Probability in petroleum and environmental engineering / / Leonid F. Khilyuk, George V. Chilingar, Herman H. Rieke

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910679728203321
• Autore: Khilyuk Leonid F
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Houston, Texas : , : Gulf Pub. Co., , [2005]; ©2005
• ISBN: 0-12-799970-1; 1-60119-125-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (292 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): RiekeHerman H
• Disciplina: 665.501; 665.5015192
• Soggetti: Petroleum engineering - Statistical methods; Environmental engineering - Statistical methods; Probabilities; Reliability (Engineering) - Statistical methods
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Probability in Petroleum and Environmental Engineering; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; PREFACE; LIST OF NOTATIONS; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION; THE APPROACH; OVERVIEW; INSTRUCTIONS; CHAPTER 2. EXPERIMENTS AND EVENTS; PRIMARY NOTIONS; ALGEBRA OF EVENTS; RELATION OF IMPLICATION; MAIN OPERATIONS WITH EVENTS; MAIN PROPERTIES OF THE OPERATIONS WITH EVENTS; THEOREM ON THE DECOMPOSITION OF AN EVENT INTO A COMPLETE SET OF EVENTS; INTERPRETATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL PHENOMENA AS EVENTS OF EXPERIMENTS; QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES; CHAPTER 3. SPACE OF ELEMENTARY EVENTS; PRELIMINARY REMARKSCOMPOSITION OF THE SPACE OF ELEMENTARY EVENTS; COMPOSITION OF THE SPACE OF ELEMENTARY EVENTS FOR AIR-QUALITY MONITORING AND FORECASTING; CHARACTERIZATION OF THE EUTROPHICATION OF A BAY WATER; QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES; CHAPTER 4. PROBABILITY OF RANDOM EVENTS; RANDOM EVENTS AND RANDOM EXPERIMENTS; THE CONCEPT OF PROBABILITY OF A RANDOM EVENT; ADEQUACY OF CHOSEN PROBABILISTIC SPACE TO ; THE GIVEN STOCHASTIC EXPERIMENT; COROLLARIES OF PROBABILITY AXIOMS; CLASSIC DEFINITION OF PROBABILITY; GEOMETRIC DEFINITION OF PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL DEFINITION OF PROBABILITY; QUESTIONS AND EXERCISESCHAPTER 5. CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY AND STOCHASTIC INDEPENDENCE; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY; FORMULA OF TOTAL PROBABILITY; BAYES' FORMULA; EXAMPLES OF APPLICATION; INDEPENDENCE OF EVENTS; MULTISTAGE PROBABILISTIC ASSESSMENT OF FAILURE; SIMPLIFIED PROBABILISTIC MODEL FOR AIR-QUALITY FORECASTING; PROBABILITY OF A WATER-PURIFICATION SYSTEM BEING FUNCTIONAL; QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES; CHAPTER 6. BERNOULLI DISTRIBUTION AND SEQUENCES OF INDEPENDENT TRIALS; BERNOULLI (BINOMIAL) DISTRIBUTION; SEQUENCE OF INDEPENDENT TRIALS AND ITS MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PROBABILISTIC SPACE FOR A SEQUENCE OF INDEPENDENT EXPERIMENTSBERNOULLI SCHEME OF INDEPENDENT TRIALS; EXAMPLES OF APPLICATION; APPLICATION OF THE BERNOULLI SCHEME FOR AIR-QUALITY ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES; CHAPTER 7. RANDOM VARIABLES AND DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; QUANTITIES DEPENDING ON RANDOM EVENTS; MATHEMATICAL DEFINITION OF A RANDOM VARIABLE; EVENTS DEFINED BY RANDOM VARIABLES; INDEPENDENT RANDOM VARIABLES; DISTRIBUTION OF A RANDOM VARIABLE: THE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; GENERAL PROPERTIES OF DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; DISCRETE RANDOM VARIABLES; CONTINUOUS RANDOM VARIABLES; GENERAL PROPERTIES OF DISTRIBUTION DENSITYDISTRIBUTION FUNCTION AND DISTRIBUTION DENSITY OF FUNCTIONS OF RANDOM VARIABLES; EVALUATING PROBABILITY OF SOIL AND GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES; CHAPTER 8. NUMERICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF RANDOM VARIABLES; INTRODUCTION; MATHEMATICAL EXPECTATION OF RANDOM VARIABLES; STATISTICAL MEANING OF MATHEMATICAL EXPECTATION; MAIN PROPERTIES OF MATHEMATICAL EXPECTATION; FUNCTIONS OF RANDOM VARIABLES; NONCORRELATED RANDOM VARIABLES; VARIANCE OF A RANDOM VARIABLE; MAIN PROPERTIES OF VARIANCE; OTHER CHARACTERISTICS OF DISPERSION; MOMENTS OF RANDOM VARIABLES OF A HIGHER ORDER
• Sommario/riassunto: Written by three of the world's most renowned petroleum and environmental engineers, Probability in Petroleumand Environmental Engineering is the first book to offer the practicing engineer and engineering student newcutting-edge techniques for prediction and forecasting in petroleum engineering and environmental management.The authors combine a rigorous, yet easy-to-understand, approach to probability and how it is applied topetroleum and environmental engineering to solve multiple problems that engineers or geologists face every day.