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Author:

ADELEKE, NAJEEM A.

Title:

Pneumatic Transport Modeling of Air/Gas Drilling Hydraulics in Horizontal and Deviated Wellbores

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Air Drilling
Drilling Hydraulics
Hole Cleaning
Optimum Rate
Circulation Time
Pneumatic Transport
Modeling
Deviated Wells

File:

Download Najeem_Adeleke-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Adebola Adewumi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mku Thaddeus Ityokumbul, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Adebola Adewumi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Russell Taylor Johns, Committee Member
Kenneth Steven Brentner, Committee Member
Yilin Wang, Committee Member
Robello Samuel, Special Member

Author:

Zeinijahromi, Mohamad

Title:

Development Of A Three-dimensional, Three-phase Coupled Model For Simulating Hydraulic Fracture Propagation And Long-term Recovery In Tight Gas Reservoirs

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Numerical Modelilng
Hydraulic Fracturing Modeling
Reservoir Simulation

File:

Download Thesis_5_3_print.pdf

Committee Members:

Yilin Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Russell Taylor Johns, Committee Member
Terry Engelder, Committee Member

Author:

Gorucu, Seyhan Emre

Title:

Reduced Phase Equilibrium Calculations: New Reduced Parameters, Critical Analysis And Fluid Characterization

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

flash calculations
phase behavior
stability analysis
phase equilibrium calculations
solution of nonlinear equations
Newton's method
Newton-Raphson
Minimization
fluid characterization

File:

Download Dissertation_Gorucu_2013.pdf

Committee Members:

Russell Taylor Johns, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Russell Taylor Johns, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Yilin Wang, Committee Member
Christopher Griffin, Committee Member

Author:

Nojabaei, Bahareh

Title:

Phase Behavior And Flow Analysis Of Shale Reservoirs Using A Compositionally-extended Black-oil Approach

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

Shale reservoirs
phase behavior
reservoir flow simulation
capillary pressure

File:

Download BNojabaei_thesis_2015.pdf

Committee Members:

Russell Taylor Johns, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Russell Taylor Johns, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Luis Ayala, Committee Member
James Terry Engelder, Special Member

Author:

Khorsandi Kouhanestant, Saeid

Title:

Mathematics of multiphase multiphysics transport in porous media

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Enhanced oil recovery
MMP
Riemann problem
Hyperbolic equations
Method of Characteristics

File:

Download KhorsandiDissertationFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Russell Taylor Johns, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Russell Taylor Johns, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Member
Wen Shen, Committee Member
Alberto Bressan, Committee Member

Author:

Siripatrachai, Nithiwat

Title:

Development of a Multi-mechanistic Triple-porosity, Triple-permeability Compositional Model for Unconventional Reservoirs

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Reservoir Simulation
Unconventional Reservoir
Compositional Simulation
Capillary Pressure
Phase Behavior
Shale
Multicontinuum
Discrete Fracture Model
Numerical Simulation
Tight Rock
Hydraulic Fracture
Naturally Fractured Reservoir

File:

Download Siripatrachai_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Russell Taylor Johns, Committee Member
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Member
James Terry Engelder, Outside Member

Author:

Purswani, Prakash

Title:

Relative Permeability Equation-of-State: The Role of Phase Connectivity, Wettability, and Capillary Number

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Relative permeability
Multiphase transport
Two-phase flow
Porous medium
Wettability
Capillary trapping
Equation-of-state
Pore structure
Pore-network modeling
Phase connectivity
Euler characteristic
Capillary number
Capillary pressure
Fluid-fluid interfacial area
Hysteresis

File:

Download Purswani_PhD_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Zuleima T Karpyn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Amin Mehrabian, Committee Member
Turgay Ertekin, Special Member
Sharon Xiaolei Huang, Outside Member
Russell Taylor Johns, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mort D Webster, Program Head/Chair