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Author:

Yang, Yun

Title:

MODELING OF GAS SORPTION AND DIFFUSION BEHAVIOR AND IMPLICATIONS ON COALBED METHANE PRODUCTION

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Coalbed Methane
Gas Adsorption
Gas Diffusion
Pore Structure
Cryogenic Fracturing
Fractal Dimension
Sorption Models

File:

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Committee Members:

Shimin Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shimin Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Sekhar Bhattacharyya, Committee Member
Chris J Marone, Outside Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Higgins, Machel

Title:

Geodetic Exploration of the Kinematics and Fault Slip Rates of the Southeastern and Western Caribbean Plate Boundaries and the Caldera Dynamics of the Sierra Negra Volcano.

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Geodesy
Fault Slip Rate
Strain Partitioning
GPS
InSAR
Trapdoor faulting

File:

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Committee Members:

Charles Ammon, Major Field Member
Peter La Femina, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Douglas Miller, Outside Unit & Field Member
Derek Elsworth, Major Field Member
Mark Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sheikh, Bahman

Title:

The Behavior of a Granular Flow from Collapsing, to Spreading and Sliding Down a Frictional Incline

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics method
Soil-structure interaction
frictional Boundary condition
Granular material
Granular flow
Impact force
Landslide
Landslide runout
High performance computing
Statistics
SPH
LBM
Drag force

File:

Download Dissertation_BahmanSheikh_AfterDefense4.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick Fox, Major Field Member
Tong Qiu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hai Huang, Major Field Member
Derek Elsworth, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Patrick Fox, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Liu, Ang

Title:

Multi-mechanistic Transport Behavior of Multi-phase Fluids in Unsaturated Reservoir Rocks

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Sorption; Diffusion; Matrix swelling; Permeability; Time-Dependent Rock-Fluid-Geomechanics Model; Gas-water two phase flow

File:

Download Dissertation_draft_Ang_Liu_final_submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Shimin Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shimin Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
William Arthur Groves, Committee Member
Chris J Marone, Outside Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Yu, Jiayi

Title:

Shear related reactivation of fractures/faults and the effects on permeability evolution and induced seismicity

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Induced seismicity
Unconventional shale reservoir
Fracture-proppant conductivity evolution

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Committee Members:

Jeremy Gernand, Program Head/Chair
Chris Marone, Outside Unit & Field Member
Shimin Liu, Major Field Member
Derek Elsworth, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Arash Dahi Taleghani, Major Field Member

Author:

Gonzalez Santana, Judit

Title:

Remote Sensing Observations and Modeling of Volcano Flank Instability

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

InSAR
Time-series analysis
Numerical modeling
Volcano deformation
Flank instability
Satellite remote sensing

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Committee Members:

Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Charles Ammon, Major Field Member
Reuben Kraft, Outside Unit & Field Member
Derek Elsworth, Major Field Member
Christelle Wauthier, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Homman, Kyle A

Title:

Crustal Structure and Stress Regime of the Appalachian Basin and Surrounding Areas

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Crustal Structure
Receiver Functions
Seismology
Geophysics
Precambrian Structure
Appalachian Basin

File:

Download Homman_CrustalStructureAndStressRegimeAcrosstheAppBasinandSurroundingRegions_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Nyblade, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Charles Ammon, Major Field Member
Derek Elsworth, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Major Field Member
Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sang, Guijie

Title:

Experimental Investigation and Modeling of Water Vapor Sorption and Transport in Nano-Porous Shale

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Shale-water interaction
Nanopore structure
Condensation
Diffusion
Relative humidity

File:

Download Dissertation_Sang_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Shimin Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shimin Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eugene C Morgan, Committee Member
Chris J Marone, Outside Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair
Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wang, Zhicheng William

Title:

PORE-SCALE STUDY ON PARTIALLY MISCIBLE MULTIPHASE TRANSPORT IN HYDROCARBON RESERVOIRS USING THE LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Multiphase Flow Behaviors
Pseudopotential Lattice Boltzmann Method
Simulation Framwork
Partially Miscible Multi-component Fluids

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Committee Members:

Corina Drapaca, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Luis Ayala H, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Major Field Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Major Field Member
Mort D Webster, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Orlando M. Ayala, Special Member
Member Committee, Special Member

Author:

Cipar, Jacob

Title:

Thermal evolution of the Rio Grande Rift and Basin and Range lithosphere: a petrochronologic investigation

Graduate Program:

Geosciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Geology
Geosciences
petrology
metamorphic petrology
tectonics
rio grande rift
geochronology
petrochronology
zircon
u-pb

File:

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Committee Members:

Donald Fisher, Program Head/Chair
Andrew Nyblade, Major Field Member
Andrew Smye, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jesse Reimink, Major Field Member