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Author:: Thararoop, Prob
Title:: Development of a Multi-mechanistic, Dual-porosity, Dual-permeability Numerical Flow Model for Coalbed Methane Reservoirs accounting for Coal Shrinkage and Swelling Effects
Graduate Program:: Petroleum and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Coalbed Methane Reservoir Simulation
Coal Shrinkage and Swelling Effects
File:: Download Thesis_Prob_Thararoop_Final_new.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr Turgay Ertekin / Dr Zuleima Karpyn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert W Watson, Committee Member
Dr Luis Ayala, Committee Member
Ljubisa R Radovic, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member

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Author:: Basu, Suman
Title:: CHANNEL TWO-PHASE FLOW AND PHASE CHANGE IN POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELLS
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Channel Flow
Phase Change
Two-Phase flow
PEFC
File:: Download thesis_suman_new.pdf
Committee Members:: Chao Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member

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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

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Author:: Phillips, Temitope
Title:: Improving Natural Gas Network Performance by Quantifying The Effects of Braess' Paradox
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Improving Gas Network Performance
Braess' Paradox
File:: Download Final_Dissertation_tp_submit.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr Luis Ayala, Dr Seth Blumsack, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Luis Ayala, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Seth Adam Blumsack, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
James Terry Engelder, Special Member

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Author:: Petchsingto, Tawatchai
Title:: NUMERICAL STUDY OF FRACTURE APERTURE CHARACTERISTICS AND THEIR IMPACT ON SINGLE-PHASE FLOW AND CAPILLARY-DOMINATED DISPLACEMENT
Graduate Program:: Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Keywords:: Young-Laplace equation
aperture distribution
geostatistical parameter
fractured rock
invasion percolation theory
File:: Download TPetchsingto.pdf
Committee Members:: Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Abraham S Grader, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Maira Lopez De Murphy, Committee Member

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Author:: Karpyn, Zuleima Tharays
Title:: Capillary-Driven Flow in Fractured Sandstone
Graduate Program:: Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Keywords:: Capillarity
flow in fractures
imbibition
experiment
fracture aperture
File:: Download eTD_KARPYN_May2005.pdf
Committee Members:: Abraham S Grader, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Phillip Michael Halleck, Committee Member
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Chris Marone, Committee Member

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Author:: Alabbad, Mohammed Ali
Title:: Well Testing Using Artificial Expert Systems: applications And Limitations
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: well testing
neural networks
pressure transient
predict
File:: Download Mohammed_AlAbbad_proposal_v4.pdf
Committee Members:: Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Member
Yilin Wang, Committee Member
R Larry Grayson, Special Member

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Author:: Ozdemir, Ozkan Emre
Title:: Multi Dimensional Boron Transport Modelling in a Subchannel Approach
Graduate Program:: Nuclear Engineering
Keywords:: boron tracking
thermal hydraulics
Godunov
COBRA-TF
STAR-CD
File:: Download Ozkan_Emre_Ozdemir_PhD_Dissertation_Fall_2012.pdf
Committee Members:: Maria Nikolova Avramova, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Maria Nikolova Avramova, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Member
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
Dr Tanju Sofu, Special Member
Mr Kenya Sato, Special Member

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Author:: Kim, Kyungsoo
Title:: The effect of hydrocarbon structure on nickel catalyst deactivation in steam reforming of hexane and benzene
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: steam reforming
catalyst
deactivation
hydrocarbon
hexane
benzene
nickel
XANES
File:: Download Thesis_KyungsooKim_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Yongsheng Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yongsheng Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Caroline Elaine Clifford, Committee Member
Semih Eser, Committee Member
Chunshan Song, Committee Member
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Special Member

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Author:: Aslan, Erhan
Title:: Development and Testing of an Advanced Coalbed Methane Numerical Reservoir Simulator
Graduate Program:: Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:: Coalbed methane
local grid refinement
coalbed methane simulator
shrinkage and swelling
parallel processing
File:: Download Erhan_Aslan_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zuleima T Karpyn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member

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