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The Role Of Thin Slices Of Behavior And Incentive Compensation In Employee Selection Decisions, Andrew Michael Carnes
The Role Of Thin Slices Of Behavior And Incentive Compensation In Employee Selection Decisions, Andrew Michael Carnes
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
Despite notable research attention, past studies addressing decision stability have provided conflicting recommendations regarding the stability and impact of initial impressions in an interview context. As a result, this dissertation focused on the integration of literature addressing decision making, employee selection, and influence processes in an attempt to provide both a theoretical and empirical foundation for future research addressing initial impressions throughout the interview process. Utilizing fuzzy trace theory and the thin slices of behavior literature, it was hypothesized that impressions formed at career fairs and at the beginning of interviews would account for significant variance in final impressions of …
Predictive Scenario For Premixed Methane-Air Flame Spreading And Explosion Triggering In A Mining Passage, Sri Hari Ramakrishna Chalagalla
Predictive Scenario For Premixed Methane-Air Flame Spreading And Explosion Triggering In A Mining Passage, Sri Hari Ramakrishna Chalagalla
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
To reveal the inner mechanism of gas explosion, the entire scenario of premixed flame front evolution within an accidental fire is prescribed, quantitatively, with the situation of a methane-air explosion in a mining passage as the primary application. Specifically, the key stages of flame evolution are scrutinized. First, a globally-spherical expansion of a centrally-ignited, embryonic flame, with a possibility of self-similar acceleration caused by the hydrodynamic (Darrieus-Landau) instability occurs. This stage provides an order of magnitude increase in the flame speed in realistically large mining passages. Second, a transition from a globally-spherical front to a finger-shaped one happens, when a …
Propagating Precipitation Waves In Hydrogels, Darrell Collison
Propagating Precipitation Waves In Hydrogels, Darrell Collison
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
In 1896, Raphael E. Liesegang discovered that precipitation reactions may produce striking precipi- tation rings and bands. More than a century later, propagating precipitation waves were discovered in similar reactions. The bands and rings discovered by Liesegang are static, but traveling precipitation waves exhibit complex spatiotemporal dynamics. Traveling waves are widespread and occur in both living and nonliving systems. Examples include calcium waves propagating through Xenopus laevis oocytes, cyclic AMP waves in colonies of Dictyostelium discordium cells, and spiral waves in propagating flames fronts. Recently, traveling waves were identified in a precipitation reaction involving AlCl3 and NaOH. The propagating precipitation …
Exploring The Anticipatory Socialization Stage Of Division I Student-Athletes: The Content, Characteristics, And Functions Of Memorable Messages, Gregory A. Cranmer
Exploring The Anticipatory Socialization Stage Of Division I Student-Athletes: The Content, Characteristics, And Functions Of Memorable Messages, Gregory A. Cranmer
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
The purpose of this dissertation was to explore the socialization of Division I student-athletes prior to their arrival on campus via the framework of organizational socialization and assimilation stage models, and by specifically examining the content, characteristics, and functions of the memorable messages they receive during their anticipatory stage of socialization. Using first cycle, initial coding and second cycle, pattern coding, results indicated that the content of student-athletes' memorable messages include 10 topics that can be categorized as either addressing the characteristics or experiences of collegiate student-athletes. The results of frequency counts regarding the characteristics of memorable messages indicate that …
Plasmonic Enhancement Mechanisms In Solar Energy Harvesting, Scott K. Cushing
Plasmonic Enhancement Mechanisms In Solar Energy Harvesting, Scott K. Cushing
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
Semiconductor photovoltaics (solar-to-electrical) and photocatalysis (solar-to-chemical) requires sunlight to be converted into excited charge carriers with sufficient lifetimes and mobility to drive a current or photoreaction. Thin semiconductor films are necessary to reduce the charge recombination and mobility losses, but thin films also limit light absorption, reducing the solar energy conversion efficiency. Further, in photocatalysis, the band edges of semiconductor must straddle the redox potentials of a photochemical reaction, reducing light absorption to half the solar spectrum in water splitting. Plasmonics transforms metal nanoparticles into antennas with resonances tuneable across the solar spectrum. If energy can be transferred from the …
