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Author:

Jin, Jiezhu

Title:

Thermal Conductivity and Multiferroics Of Electroactive polymers and Polymer Composites

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

thermal conductivity
conducting polymer
multiferroic
piezoelectric
PVDF-based polymer

File:

Download Jiezhu_Jin_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Md Amanul Haque, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qing Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ralph H Colby, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member

Author:

Essel, Jonathan Thomas

Title:

Processing Energetic Materials with Supercritical Fluid Precipitation Techniques

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

energetic materials
supercritical fluids
nanotechnology
RESS process

File:

Download Jonathan_Essel_Final_Thesis__all_color__with_vita.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth K Kuo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth K Kuo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member

Author:

Joshi, Kaushik

Title:

Development and application of Reaxff reactive force field for hydrocarbon cracking on an aluminosilicate zeolite catalyst

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

molecular dynamics
reactive force field
hydrocarbon cracking

File:

Download Kaushik_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Adrianus C Van Duin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Md Amanul Haque, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee Member

Author:

Peluso, Stephen

Title:

An Experimental Study of Flame Response Mechanisms in a Lean-premixed Gas Turbine Combustor

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

combustion instability
flame response
flame dynamics
flame transfer function
flame response mechanisms
gas turbine

File:

Download Stephen_Peluso.pdf.pdf

Committee Members:

Domenic Adam Santavicca, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Domenic Adam Santavicca, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Member

Author:

Castro Marcano, Fidel

Title:

Improved generation of large-scale atomistic representations and pyrolysis/combustion simulations of Illinois coal and coal char using the Reaxff reactive force field

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

coal structure
coal pyrolysis
char combustion
molecular modeling
ReaxFF
reactive molecular dynamics

File:

Download Fidel_Castro_Doctoral_Dissertation_corrected.pdf

Committee Members:

Jonathan P Mathews, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ljubisa R Radovic, Committee Member
Caroline Elaine Clifford, Committee Member
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member