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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:

Kim, Byungsoo

Title:

Development of Macrosegregation During Solidification of Binary Metal Alloys

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

solidification
alloy
macrosegregation

File:

Download BK_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dhyshyanthan Sathianathan, Committee Member
Robert Carl Voigt, Committee Member
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member

Author:

Bapat, Chaitanya Jayant

Title:

ANISOTROPIC HEAT CONDUCTION EFFECTS IN PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

fuel cells
PEM
Anisotropy
two phase

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Stefan Thynell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
Serguei Lvov, Committee Member

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:

Hussaini, Irfan Saif

Title:

Experimental Study of Transient Dynamics of PEM Fuel Cells

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

relative permeability of diffusion media
water management
transient dynamics
visualization

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Prof C Y Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chao Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Jun Huang, 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:

Yang, Jun

Title:

Development of Heat Transfer Enhancement Techniques for External Cooling of an Advanced Reactor Vessel

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

CHF
two-phase flow
microporous coating
boiling heat transfer enhancement techniques
downward facing boiling
nucleate boiling

File:

Download JunYangDST.pdf

Committee Members:

Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Horacio Perez Blanco, Committee Member
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member
Dhushy Sathianathan, Committee Member
H Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Member

Author:

Shah, Kaushal Jayesh

Title:

THERMOLYSIS OF HIGH-NITROGEN ENERGETIC COMPOUNDS USING FTIR SPECTROSCOPY AND TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Rapid Thermolysis
TAGzT
GzT

File:

Download Thesis_June_7_2011.pdf

Committee Members:

Stefan Thynell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stefan Thynell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Tajiri, Kazuya

Title:

Startup Characteristics of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells under Subzero Temperatures

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

polymer electrolyte fuel cell
cold start
automotive

File:

Download dissertation_kazuya_tajiri.pdf

Committee Members:

Chao Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
Evangelos Manias, Committee Member

Author:

Mao, Leng

Title:

MODELING COLD START OF POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELLS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

fuel cell
model
subzero
cold start

File:

Download Thesis-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Chao Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fan Bill B Cheung, 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:

Sinha, Puneet

Title:

Probing Liquid Water Transport in a PEFC Gas Diffusion Layer with Pore-Network Modeling, CFD Modeling and X-ray Microtomography

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

CFD modeling
Pore scale modeling
Gas Purge
Flooding
Gas diffusion layer
PEM Fuel cell
X-ray Imaging

File:

Download Sinha_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Chao Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Member
Phillip Michael Halleck, Committee Member

Author:

Thakre, Piyush K

Title:

CHEMICAL EROSION OF GRAPHITE AND REFRACTORY METAL NOZZLES AND ITS MITIGATION IN SOLID-PROPELLANT ROCKET MOTORS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

refractory metal nozzles
solid-propellant rocket motors
erosion mitigation
graphite/carbon-carbon nozzles
nozzle erosion

File:

Download PhD-Thesis-Final__Piyush_Thakre_.pdf

Committee Members:

Vigor Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth K Kuo, Committee Member
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Michael Matthew Micci, Committee Member

Author:

Chang, Yi-Ping

Title:

COMBUSTION BEHAVIOR OF HAN-BASED LIQUID PROPELLANTS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

pressure exponents.
burning rate controlling mechanisms
decomposition
autocatalytic
pyrolysis
propellants
hydroxylammonium nitrate
combustion

File:

Download THESIS.pdf

Committee Members:

Harold Harris Schobert, Committee Member
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
Kenneth K Kuo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Thomas Litzinger, Committee Member

Author:

Weismiller, Michael Raymond

Title:

Characterization of Ammonia Borane for Chemical Propulsion Applications

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Energetic materials
Novel propellants
Hydrogen storage
Hybrid rocket
Boron

File:

Download Weismiller-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard A Yetter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard A Yetter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Prof Adrianus Van Duin, Committee Member
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

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:

Martin, Heath Thomas

Title:

Assessment of the Performance of Ablative Insulators under Realistic Solid Rocket Motor Operating Conditions

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

solid rocket motor
ablation
ablative
heat flux measurement
thermal radiation
radiometer
x-ray radiography

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth K Kuo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
Gita Talmage, Committee Member
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Deborah Levin, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Shiqing

Title:

experimental studies on condensed-phase interactions of hypergolic propellants

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Hypergolic propellant; Monomethylhydrazine; Tetramethylethylened

File:

Download Shiqing_Wangs_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Kumbhakarna, Neeraj Ratnakar

Title:

Combustion analysis of RDX propellant and novel high-nitrogen propellant ingredients

