Conferences

• Mahadevan, J., Sharma, M. M., and Yortsos, Y. C., “Capillary Wicking in Gas Wells,” paper 103229 presented at the Society of Petroleum Engineers Annual Technical Conference, San Antonio, TX, USA, 24-27 Sep 2006.
• Mahadevan, J., Sharma, M. M., and Yortsos, Y. C., “Evaporative Clean-up of Water-Blocks in Gas Wells,” paper 94215 presented at the Society of Petroleum Engineers Production and Operations Symposium, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma USA, 17 - 19 Apr 2005.
• Mahadevan, J., and Sharma, M. M., "Clean-up of Water-Blocks in Low Permeability Formations ", paper 84216 presented at the Society of Petroleum Engineers Annual Technical Conference held at Denver, Colorado, USA, 5-8 October 2003.

• Mahadevan, J. Lake, L. W.and Johns, R. T., "Estimation of True Dispersivity in Field Scale Permeable Media", paper 75247 presented at SPE/DOE Thirteenth Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA., 13−17 April 2002.
• Mahadevan, J., Lake, L. W., and Johns, R. T., "Dispersivity in Oil Reservoirs for Simulation", Shell Integrated Subsurface Conference, Oct. 17 2000, Houston (presented as a poster).
• Mahadevan, J., Vasanth, S., Saravanakumar, V., "Ion Exchange in Hydro−metallurgy", presented at the Annual Seminar on Electrochemical and Chemical Technology, 1995, CECRI.

Invited Presentations

• Mahadevan, J., “Removal of Water Blocks,” Bellaire Technology Center, Shell International Exploration and Production, Houston, Texas, U. S. A., November, 2004.
• Mahadevan, J., “Transport in Permeable Media: Applications to Oil and Gas Industry, Ground Water Studies and Tissue Engineering”, Chemical Engineering Seminar, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, 26 July 2004.
• Sharma, M. M., and Mahadevan, J. (speaker), "Invited Talk on Effect of Wettability Alteration on Electrical and Flow Properties of Rocks", Workshop on Role of Wettability in Formation Evaluation, 44th Annual Society of Petrophysics and Well Log Analysts Symposium at Galveston, Texas, USA., 22-25 June 2003.

Publications and Reports

• Mahadevan, J., Sharma, M. M., and Yortsos, Y. C., “Water Removal by Gas Injection: Experiments and Simulation,” Manuscript accepted for publication in Transport in Porous Media, 2006, In press.
• Mahadevan, J., Sharma, M. M., and Yortsos, Y. C., “Flow Through Drying of Porous Media,” paper published in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Journal, July 2006, AIChE Journal, Volume 52, Issue 7 , Pages 2367 - 2380.
• Mahadevan, J., Sharma, M. M., and Yortsos, Y. C., “Factors Affecting Cleanup of Water Blocks: A Laboratory Investigation,” paper published in Society of Petroleum Engineers Journal, September 2005, pp 238-246.
• Mahadevan, J., Sharma, M. M., and Yortsos, Y. C., “Evaporative Cleanup of Waterblocks in Gas Wells,” paper published in Society of Petroleum Engineers Journal of Petroleum Technology, October 2005, 66-68.
• Sharma, M. M., Gadde, P., Liu, Y., and Mahadevan, J., “Selecting Strategies for Improving Fracture Performance in Tight Gas Sands” GasTIPS, 11, No . 4, 8-11, Fall 2005.
• Mahadevan, J., Lake, L. W., and Johns, R. T., "Estimation of True Dispersivity in Field Scale Permeable Media", paper published in Society of Petroleum Engineers Journal, September 2003, 272-279.
• Mahadevan, J., and Sharma, M. M., "Estimation of Relative Permeability Curves and Wettability from Transient Pressure Drop Measurements," Chapter, submitted to Department of Energy under contract DE-PS26-01NT4112 “Wettability and Its Effect on Oil and Gas Recovery.”

Collaborative Research

• Karande, T., Mahadevan, J., Peppas, N., Sun, W., Dean, D., Agrawal, C. M., “Effect of Scaffold Architecture on Diffusion of Oxygen in
  Tissue Engineering Constructs,” paper presented at the Society for Biomaterials Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, April, 29, 2006.
• Karande, T., Agrawal, C. M., Mahadevan, J., “Modeling the Effect of Scaffold Architecture on Diffusion of Oxygen in Porous Tissue Engineering Scaffolds,” poster presented at the Bio-Medical Engineering Society conference, Baltimore, New Jersey, USA, 30, September, 2005.
• Karande, T., Agrawal, C. M., Mahadevan, J., “Determining the Effect of Scaffold Architecture on Diffusion of Oxygen in Tissue Engineering Constructs,” poster presented at the Graduate And Industry Networking (GAIN) symposium held at The University of Texas at Austin, April 28, 2005.

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