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Author:: Malife, Chukwudiuto Udechukwu
Title:: PARALLELIZATION STRATEGY FOR MULTIPLE POINT STATISTICS BASED SIMULATION ON GPU
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Reservoir Characterization
Reservoir Modeling
MPS
Geostatistics
Geo-statistics
Multiple Point Simulation
Multiple Point Statistics
Multi Point Simulation
Multi Point Statistics
Spatial Estimation
GPU
Parallelization
Graphics Processing Unit
File:: Download MALIFE_U_CHUKWUDIUTO_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Sanjay Srinivasan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Affane Nguema, Chris Raymond
Title:: Development of Artificial Neural Networks Applicable to Single Phase Unconventional Gas Reservoirs with Slanted Wells
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Artificial Neural Networks
Slanted Wells
Rate Transient Analysis
Pressure Transient Analysis
Reservoir Simulation
Unconventional Gas
Dual Porosity
File:: Download Master_Thesis5_Chris_Raymond_Affane_Nguema.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr .Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Luis F. Ayala H., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member

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Author:: Im, Kyungjae
Title:: FRICTION AND PERMEABILITY EVOLUTION OF FRACUTRES AND FAULTS DURING STATIC REPOSE AND DYNAMIC REACTIVATION
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Fault permeability
Fault Friction
Rate and State Friction
Fault Reactivation
File:: Download Dissertation_KJ_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member

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Author:: Singh, Madhu
Title:: Measurement, Characterization, Identification and Control of Combustion Produced Soot
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Carbon
Soot
Nanostructure
Microscopy
Spectroscopy
TEM
Carbon Black Functionalization
Laser-induced Incandescence
LII
Soot Source Identification
SSILD
Laser Derivatization
Time-resolved LII
Carbon Characterization
Health effects of combustion soot
Cytotoxicity
Diesel Particulate Filter
DPF
Cell viability
BEAS-2B male lung cells
XPS
XRD
TGA
Soot oxidation
NO2 Oxidation
TiRe-LII
Carbonizaton
graphitization
File:: Download MadhuSingh_Dissertation_2019.pdf
Committee Members:: Randy Lee Vander Wal, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chunshan Song, Committee Member
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Committee Member
Patricia Silveyra, Outside Member

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Author:: Ferster, Bronson P
Title:: Catalyzing Community-led Solar Development: Escaping the Prisoner's Dilemma by Enabling Cooperative Behavior
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: community solar
catalyzing
game theory
cooperative behavior
project development
onboarding
shared solar
Prisoner's dilemma
repeated games
social utility
collective action
solar
photovoltaics
PV
decision
strategy
File:: Download Thesis_Catalyzing_Community-led_Solar_Development__Escapaing_the_Prisoners_Dilemma_by_Enabling_Cooperative_Behavior.pdf
Committee Members:: Jeffrey Brownson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhen Lei, Committee Member
Gretchen Macht, Committee Member

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Author:: Chakraborty, Nirjhor
Title:: Fundamental Investigation of Gas Storage and Transport in Shales
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: shale gas
supercritical fluids
nanopores and fluid confinement
gas densification
adsorption-desorption
surface diffusion
3D X-ray CT Imaging
sub-resolution and multi-scale imaging
petrophysics and characterization
multi-phase multi-mechanistic modeling
File:: Download Nirjhor_Chakraborty_Dissertation_Post-Defense_final_draft.pdf
Committee Members:: Zuleima T Karpyn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Michael Charles Hillman, Outside Member

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Author:: Ma, Haoming
Title:: THE IMPACT OF BLACKOUT COST RECOVERY ON STOCK BEHAVIORS AMONG ELECTRIC UTILITIES
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: stock behavior
event study
hurricane
large blackouts
File:: Download Master_Thesis_Haoming_Ma.pdf
Committee Members:: Seth Adam Blumsack, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhen Lei, Committee Member
Mort D Webster, Committee Member

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Author:: Abdullah, Mohammad B
Title:: DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF AN ARTIFICIAL-NEURAL-NETWORK-BASED ANALYSIS AND DESIGN TOOL FOR CHEMICAL ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY (ALKALINE-SURFACTANT-POLYMER) FIELD IMPLEMENTATIONS
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: ANN
EOR
cEOR
Enhanced Oil Recovery
Machine Learning
Artificial Neural Network
Field Implementation
File:: Download Mohammad_Abdullah_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gregory R King, Committee Member

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Author:: Kumar, Devesh
Title:: Ensemble-based assimilation of non-linearly related dynamic data in reservoir models exhibiting non-Gaussian characteristics
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Data assimilation
Ensemble Kalman filter
non-Gaussian parameters
non-linear models
indicator transforms
File:: Download DeveshKumar-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Sanjay Srinivasan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sanjay Srinivasan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mort Webster, Committee Member
Gregory King, Committee Member
Steven Greybush, Outside Member

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Author:: Singh, Manik
Title:: QUANTITATIVE INVERSION OF MICROSEISMIC DATA: BAYESIAN MODEL SELECTION USING FAST PROXIES FOR FRACTURING AND WAVE PROPAGATION
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Microseismic
Hydraulic Fracturing
Bayesian Model Selection
Quantitative Inversion
Tight Oil/Gas
Petroleum Engineering
Reservoir Engineering
File:: Download ManikSingh_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Sanjay Srinivasan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sanjay Srinivasan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shimin Liu, Committee Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Committee Member
Charles James Ammon, Outside Member

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