jakarta, Indonesia, April 15-17, 10 pages.
Belhaj, H. A., Nouri, A., Agha, K., Butt, S. and Islam, M.R. (2002) Modeling of Matrix/Fracture Flow in Sandstone Reservoirs: Experimental Approach. Proc. PAPG. SPE Annual Technical Conference, Islamabad, Pakistan, November 2-4.
Belhaj, H.A., Nouri, A., Vaziri, H., Butt, S. and Islam, M.R. (2002) Experimental Determination of the Effect of Pore Collapse on Permeability and Porosity of Sandstone Reservoirs. Proc. PAPG. SPE Annual Technical Conference, Islamabad, Pakistan, November 2-4.
Al-Darbi, M.M., Muntasser, Z.M., Nouri, A. and Islam, M.R. (2001) Prevention of Microbial Corrosion Using Coatings Mixed With Natural Additive. proc. 4th International Conference on Mechanical Engineering, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 249-253, 26-28 December.