Thesis Defenses

Name Date Time Room
Title
Advisor
Shima Hashemian 05/28/2008 11:00am ERC 490

Correlation Between Damage and Microstructure in Shock Loaded Copper Multicrystals

Dr. Pedro Peralta
Jacob Boydston 04/16/2008 4:30pm ERC 490

Detached Eddy Simulation of High Reynolds Number Flow Over A Rectangular Cavity

Dr. Kyle Squires
Jared Burdick 04/18/2008 9:00am ERC 490

Synthesis and Characterization of Six Novel Alumina Templates Synthesized Nanowires

Dr. Jonathan Posner/ Joseph Wang
Raghavendra Krishnamurthy 03/18/2008 9:00am ISTB2 227

Retrieval of the Dissipation of Turbulent Kinetic Energy From Coherent Doppler Lidar Data

Dr. Ronald Calhoun
David Sonenschein 04/04/2008 10:00am ERC 490

Evaporation and Combustion Characteristics of Nanoparticle-Laden Fuel Droplets

Dr. Taewoo Lee
S.M. Mahbub Murshed 01/29/2008 10:30am GWC 472

Development of Techspec Model for Legacy Systems Engineering

Dr. Jami Shah
Vivek Krishnan 01/24/2008 12:30pm ERC 490

Advancing Detached Eddy Simulation

Dr. Kyle Squires
Michael Zen Hill 11/27/2007 9:00am GWC 487

Coplanar Doppler Lidar Retrieval of Rotors from T-Rex 2006

Dr. Ronald Calhoun
Heath Lorzel 11/14/2007 12:00pm GWC 409

Three-Dimensional Modeling of Magnetic Nozzle Processes

Dr. Pavlos Mikellides
Moutushi Tanjia Zakir 11/07/2007 3:00pm GWC 409

Spin Up and Spin Down Experiments in a Closed Basin

Dr. Don Boyer
Guru Navaneetham 10/29/2007 2:30pm ERC 490

Electrokinetic Instabilities of Non Dilute Colloidal Suspensions

Dr. Jonathan D. Posner
Adrian Dumitrescu 07/27/2007 1:30pm ERC 593 A Computational Model of a Hybrid Solid Oxide Fuel Cell/Gas Turbine Power Plant Dr. Ramendra Roy and Dr. Taewoo Lee
Sivasankar Ganesan 07/27/2007 10:30am ISTB2 227 Flow Field in a Rotor-Stator Disk Cavity With and Without Pre-Swirled Secondary Air Dr. Ramendra Roy
Tamara Rodic 07/24/2007 11:00am ERC 593 On Interstitial Transport in the Brain Tissue Dr. Kangping Chen
Rahul Bhardwaj 06/25/2007 10:00am ISTB2 227 An Urban Energy Balance For the Phoenix, Arizona, Metropolitan Area Dr. Patrick Phelan
Kapil Krishnan 06/07/07 2:00pm ERC 490 Using Virtual Testing Methodology For Topology Optimization Subramaniam Rajan
Abhishek Jain 06/01/07 11:00am GWC 487 Continuous Hydrodynamic Separation of Particles in a Pinched Microchannel Dr. Jonathan Posner
Adarsh Ayyar 06/01/07 10:00am ERC 490 Numerical Modeling of Damage and Crack Growth In Particle Reinforced Composites David Laananen and Nikhilesh Chawla
Jeff Ward 04/20/07 3:00pm GWC 487 Dynamic Pace Controller for the Robotic Gait Trainer and Stroke Survivor Case Study Dr. Thomas Sugar
David Miller 04/20/07 1:00pm ERC 593 Wave Propagation in Structural Health Monitoring Dr. Aditi Chattopadhyay
Vishal Vasan Spring 2007 N/A N/A Spin up and Down in Axisymmetric Containers Dr. Don Boyer
Lionel Metchop Spring 2007 N/A N/A 1-D Analysis of Desorption Phenomenon and Performance Analysis of a Dissicant Air Conditioning System Dr. Patrick Phelan
