Browsing Masters Theses by Issue Date
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Practical Approaches for Solving Lost Circulation Problems while Drilling
(2011-12-12)As the demand for petroleum resources increases, drilling of oil and gas wells are often carried out in challenging and hostile environments. Among the top ten drilling challenges facing the oil and gas industry today is ...
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Evaluating Uncertainty in the Volumes of Fluids in Place in an Offshore Niger Delta Field
(2011-12-12)The purpose of this work is to evaluate the uncertainty in the volumes of fluids in place in Fault Block A (Segment 3) of the G-1 Sands in the OND field located offshore Niger Delta. The evaluation was performed in three ...
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Vertical-Horizontal Permeability Relationships in Stress and Non Stress Sensitive Reservoirs
(2011-12-12)One of the important petrophysical parameter in reservoir description is the permeability distribution in a given reservoir. It is well known that most reservoir are heterogeneous in nature and homogeneous ones been the ...
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Formal and Operational Study of P-Devs
(2011-12-15)Discrete Event System Specification (DEVS) is a sound formal modeling and simulation (M&S) structure based on generic dynamic system concepts. PDEVS (Parallel Discrete Event System Specification) is a well-known formalism ...
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A Multimedia Learning System for Selected topics of Physics
(2011-12-15)The usage of computers in Physics Instruction began in the seventies and ever since then, lots of research efforts have been devoted to studying various emerging technologies and their impact on the learning process. ...
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Design and Simulation Study of a Scalable and Resilient Network Architecture for a Hybrid Cloud; Its Billing System
(2011-12-15)A Hybrid Cloud refers to a cloud computing environment that provides pay-as-you-go services to users using the integration of public and private clouds resources. Cloud computing is one of the latest areas in the field of ...
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Formal Analysis of DDML
(2011-12-15)We propose a framework for formal analysis of DEVS Driven Modeling Language (DDML) models in order to assess and evaluate the properties of DDML models. This framework semantically maps the hierarchical levels of DDML: ...
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Simulation Interoperability
(2011-12-15)DEVS models are implemented in various programming languages using various strategies. There is a scientific need to couple these models for larger simulations. Therefore there is a need for interoperability between these ...
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Spectral Theory of Compact Linear Operators and Applications
(2011-12-15)This Project primarily falls into the field of Linear Functional Analysis and its Applications to Eigenvalue problems. It concerns the study of Compact Linear Operators (i.e., bounded linear operators which map the closed ...
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Effects of Stretching on Flexible Organic Electronic Structures
(2011-12-15)This work presents the responses of optical properties and mechanical failure of layers of stretchable organic electronic structures under tension using analytical, simulations, and experimental techniques. The interfacial ...
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Theoretical and Computational Modeling of the Effects of Electromagnetic Field on the Plasmodium Falciparum
(2011-12-15)The study explores the potential effects of the remote application of cyclic magnetic field to the female anopheles mosquitoes that carry malaria parasites. The goal is to develop a theoretical basis that can guide the ...
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Differential Forms and Applications
(2011-12-15)This project deals mainly with Differential Forms on smooth Riemannian manifolds and their applications through the properties of their classical Differential and Integral Operators. The calculus of Differential Forms ...
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Modelling of Contact and Adhesion at Interfaces in Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells
(2011-12-15)The study of the structures and properties of organic materials for organic photovoltaic (OPV) applications and their interrelationships is a rapidly growing field of research, involving interdisciplinary efforts at the ...
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Effects of Bending on the Optoelectronic Properties and Failure Mechanism in Organic Photovoltaics
(2011-12-15)This research investigates the effects of bending on the electrical, optical, structural and mechanical properties of flexible organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells. Bulk heterojunction organic solar cells were fabricated on ...
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Minimum Principle of Pontryagin
(2011-12-15)This Project is at the interface between Optimization, Functional analysis and Differential equation. It concerns one of the powerful methods often used to solve optimization problems with constraints; namely Minimum ...
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Implantable Biomems Devices for Localized Breast Cancer Drug Delivery
(2011-12-15)Implantable Bio-Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (BioMEMS) represent a new class of devices that can provide localized cancer drug delivery by the combined effect of chemotherapy and hyperthermia which gives it an advantage ...
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Modeling of Cold Welding and Lamination of Organic and Hybrid Organic /INORGANIC Structures
(2011-12-15)This research work presents the results of analytical studies of effects of pressure and adhesion energy on the interfacial properties of cold welded and laminated surfaces in organic and Hybrid Organic/Inorganic electronic ...
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Abrasive Wear Studies of Pack Cyanided Mild Steel (PCMS)
(2011-12-15)This work aimed at using processed cassava leaves to pack cyanide mild steel (MS) under different treatment conditions and investigating the wear properties of the pack cyanided mild steel (PCMS). Pack cyaniding (PC) of a ...
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Modeling and Simulation of Stress Distribution and Crack Configuration of the Geometry of Ceramic Water Filter
(2011-12-15)Most countries in Africa are faced with difficult challenges in terms of providing safe, clean drinking water for their citizens. The world Health organization estimates that approximately 500 lives are lost per day in ...