Graduate Alumni
2012
Philipp Boettcher
Thermal Ignition
Angela Capece
Xiaowei Deng
Clefted Equilibrium Shapes of Superpressure Balloon Structures
Michio Inoue
Large-Eddy Simulation of the Flat-Plate Turbulent Boundary Layer at High Reynolds Numbers
Devvrath Khatri
Non-Destructive Evaluation of Material System Using Highly Nonlinear Acoustic Waves
Jeffrey LeHew
Spatio-temporal Analysis of the Turbulent Boundary Layer and An Investigation of the Effects of Periodic Disturbances
Michael Mello
Matthew Munson
Low Reynolds Number Active Flow Control via Real-Time Particle Image Velocimetry
John Ziegler
Simulations of Compressible, Diffusive, Reactive Flows with Detailed Chemistry Using a High-Order Hybrid WENO-CD Scheme
2011
Nicholas Boechler
Granular Crystals: Controlling Mechanical Energy with Nonlinearity and Discreteness
Marcial Gonzalez
Energy and Force Stepping Integrators in Lagrangian Mechanics
Francisco Jimenez
Mechanics of Thin Carbon Fiber Composites with a Silicone Matrix
Celia Romo
Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Damage by Void Nucleation and Growth
Michael Silva
Damage Evolution in Composite Materials and Sandwich Structures under Impulse Loading
Olive Stohlman
Repeatability in Joint-Dominated Deployable Masts
Andrew Tchieu
The Development of Low-Order Models for the Study of Fluid-Structure Interactions
Gabriela Venturini
Topics in Multiscale Modeling of Metals and Metallic Alloys
Geoffrey Ward
The Simulation of Shock- and Impact-Driven Flows with Mie-Grüneisen Equations of State
Yue Yang
Lagrangian and Vortex-Surface Fields in Turbulence
2010
Sally Bane
Spark Ignition: Experimental and Numerical Investigation with Application to Aviation Safety
James Karnesky
Detonation Induced Strain in Tubes
Daegyoum Kim
Characteristics of Three-Dimensional Vortex Formation and Propulsive Performance in Flapping Locomotion
Leslie Lamberson
Dynamic Optical Investigations of Hypervelocity Impact Damage
Adam Norman
Effect of Surface Morphological Changes on Flow over a Sphere
Regina Sullivan
The Physics of High-Velocity Ions in the Hall Thruster Near-Field
2009
Daniel Chung
Numerical Simulation and Subgrid-scale Modeling of Mixing and Wall-Bounded Turbulent Flows
Richard Kramer
Stable High-Order Finite-Sifference Interface Schemes with Application to the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability
Sharlotte Kramer
Phase-Shifting Full-Field Interferometric Methods for In-Plane Tensorial Stress Determination for Fracture Studies
Bo Li
Optimal Transportation Method in Solid Mechanics
Xiao Lu
Combined Experimental and Numerical Study of Spontaneous Dynamic Rupture on Frictional Interfaces
Julian Rimoli
A Computational Model for Intergranular Stress Corrosion Cracking
2008
Bermejo Moreno
On the Non-Local Geometry of Turbulence
Christian Franck
Quantitative Characterization of 3D Deformations of Cell Interactions with Soft Biomaterials
Manuel Lombardini
Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability in Converging Geometries
Georgios Matheou
Large-Eddy Simulations of Molecular Mixing in a Recirculating Shear Flow
2007
Emilio Castaño Graff
Theresa Hiromi Kidd
Mechanical Characterization of Damage and Failure in Polymeric Foams and Glass/Epoxy Composites
Joseph Thomas Klamo
Effects of Damping and Reynolds Number on Vortex-Induced Vibration
Laurence Loumes
Multilayer Impedance Pump: A Bio-Inspired Valveless Pump with Medical Applications
Bradford S. Morris
Charge-Exchange Collision Dynamics and Ion Engine Grid Geometry Optimization
Christopher Andre Mouton
Transition between Regular Reflection and Mach Reflection in the Dual-Solution Domain
Michael Thomas Rubel
A Theory of Stationarity and Asymptotic Approach in Dissipative Systems
Kazuo Sone
Modeling and Simulation of Axisymmetric Stagnation Flames
2006
Stuart Laurence
Proximal Bodies in Hypersonic Flow
Daniel Lieberman
Detonation Interaction with Sharp and Diffuse Interfaces
Kevin Parkin
The Microwave Thermal Thruster and Its Application to the Launch Problem
