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Author:

Kosarian, Minoo

Title:

Lithospheric Structure of North Africa and Western Eurasia

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Crustal thickness
Shear velocity structure
Surface wave dispersion
Receiver functions
Poisson`s ratio

File:

Download Minoo-Kosarian-Dissertation-2006.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles James Ammon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Kevin Patrick Furlong, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

Author:

Fitzgerald, Michael Robert

Title:

Influence of drainage state on direct-push permeability profiling methods

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

soils
hydraulic conductivity
permeability
direct-push

File:

Download Fitzgerald_-_PhD_Thesis_-_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kamini Singha, Committee Member
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Jamal Rostami, Committee Member

Author:

Maceira, Monica

Title:

SURFACE WAVES, EARTH STRUCTURE, AND SEISMIC DISCRIMINATION

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Rayleigh waves
tomography
Earth structure
joint inversion
seismic discrimination
central Asia

File:

Download Monica-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles James Ammon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kevin Patrick Furlong, Committee Member
Chris J Marone, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Member

Author:

Fulton, Patrick Michael

Title:

INVESTIGATIONS OF FLUID FLOW AND HEAT TRANSPORT RELATED TO THE STRENGTH OF THE SAN ANDREAS FAULT

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

fault strength
overpressure
fluid pressure
heat flow
San Andreas Fault
fluid flow
heat trnasport

File:

Download FultonFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Demian Saffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chris J Marone, Committee Member
Kamini Singha, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Barbara A Bekins, Committee Member

Author:

Cakir, Recep

Title:

EFFECTS OF SITE RESPONSE ON EARTHQUAKE HAZARD IN THE EASTERN MARMARA REGION OF TURKEY

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

Relative Spectral Amplification
Eastern Marmara Region
slowness-frequency method
Turkey
site amplification
site response
Seismic Hazard

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Shelton S Alexander, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Phillip Michael Halleck, Committee Member
Richard R Paizek, Committee Member
Todd Smith Bacastow, Committee Member

Author:

Foroozan, Roozbeh

Title:

TRANSPORT AND DEFORMATIONAL SIGNATURES IN COUPLED GEOLOGICAL SYSTEMS: INSIGHTS FROM FOREWARD AND BACKWARD MODELING

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

Fluid dynamics
Volcano
Basin
Fault
Geodesy
Back Analysis
GPS

File:

Download Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barry Voight, Committee Member
Jamal Rostami, Committee Member
Chris Marone, Committee Member

Author:

Al Enezi, Sultan Mohammad

Title:

EFFECS OF CLOSURE STRESS ON FRACTURE MORPHOLOGY AND MULTI-PHASE FLOW IN SHEAR FRACTURED BEREA SANDSTONE

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

shear fracture
fluid flow

File:

Download Microsoft_Word_-_PhD_THESIS_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Phillip Michael Halleck, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Phillip Michael Halleck, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Abraham Grader, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member

Author:

Innocenti, Sabrina

Title:

LAVAS AND TEPHRAS OF MERAPI VOLCANO, JAVA, INDONESIA:INSIGHTS FROM TEXTURAL ANALYSES AND GEOCHEMISTRY

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Merapi Volcano
Crystal Size Distributions
K-affinity
Sunda arc
eruptive styles

File:

Download ThesisMaster_V6.pdf

Committee Members:

Tanya Furman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Peter J Heaney, Committee Member
Maureen Feineman, Committee Member
Barry Voight, Committee Member

Author:

Suk, Heejun

Title:

Development of 2- and 3- simulator for three-phase flow with general initial and boundary conditions on the fractional flow approach

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

LEZOOMPC
Phase Configuration change
Fractional flow formulation
Multiple phase flow
Particle tracking
analytical method
linear spatial and temporal velocity variation
semi-analytical method
General boundary conditions
Fractional flow approach
three dimensional multiphase flow

File:

Download thesis_suk.pdf

Committee Members:

Peggy Ann Johnson, Committee Member
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Gour Tsyh Yeh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Silpngarmlert, Suntichai

Title:

Numerical Modeling of Gas Recovery from Methane Hydrate Reservoirs

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

reservoir simulation
production characteristics
methane hydrate
Numerical model
production strategy

File:

Download Silpngarmlert_Suntichai__Final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Member
Michael Adebola Adewumi, Committee Member
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member