In this dissertation several unresolved issues related to reservoir characterization and simulation techniques are investigated so that improvements can be made in their reliability and efficiency. Geostatistical techniques ...

Among the recent technological breakthroughs that have revolutionized the search for oil and its production are innova-tions realized in the field of horizontal drilling. Once dormant, this practice is fast becoming routine ...

In this dissertation, we devise a quantization scheme to construct eigenfunctions by classical periodic orbits in both regular systems as well as chaotic systems. Our method is based on the principle that eigenfunctions ...