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Ph.D. Students and Dissertations

2025
  • David Lanade – Ph.D., May 2025, “Integration of High-Fidelity CFD Simulations and Reduced-Order Modeling Techniques for Optimizing Flow and Heat Transfer in Randomly Packed Beds.”
  • Noah Sutton – Ph.D., May 2025, “Experimental Visualization of Flow and Structural Phenomena in a Prototypical Helical Coil Steam Generator.”
2024
  • Abdulaziz Almathami – Ph.D., August 2024, “Particle Image Velocimetry Based In A Randomly Packed Pebble Bed Core Geometry.”
  • Faisal Aldebie – Ph.D., May 2024, “Multi-Physics Modeling and Simulations of Heat Pipe Cooled Graphite Moderated Micro Reactor.”
  • Octavio Bovati – Ph.D., May 2024, “Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis of the Blockage Accident in Wire-Wrapped Rod Bundles.”
  • Jadyn Reis – Ph.D., May 2024, “Single-Phase and Two-Phase Flow Visualization Experiments in a Molten Salt Natural Circulation Loop.”
  • Hansol Kim – Ph.D., May 2024, “Modeling and Design Optimization of Thermal Hydraulic Systems for Advanced Reactor Applications.”
2023
  • Blake Maher – Ph.D., August 2023, “Experimental Flow Visualization and Temperature Measurements for Validation in Hemispherical Upper Plenum and Pebble Bed Geometries.”
  • Ojasvin Arora – Ph.D., August 2023, “Development of Advanced Instrumentation and Novel Heat Exchanger Geometries for Molten Salt Environments.”
  • Daniel Orea – Ph.D., May 2023, “Experimental Analyses of Internal Pressure and Temperature Measurements in an Annular Wrapped Screen Wick Heat Pipe.”
2022
  • Craig Menezes – Ph.D., December 2022, “Experimental Investigations of Fuel Assemblies for Fast Reactor Applications.”
  • Luay Mohammad Deeb Alawneh – Ph.D., August 2022, “Conceptual Design of a 3 MWTH Yttrium Hydride Moderated Heat Pipe Cooled Micro Reactor for Spacefaring Applications.”
  • Camila F. Matozinhos – Ph.D., August 2022, “Experimental and Numerical Analysis of the Flow in Rod Bundles with Spacer Grids.”
  • Gabriel CQ Tomaz – Ph.D., May 2022, “Development of Data Driven Models to Predict Pressure Drop in Wire-Wrapped Rod Bundles.”
  • Jieun Lee – Ph.D., May 2022, “Validation of Pronghorn Pressure Drop Correlations against Pebble Bed Experiments.”
2021
  • William Milija Headley – Ph.D., December 2021, “Flow Velocity and Temperature Measurements of Natural Circulation Flow in a (FLiNaK) Molten Salt Loop.”
  • Robert Muyshondt – Ph.D., December 2021, “Experimental Investigation of Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in Randomly Packed Beds and Related Geometries.”
  • Joseph Seo – Ph.D., December 2021, “Experimental Investigation of Convective Flow Boiling in Concentric and Eccentric Annulus.”
  • Anas Mohammed F. Alwafi – Ph.D., May 2021, “Experimental Measurements of Fluid Mixing at the Scaled Upper Plenum of High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors.”
  • Marilyn Delgado – Ph.D., May 2021, “An Experimental Study on Flow-Induced Vibration of a Single and Adjacent Tubes Within a Model Helical Coil Heat Exchanger.”
2020
  • Aaron M. Krueger – Ph.D., December 2020, “Importance of Code and Solution Verification in Credible Simulations.”
  • G. Busco – Ph.D., December 2020, “Spatio-Temporal Turbulent Characterization of a Nuclear Reactor Fuel Assembly with Spacer Grid.”
2019
  • B.A. Alkhudhiri – Ph.D., August 2019, “Temperature and Velocity Measurements In Sub-cooled Boiling through a Vertical Rectangular Test Channel.”
  • S. Lee – Ph.D., August 2019, “Numerical Investigation of Turbulent Flows around a Helical Coil Steam Generator for an Advanced Small Modular Reactor using Large Eddy Simulation.”
