eTD Explore

Open Access

Author:: Parada Minakowski, Claudia Helena
Title:: AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK BASED TOOL-BOX FOR SCREENING AND DESIGNING IMPROVED OIL RECOVERY METHODS
Graduate Program:: Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering
Keywords:: IOR
reservoir simulation
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK
IMPROVED OIL RECOVERY
petroleum engineering
File:: Download Parada_PhD_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert W Watson, Committee Member
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Member
Mirna Urquidi Macdonald, Committee Member

Open Access

Author:: Radespiel, Eduardo
Title:: A COMPREHENSIVE MODEL DESCRIBING TEMPERATURE BEHAVIOR IN HORIZONTAL WELLS: INVESTIGATION OF POTENTIAL BENEFITS OF USING A DOWNHOLE DISTRIBUTED TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: wellbore temperature
flux vector splitting
wellbore-reservoir coupling
black-oil
reservoir simulation
non-isothermal
horizontal well
File:: Download 2010_PhD_Radespiel.pdf
Committee Members:: Turgay Ertekin / Luis Ayala, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Luis Ayala, Committee Member
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member
Ronaldo Vicente, Committee Member

Open Access

Author:: Li, Gaoming
Title:: History Dependent Modeling of Counter-Current Flow in Porous Media
Graduate Program:: Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Keywords:: capillary pressure hysteresis
reservoir simulation
porous media
Counter-current flow
fluid bank
history matching
X-ray CT
File:: Download etd.pdf
Committee Members:: Abraham S Grader, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Phillip Michael Halleck, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Michael Adebola Adewumi, Committee Member

Open Access

Author:: Hu, Li-Wei
Title:: APPLICATION OF A LOCAL GRID REFINEMENT PROTOCOL TO ANALYZE THE PERFORMANCE OF RESERVOIR SYSTEMS WITH COMPLEX WELL ARCHITECTURES
Graduate Program:: Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Keywords:: reservoir simulation
complex well structure
local grid refinement
File:: Download Thesis_Li-Wei_Hu.pdf
Committee Members:: Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Open Access

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

Open Access

Author:: Bu Khamseen, Nader
Title:: Applications of Artificial Expert Systems in the Diagnosis and Analysis of Unexpected Spatial and Temporal Changes in Reservoir Production Behavior
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Artificial neural network
reservoir simulation
artificial expert systems
history matching
prediction
unexpected behavior.
File:: Download Thesis_def_d2.pdf
Committee Members:: Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul Griffin, Committee Member
Michael Adebola Adewumi, Committee Member
Sarma V Pisupati, Committee Member

Open Access

Author:: Qiao, Changhe
Title:: GENERAL PURPOSE COMPOSITIONAL SIMULATION FOR MULTIPHASE REACTIVE FLOW WITH A FAST LINEAR SOLVER
Graduate Program:: Mathematics
Keywords:: PennSim
FASP
compositional simulation
reservoir simulation
reactive transport
File:: Download ChangheQiao-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Jinchao Xu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Russell Taylor Johns, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Li Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ludmil Tomov Zikatanov, Committee Member
Chun Liu, Committee Member

Open Access

Author:: Jan, Yao-cheng
Title:: Dual-permeability dual-porosity simulator with permeability evolution for production analysis of coalbed methane reservoir
Graduate Program:: Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Keywords:: coalbed methane
dual porosity
reservoir simulation
permeability evolution
File:: Download Thesis_Yao-Cheng_Jan.pdf
Committee Members:: Yilin Wang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Open Access

Author:: Magzymov, Daulet
Title:: Thermodynamics of Complex Fluids for Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: thermodynamics
enhanced oil recovery
complex fluids
chemical EOR; EOR; phase behavior
microemulsion
flash calculation
characteristic length
solubilization
alkali
soap
viscous layer
emulsion
k-value
partitioning
viscosity
percolation
composition
ternary diagram
lowsal
low salinity
waterflooding
reservoir simulation
kinetics
dispersion
reactive transport
porous media
transport
thermodynamics enhanced oil recovery
EOR
chemical EOR
surfactant
phase behavior
equilibrium
K-value
File:: Download Daulet_Magzymov_PhD_Dissertation_Penn_State.pdf
Committee Members:: Russell Taylor Johns, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Russell Taylor Johns, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Gregory R King, Committee Member
Themis Matsoukas, Outside Member
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair

Search