Research Interests over the Years
Laboratory-Scale Porous Media and Materials
Development of Reactive Force Fields for Molecular Dynamics Simulations using Density-Functional Theory
Molecular Dynamics, Monte Carlo, and Pore-Network Simulation of Adsorption, Flow and Transport
Fluid Flow and Transport in Deformable Porous Media
Flow and Transport in Nanostructured Materials
Flow and Adsorption in Silicon-Carbide and Carbon Nanotubes
Fabrication and Characterization of High-Porosity Porous Materials
Flow and Transport in Large-Scale Porous Media
Characterization and Modeling, Including Multipoint Geostatistical Simulation and Reconstruction Methods
Modeling, Upscaling and Simulation of Fluid Flow and Transport as Applied Carbon Dioxide Sequestration
Salt Transport and Precipitation in Porous Media
Speeding up Computations using Wavelet and Curvelet Transformations
Application of Deep Learning to Complex Systems
Development of machine-learning approaches for complex phenomena in complex media
Books
Flow and Transport in Porous Media and Fractured Rock, 2nd edition (Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2011).
Heterogeneous Materials, Volume I: Linear Transport and Optical Properties (Springer, New York, 2003).
Heterogeneous Materials, Volume II: Nonlinear and Breakdown Properties and Atomistic Modeling (Springer, New York, 2003).
Applications of Percolation Theory; 2nd edition (Springer, New York, 2023).
Selected Recent Papers
Laboratory-Scale Porous Media and Materials: Experimental
E. Ilin, Y. Li, E.V. Colla, K.T. Christensen, M. Sahimi, M. Marchevsky, S.M. Frailey, and A. Bezryadin, Nanoscale Detection of Metastable States in Porous and Granular Media, Journal of Applied Physics 127, 024901 (2020).
S.M.S. Shokri-Kuehni, M. Bergstad, M. Sahimi, C. Webb, and M. Sahimi, Iodine k-Edge Dual Energy Imaging Reveals the Influence of Particle Size Distribution on Solute Transport in Drying Porous Media, Nature Scientific Reports 8, 10731 (2018).
P. Manshour, M. Anvari, N. Reinke, M. Sahimi, and M.R. Rahimi Tabar, Interoccurrence Time Statistics in Fully-Developed Turbulence, Nature Scientific Reports 6, paper 27452 (2016).
X. Yan, T. T. Tsotsis, and M. Sahimi, Fabrication of High-Surface Area Nanoporous SiOC Materials Using Pre-ceramic Polymer Blends and a Sacrificial Template, Microporous and Meso-porous Materials 210, 77 (2015).
Laboratory-Scale Porous Media and Materials: Modeling and Simulation
M.A. Hosseini, S. Kamrava, M. Sahimi, and P. Tahmasebi, Computer simulation of the effect of wettability on two-phase flow through granular porous materials, Chemical Engineering Science 268, 118446 (2023).
J. Im, F.P.J. de Barros, S. Masri, M. Sahimi, and R.M. Ziff, Data-Driven Discovery of the Governing Equations for Transport in Heterogeneous Media by Symbolic Regression and Stochastic Optimization, Physical Review E 107, L013301 (2023).
S. An, M. Sahimi, and V. Joekar Niasar, Upscaling Hydrodynamic Dispersion in non-Newtonian Fluid Flow through Porous Media, Water Resources Research 58, e2022WR032238 (2022).
S. An, M. Sahimi, T. Shende, M. Babaei, and V. Joekar-Niasar, Enhanced Thermal Fingering in a Shear-Thinning Fluid Flow Through Porous Media: Dynamic Pore Network Modelling, Physics of Fluids 34, 023105 (2022).
M. Sahimi, Universal Frequency-Dependent Permeability of Heterogeneous Porous Media: Effective-Medium Approximation and Critical-Path Analysis, Transport in Porous Media 144, 759-773 (2022).