  • D. Holler – Ph.D., August 2019, “Evaluation and Quantification of Optic Fiber Distributed Sensor Response in Air and Water Environments.”
  • J. Lai – Ph.D., May 2019, “Quantification of Turbulent Characteristics Using High Fidelity Computational Fluid Dynamics for Heat Exchanger Applications.”
  • G. Botha – Ph.D., May 2019, “Quantification of Turbulence Statistics for the Near-Wall Region in Unstructured Pebble Beds Using Direct Numerical Simulation.”
  • N. Quintanar – Ph.D., May 2019, “Temperature and high resolution velocimetry measurements of natural circulation flow in a scaled water reactor cavity cooling system (WRCCS).”
  • S. Yang – Ph.D., May 2019, “Experimental investigation on multifluid, multiphase flow phenomena for computer code validation.”
  • M. Childs – Ph.D., May 2019, “Full field reconstruction and uncertainty quantification of particle image velocimetry measurements in a 5×5 rod bundle with mixing vane spacer grids.”
2018
  • N. Goth – Ph.D., December 2018, “Analysis of Experimental Velocity Measurements on a Matched-Index-of-Refraction 61-pin Wire-Wrapped Bundle.”
  • L. Brockmeyer – Ph.D., December 2018, “Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulation in Application for Nuclear Engineering.”
2017
  • F. Sarikurt – Ph.D., August 2017, “Multi-Scale CFD Simulations of Momentum and Buoyancy Driven Flows in Nuclear Reactor Systems.”
  • L. B. Carasik – Ph.D., May 2017, “Investigation of Solution Verification and Validation of Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics Computational Fluid Dynamics using Twin Rectangular Turbulent Jets.”
  • L. H. Fick – Ph.D., May 2017, “Direct Numerical Simulation of Incompressible Flows in Domain of Close Packed Spheres.”
  • C.H. Chu – Ph.D., May 2017, “Application of the Fictitious Domain Method to Flow Problems with Complex Geometries.”
2016
  • J.H. Park – Ph.D. (Co-Chair), August 2016, “Natural Circulation in the Upper Plenum of a Scaled Model of a Very High Temperature Reactor in the event of Loss-of-Coolant Accident.”
2015
  • Huhu Wang – Ph.D., December 2015, “Experimental Study of the Turbulent Mixing of Two Parallel jets for Benchmarking Numerical Models.”
  • Shamsul Sulaiman – Ph.D., August 2015, “Experimental Investigations of Flow Behavior Inside the Upper Plenum of TAMU-Air-Cooled Reactor Cavity Cooling System.”
  • J. Yoo – Ph.D., May 2015, “Experimental Study on the Subcooled Boiling Flow via Optical Measurements Techniques.”
2014
  • C.D. Estrada-Perez – Ph.D., December 2014, “Multiscale Experiments in Turbulent Subcooled Boiling Flow through a Square Channel with a Single Heated Wall.”
  • Saya Lee – Ph.D., December 2014, “Pressure Drop and Filtration through Fibrous Porous Media on the Sump Strainer of Light Water Reactors.”
2013
  • Rodolfo Vaghetto – Ph.D., December 2013, “Experimental and Computational Study of a Scaled Reactor Cavity Cooling System.”
2012
  • Angelo Frisani – Ph.D., December 2012, “Direct Forcing Immersed Boundary Methods: Finite Element versus Finite Volume Approach.”
  • Hong-Chan Wei – Ph.D., December 2012, “CFD Analyses of Flow Structures in Air-Ingress and Rod Bundle Problems.”
  • Worasit Kanjanakijkasem – Ph.D., December 2012, “Preliminary Study of Bypass Flow in Prismatic Core of Very High Temperature Reactor Using Small-Scale Model”.
  • Asmaa Kassab – Ph.D., December 2012, “High Resolution Study of Micrometer Particle Detachment and Resuspension on Different Surfaces.”
  • Luigi Capone – Ph.D., August 2012, “CFD Analysis of Nuclear Fuel Bundles and Spacer Grids for PWR Reactors.”
