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Author:

Taylor, Adekemi Bisola

Title:

Three-Dimensional Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations of Ozone Uptake in the Respiratory Tract

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

airway bifurcation
computational fluid dynamics
mass transport
lower respiratory tract
dosimetry modeling
ozone

File:

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Committee Members:

James S Ultman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Borhan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Abdellaziz Ben Jebria, Committee Member
John Michael Cimbala, Committee Member

Author:

Fick, Anthony Daniel

Title:

Development and Implementation of a Hybrid Volume of Fluid/Level Set Method to Study Two Phase Flows

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

volume of fluid
level set
buoyancy driven
pressure driven

File:

Download Tony-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Ali Borhan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Leonard Belmonte, Committee Member
Darrell Velegol, Committee Member
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member

Author:

Fassih, Ali

Title:

Ozone Uptake in the Human Nasal Cavity: The contribution of Uric Acid

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

uric acid
nasal
antioxidant
uptake
ozone
respiratory

File:

Download Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

James S Ultman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Abdellaziz Ben Jebria, Committee Member
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Antonios Armaou, Committee Member
Rebecca Bascom, Committee Member

Author:

Varshney, Amit

Title:

Optimization and control of multiscale process systems using model reduction: Application to thin-film growth

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Carleman Linearization
System Identification
Optimization
Dynamic Optimization
Modeling
Multiscale
Stochastic
Model Predictive Control
Receding Horizon Control
Thin film growth
Epitaxy

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Antonios Armaou, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Costas D Maranas, Committee Member
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member

Author:

Edge, Brian A.

Title:

An Analytical and Numerical Study of Cavitation Scale Effects in High-Reynolds Number Circular Jet Flows

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Cavitation Inception
Detached-eddy simulation
circular jet
round jet
cavitation scale effects

File:

Download B_Edge_PhD.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric G Paterson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member
Laura Pauley, Committee Member
Mario F Trujillo, Committee Member

Author:

Keshavarzi, Banafsheh

Title:

OZONE TRANSPORT AND UPTAKE IN ANATOMICALLY-ACCURATE MODELS OF THE RESPIRATORY TRACT

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Respiratory fluid dynamics
Dosimetry modeling
Ozone
Computational fluid dynamics

File:

Download Banafsheh_Keshavarzi.pdf

Committee Members:

Ali Borhan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ali Borhan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James S Ultman, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee Member
Rebecca Bascom, 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:

Vital-Lopez, Francisco Gamaliel

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF HYBRID INTRACELLULAR/EXTRACELLULAR MODELS OF BRAIN TUMOR PROGRESSION AND MEDICATION STRATEGIES

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Modeling
Brain tumor
Angiogenesis
Temozolomide
Chemotaxis
Simulation

File:

Download Vital-Lopez_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Antonios Armaou, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Antonios Armaou, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Costas D Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Patrick Cirino, Committee Member
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member

Author:

Moore, Gregory Lee

Title:

Modeling and Optimization in Directed Evolution Protocols and Protein Engineering

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

directed evolution
protein engineering
optimization

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Patrick Cirino, Committee Member
Stephen James Benkovic, Committee Member
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member

Author:

Lim, Joford T.

Title:

PROGRAM ALLOCATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF CACHE IN A DATAFLOW ENVIRONMENT

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

dataflow
program allocation
loop scheduling
computer architecture
cache

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ali R Hurson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
John Metzner, Committee Member
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Octavia I Camps, Committee Member

Author:

Lane, Jeffrey William

Title:

THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPREHENSIVE ANNULAR FLOW MODELING PACKAGE FOR TWO-PHASE THREE-FIELD TRANSIENT SAFETY ANALYSIS CODES

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

safety analysis
annular flow
interfacial drag
entrainment
ccfl

File:

Download LANE_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Fan Bill B Cheung, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lawrence E Hochreiter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Member
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member
Gita Talmage, Committee Member
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
"David L Aumiller, Jr", Committee Member
Jack Brenizer Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Sostarecz, Michael Craig

Title:

