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Start Over Year 2019 Committee Member Derek Elsworth

1. FRICTION AND PERMEABILITY EVOLUTION OF FRACUTRES AND FAULTS DURING STATIC REPOSE AND DYNAMIC REACTIVATION

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Open Access
Author:
Im, Kyungjae
Title:
FRICTION AND PERMEABILITY EVOLUTION OF FRACUTRES AND FAULTS DURING STATIC REPOSE AND DYNAMIC REACTIVATION
Graduate Program:
Energy and Mineral Engineering
Keywords:
Fault permeability
Fault Friction
Rate and State Friction
Fault Reactivation
File:
Download Dissertation_KJ_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Derek Elsworth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member
Shimin Liu, Outside Member

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

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Open Access
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

3. MINERALOGICAL AND TEXTURAL CONTROLS ON SHEAR STRENGTH, SLIP STABILITY AND PERMEABILITY OF FAULTS

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Open Access
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

4. Evolution of Permeability and Acoustic Velocity through Radio-Frequency Heating of Shale

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Open Access
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

5. UTILIZATION OF THE SQUARE ARRAY EARTH RESISTIVITY METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZING ANISOTROPY IN FRACTURED SEDIMENTARY ROCK

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Open Access
Author:
Yoxtheimer, David
Title:
UTILIZATION OF THE SQUARE ARRAY EARTH RESISTIVITY METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZING ANISOTROPY IN FRACTURED SEDIMENTARY ROCK
Graduate Program:
Geosciences
Keywords:
earth resistivity
square array
anisotropy
fractured bedrock
karst
hydrogeology
paradox of anisotropy
File:
Download Yoxtheimer_dissertation-final.pdf
Committee Members:
Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Arnold Nyblade, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Peter Christopher La Femina, Committee Member
Anthony Robert Buda, Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair