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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:

Chowdhury, Arindrajit

Title:

CONFINED RAPID THERMOLYSIS/FTIR/TOF STUDIES OF ENERGETIC IONIC LIQUIDS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Ionic liquids
Thermal decomposition
FTIR spectrometry
ToF mass spectrometry
kinetics

File:

Download Arin_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Stefan Thynell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stefan Thynell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Litzinger, Committee Member
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Sharon Hammes Schiffer, Committee Member

Author:

Marteeny, Donald Edwin

Title:

An Exploration of the Flame Synthesis of Silicon Doped Carbon Nanotubes

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Carbon Nanotubes
Nanotubes
Carbon
Silicon
Flame Synthesis

File:

Download Marteeny_MS_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Litzinger, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Harold Harris Schobert, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kudva, Gautam Narendra

Title:

A Study of Laser and Pressure-Driven Response Measurements for Solid Propellants at Low Pressure

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

laser-driven
response measurements
solid propellants
pressure-driven

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Thomas Litzinger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vigor Yang, Committee Member
Michael Matthew Micci, Committee Member

Author:

Boyer, J Eric

Title:

Combustion Characteristics and Flame Structure of Nitromethane Liquid Monopropellant

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

monopropellant
liquid propellant
nitromethane
combustion

File:

Download etd.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth K Kuo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul Wencil Brown, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Litzinger, Committee Member
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Vigor Yang, 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:

Das, Malay Kumar

Title:

Characterization of Thermal Radiation from a Plasma Jet and Radiative Pyrolysis of Double-Base Propellants

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Solid-propellant
Electrothermal-chemical plasma
Plasma ignition

File:

Download thesis_mkd145.pdf

Committee Members:

Stefan Thynell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Litzinger, Committee Member
V Yang, Committee Member
Michael Matthew Micci, Committee Member

Author:

Khandelwal, Manish

Title:

AN INTEGRATED APPROACH FOR MODELING OF WATER AND THERMAL TRANSPORT IN A POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELL AND STACK

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Fuel Cell
Modeling
Stack
two-phase
Thermo-osmosis

File:

Download khandelwal_PhDThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Clinton Matthew Mench, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew M Mench, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Litzinger, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Turgay Ertekin, Committee Member