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Author:

Alajmi, Abdullah Fahad Faleh

Title:

The Influnence of a Fracture Tip on Two-Phase Flow Displacement Process

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

experimental work.
Fracture
dispalcement
porous media
simulation

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Abraham S Grader, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Phillip Michael Halleck, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Michael Adebola Adewumi, Committee Member

Author:

Sitchler, Alexis K

Title:

Weathering Advance Rates in Basalt: Prediction and Comparison Across Scales

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

chemical weathering
basalt
porosity
diffusion
scaling
reactive transport modeling
weathering rinds

File:

Download ANS_final_thesis2.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Kirby, Committee Member
Jennifer Macalady, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

Author:

Adams, Aubreya Nicole

Title:

A SEISMIC INVESTIGATION OF CRUST AND UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE BENEATH THE ZAGROS MOUNTAINS AND THE SOUTHERN AND EAST AFRICAN PLATEAUS

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Zagros Mountains
tomography
surface waves
plume
African Superplume
Africa
seismology
southern Africa
East Africa

File:

Download aadams_dissertation_finalsmall.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, Committee Member

Author:

Rathbun, Andrew Paul

Title:

AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF FRICTIONAL AND HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES OF SHEAR ZONES, WITH APPLICATION TO EARTHQUAKE FAULTS AND GLACIAL TILL

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Shear
Localization
Earthquakes
Friction

File:

Download ThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Chris Marone, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
Chris Marone, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard B Alley, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member

Author:

LeVay, Brian James

Title:

Pre-anatectic and anatectic processes in an eclogite from the Erzgebirge, Southeastern Germany: Implications for arc magmatism

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

eclogite
anatexis
melting
migmatite
Erzgebirge
Saidenbach
adakite

File:

Download Thesis_BLeVay_714U.pdf

Committee Members:

Maureen Feineman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Maureen Feineman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derrill Maylon Kerrick, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

Author:

Lee, Chung-Hao

Title:

PARAMETRIC STUDY OF FACTORS AFFECTING CAPILLARY IMBIBITION IN FRACTURED POROUS MEDIA

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

Imbibition
Computed Tomography
Fractures
Capillarity

File:

Download dissertation0208.pdf

Committee Members:

Zuleima T Karpyn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Yilin Wang, Committee Member
Kamini Singha, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Chunmei

Title:

INORGANIC-BASED PROTON CONDUCTIVE COMPOSITE MEMBRANES FOR ELEVATED TEMPERATURE AND REDUCED RELATIVE HUMIDITY PEM FUEL CELLS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

proton exchange membrane fuel cell
composite membrane
proton conductivity
high temperature
low relative humidity
proton transport mechanism

File:

Download Thesis_Chunmei_Final_2010.pdf

Committee Members:

Serguei Lvov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Serguei Lvov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sridhar Komarneni, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
T C Mike Chung, Committee Member

Author:

Vacco, David Alfred

Title:

Modeling glacier-rock-climate interactions: Moraine deposition, stagnation events, and supraglacial debris

Graduate Program:

Earth Sciences

Keywords:

glacier
glacial
moraines
modeling
supraglacial
subglacial
debris
dynamics

File:

Download Dvacco_Dissertation_FinalDraft.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard B Alley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard B Alley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rudy Slingerland, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member
David Pollard, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member

Author:

Van Essendelft, Dirk Thomas

Title:

KINETICS OF THE ACID DIGESTION OF SERPENTINE WITH CONCURRENT GRINDING FOR THE PURPOSE OF CARBON DIOXIDE SEQUESTRATION

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

Chemical Kinetics
Computational Modeling
Serpentine
Carbon Dioxide Sequestration
Mineral Carbonation
Strong Acid Dissolution

File:

Download Thesis_Master_3.2.pdf

Committee Members:

Harold Harris Schobert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Mark Stephen Klima, Committee Member
James David Kubicki, Committee Member
Sridhar Komarneni, Committee Member

Author:

Lee, Dae Sung

Title:

DETERMINATION OF FLUID TRANSPORT PROPERTIES FROM CONE PENETROMETER SOUNDING DATA

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

Hydraulic conductivity
soil permeability
cone penetration test

File:

