Publications

Capacity factors for electrical power generation from renewable and nonrenewable sources

Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2205429119

Authors: Natanael Bolson, Pedro Prieto\, Tadeusz Patzek

Forecast of economic gas production in the Marcellus

Year: 2022 DOI:DOI:10.1306/10242221078

Authors: Wardana Saputra, Wissem Kirati, David Hughes, Tadeusz Patzek

Correct estimation of permeability using experiment and simulation

Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0123673

Authors: Siarhei Khirevich, Maxim Yutkin, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Enhancing fracture network characterization: A data-driven, outcrop-based analysis

Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2022.104997

Authors: Weiwei Zhu, Xupeng He, Ryan Kurniawan Santoso, Gang Lei, Tadeusz W. Patzek, Moran Wang

HatchFrac: A fast open-source DFN modeling software

Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compgeo.2022.104917

Authors: Weiwei Zhu, Siarhei Khirevich, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Validation and Analysis of the Physics-Based Scaling Curve Method for Ultimate Recovery Prediction in Hy-Draulically Fractured Shale Gas Wells

Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.2118/210350-MS

Authors: Daniela Arias Ortiz, Nabila Bounceur, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Fracture sealing and its impact on the percolation of subsurface fracture networks

Year: 2022 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2022.111023

Authors: Weiwei Zhu, Xupeng He, Siarhei Khirevich, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Validation of The Generalized Scaling Curve Method for EUR prediction in Fractured shale Oil Wells

Year: 2018

Authors: Wardana Saputra, Ali A.Albinali

Generalized Scaling Curve
EUR
Shale Oil Wells

Percolation Properties of Stochastic Fracture Networks in 2D and Outcrop Fracture Maps

Year: 2018

Authors: Weiwei Zhu, Siarhei Khirevich, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Percolation
Fracture Network
Outcrop Fracture
Stochastic

Improving Pore Network Imaging & Characterization of Microporous Carbonate Rocks Using

Year: 2017

Authors: A. Hassan, V. Chandra, M.P. Yutkin, Tadeusz W. Patzek, D.N. Espinoza

Epoxy-pore
Geology

A Cost-Effective Method to Maximize the Hydrocarbon Recovery by Optimizing the Vertical Well Placements through the Simulation Opportunity Index

Year: 2016

Authors: W. Saputra, T. Ariadji, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Hydrocarbon Recovery
Simulation Opportunity Index

History Matching and Rate Forecasting in Unconventional Oil Reservoirs With an Approximate Analytical Solution to the Double-Porosity Model

Year: 2015

Authors: Babafemi A. Ogunyomi, Tadeusz W. Patzek, Larry W. Lake, C. Shah Kabir

Analysis of gas production from hydraulically fractured wells in the Haynesville shale using scaling methods

Year: 2015

Authors: Frank Male, Akand Islam, Tadeusz W. Patzek, Svetlana Ikonnikova, John Browning, Michael Marder

Reservoir Engineering
EUR
Universal Curve
PVT Solve

Evaluation of production losses from unconventional shale reservoirs

Year: 2015

Authors: Umut Aybar, Wei Yu, Mohammad O. Eshkalak, Kamy Sepehrnoori, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Unconventional Shale Gas Reservoirs
Gas Production Performance
Coupled Hydraulic and Natural Fracture's Conductivity Loss

Production of hydrocarbons from shales as a multiscale problem in physics and chemistry

Year: 2014

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek, Michael Marder

Study develops Fayetteville shale reserves, production forecast

Year: 2014

Authors: John Browning, Katie Smye, Scott W. Tinker, Susan Horvath, Svetlana Ikonnikova, Tadeusz W. Patzek, Gürcan Gülen, Frank Male, Eric Potter, Forrest Roberts, Qilong Fu

Horizontal
Well
Hydrofracture
Decline
Exponential

Effects of geochemical reaction on double diffusive natural convection of CO2 in brine saturated geothermal reservoir

Year: 2014

Authors: Akand Islam, Aboulghasem Kazemi Nia Korrani, Kamy Sepehrnoori, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Geochemical Reaction
Double Diffusion
Natural Convection
Geothermal Effect
Heterogeneity
CO2 Sequestration

Slip in natural gas flow through nanoporous shale reservoirs

Year: 2014

Authors: Akand Islam, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Slip Flow
Knudsen Diffusion
Nanopore
Shale Reservoir
Hagen-Poisuille Equation

A computationally efficient approach to apply SAFT equation for CO2+H2O phase equilibrium calculation

Year: 2014

Authors: Akand Islam, Kamy Sepehrnoori, Tadeusz W. Patzek

SAFT
CO2 + H2O
Phase Equilibrium
Geologic Sequestration
Efficient Computation

Science of hydraulic fracturing contains materials questions

Year: 2014

Authors: Mellisae Fellet, Michael Marder, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Natural
Fracture
Hydro-fracture
Fracture Network
Proppant
Percolation
Nano
Pore
Scaling
Power Law