  • Nathaniel Salpeter – Ph.D., May 2012, “Development of Spatio-Temporal Wavelet Post Processing Techniques for Application to Thermal Hydraulics Experiments and Numerical Simulations.”
2011
  • Noushin Amini – Ph.D., December 2011, “Turbulent Flow Analysis and Coherent Structure Identification in Experimental Models with Complex Geometries.”
2010
  • Shin Kyu Kang – Ph.D., December 2010, “Immersed Boundary Methods in the Lattice Boltzmann Equation for Flow Simulation.”
  • Radha M.G. Muddu – Ph.D., December 2010, “Three Dimensional Simulation of Rayleigh-Benard Convection for Rapid Microscale Polymerase Chain Reaction.”
  • Elvis E. Dominguez-Ontiveros – Ph.D., May 2010, “Non-Intrusive Experimental Investigation of Multi-Scale Flow Behavior in Rod Bundle with Spacer-Grids.”
2009
  • Andrew S. Goldmann – Ph.D., December 2009, “Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Aerosol Scavenging by Sprays.”
2007
  • Pamela Longmire – Ph.D., May 2007, “Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Simulations of Aerosol in a U-Shaped Steam Generator Tube.”
2006
  • Vishnu K. Vijay – Ph.D., December 2006, “Numerical Modeling of Species Transport in Turbulent Flow and Experimental Study on Aerosol Sampling.”
2004
  • Claudia del Carman Gutierrez Torres – Ph.D., August 2004, “Modification of Turbulent Structure in Channel Flows by Microbubble Injection Close to the Wall.”
  • Jose Al Jimenez Bernal – Ph.D., August 2004, “Microbubble Drag Reduction Phenomenon Study in a Channel Flow.”
2003
  • Sridhar Hari – Ph.D., December 2003, “Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Simulations of Dilute Fluid-Particle Flows in Aerosol Concentrators.”
2002
  • Donald R. Todd – Ph.D., December 2002, “Methodologies for Analyzing PIV and SIV Results from a Two-Phase Air/Water Experiment.”
2000
  • Hagob R. Barsamian – Ph.D., August 2000, “New Near-Wall Models with Dynamic Subgrid Scale Closure for Large Eddy Simulation in Curvilinear Coordinates for Complex Geometries.”
  • Andrey Arturovich Troshko – Ph.D., August 2000, “A Two-Equation Multidimensional Model of Turbulent Bubbly Flows.”
  • Jeffrey A. Randorf – Ph.D., May 2000, “Designing and Implementing a Practical Reuse Framework for Six Degree-of-Freedom Missile Simulations with Concurrency.”
1999
  • Javier Ortiz-Villafuerte – Ph.D., December 1999, “Three-Dimensional Experimental Investigation of the Shape and Dynamics of a Rising Bubble in Stagnant Water with Particle Tracking Velocimetry.”
  • Sibashis Banerjee – Ph.D., December 1999, “The Development of a Multiblocked Strongly Conservative Finite Volume Solver with Chimera Grid Capabilities for Flows in Complex Geometries.”
  • William Daniel Schmidl – Ph.D., May 1999, “Three-Dimensional Experimental Investigation of Two-Phase Flow Structure in a Bubbly Pipe Flow.”
  • Wael A. Ibrahim – Ph.D., May 1999, “Improvements in the Large-Eddy Simulation Technique for Complex-Geometry Turbulent Flows.”
1996
  • Olivier Gerard Philip – Ph.D., May 1996, “Investigation of the Interaction between Fluid Flow and Fluid Free Surface Movement Using Particle Image Velocimetry.”
1992
  • Freddie Joe Davis, Jr. – Ph.D., May 1992, “A Two-Dimensional Finite Element Method Large Eddy Simulation for Application to Turbulent Steam Generator Flow.”
  • Sae Yul Lee – Ph.D., December 1992, “A Study and Improvement of Large Eddy Simulation (LES) for Practical Application.”
1991
  • Thomas Kevin Blanchat – Ph.D., December 1991, “Development of Pulsed Laser Velocimetry Techniques for Measurement of Two-Phase Interfacial Drag in a Horizontal Stratified Flow.”

