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Author:

Mensch, Amy

Title:

A Study on the Sooting Tendency of Jet Fuel Surrogates Using the Threshold Soot Index

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

surrogate
smoke point
TSI
JP-8

File:

Download MS_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert John Santoro, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert John Santoro, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Litzinger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Menon, Arvind Venugopal

Title:

Effect of m-Xylene on Soot Formation in High Pressure Diffusion Flames

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

high pressure flames
soot
lii
lif
pah
xylene

File:

Download Arvind_Menon_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert John Santoro, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert John Santoro, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Litzinger, Committee Member
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member

Author:

Shaffer, Christian Edward

Title:

Advanced Membrane Electrode Assemblies for Fuel and Water Management in Direct Methanol Fuel Cells

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Direct Methanol Fuel Cell
Membrane Electrode Assembly
Fuel Management
Water Management
Membrane

File:

Download ShafferC_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

C Y Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chao Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
Ali Borhan, Committee Member

Author:

You, Danning

Title:

A THREE-DIMENSIONAL LINEAR ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS OF GAS-TURBINE COMBUSTION INSTABILITY

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

combustion instability
pressure wave
gas turbine
acoustics
liner
stability

File:

Download thesis-revised.pdf

Committee Members:

Vigor Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member
Timothy John Eden, Committee Member
Laura Pauley, Committee Member
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member

Author:

Ma, Fuhua

Title:

Thrust Chamber Dynamics and Propulsive Performance of Airbreathing Pulse Detonation Engines

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

propulsive performance
pulse detonation engine
supersonic inlet
multicycle
multitube
CE/SE method

File:

Download PhDThesis_Ma.pdf

Committee Members:

Vigor Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Member

Author:

Huo, Hongfa

Title:

LARGE-EDDY SIMULATION OF SUPERCRITICAL FLUID FLOW AND COMBUSTION

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Turbulent combustion
Supercritical combustion
swirl coaxial injector
LOX/Methane combustion
Supercritical mixing
shear coaxial injector

File:

Download Hongfa_Huo_PhD_dissertation_final_version.pdf

Committee Members:

Vigor Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vigor Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member

Author:

Locke, Justin M

Title:

HIGH SPEED DIAGNOSTICS FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF OXYGEN / HYDROGEN ROCKET INJECTOR FLOWFIELDS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

liquid propulsion
TDLAS
absorption spectroscopy
rocket engine testing
hydrogen oxygen combustion
high pressure systems

File:

Download Dissertation_Locke_2011.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert John Santoro, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert John Santoro, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andre Louis Boehman, Committee Member
Thomas Litzinger, Committee Member
Stephen R Turns, Committee Member

Author:

Wu, Juntao

Title:

Soot Abatement Using Oxygenated Additives

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

soot
oxygenated additive

File:

Download dissertation_juntaowu.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Litzinger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
Harold Harris Schobert, Committee Member
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Jian

Title:

IGNITION TRANSIENT IN AN ETHYLENE FUELED SCRAMJET ENGINE WITH AIR THROTTLING

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

supersonic combustion
Scramjet
CFD
air throttling

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Jian_Li_March_27.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Vigor Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vigor Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Member
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member

Author:

Malchi, Jonathan Yaniv

Title:

Combustion and Self-Assembly of Nanoenergetic Materials

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

thermite
self-assembly
combustion

File:

Download Combustion_and_Self-Assembly_of_Nanoenergetic_Materials.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard A Yetter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert John Santoro, Committee Member
David Lawrence Allara, Committee Member
Vigor Yang, Committee Member
Grant Alexander Risha, Committee Member
Steven Son, Committee Member
Timothy Foley, Committee Member