12 Facts About Morris Muskat

Morris Muskat was an American petroleum engineer.

Morris Muskat came to the United States with his family in 1911, and became an American citizen in 1914.

Morris Muskat attended Marietta College and Ohio State University, then taught physics at Bowling Green University.

Morris Muskat earned his doctorate in physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1929.

Morris Muskat took a one-year break from Gulf, during World War II, to serve as chief of the Acoustics Division of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory.

Dr Morris Muskat served as the Vice Chairman of the Petroleum Branch of AIME in 1953.

Morris Muskat has fifteen US patents in various fields of science and engineering.

Morris Muskat refined the original version of Darcy's equation for single-phase fluid flow by introducing fluid viscosity in the equation, as pointed out earlier by Charles Sumner Slichter, and replacing the hydraulic head by pressure and gravity force.

Again Morris Muskat refined Darcy's equation by generalizing to three equations for the three space dimensions, as pointed out earlier by Philipp Forchheimer.

In 1937 Morris Muskat published The Flow of Homogeneous Fluids Through Porous Media.

Morris Muskat included the new permeability-reducing parameter in the refined single-phase flow equations, and thus established a new differential equation that governs the flow of multi-phase fluids in porous media.

In 1949 Morris Muskat published Physical Principles of Oil Production, which advanced the field of reservoir dynamics and reservoir engineering, compared to his 1937 book, and provided the analytical foundation for reservoir engineering that exists to this day.