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Start Over Year 2012 Committee Member Derek Elsworth

1. Fault strength and stability: Lessons learned from the San Andreas Fault in central California

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Open Access
Author:
Carpenter, Brett Matthew
Title:
Fault strength and stability: Lessons learned from the San Andreas Fault in central California
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
friction
fault mechanics
San Andreas Fault
File:
Download Carpenter_PhD_All.pdf
Committee Members:
Chris Marone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Demian Saffer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Andre Niemeijer, Special Member

2. Geophysical Exploration of Glacier Basal Processes and Grounding Line Dynamics

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Open Access
Author:
Christianson, Knut Andrew
Title:
Geophysical Exploration of Glacier Basal Processes and Grounding Line Dynamics
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
glaciers
ice sheets
geophysics
ice-penetrating radar
GPS
File:
Download christianson_knut_thesis_2012.pdf
Committee Members:
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard B Alley, Committee Member
Peter Christopher Lafemina, Committee Member
Derrick J Lampkin, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

3. Interaction of Fracture Fluid With Formation Rock and Proppant on Fracture Fluid Clean-up and Long-term Gas Recovery in Marcellus Shale Reservoirs

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Author:
Yue, Wenting
Title:
Interaction of Fracture Fluid With Formation Rock and Proppant on Fracture Fluid Clean-up and Long-term Gas Recovery in Marcellus Shale Reservoirs
Graduate Program:
Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Keywords:
fracture damage
formation damage
clay swell
proppant scaling
proppant diagenesis.
File:
Download Wentings_Master_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Yilin Wang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

4. Gas transport, sorption, and mechanical response of fractured coal

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Open Access
Author:
Wang, Shugang
Title:
Gas transport, sorption, and mechanical response of fractured coal
Graduate Program:
Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:
Gas transport
sorption
desorption
poromechanical
coal
File:
Download Shugang_Wang_PhD_Dissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member
Jamal Rostami, Committee Member

6. Permeabilities of coal-biomass mixtures for high pressure gasifier feeds

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Open Access
Author:
Belvalkar, Rohan Anirrudha
Title:
Permeabilities of coal-biomass mixtures for high pressure gasifier feeds
Graduate Program:
Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Keywords:
permeability
porosity
kozeny-carmen
coal
biomass
gasifier
feed
particle size
stress
strain
isotropic
pulse decay
File:
Download thesis_r.pdf
Committee Members:
Derek Elsworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris Marone, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan P Mathews, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

7. Permeability Evolution of Stressed Fractures Permeated by Reactive Fluids

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Open Access
Author:
McGuire, Thomas Patrick
Title:
Permeability Evolution of Stressed Fractures Permeated by Reactive Fluids
Graduate Program:
Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:
fracture permeability evolution
pressure solution
stress corrosion cracking
carbon dioxide sequestration
fracture strain
fracture dissolution
File:
Download thomas_mcguire_dissertation_final.pdf
Committee Members:
Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member

9. Investigation of Mantle Structure beneath Eastern Africa: Implications for the Origin Of the Cenozoic tectonism and propagation of the Rift System

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Open Access
Author:
Mulibo, Gabriel Daudi
Title:
Investigation of Mantle Structure beneath Eastern Africa: Implications for the Origin Of the Cenozoic tectonism and propagation of the Rift System
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
Tomography
Receiver function
Superplume
East African Rift System
Cenozoic Tectonism
File:
Download Mulibo_Gabriel_Dissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Special Member

10. Numerical Studies of Seismically Induced Slope Deformation Using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Method

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Open Access
Author:
Chen, Wei
Title:
Numerical Studies of Seismically Induced Slope Deformation Using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Method
Graduate Program:
Civil Engineering
Keywords:
Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Method; Large Deformation; Dynam
File:
Download Dissertation_WC_final.pdfDownload Copyright_Permission.pdf
Committee Members:
Tong Qiu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tong Qiu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel G Linzell, Committee Member
Prasenjit Basu, Committee Member
Shelley Marie Stoffels, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member