History Matching and Rate Forecasting in Unconventional Oil Reservoirs Using an Approximate Analytical Solution to the Double Porosity Model

Year: 2014

Authors: B. A. Ogunyomi, Tadeusz W. Patzek, L. W. Lake, C. S. Kabir

Gas Production
Decline
Dual
Permeability
Half-slope
Linear Flow
Stimulated
Reservoir
Volume

Evaluation of Gas Adsorption in Marcellus Shale

Year: 2014

Authors: Wei Yu, Kamy Sepehrnoori, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Langmuir
BET
Isotherm
Gas in Place
Estimate
Production

Fick’s Diffusion Experiments Revisited - Part I

Year: 2014

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Salt Diffusion
Medical
Physics
Tube
Funnel
Experiment
Pogendorff Annalen

Fick’s Diffusion Experiments Revisited - Part II

Year: 2014

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Salt
Liquid
Diffusion
Medical
Physics
Pogendorff Annalen

A simple model of gas production from hydrofractured horizontal wells in shales

Year: 2014

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek, Frank Male, Michael Marder

Pressure
Interference
Real
Gas
Absorption
Flow
Decline
Linear
Transient
Pseudo-pressure

Finite Element Solution of nonlinear Transient Rock Damage with Application in Geomechanics of Oil and Gas Reservoirs

Year: 2013

Authors: Saeid Enayatpour, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Volumetric Rock Damage
Damage Diffusion
Reservoir Geo-mechanics
Brittle Fracture

Thermal Shock in Reservoir Rock Enhances the Hydraulic Fracturing of Gas Shales

Year: 2013

Authors: Saeid Enayatpour, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Stress
Gradient
Defusion
Production
Enhancement
Tensile
Cooling
Damage

Barnett Shale Model-1: Barnett study determines full-field reserves, production forecast

Year: 2013

Authors: John Browning, Scott W. Tinker, Svetlana Ikonnikova, Gürcan Gülen, Eric Potter, Qilong Fu, Susan Horvath, Tadeusz W. Patzek, Frank Male, William Fisher, Forrest Roberts, Ken Medlock III

Pressure
Interference
Production
Decline
Linear
Transient
Corner Flow

Barnett Shale Model-2 (Conclusion): Barnett study determines full-field reserves, production forecast

Year: 2013

Authors: John Browning, Scott W. Tinker, Svetlana Ikonnikova, Gürcan Gülen, Eric Potter, Qilong Fu, Susan Horvath, Tadeusz W. Patzek, Frank Male, William Fisher, Forrest Roberts, Ken Medlock III

Well-by-well Forecast
Decline
Ultimate
Gas
Recovery
Scenarios
Economics
Price

FreezeFrac Improves the Productivity of Gas Shales

Year: 2013

Authors: S. Enayatpour, E. Van Oort, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Tensile
Stress
Permeability
Enhancement
Increase

Supporting Materials to: Gas production in the Barnett Shale obeys a simple scaling theory

Year: 2013

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek, F Male, Michael Marder

Mass
Momentum
Balance
Equation
Hydrofracturing
Shale Gas
Type
Curve
Fracking

Gas production in the Barnett Shale obeys a simple scaling theory

Year: 2013

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek, F Male, Michael Marder

Hydrofracturing
Shale Gas
Scaling Laws
Energy Resources
Fracking

Great Ideas on Energy: Better Fracking, Legal Scholarship, Pod Cars

Year: 2012

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Personal
Transportation
Conservation
Electric
Car

A Look at the US Oil Boom - Without the Hype

Year: 2012

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Production
Rate
Decline
Condensate
Volume
Gain
Crude Oil
Demand
Destruction
Efficiency
Energy
Independence
LPG
Natural Gas
Petroleum
Product
Refinery
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Security
Self-delusions

Powering the World: Offshore Oil & Gas Production

Year: 2012

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Energy
Sustainability
Life
Deep
Ultradeep
Gulf of Mexico
GOM
Drillship
Safety
Passive
Active

Modeling the impact of rock formation history on the evolution of absolute permeability

Year: 2012

Authors: Guodong Jina, Tadeusz W. Patzek, Dmitriy B. Silin

Numerical Modeling
Diagenetic History
Permeability Evolution
Depositional Model

Radioactivity of water produced after hydrofracturing deep natural gas in Pennsylvania

Year: 2011

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Radon
Uranium
Radium
Concentration
Thorium
Distribution
NORM
Nwe York Times
Urbina

Microtomography and Pore-Scale Modeling of Two-Phase Fluid Distribution

Year: 2011

Authors: Dmitriy B. Silin, Liviu Tomutsa, Sally M. Benson, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Capillary Pressure
Microtomography
Pore-scale Modeling
Two-phase Flow

Deep drilling reflects era's decline, Texas expert says

Year: 2011

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Deepwater Horizon
Macondo Well
Blowout
Easy
Difficult
Deep
Oil
Remote
High Pressure
High Temperature
Well

Physical Limitations on Mining Natural Earth Systems

Year: 2011

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Hubbert
Cycle
Population
Wells
Mines
Decline

Unconventional Resources in US: Potential & Lessons Learned

Year: 2011

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Shale
Gas
Production
Barnett
Well
Decline

Sustainability: How far are we from thou?