Abdullah Aljasmi and M. Sahimi, Speeding-up Image-Based Simulation of Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media with Lattice-Boltzmann Method using Three-Dimensional Curvelet Transforms, Physics of Fluids 33, 113313 (2021).
S. Richesson and M. Sahimi, Flow and Transport Properties of Deforming Porous Media. I. Permeability, Transport in Porous Media 138, 577-609 (2021).
S. Richesson and M. Sahimi, Flow and Transport Properties of Deforming Porous Media. II. Electrical Conductivity, Transport in Porous Media 138, 611–636 (2021).
A. Aljasmi and M. Sahimi, Speeding–up Simulation of Multiphase Flow in Digital Images of Heterogeneous Porous Media by Curvelet Transformation, Transport in Porous Media 137, 215-232 (2021).
Abdullah Aljasmi and M. Sahimi, Fast Simulation of Two-Phase Flow in Three-Dimensional Digital Images of Heterogeneous Porous Media Using Multiresolution Curvelet Transformation, Advances in Water Resources 150, 103882 (2021).
H. Didari, H. Aghdasinia, M. Salami Hosseini, F. Ebrahimi, and M. Sahimi, Identifying the Optimal Path and Computing the Threshold Pressure for Flow of Bingham Fluids Through Heterogeneous Porous Media, Transport in Porous Media 135, 779–798 (2020).
Flow and Transport in Nanostructured Materials
N. Torabi, F. Ebrahimi, G.R. Maktabdaran, and M. Sahimi, Friction Versus Flow Enhancement in Nanotube Structures with Heterojunctions, Journal of Molecular Liquids 365, 120188 (2022).
J. Cobena-Reyes and M. Sahimi, Universal Intrinsic Dynamics and Freezing of Water in Small Nanotubes, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 125, 946-956 (2021).
Kh. Azizi, S.M. Vaez Allaei, A. Fathizadeh, A. Sadeghi, and M. Sahimi, Graphyne-3: A Highly Efficient Candidate for Separation of Small Gas Molecules from Gaseous Mixtures, Nature Scientific Reports 11, 16325 (2021).
F. Baharvand, F. Ebrahimi, E. Nedaaee Oskoee, H. Maleki, and M. Sahimi, Wetting and Drying Transitions of Water Nano-droplets on Suspended Graphene Bilayers, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 124, 28152-28158 (2020).
J. Cobena-Reyes and M. Sahimi, Rheology of Water in Small Nanotubes, Physical Review E 102, 023106 (2020).
F. Ebrahimi, G.R. Maktabdaran, and M. Sahimi, Formation of a Stable Water Bridge between Two Disjoint Nanotubes with Single-File Chains of Water, Journal of Physical Chemistry B 124, 8340–8346 (2020)
M. Sahimi and F. Ebrahimi, Efficient Transport Between Disjoint Nanochannels by Water Bridge, Physical Review Letters 122, 214506 (2019).
M. Rahromostaqim and M. Sahimi, Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Hydration and Swelling of Mixed-Layer Clays in the Presence of Carbon Dioxide, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 123, 4243-4255 (2019).
N. Piroozan, S. Naserifar, and M. Sahimi, Sliding Friction Between Two Silicon-Carbide Surfaces, Journal of Applied Physics 125, 124301 (2019).
J. Cobena-Reyes, R.K. Kalia, and M. Sahimi, Complex Behavior of Ordered and Icelike Water in Carbon Nanotubes Near its Bulk Boiling Point, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 9, 4746-4752(2018).
M. Rahromostaqim and M. Sahimi, Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Hydration and Swelling of Mixed-Layer Clays, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 122, 14631-14639 (2018).
F. Ebrahimi, F. Ramazani, and M. Sahimi, Nano-junction Effects on Water Flow in Carbon Nanotubes, Nature Scientific Reports 8, 7752 (2018).
Flow and Transport in Large-Scale Porous Media
A.G. Hunt, M. Sahimi, B.A. Faybishenko, M. Egli, B. Ghanbarian, and F. Yu, Interpreting Water Demands of Forests and Grasslands within a New Budyko Formulation of Evapotranspiration Using Percolation Theory, Science of the Total Environment 877, 162905 (2023).