EXPERIMENTS AND MODELING IN VISCOELASTIC FLUIDS: DIMPLED DROPS AND BEADED FILAMENTS

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Stability Analysis
Evolution Equation
Free Boundary Problems
Asymptotic Expansion
Viscoelastic Fluids
Fluid Dynamics
Beads-on-String
Drops and Bubbles
Torus

File:

Download SostareczThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Leonard Belmonte, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Diane Marie Henderson, Committee Member
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Qiang Du, Committee Member
Nigel David Higson, Committee Member

Author:

Mardoukhi Rohani, Mahsa

Title:

EFFECT OF ELECTROSTATIC INTERACTIONS DURING PROTEIN ULTRAFILTRATION: EFFECTS OF LIGAND CHEMISTRY AND PROTEIN SURFACE CHARGE DISTRIBUTION

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Ultrafiltration
Electrostatic Interactions
Membrane Filtration
Protein

File:

Download Dissertation_Mahsa_M._Rohani.pdf

Committee Members:

Professor Andrew L Zydney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Zydney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Themis Matsoukas, Committee Member
Arnold Anthony Fontaine, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Myung-man

Title:

Computational Studies of Protein and Particle Transport in Membrane System

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

membrane
simulations
protein
particle

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Brian Dempsey, Committee Member
Darrell Velegol, Committee Member
Andrew Zydney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Borhan, Committee Member

Author:

Khalili, Samira

Title:

ANALYSIS OF HIV INFECTION DYNAMICS AND IDENTIFICATION OF OPTIMAL MEDICATION STRATEGIES

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

HIV infection
Multiscale model
Optimal treatment
Mechanistic model
Efficacy estimation

File:

Download SamiraKhalili-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Antonios Armaou, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Antonios Armaou, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Themis Matsoukas, Committee Member
Craig Eugene Cameron, Committee Member

Author:

Minassian, Sharis

Title:

Vapor-Liquid-Solid Growth of Group IV (Si, Ge, SiGe) Single and Heterostructured Nanowires

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Nanowire
VLS growth
Disilane
Kinetic model

File:

Download Sharis_Minassian.pdf

Committee Members:

Joan Marie Redwing, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Committee Member
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member

Author:

Pitchaiah, Sivakumar

Title:

Feedback control and optimization using adaptive reduced order models

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Nonlinear control
Process control
Proper orthogonal decomposition
Partial differential equation
Model reduction

File:

Download SP-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Antonios Armaou, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Antonios Armaou, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Costas D Maranas, Committee Member
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member

Author:

Sharifi Khobdeh, Shirin

Title:

DROP DEFORMATION AND BREAKUP IN CONFINED FLOWS OF VISCOELASTIC TWO-PHASE SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

DROP DEFORMATION
DROP BREAKUP
CONFINED FLOWS
VISCOELASTIC TWO-PHASE SYSTEMS

File:

Download Shirin-Sharifi-Khobdeh.pdf

Committee Members:

Ali Borhan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ali Borhan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ramaswamy C Anantheswaran, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee Member
Themis Matsoukas, Committee Member

Author:

Sayyar Roudsari, Saed

Title:

PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT FILLING METHODS FOR DEPOSITION OF POWDERS IN DIES: MEASUREMENT AND MODELING

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

Uniformity evaluation
Powder Mechanics
Powder deposition
Mathematical Modeling

File:

Download Saed_Sayyar_Roudsari_Thesis-Oct_11-2007.pdf

Committee Members:

Virendra Puri, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Demirci, Committee Member
Paul Heinz Heinemann, Committee Member
Ali Borhan, Committee Member

Author:

Kermani, Sanaz

Title:

Kinetics of ozone reaction with low-molecular weight antioxidants at physiologically relevant conditions

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

air pollution
antioxidant reaction kinetics
Respiratory antioxidants
inhalation toxicology

File:

Download Sanaz-Kermani-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

James S Ultman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Abdellaziz Ben Jebria, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Michael Pishko, Committee Member
Anne M Andrews, Committee Member