Yun Han Spring 2007 N/A N/A Amplification of Blade Response due to Mistuning: Predication and Alleviation Dr. Marc Mignolet
Tianhua (Tim) Duan Spring 2007 N/A N/A Transport and Reaction of Photocatalytic Oxidation of VOCs Dr. Patrick Phelan
Carl Hippner Spring 2007 N/A N/A Computational Fluid Dynamic Flow Models of a Capillary Network Dr. Patrick Phelan
Santosh Ramachandran Fall 2006 N/A N/A Modeling Structural Response of Composite Beams using Fiber Optic Bragg Grating Sensors Dr. Aditi Chattopadhyay
David Krzyzanowski Fall 2006 N/A N/A Elastic and Inelastic Behavior of Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Polystyrene Dr. Aditi Chattopadhyay
Vinit Rege Fall 2006 N/A N/A N/A Dr. Kyle D. Squires
Venkatraman Radhakrishnan Fall 2006 N/A N/A N/A Dr. Ronald J. Adrian
Manikanta Pakala Fall 2006 N/A N/A N/A Dr. Kyle D. Squires
Mahesh Jayaraman Fall 2006 N/A N/A N/A Dr. Kangping Chen
Alex Harris Fall 2006 N/A N/A N/A Dr. Jami Shah
Dragan Zajic Fall 2006 N/A N/A Flow and Turbulence in Urban Roughness Canopy Dr. Harindra Fernando
Santanu Das Fall 2006 N/A N/A Development of a Wave-Based Sendor-Integrated Structural Health Monitoring Procedure for Composite Laminates Dr. Aditi Chattopadhyay
Sachin Badarayani 11/22/06 12:00pm ERC 593 On the Wall Layer Models for Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Flows Dr. Kyle Squires
Ajit Batwal 11/20/06 10:00am ERC 490 Finite Element Simulations of Indentation in an Isotropic Elastic-Plastic Materials Using Pyramidal and Blunt Indenters Dr. Pedro Peralta
Gaurav Ameta 11/17/06 8:30am GWC 472 Statistical Tolerance Analysis and Allocation for Assemblies using Tolerance-Maps Dr. Joseph Davidson
Aykut Mehmet Oymagil 11/17/06 12:30pm ECG 315 Control of A Regenerative Braking Powered Ankle Foot Otrhosis Dr. Thomas Sugar
Thomas Korb 11/16/06 2:30pm GWC 487 The Effect of Metal-Oxide Scales on Hot Surface Ignition of Hydrogen-Air Mixtures Dr. Robert Peck
Zhihe Zhao 09/08/06 1:30pm GWC 487 Numerical Simulation of Scour Around Fixed and Sagging Pipelines Using A Two-Phase Model Dr. Harindra Fernando
Gagandeep Singh 08/03/06 3:00pm GWC 472 Tolerance-Maps Applied to Patterns of Features Dr. Joseph Davidson
Richard Joseph Morrison 08/15/06 10:00am ERC 490 Studies of Wake Signatures in Shallow Fluid Layers: Laboratory Experiments and Phenomenological Modeling Dr. Harindra Fernando
Linfa Zhu 07/24/06 10:00am Computer

Commons 123

Multiscale Numerical Simulation of High Velocity Impact of Composite Structures Dr. Aditi Chattopadhyay
Anupama Mattegunta 06/08/06 1:00pm ERC 490 Estimations of Turbulent Kinetic Energy Dissipation Rate From Coherent Doppler Lidar Measurements Dr. Ronald Calhoun
Sorin L. Munteanu 05/26/06 10:30am ERC 593 An Efficient Approach to Solve Nonlinear Aeroelastic Problems Involving Thermal Effect Dr. Aditi Chattopadhyay
Joo Seng Gui 05/24/06 3:00pm Tempe

