About the author
John R. Fanchi is a professor in the Department of Engineering and Energy Institute at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. He teaches courses in energy and engineering. Before this appointment, he taught petroleum and energy engineering courses at the Colorado School of Mines and has worked in the technology centers of four energy companies.
He co-edited the General Engineering volume of the Petroleum Engineering Handbook published by the Society of Petroleum Engineers, and he is the author of several books, including Principles of Applied Reservoir Simulation, Third Edition (Elsevier, 2006), Math Refresher for Scientists and Engineers, Third Edition (Wiley, 2006), Energy in the 21st Century, Second Edition (World Scientific, 2010), Energy: Technology and Directions for the Future (Elsevier-Academic Press, 2004), Shared Earth Modeling (Elsevier, 2002), Integrated Flow Modeling (Elsevier, 2000), and Parametrized Relativistic Quantum Theory (Kluwer, 1993).