M.S. Students and Theses

2025
  • Chris Mendez – M.S., August 2025, “Modeling and Design Optimization of Sodium Heat Pipes for Microreactor Applications.”
  • Seth Macias – M.S., May 2025, “Experimental Investigation of near-wall bypass flow in randomly packed pebble beds.”
  • Michelle Stephenson – M.S., May 2025, “Experimental Investigation on Two Medium-Temperature Heat Pipe Fluids.”
  • Seun Olumurewa – M.S., May 2025, “Transient Heat Pipe Lumped Parameter Model and Application in Heat Pipe Cooled Microreactor Model.”
  • Rishabh Aradhyam – M.S., May 2025.
  • Michael Gorman – M.S., May 2025.
2024
  • Dalton Pyle – M.S., December 2024, “Experimental Friction Factor and Particle Image Velocimetry Analysis of an 81 Pin Helical Cruciform Rod Bundle.”
  • Matthew Kinsky – M.S., December 2024, “Experimental Flow Visualization and Pressure Characterization for Helical Cruciform Rod Bundle.”
2023
  • Marcos Salomao De Sena – M.S., August 2023, “Simulations of the Scaled Reactor Cavity Cooling System Experimental Facility with Flownex.”
  • Guilherme Viela – M.S., August 2023, “Study of Hydrogen Risk in a Marine Nuclear Reactor During a Loss of Coolant Accident.”
  • Byunggeun Shin – M.S., August 2023, “Investigating Isothermal Pressure Drop Characteristics in a 5×5 PWR Rod Bundle with Reverse Grid Configuration Using an Automated CHF Test Facility.”
2022
  • Abdulbasit Radhi Aloufi – M.S., August 2022, “Experimental Analysis of Flow Induced Vibrations in a Helical Coil Heat Exchanger Test Facility for SMR Applications.”
  • Daegeun Kim – M.S., August 2022, “Experimental Investigation on the Characteristics of the Annular Type Composite Wick Heat Pipe.”
  • Alfred D Carroll – M.S., August 2022, “Particle Image Velocimetry of Fluid Flow in an 85-Pin Hexagonal Rod Bundle with Spacer Grids for a Gas-Cooled Fast Modular Reactor.”
2021
  • Blain Ryan Lancaster – M.S., May 2021, “High Resolution Distributed Temperature Measurements Using Optical Fibers in a Molten Salt Forced Convection Environment.”
2020
  • Denise Chavez – M.S., August 2020, “Flow Visualization of Two-Phase Flow in Molten-Salt: Helium Bubbling in Lithium Fluoride – Sodium Fluoride- Potassium Fluoride (LIF-NAF-KF).”
  • S. King – M.S., May 2020, “Pressure Drop and Particle Image Velocimetry Measurement of Isothermal Fluid Flow in a Randomly Packed Bed of Spheres For Code Validation.”
  • E. Mohammad Al Smadi – M.S., May 2020, “Design and Optimization of the Components of an Accelerator Driven Thorium-Fueled Molten Salt Loop Using MCNP6/SERPENT2 Monte Carlo Methods.”
2019
  • C. Menezes – M.S., December 2019, “Isothermal Shakedown Tests for the 5×5 Pressurized Water Reactor Rod Bundle in the Automated Critical Heat Flux Test Facility.”
  • D. Hodge – M.S., December 2019, “Observations and Measurements of Two-Phase Flow Phenomena in a Water-Cooled Reactor Cavity Cooling System During Transient Scenarios.”
  • L. White – M.S., August 2019, “TR-PIV Flow characterization of blockage effects on a 61-pin wire-wrapped hexagonal fuel bundle.”
  • D. Orea – M.S., May 2019, “Flow mixing effects in cold leg of pressurized water reactor for CFD-UQ benchmark.”
  • K. Lee – M.S., May 2019, “Experimental investigation on steam-water direct contact condensation using laser-induced fluorescence (LIF).”
2018
  • E. D. Kappes – M.S., December 2018, “Design, Development and Execution of PIV Measurements on a Randomly packed Pebble Bed Experimental facility Using Matched Index of Refraction.”
