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Recent Theses in the Thermosciences Group of the Mechanical Engineering Department:
| THESIS # | AUTHOR | DATE | ADVISOR | TITLE |
| Lozano | Lozano, Antonio | Aug-92 | Hanson | Laser-Excited Luminescent Tracers for Planar Concentration Measurements in Gaseous Jets |
| Laux | Laux, Christophe | Aug-93 | Kruger | Optical Diagnostics and Radiative Emission of Air Plasmas (Atmospheric Reentry) |
| Tsai | Tsai, Nancy Ko-Chieh | Nov-99 | Mitchell | Influence of High Carbon Monoxide Concentration on the Carbon Dioxide Gasification of a Selected Coal Char |
| Akan-Etuk | Akan-Etuk, Aniefiok | May-03 | Mitchell | Rate-Limiting Mechanisms of Pyrite Transformation to Magnetite Under Simulated Pulverized Coal Firing Conditions |
| Campbell | Campbell, Paul | Nov-05 | Mitchell | Investigation Into the Roles of Surface Oxide Complexes and Their Distributions in the Carbon-Oxygen Heterogeneous Reaction Mechanism |
| TSD-101 | Rouson, Damian W. I. | Mar-97 | Eaton, Abrahamson | A Direct Numerical Simulation of Particle Laden Turbulent Channel Flow |
| TSD-102 | Storm, Victor | Apr-97 | Cappelli | Optical Investigation of Plasma Properties in the Interior of Arcjet Thrusters |
| TSD-103 | Elkins, Christopher J. | Apr-97 | Eaton | Heat Transfer in the Rotating Disc Boundary Layer |
| TSD-104 | Island, Tobin | Apr-97 | Mungal | Quantitative Scalar and Mixing Enhancement in Compressible Shear Layers |
| TSD-105 | Cedolin, Renato | Jun-97 | Cappelli | Laser-Induced Fluorescence Diagnostics of Xenon Plasmas |
| TSD-106 | Loh, Michael | Jul-97 | Cappelli | A Study of Diamond Synthesis in an Expanding Arcjet Plasma Flow |
| TSD-107 | Buice, Carl U. | Aug-97 | Eaton | Experiment Investigation of Flow Through an Asymmetric Plane Diffuser |
| TSD-108 | Batchelder, Keith | Aug-97 | Moffat | Towards a Method for Measuring Heat Transfer in Complex 3-D Flows |
| TSD-109 | Palmer, Jennifer | Sep-97 | Hanson | Advanced Diagnostics for Reacting Flows |
| TSD-110 | Kim, Joong Soo | Jan-98 | Cappelli | Combustion Synthesis of Diamond |
| TSD-111 | Petersen, Eric | Feb-98 | Hanson | A Shock Tube and Diagnostics for Chemistry Measurement at Elevated Pressures with Application to Methane Ignition |
| TSD-112 | Berns, Darren H. | Jun-98 | Cappelli | Ion-Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition of Thin Film Cubic Boron Nitride |
| TSD-113 | Portela, Luis | Jul-98 | Bradshaw | Identification and Characterization of Vortices in the Turbulent Boundary Layer |
| TSD-114 | Birrell, Dina | Aug-98 | Eaton | Two-Dimensional Temperature Control Using a Raster-Scanned Laser |
| TSD-115 | Kurabayashi, Katsuo | Aug-98 | Goodson | Thermal Transport Properties of Organic Film for Advanced VLSI Systems |
| TSD-116 | Furlong, Edward | Dec-98 | Hanson | Diode-Laser Absorption Spectroscopy Applied for the Active Control of Combustion |
| TSD-117 | Nagali, Venu | Dec-98 | Hanson | Diode Laser Study of High-Pressure Water-Vapor Spectroscopy |
| TSD-118 | DeGraaff, David | Jan-99 | Eaton | Reynolds Number Scaling of the Turbulent Boundary Layer on a Flat Plate and Swept and Unswept Bumps |
| TSD-119 | Urban, William | Mar-99 | Mungal | Planar Velocity Measurements in Compressible Mixing Layers |
| TSD-120 | Thurber, Mark | Mar-99 | Hanson | Acetone Laser-Induced Fluorescence for Temperature and Multiparameter Imaging in Gaseous Flows |
| TSD-121 | Hasselbrink, Ernest | Jul-99 | Mungal | Transverse Jets and Jet Flames: Structure, Scaling, and Effects of Heat Release |
