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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

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:

Mohammad Nejad Gharehlo, Amir

Title:

Development of Artificial Expert Reservoir Characterization Tools for Unconventional Reservoirs

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

neural networks
ann
Reservoir Characterization
well logs
seismic
payzone identification
payzone
net pay
Wolfcamp

File:

Download _thesis_Amir_Nejad2.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Luis Ayala, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Antonio Nieto, Committee Member
Mirna Urquidi Macdonald, Special Member

Author:

Gething, Brad Allen

Title:

The computational modeling of supercritical carbon dioxide flow in solid wood materials

Graduate Program:

Materials

Keywords:

supercritical carbon dioxide wood treatment

File:

Download Brad_Gething_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John Jack Janowiak, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Jack Janowiak, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nicole Robitaille Brown, Committee Member
Jeffery J Morrell, Committee Member
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Virendra Puri, Committee Member

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

Author:

Parada Minakowski, Claudia Helena

Title:

AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK BASED TOOL-BOX FOR SCREENING AND DESIGNING IMPROVED OIL RECOVERY METHODS

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

IOR
reservoir simulation
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK
IMPROVED OIL RECOVERY
petroleum engineering

File:

Download Parada_PhD_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert W Watson, Committee Member
Luis F Ayala H, Committee Member
Mirna Urquidi Macdonald, Committee Member

Author:

Jablonowski, Christopher J.

Title:

Organizational, Operational, and Natural Hazards in the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry

Graduate Program:

Mineral Economics

Keywords:

value of information
detection controlled estimation
industrial organization

File:

Download eTD.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard Gordon, Committee Member
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Timothy Considine, Committee Member
Andrew Nathan Kleit, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

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:

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

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

Author:

Radespiel, Eduardo

Title:

A COMPREHENSIVE MODEL DESCRIBING TEMPERATURE BEHAVIOR IN HORIZONTAL WELLS: INVESTIGATION OF POTENTIAL BENEFITS OF USING A DOWNHOLE DISTRIBUTED TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

wellbore temperature
flux vector splitting
wellbore-reservoir coupling
black-oil
reservoir simulation
non-isothermal
horizontal well

File:

Download 2010_PhD_Radespiel.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin / Luis Ayala, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Luis Ayala, Committee Member
Zuleima T Karpyn, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member
Ronaldo Vicente, 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:

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

Author:

Aydogan, Fatih

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF UNCERTAINTY METHODOLOGY FOR COBRA-TF VOID DISTRIBUTION AND CRITICAL POWER PREDICTIONS

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

dry-out elevation
uncertainty analysis
bwr
cobra-tf
fatih aydogan
pennstate uncertainty methodology
void distribution
critical power
bwr bundle

File:

Download PHD_whole_document_version1.pdf

Committee Members:

Lawrence Hochreiter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Kurshad Muftuoglu, 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:

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

Author:

Zaghloul, Jose

Title:

Multiphase Analysis of Three-Phase Flow (Gas-Condensate-Water) Flow in Pipes

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

Three-Phase Flow
Multiphase Flow
Flow in pipes

File:

Download Thesis-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Adebola Adewumi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mku Thaddeus Ityokumbul, Committee Member
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member
Robert W Watson, Committee Member
Osama O Awadelkarim, Committee Member

Author:

Alrumah, Muhammad

Title:

A Study on the Analysis of the Formation of High Water Saturation zones around Well perforations

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

composite reservoir
water coning
water saturation

File:

Download M_Alrumah-Dissertation_15-August.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert W Watson, Committee Member
Yilin Wang, Committee Member
Li Li, Committee Member
Savash Yavuzkurt, Committee Member

Author:

Khandelwal, Manish

Title:

AN INTEGRATED APPROACH FOR MODELING OF WATER AND THERMAL TRANSPORT IN A POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELL AND STACK

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Fuel Cell
Modeling
Stack
two-phase
Thermo-osmosis

File:

Download khandelwal_PhDThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Clinton Matthew Mench, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew M Mench, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Litzinger, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member

Author:

Chidambaram, Prasanna

Title:

DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK BASED HISTORY MATCHING PROTOCOL TO CHARACTERIZE RESERVOIR PROPERTIES

Graduate Program:

Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Keywords:

Artificial neural network
History matching

File:

Download PhD_Thesis_PChidambaram.pdf

Committee Members:

Turgay Ertekin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Adebola Adewumi, Committee Member
Robert W Watson, Committee Member
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Committee Member