Year: 2011

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Second Law
Themodynamics
Unsustainability
Ecosystem

Energy and Environment Subcommittee Energy and Commerce Committee Briefing

Year: 2010

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Macondo Well
Blowout
Negligence

Patzek: How to assess the spill's impact

Year: 2010

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Macondo Well
BP
Escaping Containment

BP May Be Spilling Less Than Doomsayers Think

Year: 2010

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Macondo Well
BP
Escaping Containment

Unconventional Gas Recovery in the U.S

Year: 2010

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Fossil Fuels
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Natural Gas
Unconventional

Frictional Granular Mechanics: A Variational Approach

Year: 2010

Authors: R. Holtzman, Dmitriy B. Silin, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Micromechanics
Grain-scale Simulations
Intergranular Friction
Quasi-static Model
Effective Elastic Moduli
Principle of Least Work

Microscale Imaging and Pore-Scale Modeling of Two-Phase Fluid Distribution

Year: 2010

Authors: Dmitriy B. Silin, Liviu Tomutsa, Sally M. Benson, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Capillary Pressure
Microtomography
Pore-scale Modeling
Two-phase Flow

Subsurface Sequestration of CO2 in the U.S. Is It Money Best Spent?

Year: 2010

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Electrical Power Generation
Coal
Natural Gas
Generation Efficiency
Coal Ash
Water Contamination
Clean Air Act
Ultra Supercitical Steam
Avoided Carbon Dioxide Emissions

U.S. Energy Demand, Offshore Oil Production and BP’s Macondo Well Spill

Year: 2010

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Hydrocarbon
Production
Decline
Deepwater
Drilling
Challenge

Supporting Online Materials to A Global Coal Production Forecast with Multi-Hubbert Cycle Analysis

Year: 2010

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek, Gregory D. Croft

Carbon Emissions
IPCC Scenarios
Coal Production Peak
Coal Supply
Conservation
Efficiency

A Global Coal Production Forecast with Multi-Hubbert Cycle Analysis

Year: 2010

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek, Gregory D. Croft

Carbon Emissions
IPCC Scenarios
Coal Production Peak
Coal Supply
Conservation
Efficiency

A Probabilistic Model of the Switchgrass Ethanol Cycle

Year: 2010

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Cellulose
Yield
Conservation Laws
GHG Emissions
Monte Carlo

Peaks Everywhere

Year: 2010

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Dispersion by wind of CO2 leaking from underground storage: Comparison of analytical solution with simulation

Year: 2009

Authors: Katherine T. Schwarz, Tadeusz W. Patzek, Dmitriy B. Silin

CO2 Storage
CO2 Leakage
Numerical Simulation
Atmospheric Surface Layer
Advection–diffusion Equation
Analytical Solution

A one-dimensional model of vertical gas plume migration through a heterogeneous porous medium

Year: 2009

Authors: Dmitriy B. Silin, Tadeusz W. Patzek, Sally M. Benson

Geologic Sequestration
Buoyancy
Countercurrent Flow
Plume Migration

Predicting Relative-Permeability Curves Directly From Rock Images

Year: 2009

Authors: Dmitriy B. Silin, Tadeusz W. Patzek

The Future of California's Oil Supply

Year: 2009

Authors: Gregory D. Croft, Tadeusz W. Patzek

California
Oil Production
Supply Trends
Sour Crudes
Competitive Advantage

A First Law Thermodynamic Analysis of Biodiesel Production from Soybeans

Year: 2009

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Biofuel
Sustainability
Energy
Mass
Balance

Potential for Coal-to-Liquids Conversion in the U.S. – Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis

Year: 2009

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek, Gregory D. Croft

Efficiency
Emissions
CO2 Sequestration
Natural Gas
Electricity
Renewables

Potential for Coal-to-Liquids Conversion in the U.S. – Resource Base

Year: 2009

Authors: Gregory D. Croft, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Hubbert Curve
Production
History
Reserves
Coal Ranks

Mechanical properties of granular materials: A variational approach to grain-scale simulations

Year: 2009

Authors: R. Holtzman, Dmitriy B. Silin, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Granular Matter
Grain-scale Simulations
Quasi-static Deformation
Variational Approach
Micromechanics
Hydrate Dissociation

The Visible, Sustainable Farm: A Comprehensive Energy Analysis of a Midwestern Farm

Year: 2009

Authors: Aaron W. Baumac, Tadeusz W. Patzek, Martin Benderc, Steve Renichc, Wes Jacksonc

Chemicals-free
Draft Horse
Photovoltaics
Livestock
Organic
Crop
Rotation

Expert Report of Tadeusz Patzek in the Matter of Hawaiian Electrical Company vs. The Life of the Land

Year: 2008

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Climate Change
GHG
Carbon Dioxide
Energy
Conservation
Electricity
Wind
Photovoltaics
Biofuel
Sustainability
Tropics
Forest

Agriculture: Tendencies & Deficiencies

Year: 2008

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Industrial
Agriculture
Chemical
Pesticide
Herbicide
Sustainability
Erosion
Biodiversity

Can the Earth Deliver the Biomass-for-Fuel We Demand?

