About:
Amin Mehrabian is an associate professor in the Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering at Penn State and a former principal R&D engineer at the Houston Technology Center of Halliburton. He specializes in the mechanics and physics of porous media involving the coupled processes of deformation, fracture, creep, transport, sorption, and electrochemistry. Mehrabian’s research applies to the subsurface and wellbore problems of energy and storage, as well as rock and biological tissue characterization. His research group has produced technologies and digital solutions that are used at major energy companies. Mehrabian has authored forty-four peer-reviewed publications. He holds two US patent grants on managed pressure drilling and wellbore hydraulics.
The full list of publications may be viewed in the CV.
- E. Tavakol, A. Mehrabian, 2025, Poroelastic origins of the Noordbergum effect, Water Resources Research, 100282977.
- X. Su, D. Li, S. Li, A. Mehrabian, 2025, Stability of infill wellbores in dissimilar layers of depleted and confining rock, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 1-19.
- Y. Wu, A. Mehrabian, S. Chen, Y. Abousleiman, 2024, Drained solution for elastoplastic stress of compressible matrix around a growing poroelastic inhomogeneity inclusion. Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 150(10), 04024074.
- M. Alarfaj, A. Mehrabian, 2024. Scaling equations for annular flow of yield-power law fluid and drill cuttings, Society of Petroleum Engineers Journal, 29(01),106-117.
- W. Zhang, A. Mehrabian, 2023, Poromechanics constitutive relations and analytical solution for nonlinear gas transport and sorption in deformable rocks, Transport in Porous Media, 149, 853-890.
- K. Nguyen, A. Mehrabian, A. Bathija, A. Santra, 2022, Compression of particulate materials in wellbore fractures and enhancement of the wellbore breakdown limit, Journal of Applied Mechanics, 89(10): 101002.
- X. Su, A. Mehrabian, 2022, The poroviscoelastodynamic solution to Mandel’s problem, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 530, 116987.
- K. Nguyen, A. Mehrabian, A. Santra, D. Phan, 2022, Tensile failure and fracture width of partially permeable wellbores with applications in lost circulation material design, Society of Petroleum Engineers Journal, 27(01), 465-487.
- W. Zhang, A. Mehrabian, 2021, Nonlinear and non-local analytical solution for Darcy–Forchheimer flow through a deformable porous inclusion within a semi-infinite elastic medium, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 911, A49.
- W. Zhang, A. Mehrabian, 2020, Poroelastic solution for the nonlinear injectivity of subsurface rocks with strain‐induced permeability variations, Water Resources Research, 56(08), e2020WR027620.