Using Growth Curve Modeling To Describe Differential Patterns Of Change In College Level Student Academic Achievement Across Four Years Based On Degree Attainment And Mathematics Remediation, Zornitsa Georgieva
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
There is a focus on increasing the number of college degrees on national and state levels and a move toward performance-based funding for institutions of higher education. With these shifts, institutions need to study not only student persistence but student progression toward degree completion as well. This institutional case study of a single liberal arts four-year institution utilized academic momentum theory to examine college student academic performance trajectories across four years. Academic momentum theory poses that student initial academic progress defines a trajectory of subsequent progress and degree completion. Growth curve modeling was used to examine changes in student performance …
Middle And High School Science Teachers' Attitudes Toward Nanotechnology And Intention To Implement It In Science Classrooms, Nadira I. Ghattas
Middle And High School Science Teachers' Attitudes Toward Nanotechnology And Intention To Implement It In Science Classrooms, Nadira I. Ghattas
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
This study was designed to determine the relationship between attitudes toward nanotechnology and the intention of implementing it in science classrooms; to detect the relationship between attitudes and other influential factors (knowledge and self-confidence, professional development, professional context, personal research experience, and personal practice of bringing nanotechnology in science classrooms); to highlight the salient attitudes of science teachers toward nanotechnology and implementing its related content, materials, and activities in science classrooms; and to identify the salient factors that would facilitate the process of integrating nanotechnology in science classrooms.;Science Teachers' Attitudes toward Nanotechnology (STAT-N) survey and semi-structured interview were both used …
Clustering By Academic Major At Historically Black Colleges And Universities (Hbcus), Aaron Goodson
Clustering By Academic Major At Historically Black Colleges And Universities (Hbcus), Aaron Goodson
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Follow-up studies of clustering by academic major, the dynamic of 25% or more of the student-athletes on a roster pursuing the same academic major, indicate that it still occurs in revenue-generating sports (Fountain & Finley 2009, 2011; Otto, 2012). Clustering challenges the notion that student-athletes have control over their collegiate academic experience and reveals that their educational pursuits may not align with their professional goals or provide a meaningful educational experience (Sharp & Sheilley, 2008). Research on clustering is absent in member institutions of different NCAA divisions, institutions with unique missions and history (such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities …
Study Of 3-D Dynamic Roughness Effects On Flow Over A Naca 0012 Airfoil Using Large Eddy Simulations At Low Reynolds Numbers, Venkata Subba Sai Satish Guda
Study Of 3-D Dynamic Roughness Effects On Flow Over A Naca 0012 Airfoil Using Large Eddy Simulations At Low Reynolds Numbers, Venkata Subba Sai Satish Guda
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
There have been several advancements in the aerospace industry in areas of design such as aerodynamics, designs, controls and propulsion; all aimed at one common goal i.e. increasing efficiency --range and scope of operation with lesser fuel consumption. Several methods of flow control have been tried. Some were successful, some failed and many were termed as impractical. The low Reynolds number regime of 104 - 105 is a very interesting range. Flow physics in this range are quite different than those of higher Reynolds number range. Mid and high altitude UAV's, MAV's, sailplanes, jet engine fan blades, inboard helicopter rotor …
3d Seismic Attribute-Assisted Analysis Of Microseismic Events In The Marcellus Shale, Ariel Kelton Hart
3d Seismic Attribute-Assisted Analysis Of Microseismic Events In The Marcellus Shale, Ariel Kelton Hart
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
