Associate Professor
E-mail: karami@ou.edu
Office: SEC 1112
Research interests: Production engineering, Multiphase flow, Artificial lift, Flow assurance
BSc, Petroleum Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2009
MSc, Petroleum Engineering, The University of Tulsa, OK, 2011
PhD, Petroleum Engineering, The University of Tulsa, OK, 2015
Hamidreza Karami is an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma, where he teaches production engineering and related courses. Previously, Dr. Karami worked as a research associate in Tulsa University Fluid Flow Projects (TUFFP) and Tulsa University Horizontal Well Artificial Lift Projects (TUHWALP) for 2.5 years. He received his BSc degree in Petroleum Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran in July 2009. He joined The University of Tulsa and TU's Paraffin Deposition Projects (TUPDP) in fall 2009, and completed his MSc degree, investigating paraffin deposition characteristics under turbulent flow. He then joined TUFFP in fall 2011 to pursue his PhD degree, and completed his dissertation in May 2015, with the title “low liquid loading three-phase flow and effects of MEG on flow behavior”. He then started as a research associate, where he was involved in several projects, applying his knowledge on fluid dynamics and multiphase flow modeling. Multiphase flow through pipelines, wellbore, and restrictions, gas lift, foam lifting, plunger lift, and flow assurance issues such as wax and asphaltene are some of his areas of expertise.
Karami, H., Pereyra, E., Torres, C., Sarica, C.: “Droplet Entrainment Analysis of Three-Phase Low Liquid Loading Flow”. International Journal of Multiphase Flow, vol. 89, 2017, pp. 45-56.
Karami, H., Pereyra, E., Sarica, C.: “Effects of Mono-Ethylene Glycol on Three-Phase Low Liquid Loading Flow Characteristics in Near-Horizontal Pipelines”. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, vol. 149, 2017, pp. 834-843.
Karami, H., Torres, C., Pereyra, E., Sarica, C.: “Analysis of Roll Wave Characteristics under Low Liquid Loading Two-phase Flow Conditions”. AIChE Journal, vol. 63(7), 2017, pp. 3177-3186.
Karami, H., Torres, C., Pereyra, E., Sarica, C.: “Modeling Study of Three-Phase Low Liquid Loading Flow in Near-Horizontal Pipes”. International Journal of Multiphase Flow, vol. 91, 2017, pp. 76-88.
Aydin, T.B., Torres, C.F., Karami, H., Pereyra, E., Sarica, C. “On the characteristics of the roll waves in gas-liquid stratified-wavy flow: A two-dimensional perspective”, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science vol. 65, 2015, pp. 90-102.
Barreto, C.V., Pimenta, A., Karami, H., Pereyra, E., Sarica, C. “Experimental Investigation of Severe Slugging Control by Surfactant Injection”. Presented at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), May 2017, Houston, TX.
