Murtada Elhaj

Murtada imageI am a Ph.D. candidate in Process Engineering under the supervision of prof. Greg F. Naterer and Dr. Syed Imtiaz. My current research focus is on Entropy Generation Minimization (EGM) for Enhancing the recovery factor in offshore reservoirs. Throughout this research, different areas will be covered, which include fluid flow in both porous media and pipelines, thermodynamics, reservoir performance, and well testing.

Research interests

Fluid flow in porous media; reservoir engineering; and reservoir modeling and simulation.

Publications

  1. Miah, M. I., Elhaj, M. A., Ahmed, S., & Hossain, M. E. (2018). Modeling of temperature distribution and oil displacement during thermal recovery in porous media: A critical review. Fuel, 226, 423-440.
  2. Elhaj, M. A., Barri, A., Hashan, M., & Hossain, M. E. (2018, August). State of the Art on Porosity and Permeability Hysteresis: Useful Techniques for Hydrocarbon Recovery. In SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition. Society of Petroleum Engineers.
  3. Elhaj, M., Hashan, M., & Hossain, M. E. (2018, June). A Critical Review and Future Trend on Relative Permeability Hysteresis. In SPE Trinidad and Tobago Section Energy Resources Conference. Society of Petroleum Engineers.
  4. Hashan, M., Zaman, T. U., Jahan, L. N., Elhaj, M., Imtiaz, S., & Hossain, M. E. (2018, June). Application of Memory Formalism and Fractional Derivative in Reservoir Simulation. In SPE Trinidad and Tobago Section Energy Resources Conference. Society of Petroleum Engineers.
  5. Hashan, M., Jahan, L. N., Zaman, T. U., Elhaj, M., Imtiaz, S., & Hossain, M. E. (2018, June). Modelling of Fluid Flow in a Petroleum Reservoir Using an Engineering Approach. In SPE Trinidad and Tobago Section Energy Resources Conference. Society of Petroleum Engineers.
  6. Elhaj, M. A., Anifowose, F., Abdulraheem, A., & Hossain, M. E. (2017). Prediction of Choke Size for Single Gas Flow using Artificial Intelligence Techniques. Journal of Nature Science and Sustainable Technology, 11(2), 99-116.

Contact info

Email: aelhaj@mun.ca

Phone number: 1 (709) 864 8960

Office: EN- 2107

Others: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=T3zseDIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Murtada_Elhaj