Farrokh Sheibani
Research Scientist
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Austin
Biography
Farrokh joined ERL as a Postdoctoral Associate in 2014 after working as geomechanic engineer in Itasca Houston and completing his PhD, and he is now a Research Scientist. He received his PhD in civil engineering, with a minor in petroleum engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2013. His PhD focused on the application of 3D boundary element modeling on natural and hydraulic fracture development. Farrokh's experience and interests include natural fracture development and behavior, hydraulic fracturing, fracture mechanics and propagation modeling and constitutive modeling of fractured rocks. He also does numerical geomechanical modeling using the discrete element, finite element, boundary element and displacement discontinuity methods. Farrokh is currently working on the modeling of hydraulic fracture propagation in naturally fractured reservoirs, fault reactivation and HF induced seismicity.
Research Interest
Hydraulic Fracturing, Geo-mechanics, Homogenization, Natural Fractures Network