Microseismic monitoring is often used during the process of oil and gas exploitation to monitor seismicity that may be triggered by hydraulic fracturing, a common practice in the Appalachian Basin. Anthropogenically-induced minor upward fracture growth is not uncommon in the Marcellus shale; however, in the area of study, significant microseismic activity was registered above the target zone. In order to ascertain whether out-of-zone growth might have been predictable and identify which areas are more likely to experience brittle failure first, 3D seismic and microseismic data were analyzed with a focus on better understanding variations in the acoustic properties associated with …
Effect Of Wood Characteristics On Adhesive Bond Quality Of Yellow-Poplar For Use In Cross-Laminated Timbers, Daniel Hovanec
Effect Of Wood Characteristics On Adhesive Bond Quality Of Yellow-Poplar For Use In Cross-Laminated Timbers, Daniel Hovanec
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
Cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels are gaining more interest in North America, though CLTs are currently only approved for manufacture under ANSI/APA PRG-320 using select softwood species. Much of the low-grade Appalachian hardwood lumber produced has potential for being used to produce CLT panels given that necessary research data is developed to show that hardwood CLTs meet the requirements of the standard. One particular issue with using hardwood lumber in CLT panels is that it is often more difficult to achieve a strong, durable adhesive bond.;Among the Appalachian hardwood species, yellow-poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) is particularly abundant in West Virginia. The objective …
A Metamodel-Based Monte Carlo Simulation Approach For Responsive Production Planning Of Manufacturing Systems, Minqi Li
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Production planning is concerned with finding a release plan of jobs into the manufacturing system so that its actual outputs over time match the customer demand with the least cost. The biggest challenge of production planning lies in the difficulty to quantify the performance of a release plan, which is the necessary basis for plan optimization. Triggered by an input plan over a time horizon, the system outputs, work in process (WIP) and job departures, are non-stationary bivariate time series that interact with customer demand (another time series), resulting in the fulfillment/non-fulfillment of demand and in the holding cost of …
The Modeling And Stability Analysis Of Humans Balancing An Inverted Pendulum, Yaohui Ding
The Modeling And Stability Analysis Of Humans Balancing An Inverted Pendulum, Yaohui Ding
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
The control of an inverted pendulum is a classical problem in dynamics and control theory. Without active control, the inverted pendulum by itself is inherently unstable, thus serving as an ideal platform for control algorithms design and testing. This study utilizes an inverted pendulum setup to investigate the characteristics of manual control in executing a single-axial compensatory task. An inverted pendulum with sliding base on a single-axial rail was built for this purpose. Human subjects were asked to stabilize the pendulum by sliding the base on the rail. To mathematically quantify the characteristics of human manual control, a quasi-linear lead-lag …
Reversible Phospholipid Nanogels: An Alternative Matrix For Tunable High Resolution Dna Sieving With Enhanced Separation Efficiency And Accurate Extended Range Sizing By Capillary Gel Electrophoresis, Brandon C. Durney
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
In an aqueous solution the phospholipids dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3- phosphocholine (DMPC) and 1,2-dihexanoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DHPC) self-assemble to form thermo-responsive non-Newtonian fluids (i.e., pseudo-gels) in which small temperature changes of 5-6 °C decrease viscosity dramatically. This characteristic is useful for sieving-based electrophoretic separations (e.g., of DNA), as the high viscosity of linear sieving additives, such as linear polyacrylamide or polyethylene oxide, hinders the introduction and replacement of the sieving agent in microscale channels. While a practical advantage of utilizing phospholipid pseudo-gels for sieving is the ease with which they are introduced into the separation capillary, the separation performance of the material for DNA analyses …
Types Of Co-Existing Chronic Physical Conditions And Newly-Diagnosed Depression, Its Treatment And Economic Outcomes Among Medicaid Beneficiaries With Type 2 Diabetes, Rituparna Bhattacharya
Types Of Co-Existing Chronic Physical Conditions And Newly-Diagnosed Depression, Its Treatment And Economic Outcomes Among Medicaid Beneficiaries With Type 2 Diabetes, Rituparna Bhattacharya
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
