General

Dr. Nam Tran carries out research and conducts undergraduate/ postgraduate courses in Reservoir Engineering. His work in developing naturally fractured petroleum and geothermal reservoirs is highly regarded both in Australia and on international level, as evidenced by invitations to chair at international scientific committee at conferences; to Scientific Advisory Board for Linx Research’s Network of Energy; and to Editorial Boards of seven international journals (including Elsevier's Computers & Geosciences and Taylor & Francis's Petroleum Science and Technology). His research activity has resulted in an increased demand for participation in review panels for a wide range of scientific journals, such as SPE Journals, Advances in Water Resources, Petroleum Journals online, Petroleum Science and Engineering and Journal of Hydrology. He has industrial collaborative projects with many institutions (CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, CSIRO Petroleum Resources, FrOG Tech, Sigma1 Geomechanics, Golders Associates, University of Tokyo, University of Tulsa, University of Oklahoma) and companies (Petrovietnam, ONGC, Scopenergy Ltd., Santos Ltd., Magellan Petroleum and Sydney Gas P/L). Dr. Nam Tran has been awarded a major Australian Research Council Discovery grant and 3 UNSW research grants.

Qualifications

• B.E. (Petroleum Engineering, Honours, First class) - University of New South Wales, Australia
• PhD (Petroleum Engineering) – University of New South Wales, Australia

• Member of Society of Petroleum Engineers
• Member of Engineering Australia
• Editorial Board of Computers & Geosciences (Elsevier)
• Editorial Board of Petroleum Science and Technology (Taylor & Francis)
• Editorial board of Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
• Editorial board of Journal of International Journal of Soft Computing
• Editorial board of e -journals of petrophysics
• Editorial board of e -journals of production
• Editorial board of e-journals of reservoir engineering

• Dr. Nam Tran is an active researcher in various aspects of naturally fractured reservoirs (NFR - for oil, gas, coal bed methane and geothermal resources). His research interests range from reservoir characterization to multiphase fluid flow simulation using numerical methods. They include applications of mathematical, geo-statistical and artificial intelligent techniques on spatial simulation of fractures and reservoir rocks.
• ARC Discovery Research grant for 2008-2010: Towards efficient development of geothermal resources in Australia: an improved simulation package for fluid flow in fractured geothermal reservoirs

• Tran, N.H.: Simulated Annealing Technique in Discrete Fracture Network Inversion: Optimizing the Optimization. Computational Geosciences 11(3) (2007) 249-260.
• Tran, N.H., Chen, Z., Rahman, S.S.: Practical Application of Hybrid Modelling to Naturally Fractured Reservoirs. Petroleum Science & Technology 25 (10) (2007) 1263-1277.
• Tran, N.H., Tran, K.: Combination of fuzzy ranking and simulated annealing to improve discrete fracture inversion. Mathematical and Computer Modelling 45 (2007) 1010-1020
• Tran, N.H., Rahman, S.S.: Development of hot dry rocks by hydraulic stimulation: Natural fracture network simulation. Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics 47 (2007) 77-85
• Tran, N.H., Chen, Z., Rahman, S.S.: Characterizing and Modelling of Fractured Reservoirs with Object-oriented Global Optimization. Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology 46 (2007) 39-45
• Tran, N.H.: Fracture orientation characterization: Minimizing statistical modelling errors. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 51 (2007) 3187-3196
• Tran, N.H., Ali, A., Ravoof, A., Nguyen, N.: Derivation and Validation of Seismic and Resistivity Data in Fractured Media. WSEAS Transactions on Fluid Mechanics 1 (2007) 20-25.
• Tran, N.H., Valencia, K., Tran, K., Rahman, S.S.: Multifractal for Discrete Fracture Modelling. WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications 3 (2006) 1347-1353
• Tran, N.H., Rahman, S.S.: Modelling Discrete Fracture Networks using Neuro-Fractal-Stochastic Simulation. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences 1 (2006) 154-160
• Tran, N.H., Chen, Z.X., Rahman, S.S.: Integrated conditional global optimisation for discrete fracture network modelling. Computers & Geosciences 32 (2006) 17-27
• Teimoori, A., Tran, N.H., Chen, Z., Rahman, S.S.: Simulation of Fluid Flow in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs with the Use of Effective Permeability Tensor. Geothermal Resources Council Transactions 28 (2004)
• Tran, N.H., Rahman, M.K., Rahman, S.S.: Developing a Hot Dry Rock Reservoir in Australia by Hydraulic Stimulation: a Shear-Dilation Model for Design and Evaluation. Geothermal Resources Council Transactions 26 (2002)