Year: 2008

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Agriculture
Agrofuel
Biomass
Biorefinery
Boundary
Crop
Ecology
Energy
Ethanol
Fuel Production
Model Mass Balance
Net Energy
Value
Plantation
Population
Sustainability
Thermodynamics
Tropics
Yield

Micromechanics of Hydrate Dissociation in Marine Sediments by Grain-Scale Simulations

Year: 2008

Authors: Holtzman Ran, Dmitriy B. Silin, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Sediment
Strength
Failure
Collapse
Weakening
Seafloor

Exponential growth, energetic Hubbert cycles, and the advancement of technology

Year: 2008

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Crude Oil Natural Gas Ultimate Recovery Alaska Deposits Economy Natural Resources

Thermodynamics of Agricultural Sustainability: The Case of US Maize Agriculture

Year: 2008

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Ecosystem
Organic
Irreversible
Process
Entropy
Energy

Ethanol Production: Energy, Economic, and Environmental Losses

Year: 2007

Authors: David Pimentel, Tadeusz W. Patzek, Gerald Cecil

Biomass
Biofuel
Conversion
Thermodynamics
Efficiency
Corn
Agriculture
Fermentation
Distillation
Biorefinery

An Unstable Concoction of Interests

Year: 2007

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Energy
Biosciences
Institute
BP
Berkeley
GMO
Monsanto
Dupont
Savia
Amyris
Corporate
Research
Academia
Sale
Somerville

The Strength of Hydrate-Bearing Sediments: A Grain-Scale Approach

Year: 2007

Authors: Ran Holtzman, Dmitriy B. Silin, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Sediment
Strength
Failure
Collapse
Weakening

The Disastrous Local and Global Impacts of Tropical Biofuel Production

Year: 2007

Authors: Lucas Patzek, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Biofuel
Indonesia
Palm Oil

A First-Law Thermodynamic Analysis of the Corn-Ethanol Cycle

Year: 2007

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Net Energy
Biorefinery
Efficiency
Coproduct
Emissions
Environment
Cost

Biofuels: Is the Cure Worse than the Disease?

Year: 2007

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Security
Shakespeare
Nuclear
Reactor
Biofuels
Tropical
Ecosystem
Destruction
Sustainability

How Can We Outlive Our Way of Life?

Year: 2007

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Fossil
Fuel
Agrofuel
Photovoltaics
Net Primary Productivity
Tropical
Ecosystem
Sustainability
Collaps

The Earth, Energy and Agriculture

Year: 2006

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Power
Exogenous
Endogenous
Consumption
Planet
Plant
Productivity
Net

Exact Solutions in a Model of Vertical Gas Migration

Year: 2006

Authors: Dmitriy B. Silin, Tadeusz W. Patzek, Sally M. Benson

Layered
Rock
Carbon Dioxide
Sequestration
Geologic
Gravity
Capillarity
Viscosity

Corn Ethanol: Laundering Fossil Fuels, Bilking Taxpayers, Damaging the Environment

Year: 2006

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Corn Ethanol

Green Plants, Fossil Fuels, and Now Biofuels

Year: 2006

Authors: David Pimetel, Tadeusz W. Patzek

A Statistical Analysis of the Theoretical Yield of Ethanol from Corn Starch

Year: 2006

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Starch
Extractable
Total
Statistics
Monte Carlo
Distribution

The Real Biofuel Cycles - Online Supporting Material

Year: 2006

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Energy
Balance
Thermodynamics
Efficiency
First Law
Corn
Switchgrass
Biorefinery
GHG
Emissions

The Real Biofuel Cycles

Year: 2006

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Net
Energy
Analysis
Balance
Thermodynamics
Efficiency
GHG
Emissions

A Low-Frequency Asymptotic Analysis of Seismic Reflection from a Fluid-Saturated Medium

Year: 2006

Authors: Dmitriy B. Silin, V. A. Korneev, G. M. Goloshubin, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Low-frequency Signal
Darcy’s Law
Seismic Reflection

Pore space morphology analysis using maximal inscribed spheres

Year: 2006

Authors: Dmitriy B. Silin, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Pore Space Morphology
Connectivity
Two-phase Flow
Capillary Pressure

Waterflood Surveillance and Control: Incorporating Hall Plot and Slope Analysis

Year: 2005

Authors: Dmitriy B. Silin, Michael J. Holtzman, Tadeusz W. Patzek, James L. Brink, Michael Minner

Slope
Analysis
Modified Hall
Mean
Reservoir
Pressure
Estimate
Verification
Numerical
Test

Monitoring Waterflood Operations: Hall’s Method Revisited

Year: 2005

Authors: Dmitriy B. Silin, Ron Holtzman, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Slope
Analysis
Modified Hall
Mean
Reservoir
Pressure
Estimate
Verification
Numerical
Test

Ethanol from Corn: Clean Renewable Fuel for the Future, or Drain on Our Resources and Pockets?