  • K. Neptune – M.S., August 2018, “Thermal-Hydraulic and Fuel Performance Code Coupling for Multi-physics Industrial Applications.”
  • M. Delgado – M.S., May 2018, “High resolution Measurements of Shell-Side Velocity Fields in Helical Coil Steam Generators Using Particle Image Velocimetry.”
  • J. Mulloy – M.S., May 2018, “Simulation of Cold Leg Mixing Using Star-CCM+ Computer Code.”
2017
  • Phillip Jones – M.S., December 2017, “Pressure Measurements in a Wire-Wrapped 61 Pin Hexagonal Fuel Bundle.”
  • A. M. Krueger – M.S., December 2017, “Estimation of Discretization Error for Three Dimensional CFD Simulations Using a Taylor Series Modified Equation Analysis.”
  • M. Bani Ahmad – M.S., December 2017, “Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis of Isothermal and Non-Isothermal Twin Jets.”
  • N.E. Goth – M.S., May 2017, “Design and PIV Measurements on a Wire-Wrapped 61-Rod Hexagonal Fuel Assembly Experimental Facility.”
  • C. T. Fullerton – M.S., August 2017, “Characterization of Aluminum Corrosion Precipitation in Support of GSI-191 Head Loss Testing.”
  • T.M. Crook – M.S., May 2017, “Importance of Alternative Reactor Vessel Flow Paths during Loss-of-Coolant Accident Scenarios with Debris-Induced Core Blockage.”
  • S.H. Beck – M.S., May 2017, “Spatial and Temporal Tracking of Pathogenic Bioaerosols in Beef Slaughter Facilities Using Dynamic Monitoring Techniques.”
2016
  • M.P. Childs – M.S., December 2016, “Quantification of Boric Acid Concentration and Losses due to Vaporization in the PASTA facility.”
  • T. Williams – M.S., December 2016, “The Effect of DC Voltage on Fibrous Debris bypass Through a Containment Sump Strainer.”
  • V. Kyriakopoulos – M.S., December 2016, “Effect of Chemical Injections on Pressure Drop Through a Fibrous Debris Bed.”
  • J. Budd – M.S., May 2016, “Comparison between Particle Image Velocimetry and Laser Doppler Velocimetry Measurements inside the TAMU Reactor Cavity Cooling System Experimental Test Facility.”
2015
  • Theodore Blowe – M.S., December 2015, “RANS CFD Methodologies for a PWR Fuel Rod Assembly.”
  • Anas Alwafi – M.S., December 2015, “Investigation of the flow of the Upper Plenum of a Scaled Very High Temperature Reactor during a Depressurization Cooldown Conduction Accident.”
  • Michael Gorman – M.S., August 2015, “Characterization of the Thermal Hydraulics Behavior of an Experimental Reactor Cavity Cooling System with Water.”
  • Matthew Kappes – M.S., August 2015, “Particle Size Distributions of Debris Upstream and Downstream of the Containment Sump Strainer in a Light Water Reactor.”
  • Natalie Galegar – M.S., May 2015, “Evaluation of Instantaneous Pressure Measurements on a Rod Surface in a 5×5 Bundle and Validation through CFD.”
  • Fatih Sarikurt – M.S., May 2015, “CFD Simulations of Erosion of a Stratified Layer by a Buoyant Jet in a Large Vessel.”
2014
  • William Cook – M.S., December 2014, “Multi-Dimensional Nodalization of a Pressurized Water Reactor Core Using RELAP5-3D.”
  • Tariq Alhashimi – M.S., December 2014, “Measurement of Temperature Profile in the Reactor Cavity Cooling System.”
  • Hristo Goumnerov – M.S., August 2014, “Validation of a Three Dimensional Particle Tracking Velocimetry Software.”
  • Suhaeb Abdulsattar – M.S., May 2014, “Head Loss through Fibrous Debris Bed with Different Types of Perforated Strainers.”
  • Paul Ward – M.S., May 2014, “Direct Numerical Simulation of the Flow in a Pebble Bed.”