B. Ghanbarian, M. Esmaeilpour, R.M. Ziff, and M. Sahimi, Effect of Pore-Scale Heterogeneity on Scale-Dependent Permeability: Pore-Network Simulation and Finite-Size Scaling Analysis, Water Resources Research 57, e2021WR030664 (2021).
H. Hamzehpour, S. Pazoki, M. Khazaei, and M. Sahimi, Dependence of Percolation and Flow properties of Fracture Networks on the Morphology, Physica A 584, 125361 (2021).
B.A. Yokeley, B. Ghanbarian, and M. Sahimi, Rock Typing Based On Wetting-Phase Relative Permeability Data And Critical Pore Sizes, Society of Petroleum Engineers Journal 26, 3893- 3907 (2021).
A. Aljasmi and M. Sahimi, Efficient Image-Based Simulation of Flow and Transport in Heterogeneous Porous Media: Application of Curvelet Transforms, Geophysical Research Letters 47, e2019GL085671 (2020).
A. Rezapour, A. Ortega, and M. Sahimi, Upscaling of Geological Models of Oil Reservoirs with Unstructured Grids Using Lifting-Based Graph Wavelet Transforms, Transport in Porous Media 127, 661-684 (2019).
Application of Machine-Learning Algorithms to Complex Phenomena
S. Kamrava, J. Im, F.P.J. de Barros, and M. Sahimi, Estimating Dispersion Coefficient in Flow through Heterogeneous Porous Media by a Deep Convolutional Neural Network, Geophysical Research Letters 48 (18), e2021GL094443 (2021).
S. Kamrava, P. Tahmasebi, and M. Sahimi, Simulating Fluid Flow in Complex Porous Materials: Integrating the Governing Equations with Deep-Layered Machines, Nature npj Computational Materials 7, 127 (2021).
S. Kamrava, P. Tahmasebi, and M. Sahimi, Physics- and Image–Based Prediction of Fluid Flow and Transport in Complex Porous Membranes and Materials by Deep Learning, Journal of Membrane Science 622, 119050 (2021).
S. Kamrava, P. Tahmasebi, and M. Sahimi, Linking Morphology of Porous Media to their Macroscopic Permeability by Deep Learning, Transport in Porous Media 131, 427-448 (2020).
S. Kamrava, M. Sahimi, and P. Tahmasebi, Quantifying Accuracy of Stochastic Methods of Reconstructing Complex Materials by Deep Learning, Physical Review E 101, 043301 (2020).
S. Kamrava, P. Tahmasebi, and M. Sahimi, Enhancing Images of Shale Formations by a Hybrid Stochastic and Deep Learning Algorithm, Neural Networks 118, 310-320 (2019).
Dynamics of Complex Phenomena Involving Biological Molecules
S. Zheng, A. Sahimi, K.S. Shing, and M. Sahimi, Molecular Dynamics Study of Structure, Folding and Aggregation of Poly-Proline-Arginine (Poly-PR) and Poly–Glycine-Arginine (Poly-GR) Proteins, Biophysical Journal 120, 64–72 (2021).
S. Zheng, L. Javidpour, M. Sahimi, K.S. Shing, and A. Nakano, sDMD: An Open Source Program for Discontinuous Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Protein Folding and Aggregation, Computer Physics Communications 247, 106873 (2020).
Y. Azimzade, A.A. Saberi, and M. Sahimi, Regulation of Migration of Chemotactic Tumor Cells by the Spatial Distribution of the Collagen Fibers’ Orientation, Physical Review E 99, 062414 (2019).
S. Zheng, A. Sahimi, K.S. Shing, and M. Sahimi, Molecular Dynamics Study of Structure, Folding and Aggregation of Poly-Glycine-Alanine (Poly-GA), Journal of Chemical Physics 150, 144307 (2019).