Year: 2005

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek, S.-M. Anti, R. Campos, K. W. Ha, J. Lee, B. Li, J. Padnick, S.-A. Yee

Carbon Dioxide
Corn
Energy Balance
Ethanol
Fuel
Nitrate
Oxygenate
Pollution
Sequestration

The United States of America Meets the Planet Earth

Year: 2005

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Multiscale-stabilized solutions to one-dimensional systems of conservation laws

Year: 2005

Authors: Ruben Juanes, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Stabilized Finite Elements
Multiscale
Shock-capturing
Porous Media Flow
Shallow Water Equations

Ethanol Production Using Corn, Switchgrass, and Wood; Biodiesel Production Using Soybean and Sunflower

Year: 2005

Authors: David Pimentel, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Energy
Biomass
Fuel
Natural Resources
Ethanol
Biodiesel

Thermodynamics of Energy Production from Biomass

Year: 2005

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek, David Pimentel

Biomass
Biofuel
Ecosystem
Sustainability
Renewability
Cycle
Thermodynamics
Energy
Exergy
Acacia
Eucalypt
Sugarcane
Solar

The Overall Energy Balance of a Hydrogen Bus in Berkeley

Year: 2004

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek, K. Kappler, A. F. Dahmubed, S. C. Moses, D.-K. Chen, H. N. Handa, J. W. Heng, M. Q. Ho, D. C. Kellogg, E. K. Negroni, I. P. Nicholson, S. L. Orozco, J. M. Prendergast, T. A. Pritchard, K. N. Vo, A. R. Wysong

Hyperbolic Systems of Three-Phase Flow in Porous Media

Year: 2004

Authors: Ruben Juanes, Tadeusz W. Patzek, Knut-Andreas Lie

Direct Prediction of the Absolute Permeability of Unconsolidated and Consolidated Reservoir Rock

Year: 2004

Authors: Guodong Jin, Tadeusz W. Patzek, Dmitriy B. Silin

Multiscale finite element methods for miscible and immiscible flow in porous media

Year: 2004

Authors: Ruben Juanes, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Flow in Porous Media
Conservation Laws
Multiscale Phenomena
Finite Elements
Stabilized Methods

Analytical solution to the Riemann problem of three-phase flow in porous media

Year: 2004

Authors: Ruben Juanes, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Relative permeabilities for strictly hyperbolic models of three-phase flow in porous media

Year: 2004

Authors: Ruben Juanes, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Three-phase Flow
Relative Permeability
Hyperbolic System
Conservation Laws
Elliptic Regions
Oak Experiments

Secondary Imbibition in NAPL-invaded Mixed-Wet Sediments

Year: 2004

Authors: Ahmed Al-Futaisi, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Pore Network
Mixed-wet
Relative Permeability
Capillary Pressure
Secondary Imbibition
Initial Water Saturation
Trapping

Three-phase displacement theory: An improved description of relative permeabilities

Year: 2004

Authors: Ruben Juanes, Tadeusz W. Patzek

On Barenblatt’s Model of Spontaneous Countercurrent

Year: 2004

Authors: Dmitriy B. Silin, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Non-equilibrium Two-phase Flow
Countercurrent
Imbibition
Asymptotic Solution

Robust determination of the pore-space morphology in sedimentary rocks

Year: 2004

Authors: Dmitriy B. Silin, Guodong Jin, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Thermodynamics of the Corn-Ethanol Biofuel Cycle

Year: 2004

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Biofuel
Ethanol
Fossil Fuels
Corn
Sustainability
Thermodynamics
Energy
Entropy
Exergy
Solar

Multiscale Numerical Modeling of Three-phase Flow

Year: 2003

Authors: Ruben Juanes, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Robust Determination of the Pore Space Morphology in Sedimentary Rocks

Year: 2003

Authors: Dmitriy B. Silin, Guodong Jin, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Physics-based Reconstruction of Sedimentary Rocks

Year: 2003

Authors: Guodong Jin, Tadeusz W. Patzek, Dmitriy B. Silin

Relative Permeabilities in Three-Phase Co-current Displacements with Gravity

Year: 2003

Authors: Ruben Juanes, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Three-Phase Hydraulic Conductance in Angular Capillaries

