Ferhat Erdal

Ferhat Metin Erdal received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Tulsa, and his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Turkey.  His dissertation and thesis titles were “Local Measurements and CFD Simulation in Cylindrical Cyclone Separators” and “CFD Simulation of Single-Phase and Two-Phase Flow in Cylindrical Cyclone Separators”, respectively. While he was a TUSTP member, He was responsible from simulation of single-phase and two-phase flow in gas-liquid cylindrical cyclone (GLCC) separators, turbulence modeling, mechanistic modeling, and local measurements with pito tubes and Laser Doppler Velocimeter (LDV).

After graduation, Ferhat joined INTEC Engineering, Houston. Currently, He is with GATE, LLC, Houston, as a Sr. Consultant. He is specialized in Flow Assurance and Operability design and analysis of subsea oil and gas production/transport systems. He has an extensive experience and knowledge on applications of advance fluid mechanics in Oil and Gas Industry. His specialty areas also include Multiphase Flow and Separation, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), heat transfer, and Turbulence.

He is also a technical editor of SPE Production and Facilities journal.  He has numerous technical publications and professional presentations in the areas of CFD simulations, multiphase flow, and local measurements in compact separators.