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Author:

Zhang, Wei

Title:

Nonlinear Poroelastic Solutions for the Pore Fluid Flow and Sorption in Deformable Rocks

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Adsorption
Poroelasticity
Nonlinear solution
Constitutive modeling
Geomechanics

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Committee Members:

Luis Ayala H, Major Field Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Major Field Member
Albert Segall, Outside Unit & Field Member
Amin Mehrabian, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mort Webster, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Hohl, Cody

Title:

Essays on intermittent renewable integration in electricity market design

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Electricity market design
Wind energy
Intraday
Capacity
Energy-only
Experiment
Uplift

File:

Download Final_Dissertation_Cody_Hohl.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeremy Gernand, Program Head/Chair
Mort Webster, Major Field Member
Seth Blumsack, Major Field Member
Chiara Lo Prete, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Anthony Kwasnica, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Sant'Anna Garcez Nobrega, Jonathan

Title:

Integral solution-based modeling of gas transport in unconventional reservoirs

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Production data analysis
Unconventional Reservoirs
Gas transport
Green's Function Method
Multifractured Horizontal Wells

File:

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Committee Members:

Mathieu Stienon, Outside Field Member
Corina Drapaca, Outside Unit & Field Member
Luis Ayala H, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Major Field Member
Jeremy Michael Gernand, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wang, Zhicheng William

Title:

PORE-SCALE STUDY ON PARTIALLY MISCIBLE MULTIPHASE TRANSPORT IN HYDROCARBON RESERVOIRS USING THE LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Multiphase Flow Behaviors
Pseudopotential Lattice Boltzmann Method
Simulation Framwork
Partially Miscible Multi-component Fluids

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Committee Members:

Corina Drapaca, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member
Luis Ayala H, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Derek Elsworth, Major Field Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Major Field Member
Mort D Webster, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Orlando M. Ayala, Special Member
Member Committee, Special Member

Author:

Tran, Kien

Title:

Unified Density-based Production Data Analysis Under Multiphase Flow Conditions

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Production Data Analysis
Multiphase Flow

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Committee Members:

Gregory King, Major Field Member
Shimin Liu, Major Field Member
Matthew Rau, Outside Unit & Field Member
Luis Ayala H, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jeremy Gernand, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Liu, Zizhong

Title:

Adsorption-Controlled Gas Transport in Nanoporous Media

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Nanoporous media
Nonlinear governing equation
Piecewise constant coefficients
Apparent diffusion coefficient
Adsorption-controlled diffusion model
Simplified local density method
Modified Peng-Robinson equation of state

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Committee Members:

Xiaofeng Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Luis Ayala H, Major Field Member
Hamid Emami-Meybodi, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Eugene Morgan, Major Field Member
Mort Webster, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Joon, Shams

Title:

Multi-Sensor Data Assimilation for Geological Carbon Storage Monitoring Design

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

data assimilation
geological carbon storage
rock physics
CASSM
EnKF

File:

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Committee Members:

Mort Webster, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Sanjay Srinivasan, Major Field Member
Gregory King, Major Field Member
Tieyuan Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Eugene Morgan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Duffy, Timothy

Title:

Membrane-Based Electrochemical Sensors for Corrosion Risk Detection in Natural Gas Pipelines

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Corrosion Sensor
Electrochemical Sensor
Reference Electrode
Natural Gas Pipeline
Internal Corrosion

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Committee Members:

Randy Vander Wal, Major Field Member
Serguei Lvov, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Russell Johns, Dissertation Advisor
Omer Dogan, Special Member
Christopher Gorski, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mort Webster, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Zhang, Yiming

Title:

ANALYSIS OF ORIFICE METERING AND PERFORATION EROSION FOR SHALE GAS WELLS VIA COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD) MODELING

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

CFD
EROSION
PERFORATION EROSION
GAS METERING
ORIFICE METER

File:

Download Zhang_Yiming_PHD_Dissertation_Final_Updated.pdf

Committee Members:

Gregory King, Major Field Member
Derek Elsworth, Major Field Member
Xiang Yang, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Wang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mort D Webster, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Vaziri Hassas, Behzad

Title:

Process development for selective separation of critical elements from secondary resources

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Critical Elements
Rare Earth Elements
Secondary Resources
Acid Mine Drainage
Staged Precipitation

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_-_Behzad_Vaziri_Hassas.pdf

Committee Members:

William Burgos, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sarma Pisupati, Major Field Member
Mohammad Rezaee, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Athanasios Karamalidis, Major Field Member
Mort Webster, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies