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Author:: Sadegh, Abdallah Ahmed
Title:: AN INTEGRATED HYDRODYNAMIC / PVT VERTICAL WELLBORE MODEL FOR TWO-PHASE NATURAL GAS / LIQUID SYSTEMS
Graduate Program:: Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Keywords:: Natural gas
Condensate
wells
Multiphase flow
Wellbore model
File:: Download Thesis_Final_Version.pdf
Committee Members:: Michael Adebola Adewumi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Robert W Watson, Committee Member
Mku Thaddeus Ityokumbul, Committee Member
Mark Stephen Klima, Committee Member

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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

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Author:: Basbug, Basar
Title:: ANALYSIS OF SPONTANEOUS IMBIBITION IN FRACTURED, HETEROGENEOUS SANDSTONE
Graduate Program:: Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Keywords:: CT scan
fractured sandstone
spontaneous imbibition
automated history matching
optimization
File:: Download B.Basbug_dissertation_2009.pdf
Committee Members:: Zuleima T Karpyn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Member
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Demian Saffer, Committee Member

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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

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Author:: León, Daniel Eduardo
Title:: A GENERALIZED 2-D HYPERBOLIC SOLVER WITH APPLICATION TO ORIFICE METERING
Graduate Program:: Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Keywords:: Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations
Essentially Non-Oscillatory Scheme
Large Eddy Simulation
Conservation Laws
Compressible Turbulent Flow
Natural Gas
Orifice-Meter
Orifice-Plate
Orifice Metering
File:: Download PhD_Thesis_Daniel_Leon_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Michael Adebola Adewumi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Robert W Watson, Committee Member
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Member
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member

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Author:: Alp, Doruk
Title:: Numerical Modeling of Natural Gas Two-Phase Flow Split at Branching T-Junctions with Closed-Loop Network Applications
Graduate Program:: Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Keywords:: uneven phase separation
Branching
tee
T-Junction
Double Stream Model
Flow split
Staggered Grid
Finite Volume Method
Two-Phase Flow
Steady-State
File:: Download Alp_2009.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr Luis Ayala, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert W Watson, Committee Member
Dr Mirna Urquidi Macdonald, Committee Member
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member

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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

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Author:: Artun, Fazil Emre
Title:: Optimized Design of Cyclic Pressure Pulsing in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs Using Neural-Network Based Proxy Models
Graduate Program:: Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Keywords:: cyclic pressure pulsing
improved oil recovery
optimization
screening
CO2
N2
neural networks
genetic algorithms
artificial intelligence
File:: Download Artun.pdf
Committee Members:: Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert W Watson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Member
Mirna Urquidi Macdonald, Committee Member
Majid Al Wadhahi, Committee Member

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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

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Author:: Fernandez Luengo, Juan Emilio
Title:: NUMERICAL STUDY OF CO-CURRENT WATER-DRY GAS FLOW IN GAS GATHERING SYSTEMS
Graduate Program:: Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Keywords:: NUMERICAL
GAS
GATHERING SYSTEMS
File:: Download FernandezLuengo_PhDThesis_May2010.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr Luis Ayala, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
R Larry Grayson, Committee Member
Mirna Urquidi Macdonald, Committee Member

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