Download Final_dissertation_Dae_Sung_Lee.pdf

Committee Members:

Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Abraham S Grader, Committee Member
Peter B Flemings, Committee Member
Chris J Marone, Committee Member

Author:

Herman, Ellen K

Title:

Quantitative studies of suspended sediment in karst aquifers

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

sediment
springs
karst
time series

File:

Download ekh_thesis_master_submitted.pdf

Committee Members:

Rudy L Slingerland, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William Blaine White, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Kamini Singha, Committee Member

Author:

YEH, EN-CHAO

Title:

Structural evolution of slate belts: examples from Tawain and eastern Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

Taiwan
tectonics
thermochronology
inclusion
kinematics
fold

File:

Download PhD_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Donald Myron Fisher, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Terry Engelder, Committee Member
Chris Marone, Committee Member
Derrill Maylon Kerrick, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Eunhye

Title:

Investigation of conical bit rotation in full scale cutting tests

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

Finite Element Analysis
Full scale cutting test
Rock fragmentation
Conical bit rotation

File:

Download Eunhye_Disser_Nov-19-10_EK-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jamal Rostami, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jamal Rostami, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
R Larry Grayson, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Member
Antonio Nieto, Committee Member
Yaw D Yeboah, Committee Member

Author:

Alvarado, Freddy

Title:

DETERMINATION OF MECHANICAL AND HYDRAULIC BEHAVIOR OF TENSILE FRACTURES UNDER MULTIPHASE FLOW USING X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

fracture aperture
Multiphase flow in fractures
confining stress

File:

Download Alvarado.pdf

Committee Members:

Abraham S Grader, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Phillip Michael Halleck, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Chris Marone, Committee Member

Author:

Moret, Geoffrey John Maxted

Title:

ANNUAL VARIATIONS IN GROUND-WATER TEMPERATURE AS A TRACER OF RIVER-AQUIFER INTERACTIONS

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

hydrogeology
temperature

File:

Download moretdissertationrevised.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard Rudolph Parizek, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles James Ammon, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member
Kamini Singha, Committee Member

Author:

Huang, Guobiao

Title:

Physics Based, Integrated Modeling Of Hydrology And Hydraulics At Watershed Scales

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

overland flow
channel flow
Watersheds
integrated models
numerical models
subsurface flow
finite element methods

File:

Download thesis_ghuang0726.pdf

Committee Members:

Gour Tsyh Yeh, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher J Duffy, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Arthur Carl Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Scanlon, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Gaoming

Title:

History Dependent Modeling of Counter-Current Flow in Porous Media

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

capillary pressure hysteresis
reservoir simulation
porous media
Counter-current flow
fluid bank
history matching
X-ray CT

File:

Download etd.pdf

Committee Members:

Abraham S Grader, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Phillip Michael Halleck, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Michael Adebola Adewumi, Committee Member

Author:

Long, Hui

Title:

INTERPRETING PORE PRESSURE IN MARINE MUDSTONES WITH PORE PRESSURE PENTROMETERS, IN SITU DATA, AND LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

Overpressure
mudstones
penetrometer
IODP
consolidation
permeability
compression index
URSA

File:

Download Long_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter B Flemings, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Abraham S Grader, Committee Member
Chris J Marone, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member
John T Germaine, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Hongliang Henry

Title:

SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR IN-SEAM SEISMIC BASED VOID DETECTION TECHNIQUE

Graduate Program:

Mining Engineering

Keywords:

Signal Processing
In-Seam Seismic
Void Detection
Wavelet Transform

File:

Download HongliangWangFinalPhDThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Maochen Ge, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Margaret Hardy, Committee Member
Vladislav Kecojevic, Committee Member
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member

Author:

Ban, Hoki

Title:

Performance of Buried Concrete Pipe Under Different Environmental Conditions

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

cracking behavior
concrete pipe
soil pressure

File:

Download Dissertation_Hoki_Ban.pdf

Committee Members:

Mian C Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Derek Elsworth, Committee Member
Andrew Scanlon, Committee Member
Sunil K Sinha, Committee Member