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Impact of Modern Engineered Roads and Pavements on Urban Heat Island Effect in a City Dr. Patrick Phelan
Gerin M. Goldensoph 05/15/06 10:00am ERC 490 The Influence of Filtering on the Motion of Heavy Particles in Gas-Phase Turbulence Dr. Kyle D. Squires
Sukumar Srikant 04/20/06 9:15am PE E155 System Identification and Inertia Compensated Control of a Planar Manipulator Dr. Thomas Sugar
Pradeep Manikonda 04/21/06 1:30pm GWC 487 Dynamic Behavior and First Experimental Validation of a Variable Geometry Exciter Dr. Marc Mignolet
Abhay Paranjape 04/21/06 9:30am PSYN 320 Perceptual Navigation Strategies for Mobile Robots Intercepting Ground Balls Dr. Thomas Sugar
Madhu Medichalam 04/20/06 4:00pm GWC 472 Recognition of Prismatic Features Using the NREP Language Dr. Jami Shah
Jong-Seung Park 04/20/06 1:00pm GWC 216 Characterization of Transmission Laser Bonding (TLB) Technique for Wafer Level Packaging Dr. Ampere Tseng
Bao Q. Nguyen 04/13/06 1:30pm ERC 593 Non-Axisymmetric End Wall Contouring for Turbine Inlet Guide Vanes Dr. Kyle Squires
Noe Vargas-Hernandez 12/22/05 1:00pm GWC472 A Basis for the Development and Validation of Design Ideation Models for Conceptual Engineering Design Dr. Jami Shah
Robert Heap 12/02/05 10:30am ISTB2 225 Postprocessing of Coherent Doppler LIDAR Data from Joint Urban 2003 Dr. Ron Calhoun
Kevin Hollander 11/22/05 10:00am GWC 472 Design and Control of Wearable Robot Actuators Dr. Thomas Sugar
Bo Yang 11/21/05 1:00 pm ERC 490 Random Response and Fatigue Life of Aircraft Panels Subjected to Severe Acoustic and Thermal Loads Dr. Marc Mignolet
Venkatesh Vadakkapattu 11/18/05 1:00 pm ISTB2 225 Computational Fluid Dynamic Simulations of Complex Flows Using Fluent Dr. Taewoo Lee
Kwangkeun Kim 11/18/05 4:00 pm ISTB2 227 On the Distribution of Peaks and Ranges of Dynamic Models of the Linear and Nonlinear Responses of Plates Dr. Marc Mignolet
Sridhar Nara 11/17/05 3:30 pm ECG 336 Effect of Varying Base Fluid on the Static Thermal Conductivity of Nanofluids Dr. Patrick Phelan
Yabin Liao 11/15/05 2:00 pm ERC 490 Estimation of Complex Modulus Using Wave Coefficients Dr. Valana Wells
Sridhar Balasubramanian 11/15/05 1:00 pm GWC 409 Ribble Dynamics and Mine Burial in Costal Zones: Laboratory Experiments and Model Evaluation Dr. Harindra Fernando
Kiran Varahala 11/15/05 11:00 am GWC 487 Gas Turbine Emissions Reduction by Combustion in Porous Media: An Experimental Study Dr. Robert Peck
Seon-Ho Choi 11/15/05 10:30 am GWC 216 Kinematics of Stage II Fatigue Crack Propagation: A Quantification of the Plastic Blunting Process in One-Phase Metallic Materials Dr. Pedro Peralta
David Boswell 11/14/05 2:00 pm ERC 490 The Gradient Richardson Number Measurements in Nocturnal Boundry Layer: Effects of Spatial Resolution Dr. Harindra Fernando
Chitralekha Nahar 11/04/05 10:00 am GWC 472 Evaluation and Control of an Omni-Directional Perturbation Platform for Balance Studies Dr. Thomas Sugar
Amit Gupta 10/20/05 1:00 pm ERC 193 Flow Through A Building Cluster: A Numerical Study Dr. Harindra Fernando
Shiqiao Li 10/07/05 2:00 pm GWC 472 Identification and Recognition of User-Defined Turning Features for Tuned and Mill/Turn Parts Dr. Jami Shah
Kartik Bharadwaj 10/07/05 9:00 am GWC 472 Design and Control of a Robotic Gait trainer using Spring over Muscle Actuators for Stroke Rehabilitation of the Ankle Joint Dr. Thomas Sugar
Zhengshu Shen 10/06/05 9:00 am GWC 472 Development of a Framework for a Set of Computer Aided Tools for Tolerance Analysis Dr. Jami Shah
Nilesh Joshi 09/30/05 2:00 pm GWC 472 Data Exchange of User Defined Features Using Neutral Representation Language Dr. Jami Shah
Zheng Wang 09/23/05 12:40 pm GWC 472 Theory for a mobile robot intercepting projectiles above or below the horizon Dr. Thomas Sugar
Nikhil Hegde 08/08/05 10:00 am GWC 487 Flow and Heat Transfer Analysis of Heat Recovery Steam Generators Dr. Taewoo Lee