2013
  • Huali Wu – M.S., August 2013, “Heat Transfer Simulation of Reactor Cavity Cooling System Experimental Facility Using RELAP5-3D and Generation of View Factors Using MCNP.”
2012
  • Huhu Wang – M.S., December 2012, “CFD Analysis of Core Bypass Flow and Crossflow in the Prismatic Very High Temperature Gas-Cooled Nuclear Reactor.”
  • Yuan Di – M.S., December 2012, “Experimental Observation and Measurements of Pool Boiling Heat Transfer Using PIV, Shadowgraphy and RICM Techniques.”
  • Oscar A. Rodriguez – M.S., August 2012, “RELAP3-D Thermal Hydraulics Computer Program Analysis Coupled with DAKOTA and STAR-CCM+ Codes.”
  • Abdul R. Khan – M.S., August 2012, “Bubbly Flow Experiment in Channel Using an Optical Probe and Tracking Algorithm.”
2011
  • Jessica Hartley – M.S., August 2011, “Double Ended Guillotine Break in a Prismatic Block VHTR Lower Plenum Air Ingress Scenario.”
  • Akshay Gandhir – M.S., August 2011, “Computational Analysis of Fluid Flow in Pebble Bed Modular Reactor.”
  • Donghoon Kim – M.S., August 2011, “Isothermal Gas-Liquid Flow using the Lattice Boltzmann Method.”
  • Rodolfo Vaghetto – M.S., May 2011, “Experimental Study of the Thermal Hydraulic Phenomena in the Reactor Cavity Cooling System and Analysis of the Effects of Graphite Dispersion.”
2010
  • Changwoo Kang – M.S., August 2010, “Pressure Drop in a Pebble Bed Reactor.”
  • Nathaniel O. Salpeter – M.S., May 2010, “Large Eddy Simulation of Dual Jet Flow Mixing within Rod Bundles.”
  • Angelo Frisani – M.S., May 2010, “Loss of Flow Circulation Accident Analysis for the Reactor Cavity Cooling System of VHTR using CFD Codes.”
2009
  • Carlos E. Estrada-Perez – M.S., May 2009, “Experimental Two-Phase Flow Characterization of Subcooled Boiling in a Rectangular Channel.”
  • Jongchurl Kim – M.E., August 2009, “Wall Pressure Analysis of Test Channel of Rod Bundle.”
2006
  • Robert Buckner Barner – M.S., December 2006, “Power Conversion Unit Studies for the Next Generation Nuclear Plant Coupled to a High-Temperature Steam Electrolysis Facility.”
  • Nolan Anderson – M.S., August 2006, “Coupling RELAP5-3D and FLUENT to Analyze the Outlet Plenum of the VHTR.”
  • Eugene J. T. Moore – M.S., May 2006, “RELAP5-3D Model Validation and Benchmark Exercises for Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor Applications.”
2005
  • Adrian Gaston Maroni Veiga – M.S., May 2005, “Analysis and Identification of Vortices within a Turbulent Channel Boundary Layer Flow.”
2004
  • Carlos E. Estrada-Perez – M.S., December 2004, “Analysis Comparison and Modification of Various Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) Algorithms.”
  • Ling Zhen – M.S., December 2004, “Wavelet Analysis Study of Microbubble Drag reduction in a Boundary Channel Flow.”
  • Francois Guilhem Cocheme – M.S., December 2004, “Assessment of passive Decay Heat Removal in the General Atomic Modular Helium Reactor.”
  • Chaqing Liao – Master in Engineering, December 2004, “Particle Transport in Fluid Flow Simulated by Using Computational Fluid Dynamics FLUENT Code.”
  • Elvis E. Ontiveros – M.S., August 2004, “Wall-Pressure and PIV Measurements and Analysis for Microbubble Drag Reduction Investigation.”
2003
  • Gokul Vasudevamurthy – M.S., December 2003, “Optimized Profile Extraction and Three Dimensional Reconstruction Technique Applied to Bubble Shapes.”
  • Gokhan Yesilyurt – M.S., May 2003, “Numerical Simulation of Flow Distribution for Pebble Bed High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors.”