| TSD-122 | Khan, Zia | Mar-99 | Johnston | On the Dominant Vortex Created by a Pitched and Skewed Jet in Crossflow |
| TSD-123 | Archambault, Mark | Apr-99 | Edwards | A Maximum Entropy Moment Closure Approach to Modeling the Evolution of Spray Flows |
| TSD-124 | Mihalcea, Radu | Apr-99 | Hanson | CO and CO2 Measurements in Combustion Environments Using External Cavity Diode Lasers |
| TSD-125 | Gessman, Richard | Aug-99 | Kruger | An experimental investigation of the effects of chemical and ionizational nonequilibrium in recombining atmospheric pressure air plasmas |
| TSD-126 | Ju, Yongho Sungtaek | Jun-99 | Goodson | Microscale Heat Conduction in Integrated Circuits and Their Constituent Films |
| Kamel | Kamel, Michel Roger | Sep-99 | Hanson | Combustion Modes Around Hypersonic Projectiles |
| TSD-127 | Wehe, Shawn | Sep-00 | Hanson | Development of a Tunable Diode Laser Probe for Measurements in Hypervelocity Flows |
| TSD-128 | Chou, Shang-I | Jul-00 | Hanson | Diode-Laser Absorption Spectroscopy of Hydrogen Halides for Semiconductor Plasma Process Diagnostics |
| TSD-129 | Zhao, Maosheng | Aug-01 | Kruger | Diamond Film Deposition With Discharge Enhanced Nonequilibrium |
| TSD-130 | Hargus, Bill | Jan-01 | Cappelli | Investigation of the Plasma Acceleration Mechanism Within a Coaxial Hall Thruster |
| TSD-131 | Webber, Michael | Jan-01 | Hanson | Diode Laser Measurements of NH3 and CO2 for Combustion and Bioreactor Applications |
| TSD-132 | Ben-Yakar, Adela | Dec-00 | Hanson | Experimental Investigation of Mixing and Ignition of Transverse Jets in Supersonic Crossflows |
| TSD-133 | Schmidt, Chad | Feb-01 | Bowman | Flow Reactor Study of the Effect of Pressure on the Thermal De-NOx Reaction |
| TSD-134 | Han, Donghee | Mar-01 | Mungal | Study of Turbulent Nonpremixed Jet Flames Using Simultaneous Measurements of Velocity and CH Distribution |
| TSD-135 | Horning, David | Jun-01 | Hanson | A Study of the High-Temperature Autoignition and Thermal Decomposition of Hydrocarbons |
| TSD-136 | Wahl, Edward | Jun-01 | Kruger | Laser-Based Diagnostics of Diamond Synthesis Reactors |
| TSD-137 | Paris, Tony | Jun-01 | Eaton | Turbulence Attenuation in a Particle-Laden Channel Flow |
| TSD-138 | Rossmann, Toby | Dec-01 | Hanson | An Experimental Investigation of High Compressibility Mixing Layers |
| TSD-139 | Yu, Lan | Aug-01 | Kruger | Nonequilibrium Effects in Two-Temperature Atmospheric Pressure Air and Nitrogen Plasmas |
| TSD-140 | Kirby, Brian | Jun-01 | Hanson | Infrared Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence Imaging and Applications to Imaging of Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Dioxide |
| TSD-141 | Wang, Jian | Aug-01 | Hanson | New Strategies of Diode Laser Absorption Sensors |
| TSD-142 | Sanders, Scott | Nov-01 | Hanson | Diode-Laser Sensors for Harsh Environments with Application to Pulse Detonation Engines |
| TSD-143 | Morris, Christopher | Dec-01 | Hanson | Shock-induced combustion in high-speed wedge flows |
| TSD-144 | Muņiz, Lorelei | May-02 | Mungal | Particle image velocimetry studies of turbulent nonpremixed flames |
| TSD-145 | Mukerji, Debjit | Mar-02 | Eaton | Spatially-resolved measurements of heat transfer in turbomachinery applications |
| TSD-146 | Song, Simon |
Apr-02 |
Eaton | Reynolds number effects on a turbulent boundary layer with separation, reattachment, and recovery |
| TSD-147 | Song, Soonho | Mar-02 | Hanson | Application of Frequency Modulation Spectroscopy to Shock Tube Studies of Elementary NH2 Reactions |
| TSD-148 | Cooper, Susan | Aug-02 | Eaton | Spatially-Resolved Surface Temperature Control Using Scanned Laser Heating |