Rongjing Zhang
Mechanical Characterization of Thin Films with Application to Ferroelectrics
Matias Zielonka
Configurational Forces and Variational Mesh Adaption in Solid Dynamics
2005
Jeffrey Bergthorson
Experiments and Modeling of Impinging Jets and Premixed Hydrocarbon Stagnation Flames
Phillippe Chatelain
Contributions to the Three-Dimensional Vortex Element Method and Spinning Bluff Body Flows
John Dabiri
Unsteady Fluid Mechanics of Starting-Flow Vortex Generators with Time-Dependent Boundary Conditions
Brad Dooley
Stereo Digital Particle Image Velocimetry Investigation of a Free Surface Mixing Layer
James Faddy
Flow Structure in a Model of Aircraft Trailing Vortices
Scott Jackson
Gaseous Detonation Initiation via Wave Implosion
Olga Kowalewsky
Theory of Complex Lattice Quasicontinuum and Its Application to Ferroelectrics
Nicolas Ponchaut
Part I: 3DPTV Advances and Error Analysis. Part II: Extension of Guderley's Solution for Converging Shock Waves
Vincent Wheatley
On the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability in Magnetohydrodynamics
Richard Wirz
Discharge Plasma Processes of Ring-Cusp Ion Thrusters
2004
Lorena A. Barba
Vortex Method for Computing High-Reynolds Number Flows: Increased Accuracy with a Fully Mesh-Less Formulation
Kumar Manoj Bobba
Robust Flow Stability: Theory, Computations and Experiments in Near Wall Turbulence
Tong Wa Chao
Gaseous Detonation-Driven Fracture of Tubes
Matthew Justin Fago
Constrained Sequential Lamination: Nonconvex Optimization and Material Microstructure
Sanjeev Malhotra
On Combustion Instability in Solid Rocket Motors
Paul O'Gorman
Theory and Simulation of Passive Scalar Mixing in the Presence of a Mean Scalar Gradient
Gerard Kieran O'Reilly
Compressible Vortices and Shock-Vortex Interactions
Matthew James Ringuette
Vortex Formation and Drag on Low Aspect Ratio, Normal Flat Plates
Eric Wintenberger
Application of Steady and Unsteady Detonation Waves to Propulsion
2003
Marco Arienti
A Numerical and Analytical Study of Detonation Diffraction
Joanna Maria Austin
The Role of Instability in Gaseous Detonation
Patrick Hung
Algorithms for Reaction Mechanism Reduction and Numerical Simulation of Detonations Initiated by Projectiles
Marisol Koslowski
A Phase-Field Model of Dislocations in Ductile Single Crystals
Sanjay Kumar
An Experimental Investigation of Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability
Adrián José Lew
Variational Time Integrators in Computational Solid Mechanics
Tait Sherman Pottebaum
The Relationship between Near-wake Structure and Heat Transfer for an Oscillating Circular Cylinder in Cross-flow
Pururav Thoutireddy
Variational Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian Method
2002
Ioannis Chasiotis
The Strength of Polycrystalline Silicon at the Micro- and Nano-Scales with Applications to MEMS
Luis González Liñero
Global Fracture Analysis of Laminated Composite Materials for Aerospace Structures
Olivier Thanh Nguyen
Cohesive Models of Fatigue Crack Growth and Stress-Corrosion Cracking
Luoyu Roy Xu
Dynamic Failure Characteristics in Layered Materials and Structures
Shiming Zhuang
Shock Wave Propagation in Periodically Layered Composites
2001
Eric Burcsu
Investigation of Large Strain Actuation in Barium Titanate
Weng Ki Ching
Disinfection by Pulsed Power Discharges
Benjamin Chow
Application of Dynamic Fracture Mechanics to the Investigation of Catastrophic Failure in Aircraft Structures
Demirkan Coker
Dynamic Initiation and Propagation of Cracks in Unidirectional Composite Plates
Olivier Duchemin
An Investigation of Ion Engine Erosion by Low Energy Sputtering
Christopher Eckett
Numerical and Analytical Studies of the Dynamics of Gaseous Detonations
Pradeep Guduru
An Investigation of Dynamic Failure Events in Steels Using Full Field High-Speed Infrared Thermography and High-Speed Photography
Ying Huang
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Digital Image Correlation in Nanomechanics Investigations