Diabetes is a widely prevalent metabolic condition. Adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) also have many coexisting chronic physical conditions. Coexisting chronic physical conditions among individuals with T2DM may be concordant (conditions that overlap with T2DM in their pathogenesis and management plans such as cardiovascular diseases) or discordant (conditions with unrelated pathogenesis or management plans such as musculoskeletal disorders) or dominant (conditions whose severity eclipses all other illness management plans such as metastatic cancer). There is documented evidence on the negative consequences of depression in adults with T2DM. However, there is only limited knowledge on how the types of …
Use Of Protein Immobilization To Measure Cytochrome P450 Conduction And Metabolism Kinetics, Christopher D. Bostick
Use Of Protein Immobilization To Measure Cytochrome P450 Conduction And Metabolism Kinetics, Christopher D. Bostick
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
Cytochrome P450s (P450s) are a large family (>11,000) of heme thiolated proteins that are responsible for ~ 75% of the metabolism of pharmaceuticals on the market. Understanding P450 mediated metabolism is crucial for accurate in vitro predictions of drug metabolism. P450 protein-protein interactions have been shown to alter enzyme catalytic activity. Furthermore, these interactions are isoform specific, and can elicit activation, inhibition, or no effect on enzymatic activity. Studies show these effects are also dependent on the protein binding partner cytochrome P450 reductase (CPR), and the order of protein addition to purified reconstituted enzyme systems. In the current work, …
An Actor's Process In Performing The Role Of Oberon In William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Kyle Walter
An Actor's Process In Performing The Role Of Oberon In William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Kyle Walter
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
I was actually fortunate enough to choose the role I could use to write my thesis on during my last year of graduate school here at West Virginia University. I played the role of Martin in Theresa Rebeck's Seminar in the production of the WVU School of Theatre and Dance season; however I chose to use Oberon for multiple reasons.;I was originally going to use both roles and write a sort of compare and contrast document. I realize that would have been a "Midsummer Nightmare." So this decision led me here, taking on Oberon. I wanted to attempt to put …
An Examination Of Job Satisfaction Related To Generational Cohorts And Faculty Status Of West Virginia University Extension Service County Faculty, Susan K. Gamble
An Examination Of Job Satisfaction Related To Generational Cohorts And Faculty Status Of West Virginia University Extension Service County Faculty, Susan K. Gamble
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
Retention of county Extension faculty has been identified as a significant challenge facing the Extension Service system across the country (ECOP LAC, 2005). There are several influences that contribute to employee turnover in the Extension Service, including: burnout, dissatisfaction with pay related to the amount of time worked, downsizing, long and abnormal work hours including nights and weekends, balancing work and family, and job stress (Boltes, Lippke, & Gregory, 1995; Bradley, Driscoll, & Bardon, 2012; ECOP LAC, 2005; Ensle, 2005; Fetsch & Kennington, 1997; Kutilek, Conklin, & Gunderson, 2002; Rousan & Henderson, 1996). Within their positions, Extension personnel are required …
The Modeling And Advanced Controller Design Of Wind, Pv And Battery Inverters, Junbiao Han
The Modeling And Advanced Controller Design Of Wind, Pv And Battery Inverters, Junbiao Han
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
Renewable energies such as wind power and solar energy have become alternatives to fossil energy due to the improved energy security and sustainability. This trend leads to the rapid growth of wind and Photovoltaic (PV) farm installations worldwide. Power electronic equipments are commonly employed to interface the renewable energy generation with the grid. The intermittent nature of renewable and the large scale utilization of power electronic devices bring forth numerous challenges to system operation and design. Methods for studying and improving the operation of the interconnection of renewable energy such as wind and PV are proposed in this Ph.D. dissertation.;A …
Application Of Neural Network Techniques To Downscale Precipitation, Javad Rahimikollu
Application Of Neural Network Techniques To Downscale Precipitation, Javad Rahimikollu
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
