Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering
Faculty Information

Peter P. Valkó, P.E. Professor office: 501E Richardson Building (corner of Spence and Ross Streets) mail: 3116 TAMU, College Station TX 77843-3116 (USA) phone: (USA )-(979)-862 2757 fax: (USA )-(979)-862 1272 e-mail: p-valko@tamu.edu Personal Web Page Course Materials

Dr. Peter P. Valkó's primary interest is stimulation of hydrocarbon producing wells. His activities involve design, optimization and evaluation of hydraulic fracturing operations. He has published more than 20 scholarly papers, coauthored several books (mainly on hydraulic fracturing.) His broader fields of interest include mathematical modeling, identification and optimization of processes involving fluid flow and deformation of solids. He is also active in developing computational methods. Dr. Valkó has taught for 20 years at the university level in the U.S., Austria, and Hungary; and conducted research in Russia .   

Education

• PhD equivalent (Candidate of Sciences), Institute of Catalysis, Novosibirsk, USSR, 1981
• MS equivalent (Doctor technicus, Applied Mathematics) Veszprem University, Hungary, 1975
• BS equivalent (Dipl. chemical engineer), Veszprem University, Hungary, 1973

Research Interests and Areas of Specialization

• Performance of stimulated wells
• Design and analysis of hydraulic fracturing treatments
• Numerical inversion of the Laplace transform