List of Publications


CP

"Optimum Job Design of Chemical Treatments in Remedial Sand Control Operations" presented at the 2019 SPE/ICoTA European Well Intervention Conference, Aberdeen, Scotland, 13 -14 November 2019.

B. N. Rao, G. Rajaraman, A. M. Amin, and S. K. Prabhakar
CP

"Remote Modeling and Monitoring of Coiled Tubing Operations in Real Time" SPE 194277 presented at the 2019 SPE/ICoTA Well Intervention Conference and Exhibition, The Woodlands, Texas, USA, 26-27 March 2019.

P. Brown, B. Gunby, C. Torres, and B. N. Rao
CP

"An Advanced Placement Approach for Chemical Sand and Fines Control Using Zeta Potential Altering Chemistry" presented at the 2014 Offshore Technology Conference Asia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 25 - 28 March 2014.

P. Singh, K. Smith and B. N. Rao
CP

"On the Hydraulics of Reverse Flow Path Gravel Pack Operations", SPE 151803, presented at SPE International Symposium and Exhibition on Formation Damage Control, Lafayette, Louisiana, February 15 - 17, 2012.

B. N. Rao, A. M. Amin, R. V. Petegem, and J. Broussard
CP

"A Flow Simulator for the Design of Extreme Length Gravel Packs Utilizing Alternate Path Technology", SPE 128068, presented at SPE International Symposium and Exhibition on Formation Damage Control, Lafayette, Louisiana, February 10 - 12, 2010.

B. N. Rao and A. M. Amin
HB

Standrad Handbook of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, Second Edition, Edited by W.C. Lyons and G.S. Plisga, Gulf Professional Publishing, October 2004.

B. N. Rao (contributing author)
CP

"Friction Factors for Turbulent Flow of Non-Newtonian Fluids in Coiled Tubing", SPE 74847, presented at the SPE/ICoTA Coiled Tubing Conference and Exhibition, Houston, April 9-10, 2002.

B. N. Rao
TN

"Fluid Drag on Tool", Technical Note, CTES, L.C. (presently NOV CTES), November 1999.

B. N. Rao
TN

"Coiled Tubing Hydraulics Modeling", Technical Note, CTES, L.C. (presently NOV CTES), May 1999.

B. N. Rao
TN

"Fill Removal Modeling", Technical Note, CTES, L.C. (presently NOV CTES), May 1999.

B. N. Rao
TN

"Designing Coiled Tubing Velocity Strings", Technical Note, CTES, L.C. (presently NOV CTES), April 1999.

B. N. Rao
TN

"Multiphase Flow Models - Range of Applicability", Technical Note, CTES, L.C. (presently NOV CTES), May 1998.

B. N. Rao
TR

Fracturing Fluid Characterization Facility (FFCF) Annual Report, Gas Research Institute (GRI)/U. S. Department of Energy (DOE), May 1997.

B. N. Rao (contributing author)
CP

"Borate-Crosslinked Fluid Rheology Under Various pH, Temperature, and Shear History Conditions", SPE 37487, presented at the SPE Productions Operations Symposium, Oklahoma City, 751-764, March 9-11, 1997.

S. N. Shah, D. L. Lord, and B. N. Rao
CP

"Rheological Characterization of Hydraulic Fracturing Fluids Using a Large, High-Pressure Slot Flow Apparatus", presented at the 68th Annual Society of Rheology Meeting, Galveston Texas February 16-20, 1997.

N. Goel, B. N. Rao, R. Subramanian, S. N. Shah, and D. L. Lord
CP

"Exact Solution of Three-Dimensional Orientation Structure in a Geometrically Complex Mold Cavity", Computer Aided Design in Composite Material Technology V, Computational Mechanics Publications, August 1996.

B. N. Rao, K. H. Seah, and M. C. Altan
CP

"Three-Dimensional Orientation Structure in a Radially Diverging Suspension Flow Between Parallel Plates", Developments and Applications of Non-Newtonian Flows, ASME, FED-Vol.231/MD-Vol.66, 121-127, 1995.

B. N. Rao and M. C. Altan
CP

"Property Predictions for a Short-Fiber Reinforced, Injection Molded, Center-Gated Disk", Simulation of Materials Processing: Theory, Methods and Applications: NUMIFORM 95, Balkema Publishers, 363-368, 1995.

N. Yan, B. N. Rao, D. Baldwin, and M. C. Altan
JP

"Closed-Form Solution for the Orientation Field in a Center-Gated Disk", Journal of Rheology, 39(3), 581-599, 1995.

M. C. Altan and B. N. Rao
JP

"Rheological Properties of Non-Brownian Spheroidal Particle Suspension", Journal of Rheology, 38(5), 1335-1351, 1994.

B. N. Rao, L. Tang, and M. C. Altan
CP

"Flow-Induced Orientation in a Center-Gated Disk", Computer Aided Design in Composite Material Technology IV,Computational Mechanics Publications, 287-294, 1994.

B. N. Rao and M. C. Altan
CP

"Non-Isothermal Flow of Dilute Fiber Suspensions", Advances in Structures and Heterogenous Continua, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Advances in Structured and Heterogeneous Continua, Moscow, Russia, 513-526, 1993.

B. N. Rao, L. Tang, M. C. Altan, and F. C. Lai
CP

"Numerical analysis of Channel Flows Containing Suspended Rigid Particles", Recent Advances in Non-Newtonian Flows, ASME, AMD-Vol.153/PED-Vol. 141, 93-101, 1992.

M. C. Altan and B. N. Rao
CP

"Rheological Properties of Fiber Suspensions: A Statistical Approach Using Discrete Fibers", First International Conference on Transport Phenomena in Processing, Technomic, Lancaster, 831-841, 1992.

S. Akbar, B. N. Rao, and M. C. Altan
JP

"A Comparative Study on the Solution Techniques for Fiber Orientation in Two-Dimensional Converging and Diverging Flows", Journal of Thermoplastic Composite Materials, 4(4), 311-348, 1991.

B. N. Rao, S. Akbar, and M. C. Altan
CP

"Two-Dimensional Flows", Recent Developments in Non-Newtonian Flows and Industrial Applications, ASME, FED-Vol. 124, 9-17, 1991.