Global climate change is a major area of concern to public and climate researchers. It impacts flooding, crop yields, water based diseases, etc. Significant effort has gone into developing climate models. Global climate models use a coarse grid of 300x300 Km2, while the resolution of interest for the hydrologist is 50x50 Km2.;Downscaling is the tool to map the large-scale global climate properties to a finer grid size in order to accurately predict climate variables such as precipitation. This study utilized Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and Hybrid Support Vector Regression (HSVR) methods to predict precipitation at a finer grid, based on …
Experimental And Theoretical Studies Of Kinetics And Quality Parameters To Determine Spontaneous Combustion Propensity Of U.S. Coals, Xinyang Wang
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
Spontaneous combustion is one of the most serious problems to mine safety and production in the global coal industry. It is considered to be the trigger for fires and explosions in underground coal mines especially for gassy mines. Such thermal events are not easily detectable since they normally occur in inaccessible gob and sealed area. It is also difficult to find the most likely hot point accurately. Admittedly, determination of the propensity for spontaneous combustion before mining activity should be a necessary step in the design of a mine and ventilation plan. However, due to the complexity of the chemical …
Watershed - A Transdisciplinary Social Design Process Applied To An Environmental Issue, Forrest Thomas Conroy
Watershed - A Transdisciplinary Social Design Process Applied To An Environmental Issue, Forrest Thomas Conroy
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
Wicked problems are often vast, complex, and difficult to navigate. Often used in dealing with social design issues, the term "wicked" is intended to connote a problem that is difficult to define and solve rather than its moral implications.1 These problems, like watershed maintenance and pollution mitigation, involve an entwined community of diverse players, intricate systems, and ever-changing terrain. Because of their pluralistic nature, these problems can seem impossible to solve and even impossible to understand. This requires a collective approach and new ways of thinking to create better understanding and solutions. Important changes occur when citizens are knowledgeable, see …
Evolutionary Search Techniques With Strong Heuristics For Multi-Objective Feature Selection In Software Product Lines, Abdel Salam Sayyad
Evolutionary Search Techniques With Strong Heuristics For Multi-Objective Feature Selection In Software Product Lines, Abdel Salam Sayyad
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
Software design is a process of trading off competing objectives. If the user objective space is rich, then we should use optimizers that can fully exploit that richness. For example, this study configures software product lines (expressed as feature models) using various search-based software engineering methods. Our main result is that as we increase the number of optimization objectives, the methods in widespread use (e.g. NSGA-II, SPEA2) perform much worse than IBEA (Indicator-Based Evolutionary Algorithm). IBEA works best since it makes most use of user preference knowledge. Hence it does better on the standard measures (hypervolume and spread) but it …
A Multi-Agent Design For Power Distribution Systems Automation, M. Jawad Ghorbani
A Multi-Agent Design For Power Distribution Systems Automation, M. Jawad Ghorbani
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
A new Multi Agent System (MAS) design for fault location, isolation and restoration in power distribution systems is presented. In proposed approach, when there is a fault in the Power Distribution System (PDS), MAS quickly isolates the fault and restores the service to fault-free zones. Hierarchical coordination strategy is introduced to manage the agents which integrate the advantages of both centralized and decentralized coordination strategies. In this framework, Zone Agent (ZA) locate and isolate the fault based on the locally available information and assist the Feeder Agent (FA) for reconfiguration and restoration. FA can solve the restoration problem using the …
Fully Coupled Finite Element Model To Study Multiple Hydraulic Fracturing In Heterogeneous Tight Formations, Ruizhi Zhong
Fully Coupled Finite Element Model To Study Multiple Hydraulic Fracturing In Heterogeneous Tight Formations, Ruizhi Zhong
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Hydraulic fracturing is a widely used technique in industry to enhance oil and gas recovery. The process involves the injection of fracking fluid with high pressure into the wellbore to propagate initial fractures generated during well perforation. It is a coupled process of fluid and rock mechanics one controlling the fluid movement and other fracture propagation. There is a lack of reliable and robust simulation technique that can couple these two processes at the same time being practical for large domain size of hydraulic fracturing in the field scale. In hydraulic fracturing, multiple fractures are also created within one cluster …
