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Author:

Wang, Jianjun

Title:

Material Property Identification of Polymer Thin Films under the Indentation Test

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

polymer
constitutive equation
nanoindentation
material property
thin film

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Marc Carpino, Committee Member
Timothy C Ovaert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
Donna M Conway Jr., Committee Member
Richard C Benson, Committee Member

Author:

Handzy, Nestor Zenon

Title:

Experimental Observations and Mathematical Description of Micellar Fluid Flow

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Wormlike micelles
non-equilibrium
constitutive equation

File:

Download NZHThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Leonard Belmonte, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anna L Mazzucato, Committee Member
Diane Marie Henderson, Committee Member

Author:

Lee, Young-Ju

Title:

Modelling and Simulations of non-Newtonian fluid flows

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

conformation tensor
non-Newtonian models
constitutive equation
positivity preserving scheme
Riccati differential equation
Lie derivative
multigrid
singular problems
falling sphere simulations
the Johnson-Segalman model

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jinchao Xu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chun Liu, Committee Member
Andrew Leonard Belmonte, Committee Member
James Spiro Vrentas, Committee Member
Nigel David Higson, Committee Member