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Start Over Degree MS Committee Member Dr. Derek Elsworth Keyword DFT-MD Keyword hydraulic fracturing Keyword illite Keyword marcellus shale

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Author:: Ajayi, Oluwaseyi Adebola
Title:: Testing the Viability of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide as a Fracking Fluid by Computing its Chemical Interaction with Illite
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: molecular modeling
fracking
hydraulic fracturing
marcellus shale
supercritical CO2
illite
density functional theory
molecular dynamics
DFT
DFT-MD
scCO2
interfacial tension
interfacial energy
interaction energy
VASP
energy minimization
File:: Download seyi_ajayi_ms_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr. James Kubicki, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. Michael Arthur, Committee Member
Dr. Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Dr. Demian Saffer, Committee Member

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