  • P. P. Pratt III – M.S., May 2003, “A Three Dimensional Simulation of a Thermal Experiment Conducted on an Accelerator Driven System Target Concept.”
2002
  • S. M. Reza – M.S., December 2002, “Simulation of Subcooled Boiling at Low Pressure Conditions with RELAP5-3D Computer Program.”
  • T. Furukawa – M.S., December 2002, “Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Bubble Distribution in Two-Phase Bubble Flows with the Dynamic Programming Method.”
  • A. Rezvyi – M.S., December 2002, “Flow Instabilities in the Core and Coolant Circuit of Advanced Low-Boiling Light Water Reactor: Classification of Causes and Development of Simulator for Future Analysis.”
  • F. Yilmaz – M.S., August 2002, “Reactor Materials Study of EBR-II and BN350.”
  • Donald M. Helton – M.S., August 2002, “Calculation of Unsteady Turbulent Flow around Obstacles Using the Large Eddy Simulation Turbulence Model.”
2001
  • Kevin T. Clarno – M.S., August 2001, “Development of RELAP-3D Three-Dimensional Model of the VVER-1000 Nuclear Power Plant for Analysis of a Large-Break Loss-of-Coolant-Accident.”
2000
  • Chun Fu – M.S., May 2000, “RELAP5/MOD3.2 Analysis of a VVER-1000 Reactor with UO2 Fuel and MOX Fuel.”
1999
  • Dionisie R. Moscalu – M.S., May 1999, “Simulation of Operational Transients in a VVER-1000 Nuclear Power Plant Using RELAP5/MOD3.2 Computer Program.”
1998
  • Sridhar Hari – M.S., December 1998, “Analysis of a Research Reactor Under Anticipated Transients Without Scram Events Using the RELAP5/MOD3.2 Computer Program.”
  • Yu-Hsiang Yang – M.S., August 1998, “Experimental Study on Bubble Collapse in Subcooled Water with Three-Dimensional Particle Image Velocimetry.”
1997
  • Thomas P. Luedeke – M.S., August 1997, “A Midloop Operation Benchmark Test of the RELAP5/MOD3.2 Code.”
1996
  • Andrey A. Troshko – M.S., December 1996, “Simulation of the Loss of the Residual Heat Removal of an Integral Test Facility Using Computer Code CATHARE.”
  • Joseph Patrick Reyes – M.S., May 1996, “Simulation of Condensation in the Presence of Non-Condensible Gases Using the French Thermal Hydraulic Computer Code CATHARE.”
  • Churl Yoon – M.S., May 1996, “Development of a Genetic Algorithm Tracking Technique for the Particle Image Velocimetry and Comparison with Other Tracking Models.”
1995
  • Gabriel Francisco Cuevas Vivas – M.S., May 1995, “Analysis of the Simplified Boiling Water Reactor Using the Code RAMONA-4B.”
  • Christopher Randall Faust – M.S., May 1995, “Advanced Nuclear Reactor Safety Analysis: The Simulation of a Small Break Loss-of-Coolant Accident in the Simplified Boiling Water Reactor Using RELAP5/MOD3.1.1.”
  • Wael Abdul-Hamid Ibrahim – M.S., May 1995, “Turbulence Prediction in Two- and Three-Dimensional Bundle Flows Using Large Eddy Simulation.”
  • Habeeb Hadi Saleh – M.S., May 1995, “Numerical Simulation of Intermediate Heat Exchanger of the Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor Using COMMIX-1B.”
  • Russell Craig Johns – M.S., August 1995, “Enhancement of Two-Phase Flow Images Obtained Using Dynamic Neutron Radiography.”
  • Simon Gregory Smith – M.S., August 1995, “Dynamic System Characterization of an Integral Test Facility of an Advanced PWR.”
  • Robert Beverly Piper – M.S., December 1995, “The Simulation of a 1-Inch Break Loss-of-Coolant Accident at the ROSA-IV/AP600 Test Facility Using RELAP5/MOD3.2.”
1994
  • Hagop Raffi Barsamian – M.S., December 1994, “Turbulence Prediction Using the Large Eddy Simulation Method in Staggered and Inlined Bundles.”
