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GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION CURRENT

Doctoral

1.      Troy Dent, TBD*

2.      Benjamin Simmons, Liquid Biofuel Combustion

3.      Daniel Sequera, Noise Reduction using Porous Inert Media

4.      Heena Panchasara, Liquid Biofuel Combustion

5.      Pankaj Kolhe, Fall 2008 (expected), Turbulence Measurements Using Cross-Beam Rainbow Schlieren Deflectometry.

Masters Students

      Seydou Diop, December 2008, Jet-Wall Interactions to Assess Hydrogen Storage Safety

 

GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION PAST

Doctoral

1.      1.    Vijaykant Sadasivuni, Spring 2008, Meso-scale Combustion of Liquid Fuels using Porous Inert Media. Current Position: Engineer, GE Corporation,

 Greenville, SC.

2.      Rajani Satti, November 2006, Flow Structure of Low-Density Gas Jets and Gas Jet Diffusion Flames. Current Position: Technical Support Engineer: Exa Corporation, Burlington, MA

3.      Tim Marbach, July 2005, Meso-scale Porous Media Heat Recirculating Combustor, Current Position: Assistant Professor, California State University, Sacramento, CA.

4.      Donald Wicksall, August 2004, research topic: Lean Premixed Swirl-Stabilized Combustion of Gaseous Alternative Fuels. Current Position: Rolls Royce, Indianapolis.

5.      Kasyap Pasumarthi, Summer 2004, research topic: Buoyancy Effects on Flow Structure and Instability of Low-Density Gas Jets, with R. Parthasarathy. Current Position: Intel Corporation, Seattle, WA.

6.      Khalid Al-Ammar, 1998, Scalar Measurements and Analysis of Hydrogen Gas-Jet Diffusion Flames in Normal and Microgravity, with S.R. Gollahalli. Current position: Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

7.      Nelson K. Butuk, 1997, Fluid Flow Diagnostics Using Rainbow Schlieren Imaging and Computer Tomography, with S.R. Gollahalli. Current Position: Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Prairie View A & M University, Prairie View, Texas.

8.      Irish Hu, 1994, A Presumed and Synthesized Probability Density Function Method for Non-Premixed Turbulent Reacting Flow Calculations, with T.T. Yang. Current Position: Staff Engineer, General Electric Power Systems, Schenectady, New York.

 

Masters Students

1.      Justin McDonald, Passive Combustion Control

2.      Pankaj Kolhe, May 2008

3.      Daniel Sequera, May 2007, Fuel Composition Effects in Low Swirl Combustion Systems

4.      Cristina Dumitrescu, December 2006, Experimental Study of Combustion of Gaseous and Liquid Fuels Using Porous Inert Media with Heat Recirculation.

5.      Vijaykant Sadasivuni, November 2004, Effect of Porous Media Configuration on Pre-Vaporization, Pre-Mixing and Combustion of Kerosene

6.      Eric Newburn, December 2004, Lean Premixed Combustion of Gaseous and Liquid Fuels using Heat Recirculation Through Annular Porous Media

7.      Sandeep Alavandi, November 2004, Effects of Fuel Composition on Combustion using Porous Inert Media.

8.      Tommy S. Wong, October, 2004, Scalar Measurements in Flames using High-Speed Rainbow Schlieren Deflectometry

9.      B. Sedat Yildirim, September, 2004, Concentration Measurements in a Momentum-Dominated Low-Density Jet

10.  Ryan Heatly, Spring, 2004, Combustion of Pre-Vaporized, Premixed Kerosene Fuel using Porous Inert Media

11.  Peter Leptuch, 2002, Measurements of Buoyancy Effects in Momentum-Dominated Helium Jets using High Speed Rainbow Schlieren Deflectometry

12.  Tze-Wing Yep, 2001, Scalar Measurements and Analysis of Helium Jets in Earth Gravity and Microgravity using Rainbow Schlieren Deflectometry

13.  Kasyap Pasumarthi, 2000, Full Field Scalar Measurements in a Pulsating Helium Jet using Rainbow Schlieren Deflectometry

14.  Mathew Jackson, 1999, Active Control of Combustion for Optimal Performance

15.  Burt Albers, 1999, Schlieren Analysis of Time-Dependent Laminar and Transitional Gas-Jet Diffusion Flames

16.  Anil K. Shenoy, 1998, Effects of Non-unity Lewis Number and Buoyancy in Hydrogen Jet Diffusion Flames

17.  Alhendro Tinneti, 1998, Flow Experiments in the Annular Diffuser and Contraction Passages of an Intercooler System for Gas Turbines

18.  Steve M. Cherry, 1997, Scaling of Buoyancy Effects in Hydrogen Gas Jet Diffusion Flames using Rainbow Schlieren Deflectometry

19.  Yanming Gao, 1997, Aerodynamic Optimization of Axisymmetric Annular Flow Passages

20.  Hongfeng Bi, 1995, Autoignition of Natural Gas in Diesel Environments

21.  S. Krishnan, 1992, Use of Subdomains for Inverse Problems in Branching Flow Passages.