His research area covers a wide range of topics in geology, hydrogeology, environmental sciences and engineering, and petrology. Behzad’s main research focuses on applying fundamental theories from physics and math as well as multi-scale numerical techniques to model fluid flow and solute transport in heterogeneous porous rocks, fracture networks, soils and sediments.
Research Interests:
- Sap flow measurements via nuclear magnetic resonance
- Effect of scale on flow and transport in porous media
- Rock typing
- Estimating oil and gas recovery factors in reservoir rocks using machine learning
- Effective permeability at the reservoir scale: Upscaling
- Modeling gas flow in tight and ultra-tight porous rocks
Keywords: Transport in porous media, Hydrogeology
Subejct Areas: petrophysics, hydrogeology, engineering geology, hydrogeophysics
Subject Areas:
- Geophysics, Petroleum Geology, Petrophysics, Sedimentary Geology
- Environmental Geology, Hydrogeology, Geochemistry, Geomicrobiology, Geophysics, Geochronology, Geomorphology, Quaternary Geology
Research Areas:
- Oil and gas resources
- Water and soil resources
