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Author:: Wang, Chaoyi
Title:: MINERALOGICAL AND TEXTURAL CONTROLS ON SHEAR STRENGTH, SLIP STABILITY AND PERMEABILITY OF FAULTS
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Induced Seismicity
Frictional Instability
Mineralogical and Textural Controls
Permeability of Faults and Fractures
Modeling of Mechanical and Rheological Responses of Faults
File:: Download ChaoyiWang-Dissertation-ver5.pdf
Committee Members:: Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chris J Marone, Committee Member
Tong Qiu, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member

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Author:: Li, Xuanchi
Title:: Evolution of Permeability and Acoustic Velocity through Radio-Frequency Heating of Shale
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Shale
permeability
radio-frequency heating
p-wave velocity
Green River Shale
Marcellus Shale
File:: Download Final_Version_Xuanchi_Li_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Derek Elsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris J Marone, Committee Member
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member

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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:: Download Yun_Yang_PhD_Thesis__Plain_Text__Edited2.pdf
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

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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

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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

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