Research Activities of Turgay Ertekin

Research Interest Areas:

• Numerical reservoir simulation
• Coalbed methane drainage
• Well test analysis
• Artificial neural networks
• Unconventional gas reservoirs
• Gas reservoir engineering
• Fluid flow dynamics in porous media
• Enhanced oil recovery
• Reservoir engineering

Selected Publications:

Doraisamy, H., T. Ertekin, A.S. Grader, Field Development Studies by Neuro-Simulation: An Effective Coupling of Soft and Hard Computing Protocols, Computers and Geosciences, pp. 963-973, Vol. 26, No. 8, (October 2000).

Manik, J., T. Ertekin, T.E. Kohler, Development and Validation of a Compositional Coalbed Simulator, Paper 2000-44 presented at the Petroleum Society's Canadian International Petroleum Conference 2000, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, (June 2000).

Goktas, B., T. Ertekin, Development of a Local Grid-Refinement Technique for Accurate Representation of Cavity-Completed Wells in Reservoir Simulators, Society of Petroleum Engineers J., pp. 187-195, Vol. 4, No. 3, (September 1999).

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