The production performance of a shale reservoir is directly affected by the geomechanical characteristics formation. A target interval will ideally develop hydraulic fractures upon stimulation that stay open with aid injected proppant. However, shales are geomechanically complex due to heterogeneities in their rock properties such as mineralogy and porosity extent which they may be naturally fr...

The goal of this project was to provide an algorithm to produce an optimized VLSI placement of a circuit using a multi-level quadratic placement scheme of our own choice. We were to select and implement a C++ coarsening/uncoarsening scheme as well as a quadratic initial placement and refinement algorithm. A program (Domino) was provided to generate a detailed placement from our global placement...

background: proper placement of central venous catheter (cvc) tip could reduce early and late catheter-related complications.although the live fluoroscopy is standard of care for placement of the catheter, it is not available in many centers. therefore, the present study evaluated the sensitivity and specificity of bedside chest x-ray (cxr) for proper positioning of the catheter tip. materials ...