Year: 2003

Authors: Ahmed Al-Futaisi, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Extension of the Hoshen-Kopelman Algorithm to a Non-lattice Environment

Year: 2003

Authors: Ahmed Al-Futaisi, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Cluster Labeling
Hoshen–Kopelman Algorithm
Non-lattice
Disordered Networks
Continuum Systems

Impact of Wettability on Two-Phase Flow Characteristics of Sedimentary Rocks: A Quasi-Static Model

Year: 2003

Authors: Ahmed Al-Futaisi, Tadeusz W. Patzek

The Mathematical Model of Non-Equilibrium Effects in Water-Oil Displacement

Year: 2003

Authors: G. I. Barenblatt, Dmitriy B. Silin, Tadeusz W. Patzek

On Vertical Diffusion of Gases in a Horizontal Reservoir

Year: 2003

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek, Dmitriy B. Silin, S. M. Benson, G. I. Barenblatt

Diffusion
Ideal Gas
Reservoir
Approximate Solution
Connate Water
Retardation
Self-similar Solution

Lost Hills Field Trial - Incorporating New Technology for Reservoir Management

Year: 2002

Authors: J. L. Brink, Tadeusz W. Patzek, Dmitriy B. Silin, E. J. Fielding

Three-phase displacement theory: An improved description of relative permeabilities

Year: 2002

Authors: Ruben Juanes, Tadeusz W. Patzek

The Mathematical Model of Non-Equilibrium Effects in Water-Oil Displacement

Year: 2002

Authors: G. I. Barenblatt, Tadeusz W. Patzek, Dmitriy B. Silin

Oil Deposits in Diatomites: A New Challenge for Subterranean Mechanics

Year: 2002

Authors: G. I. Barenblatt, Tadeusz W. Patzek, V. M. Prostokishin, Dmitriy B. Silin

Multiple-Scale Stabilized Finite Elements for the Simulation of Tracer Injections and Waterflood

Year: 2002

Authors: Ruben Juanes, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Three-Phase Hydraulic Conductance in Angular Capillaries

Year: 2002

Authors: Ahmed Al-Futaisi, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Use of Satellite Radar Images in Surveillance and Control of a Two Giant Oilfields in California

Year: 2001

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek, Dmitriy B. Silin, Eric Fielding

Impact of Rock Micro- and Macrostructure on the Behavior of Two-phase Flow

Year: 2001

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek, Dmitriy B. Silin, G. I. Barenblatt

Support-Operators Method in the Identification of Permeability Tensor Orientation

Year: 2001

Authors: Dmitriy B. Silin, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Control Model of Water Injection into a Layered Formation

Year: 2001

Authors: Dmitriy B. Silin, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Verification of a Complete Pore Network Model of Drainage and Imbibition

Year: 2001

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Shape Factor and Hydraulic Conductance in Noncircular Capillaries: II. Two-Phase Creeping Flow

Year: 2001

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek, J. G. Kristensen

Corner Flow
Capillarity
Shape Factor
Pore Network
Two-phase Phase Flow
Correlation

Shape Factor and Hydraulic Conductance in Noncircular Capillaries: I. One-Phase Creeping Flow

Year: 2001

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek, Dmitriy B. Silin

Noncircular Capillary
Shape Factor
Pore Network
Hydraulic Conductance
One-phase Flow
Conformal Mapping

Water Injection into a Low-Permeability Rock. 2. Optimal Control

Year: 2001

Authors: Dmitriy B. Silin, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Waterflood
Hydrofracture
Optimal Injection
Controller
Quadratic Optimization

Water Injection into a Low-Permeability Rock. 1. Hydrofracture Growth (2001)

Year: 2001

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek, Dmitriy B. Silin

Optimal Control
Hydrofracture Growth
Waterflood
Transient Flow
Generalized Carter
Model
Self-similar Solution

Use of InSAR in Surveillance and Control of a Large Field Project

Year: 2000

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek, Dmitriy B. Silin

Using Crosshole Electromagnetics (EM) for Reservoir Characterization and Waterflood Monitoring

Year: 2000

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek, Michael Wilt, G. M. Hoversten

Support-Operators Method in the Identification of Permeability Tensor Orientation (2000)

Year: 2000

Authors: Dmitriy B. Silin, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Verification of a Complete Pore Network Simulator of Drainage and Imbibition (2000)

Year: 2000

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Control of Water Injection into a Layered Formation (2000)

Year: 2000

Authors: Dmitriy B. Silin, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Waterflood Surveillance and Supervisory Control

Year: 2000

Authors: Asoke De, Dmitriy B. Silin, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Lossy Transmission Line Model of Hydrofractured Well Dynamics (2000)

Year: 2000

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek, Asoke De

Hydrofracture Extension
Hydrofracture Monitoring
Hydraulic Impedance Analysis
Electrical Transmission Line Model
Stoneley Wave Propagation

