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Author:

Xi, Zhenke

Title:

COMBINING DECLINE CURVE ANALYSIS AND GEOSTATISTICS TO FORECAST GAS PRODUCTION IN THE MARCELLUS SHALE

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

unconventional shale
data analytics
gas production forecast
decline curve analysis
geostatistics

File:

Download MS_thesis_ZhenkeXi.pdf

Committee Members:

Eugene C Morgan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
John Yilin Wang, Committee Member
Eugene C Morgan, Committee Member

Author:

Aly, Zineb

Title:

VARIANCE-BASED SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS APPLIED TO HYDROGEN MIGRATION AND REDISTRIBUTION MODEL IN THE FUEL PERFORMANCE CODE BISON

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

hydrides
fuel performance code analysis
variance-based sensitivity analysis
optimization
Bison
Dakota
Sobol

File:

Download Zineb_PSU_Master_Thesis_updated.pdf

Committee Members:

Nicholas R. Brown, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Giovanni Pastore, Committee Member
Arthur T. Motta, Committee Member

Author:

Cario, Benjamin

Title:

Evaluating the impact of substrate composition, reactor configuration, and operating conditions on the performance of bioelectrochemical systems treating fermentation effluents.

Graduate Program:

Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

microbial electrolysis cells
microbial fuel cells
fermentation
dark fermentation
bioelectrochemical systems
carbon felt
fermentation effluent
anion exchange membrane
platinum/carbon catalyst
anolyte flow rate
reactor configuration
substrate composition
internal resistance
electrode potential slope

File:

Download Benjamin_Cario_M.S._Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Bruce Logan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Michael Regan, Committee Member
Christopher A Gorski, Committee Member

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

Author:

Hernandez, Richard

Title:

Fuel Cycle Performance of Thermal and Fast Spectrum Small Modular Reactors

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

SMR- Small Modular Reactor
Fuel Cycle Analysis
Impacts of Neutron Leakage
Natural resource utilization
Spent Fuel Activity
Fuel Cycle Evaluation and Screening Study

File:

Download HERNANDEZ_RICHARD_MASTERS_THESIS_V6.pdf

Committee Members:

Nicholas R. Brown, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William J Walters, Committee Member
Arthur Thompson Motta, Committee Member

Author:

Sharedalal, Rutvik

Title:

AMAZON FINE FOOD REVIEWS - DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN AUTOMATED CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Text mining
Text classification
Online consumer reviews
Review helpfulness
Word embedding

File:

Download MS_Thesis_rns26.pdf

Committee Members:

Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hanson, Elle Richard

Title:

Theory and Experiments Pertaining to Atmospheric Ice Crystal Growth and Surface Evolution

Graduate Program:

Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Keywords:

cloud ice
ice crystal
crystal growth
atmospheric ice
crystal surface evolution
experimental atmospheric science
2D nucleation

File:

Download LEHanson-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jerry Y Harrington, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Robert Kumjian, Committee Member
Miriam Arak Freedman, Committee Member
William Henry Brune, Committee Member

Author:

Douglass, Rebekah

Title:

Effects of Strain Rate Variation on the Shear Adhesion Strength of Impact Ice

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

strain rate
adhesion
icing

File:

Download DOUGLASS_FINAL_THESIS_4-1-19.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Rao, Aniruddha Rajendra

Title:

COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT DENSITY ESTIMATORS FOR INFINITE DIMENSIONAL EXPONENTIAL FAMILIES

Graduate Program:

Statistics

Keywords:

Kernel Methods
Density Estimation
Exponential Family
Computation
Infinite Dimension

File:

Download Aniruddha_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. Bharath Sriperumbudur, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Ephraim Hanks, Committee Member
Benjamin Shaby, Committee Member

Author:

Gawelko, Lexi Nicole

Title:

Can Meta-Soil Attenuate Seismic Waves?

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

metamaterial
earthquake
civil engineering
perioidic foundation
resonator

File:

Download Gawelko_MastersThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Parisa Shokouhi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden III, Committee Member