Dr. Ramendra Roy

Goang Choi 07/28/05 9:00 am ERC 490 Effects of columb friction on Aeroelastic system Dr. Marc Mignolet
V.K. Chaitanya Pakala 07/27/05 10:00 am GWC 487 On the adjustment to rest of impulsively initiated coastal currents along a continuous shelf/slope Dr. Don Boyer
Kringan Saha 07/27/05 10:00 am GWC 487 Investigation of multiphase flow modeling on mineral sequestration processes Dr. Kyle Squires
Diganta Narzary 07/26/05 2:30 pm ECG 336 Experimental study of the flow field in a model rotor-stator disk cavity Dr. Ramendra Roy
Bing Xiao 07/18/05 9:30 am ERC 490 Blade model identification and maximum amplification of forced response due to mistuning Dr. Marc Mignolet
Prakash Vijayan 07/14/05 11:00 am ERC 490 Effect of particle material on the static thermal conductivity of Nanofluids Dr. Patrick Phelan
Prajesh Bhattacharya 06/29/05 2:00 pm ERC 593 Thermal Conductivity and Colloidal Stability of Nanofluids Dr. Patrick Phelan
Santosh Krishnamurthy 06/15/05 10:00 am ERC 490 Dynamics of paramagnetic particle chains and experimental studies on mass diffusion in nanofluids Dr. Patrick Phelan
Anastasios Frantzis 06/10/05 11:00 am ERC 490 Viability of solar-powered adsorption cooling in Phoenix. Arizona Dr. Patrick Phelan
Ahmed Alghandoor 05/16/05 2:00 pm ERC 490 A multi-level energy modelling of U.S. manufacturing:Tools,Analysis and applications Dr. Patrick Phelan
Ravi Gupta 04/22/05 9:00 am ECG 347 Nanofabrication of Fluidic Components for Linear DNA Analysis Dr. Ampere Tseng
Eric Loomis 04/20/05 9:00 am GWC 487 The Effect of Grain Boundaries on the Deformation Mechanisms of NiAl During Laser-Induced Shock Loading Dr. Pedro Peralta
Cristian Dumitrescu 04/15/05 10:00 am ERC 490 Hydraulic Phenomena in Urban Flows Dr. Harindra Fernando
Zuozhi Zhao 02/04/05 2:30 pm GWC 472 A Domain Independent Design for Manufacturing Framework Based on Benefit Cost Analysis Dr. Jami Shah
Anthony Agelastos 01/19/05 10:00 am ERC 593 Effects of Coulomb Friction on Flutter And Limit Cycle Oscillations According To A Structural Dynamic Model Dr. Marc Mignolet
Bereket Kiflu 01/18/05 9:00 am ERC 490 Analysis of Mistuned Bladed Disks by a Reduced Order Modeling Technique: Validation, Identification, and Stochastic Modeling Dr. Marc Mignolet
Antonio Rinaldi 12/08/04 1:00 pm ERC 593 Bridging the Scales With Statistical Damage Mechanics Dr. Dusan Krajcinovic
Richard Waskowsky 12/07/04 2:30 pm GWC 487 Optimizating the Geometry of a Paramagnetic Particle Based Flow-Through Sensor Dr. Ronald Calhoun
Chyi Hwang Lim 12/07/04 1:00 pm ERC 193 Characterization and Modeling of Compression Shocked Nickel Aluminium Single Crystals Dr. Pedro Peralta
Vivek Krishnan 12/06/04 1:30 pm ERC 593 Separated Flow Characteristics Over a Hump Dr. Kyle Squires
Kulwinder Singh 12/03/04 1:30 pm ECG 215 Simulation and Modeling of Particle-Laden Flows - Fundamental Modeling and Practical Applications Dr. Kyle Squires
Darcy L. Allison 12/03/04 12:30 pm ERC 193 An Ammonia Thermochemical Model for the Study of Pulsed Inductive Thruster Processes Dr. Pavlos Mikellides
Deepak Ganapathy 12/02/04 10:00 am ECG 317 Experimental Studies and Eluerian-Lagrangian Simulations of Mangneto-Rheological Suspensions Dr. Patrick Phelan
Sachidanand Sunil 07/28/04 2:00 pm ERC 593 A Computational Model for Power Plant Circulating Water System Dr. Ramendra Roy
Xun Sun 07/22/04 1:30 pm ERC 593 Analysis of Complex Flows in Power Plant Heat Recovery Steam Generators Dr. Taewoo Lee
Jarmo Monttinen 07/20/04 9:00 am ERC 490 Computational Study of the Effect of Winglets on the Performance of Micro-Aerial Vehicles