Computational Strategies For Faster Combustion Simulations With Detailed Chemistry, Jose A. Escobar-Vargas
Computational Strategies For Faster Combustion Simulations With Detailed Chemistry, Jose A. Escobar-Vargas
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)
Combustion of fossil fuels is still the biggest source of power generation in the world. However, pollutants released to the atmosphere from combustion represent a risk for human health and the environment. Hence it is desirable to design a combustor that produces the maximum useful thermal power output while keeping low concentration levels of harmful emissions such as CO, P.M., NOx, and SOx. In the past, combustor design was aided by the compilation of large sets of experimental data and the development of empirical correlations which is an expensive process. Nowadays numerical simulations have become an important tool in the …
Optimal Scheduling Of Power Plant Maintenance With Gas Portfolio, Yixin Du
Optimal Scheduling Of Power Plant Maintenance With Gas Portfolio, Yixin Du
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Power plant maintenance scheduling aims at defining the sequence of preventive maintenance outages of each unit over the planning time horizon so that the overall costs are minimized and all the constraints are satisfied. Optimization in maintenance scheduling could reduce greenhouse gases and help meeting the surging global energy demand. Maintenance scheduling with gas portfolio could not only cut down the cost for purchasing gas and performing maintenance in the power plant, they could also stabilize the gas network and electricity grid. The goal of this research is to build an applicable mathematical model for optimizing the maintenance scheduling as …
Numerical Investigation Of The Influence Of Elevated Turbulence Levels On The Cooling Effectiveness Of An Anti-Vortex Hole Geometry, Timothy William Repko
Numerical Investigation Of The Influence Of Elevated Turbulence Levels On The Cooling Effectiveness Of An Anti-Vortex Hole Geometry, Timothy William Repko
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A novel film cooling hole geometry for use in gas turbine engines has been investigated numerically by solving the Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes equations in a commercial CFD code (STAR-CCM+) with varying turbulence intensity and length scale using the k-o SST turbulence model. Both steady and unsteady results were considered in order to investigate the effects of freestream turbulence intensity and length scale on this novel anti-vortex hole (AVH) concept. The AVH geometry utilizes two side holes, one on each side of the main hole, to attempt to mitigate the vorticity from the jet from the main hole. The AVH concept …
Assessment Strategies For Mixing In Very Viscous Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flows, Sharad Chand Ravinuthala
Assessment Strategies For Mixing In Very Viscous Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flows, Sharad Chand Ravinuthala
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Bottom heating approach for glass melting offers potential benefits of higher efficiency and lower emissions compared to the conventional surface fired melters with burners above the bath surface. Recent advances in the enabling technologies such as burners, controls, heat recovery and refractive materials have led to successful demonstration of bottom heating Submerged Combustion Melting (SCM) of glass. In the reactor, combustion products of natural gas combustion are bubbled through the three phase recirculating tank reactor. The turbulence generated by the rising bubble column causes rapid heating and mixing of the charge resulting in fast melting and homogeneous composition of the …
Assisted History Matching Using Pattern Recognition Technology, Alireza Shahkarami
Assisted History Matching Using Pattern Recognition Technology, Alireza Shahkarami
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Reservoir simulation and modeling is utilized throughout field development in different capacities. Sensitivity analysis, history matching, operations optimization and uncertainty assessment are the conventional analyses in full field model studies. Realistic modeling of the complexities of a reservoir requires a large number of grid blocks. As the complexity of a reservoir increases and consequently the number of grid blocks, so does the time required to accomplish the abovementioned tasks.;This study aims to examine the application of pattern recognition technologies to improve the time and efforts required for completing successful history matching projects. The pattern recognition capabilities of Artificial Intelligence and …