  • Bruce Scott Carlisle – M.S., August 1994, “An Evaluation of the Neutron Radiography Facility at the Nuclear Science Center for Dynamic Imaging of Two-Phase Hydrogenous Fluids.”
  • Sibashis Sanatkumar Banerjee – M.S., May 1994, “RELAP5/MOD3 Simulation of the Loss of Residual Heat Removal During Midloop Operation Experiment Conducted at the ROSA-IV Large Scale Test Facility.”
  • Peter Patrick Cebull – M.S., May 1994, “Simulation of the SPE-4 Small Break Loss-of-Coolant Accident Using RELAP5/MOD3.1.”
  • Sylvain Vincent Ludovic Costes – M.S., December 1994, “Analysis of a Three-Dimensional Particle Image Velocimetry Algorithm and Analysis of Synthetic and Experimental Flow in Three-Dimensions.”
  • Ramiro Serna Martinez – M.S., December 1994, “Flow Visualization Around Cylinders in a Channel Flow Using Particle Image Velocimetry.”
1993
  • Olivier Gerard Philip – M.S., August 1993, “Development of a High-Speed Fluorescent Particle Image Velocimetry Technique to Study Steam Bubble Collapse.”
1992
  • Charles Henry Seeley, Jr. – M.S., December 1992, “Neural Network Approaches to Tracer Identification as Related to PIV Research.”
  • Charles Patrick Bott – M.S., May 1992, “Simulation of a Small Break Loss-of-Coolant Accident Conducted at the BETHSY Integral Test Facility.”
  • John Myron Pruitt – M.S., May 1992, “Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulence within Heat Exchangers.”
  • Laxminarayan Lakshmana Raja – M.S., May 1992, “Simulation of Condensation Systems in the Presence of Non-Condensible Gases.”
  • William Daniel Schmidl – M.S., August 1992, “Development and Application of a High Speed Digital Data Acquisition Technique to Study Steam Bubble Collapse Using Particle Image Velocimetry.”
1991
  • Katey Eileen Delahunte – M.S., May 1991, “Full Field Automated Flow Analysis of a Spray Using Digital Pulsed Laser Velocimetry.”
1990
  • Omar Rais – M.S., May 1990, “Two-Phase Flow Interfacial Drag for Once Through Steam Generators.”
  • Sandra Mernell Sloan – M.S., August 1990, “A Study of RELAP5/MOD 2 and RELAP5/MOD3 Predictions of a Small Break LOCA Simulation Conducted at the ROSA-IV Large Scale Test Facility.”
  • Thomas Kevin Blanchat – M.S., December 1990, “New Tube Bundle Heat Transfer Correlations and Flow Regime Maps for a Once-Through Steam Generator.”
  • Robert Ernst Canaan – M.S., December 1990, “Full-Field Velocity Measurements of Single and Two-Phase Flows Using Digital Pulsed Laser Velocimetry.”
  • Hector Luis Chavez – M.S., December 1990, “Convective Flow Measurements in a Heated Cavity Using Pulsed Laser Velocimetry with Digital Image Processing.”
  • Sharon Elizabeth Grant – M.S., December 1990, “Modified Heat Transfer Coefficient in the Presence of Non-Condensible Gas for RELAP5/MOD2 Computer Code.”
1989
  • Ted Glyn Bagwell – M.S., December 1989, “Examination of Steam Generator Turbulence by Large Eddy Simulation.”
  • Anand Gangadharan – M.S., December 1989, “Modeling of Reactor Components Using FIDAP – A Finite Element Computer Code.”
  • Robert David Hild – M.S., December 1989, “Single Phase Flow Visualization Using Digital Pulsed Laser Velocimetry.”
  • Parvez Salim – M.S., December 1989, “Modeling and Small-Break Loss-of-Coolant Accident Analysis of Commanche Peak Steam Electric Station Using RELAP5/MOD2.”
  • Mathangi Kalyanasundaram – M.S., August 1989, “U-Tube Steam Generator Experiments: Steady-State and Transient Analysis Using RELAP5/MOD2.”
  • Isabelle Vincedon – M.S., August 1989, “Simulation of Space Particle Bed Reactors.”