multivariate production systems optimization - Stanford University

Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Dr. Roland Horne for providing me with thoughtful guidance, sage
advice, and understanding patience. I also extend thanks to Dr. Khalid Aziz for providing
sound and judicious counsel and to Dr. Hank Ramey for his generous contributions.
I would like to thank Rafael Guzman for the time he invested proofreading several
drafts of this manuscript. I would also like to thank Cesar Palagi, Evandro Nacul,
Adalberto Rosa, Michael Riley, and Mariyamni Awang for providing a constant source of
quality advice. I would like to thank Russell Johns for providing experience in the drafting
of this manuscript. I would like to thank Suhail Qadeer and Daulat Mamora for helping me
with the computer hardware and David Brock and Chick Wattenbarger for being of
assistance with the computer graphics.
I would also like to express thanks to Dr. Walter Murray and Sam Eldersveld of the
Stanford Optimization Laboratory for their accessibility and helpfulness. I would like to
thank Dr. Jawahar Barua for writing a superb thesis that was instrumental in my fully
appreciating nonlinear concepts. I would like to thank Gunnar Borthne of the Norwegian
Institute of Technology and Godofredo Perez of the University of Tulsa for providing me
with computer programs that facilitated my work. I would also like to thank Joseph Gump
of Chevron, U.S.A., Gene Kouba of Chevron Exploration and Production Services, and
Dr. Rajesh Sachdeva of Simulation Sciences for providing me with a great deal of time and
help pertaining to system theory. I would like to thank Dr. Parvis Moin of NASA Ames
Research Center for inspiring my work by showing me the beauty and simplicity of
numerical methods.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Dr. Elias Schultzman and the
National Science Foundation for providing me with the financial capacity to pursue this
research. I would also like to thank the Stanford University Petroleum Research Institute
for providing resources and support.
Finally, I would like to thank the two most important people in the world, James
and Darlene Carroll, mom and dad, for giving me this opportunity.
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