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Optimization of engineered water injection performance in heterogeneous carbonates: a numerical study on a sector model
One of the emerging technologies for boosting oil recovery in both sandstone and carbonate reservoirs is engineered/low-salinity water injection...
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Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Soil Based on Fractional-Order Differential Theory
In this paper, a new viscoelastic constitutive model is proposed based on fractional-order differential theory, replacing the Newtonian dashpot of...
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Twixt Wind and Waves: A First-Person Account of the Early Years of the Study of Oceanic Whitecaps
While describing my own field and laboratory research on oceanic, and fresh-water, whitecaps, I have tried to provide in this chapter a global...
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Controllable drilling parameter optimization for roller cone and polycrystalline diamond bits
Oil well drilling data from 23 oil wells in northern Iraq are analyzed and optimized controllable drilling parameters are found. The most widely used...
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Analysis of subdiffusion in disordered and fractured media using a Grünwald-Letnikov fractional calculus model
The increasing applications of fractional calculus in simulating the anomalous transport behavior in disordered and fractured heterogeneous porous...
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Very Long Baseline Interferometry
This chapter describes the theory and the individual operational steps and components needed to carry out geodetic and astrometric Very Long Baseline...
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Polarimetric Microphysical Retrievals
The retrieval of the mixing ratios for different hydrometeor types (or water and ice contents), median or mean volume diameter, and particle number...
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A benchmark for soil organic matter degradation under variably saturated flow conditions
Soil contains the largest terrestrial pool of organic matter, and the cycling of organic carbon in soils plays a crucial role in controlling...
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Exercises
This reading exercise aims to investigate if adiabatic (or isentropic) conditions exist in the deepest parts of the earth’s ocean, based on the...
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Crystals
The treatment of natural crystals cannot be very comprehensive, for obvious reasons, and I limit myself to some rock-forming minerals and to some...
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Performance Evaluation of Kernel-Based Supervised Noise Clustering Approach
Remote sensing data have been used for effective recognition and classification of land use and land cover features on Earth surface. This paper...
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Q full-waveform inversion based on the viscoacoustic equation
Presently, most full-waveform inversion methods are developed for elastic media and ignore the effect of attenuation. The calculation of the quality...
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Generative well pattern design—principles, implementation, and test on OLYMPUS challenge field development problem
A novel generative (well pattern) design approach is proposed for a reservoir well pattern design, building upon the observation that automated...
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A lattice-Boltzmann study of permeability-porosity relationships and mineral precipitation patterns in fractured porous media
Mineral precipitation can drastically alter a reservoir’s ability to transmit mass and energy during various engineering/natural subsurface...
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Magma fragmentation in highly explosive basaltic eruptions induced by rapid crystallization
Basaltic eruptions are the most common form of volcanism on Earth and planetary bodies. The low viscosity of basaltic magmas inhibits fragmentation,...
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Physical and Mathematical Description of the Manifestation of Wave Properties of Matter in Thermodynamic and Dynamic Processes of Spontaneous Structuring of Density-Unstable Masses
The natural science of geology is in the first place a descriptive science; nevertheless, in this field a large body of accumulated empirical...
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Analytical solution for solute transport from a pulse point source along a medium having concave/convex spatial dispersivity within fractal and Euclidean framework
In the present study, analytical solutions of the advection dispersion equation (ADE) with spatially dependent concave and convex dispersivity are...
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Pandora Box of Multifractals: Barely Open?
Three decades ago, multifractals were a major breakthrough in nonlinear geophysics by providing a general framework to understand, analyze, and...
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Predictive Assessment of Groundwater Flow Uncertainty in Multiscale Porous Media by Using Truncated Power Variogram Model
The spatial distribution of hydrogeological properties is essentially heterogeneous. Heterogeneity can be characterized quantitatively using...
