Jader R. Barbosa, Jr.

• Decarbonization of Energy Systems
• Flow Assurance
• Wellbore Integrity 
• Cooling Technologies

• PETE 2032: Reservoir Fluid Properties
• PETE 7102: Production Engineering 

• 2024 World's Top 2% Scientists' List - Stanford University (Career List - Elsevier)
• 2023 World's Top 2% Scientists' List - Stanford University (Career List - Elsevier)
• 2023 Petrobras Inventor Prize
• 2023 Metalinox Cogne Hydrogen Prize - Best Paper Award at 3rd Brazilian Congress on Hydrogen (with students)
• 2021 Best Presentation Award at THERMAG IX (with students)
• 2017 Fulbright Visiting Professor - School of MIME, Oregon State University
• 2015 Best Poster Award (3rd Place) at 9th Int. Conf. Boiling and Condensation (with students)
• 2010 Best Paper Award (2nd Place) at 20th Int. Compressor Conf. at Purdue (with students)
• 2004 Young Scientist Award (EUROTHERM)
• 2001 Dudley Newitt Prize (Imperial College)
• 2000 Richardson Award (Society of Chemical Industry, UK)
• 2000 ORS Award (UK)
• 1999 HTFS Prize - Best Paper at UK Heat Transfer Conf.

• Faculty Advisor to LSU SPE Student Chapter
• Journal Development Editor - Applied Thermal Engineering 
• Scientific Committee Member - 18th International Heat Transfer Conference
• Technical Committee Member - ISAVFT International Conferences on Multiphase Production
• President - Assembly of World Conferences on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics
• Editorial Board Member - Multiphase Science and Technology
• Advisory Board Member - Thermophysics and Aeromechanics
• Guest Editor - International Journal of Multiphase Flow
• Guest Editor - Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science

• Thermodynamic Characterization of CO₂-Rich Mixtures for CCUS and Hydrocarbon Production (Former PI, now Visiting Researcher at UFSC, Brazil) - Petrobras/ANP.
• Transient Multiphysics Modeling of Annular Pressure Change  (Former PI, now Visiting Researcher at UFSC, Brazil) - Petrobras/ANP.
• Experimental Characterization of Thermophysical Properties of Drilling and Completion Fluids (Former PI, now Visiting Researcher at UFSC, Brazil) - Petrobras/ANP.

A complete list of publications is available in the attached CV and on Google Scholar.

Book:
T. Gessner, J. Barbosa, Integrated Modeling of Reservoir Fluid Properties and Multiphase Flow in Offshore Production Systems, Springer (2023).

Select Articles:

Petroleum Engineering

E. Alves, A. da Veiga, E. Fancello, J. Barbosa, A coupled model of wellbore-formation thermal phenomena and salt creep in offshore wells, Geoenergy Science and Engineering 233, 212548 (2024).

E. Alves, J. Barbosa, Laplace Transform-based modeling of heat transfer in producing wellbores, Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering 45, 652 (2023).

I. Martins, A. da Silva, E. Silva, A. Rashid Hasan, J. Barbosa, Parametric multiphysics analysis of water injection in an offshore well, Geoenergy Science and Engineering 229, 212055 (2023).

I. Martins, A. da Silva, E. Silva, A. Rashid Hasan, J. Barbosa, Predicting the annular pressure behavior during water injection in offshore wells with a transient, multiphysics model, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 218, 110992 (2022).

Physical Properties

T. Gessner, J. Barbosa, An internally consistent procedure to characterize single carbon number fractions for phase equilibrium of petroleum mixtures: Application to Brazilian pre-salt reservoir fluids, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 208E, 109723 (2022).

C. Noriega-Sanchez, F. Czubinski, J. Barbosa, A. da Silva, Experimental data and cubic-equation-of-state calculations of CO₂/R-161 vapor-liquid equilibrium, The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics 165, 106635 (2022).

P. Sedrez, C. Noriega-Sanchez, M. da Silva, J. Barbosa, Dielectric constant of mixtures of carbon dioxide and n-dodecane between 283 and 343 K, International Journal of Thermophysics 41, 26 (2020).

Cooling Technologies

M. Carneiro, J. Barbosa, Comparing the performances of R-134a, R-1234yf and R-600a in a compact spray refrigeration system for electronics cooling, International Journal of Refrigeration 175, 400-411 (2025).

P. Silva, G. Peixer, A. Lorenzoni, Y. Azeredo,  R. Flesch, J. Lozano, J. Barbosa, Predicting the dynamic operation of a magnetic cooling prototype via neural networks, Applied Thermal Engineering 248A,  123060 (2024).

M. Carneiro, A. Provensi, J. Ferreira, P. Cavicchioli, M. Pereira, J. Barbosa, Experimental analysis of a compact cooling system containing an enhanced-surface spray heat sink, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science 151, 111078 (2024).

G. Peixer, M. Silva, A. Lorenzoni, G. Hoffmann, D. dos Santos, G. do Rosário, E. Pagnan, H. Teza, P. Silva, S. Dutra, M. Ribeiro, M. Rosa, A. Döring, B. Vieira, A. Nakashima, C. Teixeira, P. Wendhausen, J. Lozano, J. Barbosa, A magnetocaloric air-conditioning system prototype, International Journal of Refrigeration 151, 1-13 (2023).

L. Militão, C. Fernandes, D. dos Santos, D. Machado, M. Heldwein, C. Rambo, A. da Silva, J. Barbosa, A novel cooling geometry for subsea variable speed drives, Applied Thermal Engineering 185, 116483 (2021).