Giorgio Isella
Modeling and Simulation of Combustion Chamber and Propellant Dynamics and Issues in Active Control of Combustion Instabilities
Paul Krueger
The Significance of Vortex Ring Formation and Nozzle Exit Over-Pressure to Pulsatile Jet Propulsion
Murtuza Lokhandwalla
Damage Mechanisms in Shock Wave Lithotripsy (SWL)
Jean-Francois Molinari
Three-Dimensional Finite Element Analysis of Impact Damage and Erosion of Metallic Targets
Michael OL
The Passage Toward Stall of Nonslender Delta Wings at Low Reynolds Number
Adam Rasheed
Passive Hypervelocity Boundary Layer Control Using an Ultrasonically Absorptive Surface
Omprakash Samudrala
Subsonic and Intersonic Crack Growth along Weak Planes and Bimaterial Interfaces
Claude Seywert
Combustion Instabilities: Issues in Modeling and Control
Jerry Shan
Mixing and Isosurface Geometry in Turbulent Transverse Jets
Lavi Zuhal
Formation and Near-Fiels Dynamics of a Wing Tip Vortex
2000
Mark Brady
Regularized Vortex Sheet Evolution in Three Dimensions
David Jeon
On Cylinders Undergoing One- and Two-Degree of Freedom Forced Vibrations in a Steady Flow
Petrus Moeleker
The Filtered Advection-Diffusion Equation: Lagrangian Methods and Modeling
Stefan Schlamp
Laser-Induced Thermal Acoustic Velocimetry
Eric Schultz
Detonation Diffraction through an Abrupt Area Expansion
Grant Swenson
Numerical Simulations of Combustion Instabilities in Gas Turbine Combustors, with Applications
Tobias Voelkl
A Physical-Space Version of the Stretched-Vortex Subgrid-Stress Model for Large-Eddy Simulation of Incompressible Flow
1999
Christopher Bond
Reynolds Number Effects on Mixing in Turbulent Shear Layer
Jean-Paul Davis
High-Enthalpy Shock/Boundary-Layer Interaction on a Double Wedge
Mohammid Gharib
Vortex-Induced Vibration, Absence of Lock-In, and Fluid Force Deduction
Patrick Lemieux
The Instability of Shear Layers Produced by Curved Shocks
Ivett Leyva
Shock Detachment Process on Cones in Hypervelocity Flows
Patrice Maheo
Free-Surface Turbulent Shear Flows
Shaun Shariff
Numerical Simulation of Viscous Reacting Hypersonic Flows Past Cone
1998
Sangwook Lee
Failure of Laminated Composites at Thickness Discontinuities Under Complex Loading and Elevated Temperatures
Karina Edmonds
Shock Wave Processing of Transitional Metal Silicides
Raúl Radovitzky
Error Estimation and Adaptive Meshing in Strongly Nonlinear Dynamic Problems
Eduardo Repetto
On the Fatigue Behavior of Ductile F.C.C. Metals
Douglas Shiels
Simulation of Controlled Bluff Body Flow with a Viscous Vortex Method
Michael Slessor
Aspects of Turbulent-Shear-Layer Dynamics and Mixing
1997
Philippe Adam
Enthalpy Effects on Hypervelocity Boundary Layers
Jon Hodowany
On the Conversion of Plastic Work into Heat
Flavio Noca
On the Evaluation of Time-Dependent Fluid-Dynamic Forces on Bluff Bodies
Miltiadis Papalexandris
Unsplit Numerical Schemes for Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws with Source Terms
Aurelius Prochazka
Stability and Structure of Stretched Vortices
Amy Warncke
The Effects of Surfactants on Free-Surface Flows
1996
Victor Burnley
Nonlinear Combustion Instabilities and Stochastic Sources
Joseph Cates
Studies of Shock Wave Focusing Using Geometrical Shock Dynamics
Haris Catrakis
Mixing and the Geometry of Isosurfaces in Turbulent Jets
Danny Howard
I. Mechanisms of Injury Associated with Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy. II. Exsolution of Volatiles
David Kuzo
An Experimental Study of the Turbulent Transverse Jet
Cyrille Moore
Experiments in Axisymmetric Supersonic Jets
Kevin Moore
Experiments on the Interaction of a Coflowing Light Gas Jet with a Weak Oblique Shock Wave
Siddhartha Valluri
Bluff body flows in the presence of a free surface
1995
Weinong Chen
Dynamic Failure Behavior of Ceramics Under Multiaxial Compression
Eric Cummings
Laser-Induced Thermal Acoustics
Inki Min
Transport, Stirring and Mixing in Two-Dimensional Vortex Flows
Simon Sanderson
Shock Wave Interaction in Hypervelocity Flow