Passive characterization of hydrofracture properties using signals from hydraulic pumps

Year: 2000

Authors: James W. Rector III, Qicheng Dong, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Crosshole Seismic
Hydrofracture
Conical Wave

Lossy Transmission Line Model of Hydrofractured Well Dynamics (1998)

Year: 1998

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek, Asoke De

Control of Fluid Injection into a Low-Permeability Rock. Hydrofracture Growth

Year: 1998

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek, Dmitriy B. Silin

Control of Fluid Injection into a Low-Permeability Rock. 1. Hydrofracture Growth

Year: 1998

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek, Dmitriy B. Silin

Sequential Semi-Implicit Algorithm for Computing Discontinuous Flows in Porous Media

Year: 1998

Authors: M. A. Vegas-Landeau, R. Propp, P. Colella, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Statistical Characterization of Metal-Contaminated Fills

Year: 1997

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek, Patrick Sullivan

A Comparison of Mapping Schemes for Reservoir Characterization

Year: 1997

Authors: Eric Zwahlen, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Alternating Conditional Expectation
ACE
Geostatistics
Variable
Transform

Linear Transient Flow Solution for Primary Oil Recovery with Infill and Conversion to Water Injection

Year: 1997

Authors: Eric Zwahlen, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Design of Smart Wellhead Controllers for Optimal Fluid Injection Policy and Producibility in Petroleum Reservoirs: A Neural Network-Model Predictive Approach

Year: 1997

Authors: Masoud Nikravesh, Masoud Soroush, M. R. Johnston, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Design of Smart Wellhead Controllers for Optimal Fluid Injection Policy and Producibility in Petroleum Reservoirs: Neuro-Geometric Approach

Year: 1997

Authors: Masoud Nikravesh, Masoud Soroush, M. R. Johnston, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Onset of Mobilization and the Fraction of Trapped Foam in Porous Media

Year: 1997

Authors: David Cohen, Tadeusz W. Patzek, Clayton J. Radke

Foams
Mobilization
Network Simulation
Pressure Gradient
Trapping
Diffusion

Linear Transient Flow Solution for Primary Oil Recovery with Infill and Conversion to Water Injection (1997a)

Year: 1997

Authors: Eric D. Zwahlen, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Evaluation of Rock/Fracture Interactions during Steam Injection Through Vertical Hydraulic Fractures (1997)

Year: 1997

Authors: A. R. Kovscek, R. M. Johnston, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Mechanistic Foam Flow Simulation in Heterogeneous and Multidimensional Media

Year: 1997

Authors: Anthony R. Kovscek, Tadeusz W. Patzek, Clayton J. Radke

Interpretation of Hydrofracture Geometry Using Temperature Transients II: Asymmetric Hydrofractures

Year: 1996

Authors: A. R. Kovscek, M. Johnston, Tadeusz W. Patzek

A Sequential Explicit-Implicit Algorithm for Computing Discontinuous Flows in Porous Media

Year: 1996

Authors: M. A. Vegas-Landeau, R. Propp, P. Colella, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Dividing Oil Fields into Regions with Similar Characteristic Behavior Using Neural Network and Fuzzy Logic Approaches

Year: 1996

Authors: Masoud Nikravesh, A. R. Kovscek, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Engineering Computing
Fuzzy Logic
Neural Nets
Nonlinear Systems
Oil Technology
Pattern Recognition
Surveillance

CT Scan and Neural Network Technology for Construction of Detailed Distribution of Residual Oil Saturation During Waterflooding

Year: 1996

Authors: A. Garg, A. R. Kovscek, M. Nikravesh, L. M. Castanier, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Neural Networks for Field-Wise Waterflood Management in Low Permeability, Fractured Oil Reservoirs

Year: 1996

Authors: M. Nikravesh, A. R. Kovscek, A. S. Murer, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Experimental and Numerical Studies of One-Dimensional Imbibition in Berea Sandstone

Year: 1996

Authors: Amitabh Garg, Eric Zwahlen, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Analysis of Hydrofracture Geometry and Matrix/Fracture Interactions during Steam Injection

Year: 1996

Authors: A. R. Kovscek, R. M. Johnston, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Prediction of Formation Damage During Fluid Injection in to Fractured Low Permeability Reservoirs Via Neural Networks

Year: 1996

Authors: M. Nikravesh, A. R. Kovscek, R. M. Johnston, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Field Applications of Foam for Mobility Improvement and Profile Control

Year: 1996

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek

Passive Imaging of Hydrofractures in the South Belridge Diatomite (1996)

Year: 1996

Authors: D.C. Ilderton, Tadeusz W. Patzek, J. W. Rector, H. J. Vinegar

Two-Dimensional Network Simulation of Diffusion Driven Coarsening of Foam Inside a Porous Medium

Year: 1996

Authors: David Cohen, Tadeusz W. Patzek, Clayton J. Radke

Foams
Porous Media
Diffusion
Network Simulation

Interpretation of Hydrofracture Geometry Using Temperature Transients I: Model Formulation and Verification