| Meezan | Meezan, Nathan | Oct-02 | Cappelli | Electron Transport in a Coaxial Hall Discharge |
| TSD-149 | Solovitz, Stephen | Dec-02 | Eaton | Experimental Aerodynamics of Mesoscale Trailing-Edge Actuators |
| TSD-150 | Benson, Michael | May-03 | Eaton | The Effects of Wall Roughness on the Particle Velocity Field in a Fully Developed Channel Flow |
| TSD-151 | Burton, Tristan | Jul-03 | Eaton | Fully Resolved Simulations of Particle-Turbulence Interaction |
| TSD-152 | Packan, Denis | Sep-03 | Kruger | Repetitive Nanosecond Glow Discharge in Atmospheric Pressure Air |
| TSD-153 | Herbon, John | Jun-04 | Hanson | Shock Tube Measurements of CH3+O2 Kinetics and the Heat of Formation of the OH Radical |
| TSD-154 | Liu, Jonathan T.C. | Oct-04 | Hanson | Near-Infrared Diode Laser Absorption Diagnostics for Temperature and Species in Engines |
| TSD-155 | Kim, Suhong | Jun-04 | Hanson | Development of Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Sensors for a Large-Scale Arc-Heated-Plasma Wind Tunnel |
| TSD-156 | Segura, Judy | Sep-04 | Eaton | Predictive capabilities of particle-laden large eddy simulation |
| TSD-157 | Knappe, Brett | Dec-03 | Edwards | Spray Detonation in a Well-Characterized Homogeneous Mixture |
| TSD-158 | Oddy, Michael | Feb-05 | Santiago | Electrokinetic Transport Phenomena: Mobility Measurement and Electrokinetic Instability |
| TSD-159 | Koch, Jon | May-05 | Hanson | Fuel Tracer Photophysics for Quantitative Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence |
| TSD-160 | Oehlschlaeger, Matthew | Jun-05 | Hanson | Shock Tube Studies of Thermal Decomposition Reactions using Ultraviolet Absorption Spectroscopy |
| TSD-161 | Zhou, Xin | Jul-05 | Hanson | Diode-Laser Absorption Sensors for Combustion Control |
| TSD-162 | Ma, Lin | Dec-05 | Hanson | Laser Diagnostics for Simultaneous Vapor and Droplet Measurement in Sprays |
| TSD-163 | Lyle, Kent | Dec-05 | Hanson | Development of a Real-Time Diode-Laser Mass Flux Sensor for Simultaneous Measurement of Density and Velocity of Oxygen |
| TSD-164 | Mattison, Dan | Mar-06 | Hanson | Development and Application of Laser-Based Sensors for Harsh Combustion Environments |
| TSD-165 | Lee, Tonghun | Mar-06 | Hanson | Strategies For Nitric Oxide Laser-Induced-Fluorescence In High-Pressure Combustion Systems |
| TSD-166 | Hanson, Thomas C. | Dec-05 | Hanson | The Development of a Facility and Diagnostics for Studying Shock-Induced Behavior in Micron-Sized Aerosols |
| TSD-167 | Lee, Sunyoup | Jun-06 | Edwards | Development of Mesoscale Burner Arrays for Gas Turbine Reheat |
| TSD-168 | Liu, Xiang | Jun-06 | Hanson | Line-of-Sight Absorption of H2O Vapor: Gas Temperature Sensing in Uniform and Nonuniform Flows |
| TSD-169 | Somandepalli, Vijay | Mar-06 | Mungal | Combined PIV and PLIF Measurements in a Polymer Drag Reduced Turbulent Boundary Layer |
| TSD-170 | Ma, Liqiang | Aug-06 | Mitchell | Combustion and Gasification of Chars in Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide at Elevated Pressure |
| TSD-171 | Thomas, Cliff | Nov-06 | Cappelli | Anamolous Electron Transport in the Hall-Effect Thruster |
| TSD-172 | Li, Hejie | Sep-07 | Hanson | NEAR-INFRARED DIODE LASER ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY WITH APPLICATIONS TO REACTIVE SYSTEMS AND COMBUSTION CONTROL |
| TSD-173 | Vasudevan,Venkatesh | Sep-07 | Hanson | SHOCK TUBE MEASUREMENTS OF ELEMENTARY OXIDATION AND DECOMPOSITION REACTIONS IMPORTANT IN COMBUSTION USING OH, CH AND NCN LASER ABSORPTION |
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