Dr. Helen Reed
Dr. William Saric

Abhishek Yadav 06/14/04 09:00 am GWC 409 Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of Magneto-Rheological Suspensions Dr. Ronald Calhoun
Walter Sharp 05/06/04 10:00 am GWC 216 Revised Dynamics and H-Infinity Control Parameter Study for the Harvee Tilt-Wing Dr. Valana Wells
John Chester Krainski 05/05/04 12:30 pm ERC 490 Improving X-50A Transient Response to External Disturbances in the Presence of Actuator Rate Limiting Dr. Chen-Yuan Kuo
Gaurav Ameta 05/04/04 9:00 am GWC 472 Tolerance-Maps Applied to Angled Faces and Two Clusters Of Features Dr. Joseph Davidson
Anthony Bruner 12/12/03 9:00 am ERC 593 Optimizations Of Programmatic Schemes Used In Low-Order Panel Codes Based Dr. Valana Wells
Firat Testik 12/05/03 2:15 pm ECG 336 Experimental And Theoretical Modelling Of Sand-Water-Object Interaction Dr. Don Boyer
Andrew Contes 12/05/03 1:00 pm GWC 472 Optimal Design Of A Competition Bicycle Frame Dr. Jami Shah
John Rhodes 12/04/03 1:30 pm ERC 490 The Kinematics Of Fatigue Crack Growth In Single Crystals Of Planar Slip Alloys Dr. Pedro Peralta
Zhaojuan He 12/04/03 10:00 am ECG 336 Analysis of Air-Cooled Heat Sinks for Burn-In Applications Dr. Patrick Phelan
Prashanth Varkey Tharakan 10/15/03 9:00 am GWC 472 A domain-independent framework for Manufacturability analysis Dr. Jami Shah
Heung Soo Kim 10/03/03 2:00 pm GWC 472 A Comprehensive Coupled Theory For Smart Composite Structures Including Delaminations Dr. Aditi Chattopadhyay
Ian Lyttle 09/29/03 1.00 pm ERC 593 Stability Of Boundary Layers Within High-Speed Viscous Flows Dr. Helen Reed
Michael Motola 09/11/03 2:00 pm ERC 593 Microsatelite system and thermal engineering Dr. Helen Reed

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