Year: 1996

Authors: A. R. Kovecek, R. M. Johnston, Tadeusz W. Patzek

A Physicochemical Explanation for Flow Electrification in Low Conductivity Liquids in Contact with a Corroding Wall

Year: 1996

Authors: Gerard G. Touchard, Tadeusz W. Patzek, Clayton J. Radke

Electric Field Effects
Electrohydrodynamics
Electrostatics
Flow
Laminar Flow
Pipe Flow
Space Charge

Evaluation of Rock/Fracture Interactions During Steam Injection Through Vertical Hydrofractures (1995)

Year: 1995

Authors: A. R. Kovscek, Tadeusz W. Patzek, M. Johnston

Nonlinear Oscillations of Two-Dimensional Rotating Drops

Year: 1995

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek, O. A. Basaran, R. E. Benner, L. E. Scriven

A Mechanistic Population Balance Model For Transient and Steady-State Foam Flow in Boise Sandstone

Year: 1995

Authors: A. R. Kovscek, Tad W. Patzek, Clayton J. Radke

Nonlinear Oscillations and Breakup of Conducting Inviscid Drops in Externally Applied Electric Field

Year: 1995

Authors: O. A. Basaran, Tadeusz W. Patzek, Robert E. Benner Jr, L. E. Scriven

Passive Imaging of Hydrofractures in the South Belridge Diatomite (1994)

Year: 1994

Authors: D. Iiderton, Tadeusz W. Patzek, J. W. Rector, H. J. Vinegar

A Physicochemical Explanation for Flow Electrification in Low Conductivity Liquids

Year: 1994

Authors: Gerard G. Touchard, Tad W. Patzek, Clayton J. Radke

Dielectric Liquids
Electrochemistry
Laminar Flow
Pipe Flow
Space Charge
Static Electrification

Mechanistic Prediction of Foam Displacement in Multidimensions: A Population Balance Approach

Year: 1994

Authors: A. R. Kovscek, Tadeusz W. Patzek, C. J. Radke

Simulation of Foam Displacement in Porous Media

Year: 1993

Authors: A. R. Kovscek, Tadeusz W. Patzek, C. J. Radke

Petroleum
Porous Materials
Fluid Flow
Foams
Sandstones
Enhanced Recovery
Mobility
Control
Simulation
Mathematical Models
Experimental Data
Drilling And Production

Microseismic Imaging of Hydrofractures With the Aid of Conical Waves

Year: 1993

Authors: David C. Ilderton, Tadeusz W. Patzek, James W. Rector, Harold J. Vinegar

Cleaning up Spilled Gasoline with Steam: Compositional Simulations

Year: 1993

Authors: A. E. Adenekan, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Modeling of Multiphase Transport of Multicomponent Organic Contaminants and Heat in the Subsurface: Numerical Model Formulation

Year: 1993

Authors: A. E. Adenekan, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Self-Similar Collapse of Stationary Bulk Foams

Year: 1993

Authors: Tad W. Patzek

Removing Petroleum Hydrocarbons From Soil and Groundwater: Numerical Simulation

Year: 1992

Authors: A. E. Adenekan, Tadeusz W. Patzek

Environmental Protection
Water Pollution
Aquifers
Aquifer System
Petroleum Product
Hydrocarbon
Pollution Control
Enhanced Recovery
Steam Injection
Numerical Simulation
Modeling
Oil Spill

Surveillance of South Belridge Diatomite

Year: 1992

Authors: Tad W. Patzek

Nonlinear Oscillations of Inviscid Free Drops

Year: 1991

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek, R. E. Benner, O. A. Basaran, L. E. Scriven

Kern River Steam Foam Pilots (1990)

Year: 1990

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek, M. T. Koinis

Simulation of the Bishop Steam Foam Pilot

Year: 1989

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek, N. A. Myhill

Kern River Steam Foam Pilots (1988)

Year: 1988

Authors: Tadeusz W. Patzek, M. T. Koinis

Modeling of Foam Flow in Porous Media by the Population Balance Method

Year: 1988

Authors: Tad W. Patzek

Development of a Mechanistic Foam Simulator: The Population Balance and Generation by Snap-Off

Year: 1988

Authors: A. H. Falls, G. J. Hirasaki, T. W Patzek, D. A. Gauglitz, D. D. Miller, T. Ratulowski

Capillary Forces Exerted by Liquid Drops Caught Between Cylinders - A 3-D Meniscus Problem with Free Contact Lines

Year: 1982

Authors: T. E. Patzek, L. E. Scriven

Cylindrical Bodies
Drops (Liquids)
Interfacial Tension
Liquid-Solid Interfaces
Liquid-Vapor Interfaces
Menisci
Drop Size
Eigenvalues
Finite Element Method
Galerkin Method
Laplace Equation
Surface Energy

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