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

RDX
TAGzT
combustion model
confined rapid thermolysis
GA
molecular modeling
reaction mechanism

File:

Download neeraj_k.pdf

Committee Members:

Stefan Thynell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Prof Adri Van Duin, Committee Member
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member

Author:

Saksena, Pulkit

Title:

Study of Condensed Phase Reactions Between Hypergolic Propellants using Microreactors

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Hypergolic
Propellants
Combustion
Microfluidic
Microreactor

File:

Download Dissertation_PulkitSaksena.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard A Yetter, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Donghai Wang, Committee Member
Siyang Zheng, Committee Member

Author:

Poramapojana, Poowanart

Title:

Experimental Investigation of Internal Short Circuits in Lithium-ion Batteries

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Li-ion battery
Nail penetration test
Internal short circuits
Battery safety
Diagnostic nail

File:

Download Poramapojana_PhDThesis_2015.pdf

Committee Members:

Chao Yang Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chao Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Jun Huang, Committee Member

Author:

Bansal, Ankit

Title:

K-DISTRIBUTION MODELS FOR GAS MIXTURES IN HYPERSONIC NONEQUILIBRIUM FLOWS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

k-distribution
spectral models
Radiation
shock layer
Nonequilibrium
Hypersonic
OpenFOAM

File:

Download Ankit_Dissertation1.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael F. Modest, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel C. Haworth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Deborah A. Levin, Committee Member
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member

Author:

Vamos, Michael Anthony

Title:

MICROWAVE PLASMA TORCH FOR ALUMINUM COMBUSTION

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

aluminum
combustion
plasma
torch
ignition
microwave
metal combustion
plasma assisted combustion
igniter
coaxial
spectroscopy
temperature fitting
spectrometer calibration
air
steam
carbon dioxide

File:

Download Vamos_Thesis_FinalDraft.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard A Yetter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member

Author:

Talamantes, Gerardo

Title:

Characterization of Polyoxymethylene as a High-Density Fuel For Use in Hybrid Rocket Applications

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Solid Fuels
Polyoxymethylene
Diffusion Flame
Opposed Flow Burner
Hybrid Rockets
High-Density Fuel
POM
combustion

File:

Download Talamantes_Thesis_May_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard A Yetter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Kaiqiang

Title:

THERMAL DECOMPOSITION MECHANISM OF AQUEOUS HYDROXYLAMMONIUM NITRATE

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Energetic Material
Computational Chemistry
Molecular Dynamics
Hydroxylammonium Nitrate
Thermal Decomposition

File:

Download HAN_decomposition_Dissertation_Kaiqiang_Zhang_V6.pdf

Committee Members:

Stefan Thynell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stefan Thynell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member
Michael Matthew Micci, Outside Member

Author:

Patidar, Lalit

Title:

Thermal decomposition and combustion of RDX and HMX: Thermolysis experiments and molecular modeling

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Energetic Materials
Thermal Decomposition
Combustion
Quantum mechanics

File:

Download Dissertation_LalitPatidar_eTD.pdf

Committee Members:

Stefan Thynell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stefan Thynell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member
Michael Matthew Micci, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Khichar, Mayank

Title:

Thermal decomposition and combustion modeling of RDX monopropellant and RDX-TAGzT pseudo-propellant

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Thermal decomposition
Combustion
modeling
RDX
TAGzT
Quantum chemical calculation
TGA
DSC
FTIR
Mechanism
Liquid Phase
Diffusion
Deflagration

File:

Download Dissertation_MayankKhichar_eTD.pdf

Committee Members:

Stefan Thynell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stefan Thynell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard A Yetter, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member
Robert Graham Melton, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Crisp, Eric

Title:

Electrochemical Decomposition of HAN-based Ionic Liquid Oxidizers

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

HAN
electrolysis
OXSOL 1
hybrid rocket

File:

Download ELECTROCATALYTIC_DECOMPOSITION_OF_HAN-BASED_IONIC_LIQUID_OXIDIZERS.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard A Yetter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chatterjee, Tanusree

Title:

Chemical kinetic investigation of the thermal decomposition of energetic materials: ammonia borane, ammonium perchlorate & hmx-tagzt

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Ammonia borane
Quantum mechanics
Hydrogen release
Reaction pathway
perchloric acid
oxygen release
numerical simulation
HMX
TAGzT
TGA
FTIR
thermal decomposition
nitramine-based energetic materials

File:

Download Tanusree_Chatterjee_Dissertation_final2.pdf

Committee Members:

Stefan Thynell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stefan Thynell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Adri van Duin, Committee Member
Jacqueline O’Connor, Committee Member
Joseph F. Horn, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair