Former Graduate Students:
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James C. Pearce (1976, jointly with Prof. R. H. Sabersky)
PhD Thesis: ``Mechanics of Flowing Granular Media''
Worked for Chevron; now deceased
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Sheung-Lip Ng (1976).
PhD Thesis: ``Dynamic Response of Cavitating Turbomachines''
Now in business in Orange County
E-Mail: slhuang888@aol.com
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Kiam T. Oey (1976, jointly with Prof. C. D. Babcock)
PhD Thesis: ``Leading Edge Flutter of Supercavitating Hydrofoils''
Employed at Space Division, Boeing North-American
E-mail: kiam.t.oey@boeing.com
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Tanh V. Nguyen (1980)
PhD Thesis: ``Studies in the Flow of Granular Material''
Staff engineer at TRW involved in cryogenics
E-mail: tanh.nguyen@trw.com
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David M. Braisted (1980)
PhD Thesis: ``Cavitation Induced Instabilities Associated with Turbomachines''
Employed at ExxonMobil Development Company, Houston, Texas
E-Mail: david.m.braisted@exxonmobil.com
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Robert J. Bernier (1982)
PhD Thesis: ``Unsteady Two-phase Flow Instrumentation and Measurement''
Was employed at Dow Chemical, Houston, Texas; now retired
E-mail: bernierrjb@worldnet.att.net
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Charles S. Campbell (1985)
PhD Thesis: ``Shear Flows of Granular Materials''
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California
E-mail: campbell@rcf.usc.edu
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James Scott Patton (1985, jointly with Prof. R. H. Sabersky)
PhD Thesis: ``Experimental Study of Shear Flows and Convective Heat Transfer Characteristics of Granular Materials.''
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
E-mail: jspatton@calpoly.edu
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Douglas R. Adkins (1986)
PhD Thesis: ``Analyses of Hydrodynamic Forces in Centrifugal Pump Impellers''
Employed at Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque
E-mail: dradkin@sandia.gov
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Luca d'Agostino (1987, jointly with Prof. A.J. Acosta)
PhD Thesis: ``Experimental and Theoretical Study on Cavitation Inception and Bubbly Flow Dynamics''
Professor of Aerospace Propulsion, University of Pisa, Italy
E-mail: luca.dagostino@ing.unipi.it
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Belgacem Jaroux (Jery) (1987)
PhD Thesis: ``Experimental Study of Unsteady Hydrodynamic Force Matrices on Whirling Centrifugal Pump Impellers''
Former faculty member at MIT, now engineering consultant in Palo Alto, California
E-mail: jaroux@stanford.edu
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Harri K. Kytomaa (1987)
PhD Thesis: ``Stability of the Structure in Multicomponent Flows''
Former faculty member at M.I.T., now Senior Managing Engineer at Exponent
E-mail: kytomaa@exponent.com
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Hojin Ahn (1989)
PhD Thesis: ``Experimental and Analytical Investigations of Granular Materials: Shear Flow and Convective Heat Transfer''
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey
E-mail: erdeman@yeditepe.edu.tr, hojinahn@usa.net
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Ronald John Franz (1989, jointly with Prof. A.J.Acosta)
PhD Thesis: ``Experimental investigation of the effect of cavitation on the rotordynamic forces on a whirling centrifugal pump impeller.''
Staff member at Energent Corporation, Santa Ana, California
E-mail: rfranz@energent.net
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Steven L. Ceccio (1990)
PhD Thesis: ``Observations of the Dynamics and Acoustics of Travelling Bubble Cavitation''
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
E-mail: ceccio@engin.umich.edu
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Sanjay Kumar (1992)
PhD Thesis: ``Some Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Cavitation Noise''
Orthopedic surgeon at Kaiser Permanente, Fresno, CA
E-mail: drsanjaymd@gmail.com
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Adiel Guinzburg (1992)
PhD Thesis: ``Rotordynamic Forces Generated by Discharge-to-Suction Leakage Flows in Centrifugal Pumps''
Employed by Boeing North-American
E-mail: adiel.guinzburg@boeing.com
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Douglas P. Hart (1993, jointly with Prof. A.J.Acosta).
PhD Thesis: ``Cavitation and Wake Structure of Unsteady Tip Vortex Flows''
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, M.I.T.
E-mail: dphart@mit.edu
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Yan Kuhn de Chizelle (1993)
PhD Thesis: ``Scaling effects on the dynamics and acoustics of travelling bubble cavitation''
Employed by Schlumberger, Houston, Texas
E-mail: yankdc@slb.com
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Abhijit Bhattacharya (1994, jointly with Prof. A.J.Acosta)
PhD Thesis: ``Internal flows and force matrices in axial flow inducers''
Was employed by Concepts ETI, Vermont; teaches at Tufts University
E-mail: abi.b2004@gmail.com
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Frank Zhenhuan Liu (1994)
PhD Thesis: ``Nuclei population dynamics and cavitation''
Employed by Align Technology, San Jose, CA
E-mail: fzliu@yahoo.com
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Elizabeth A. McKenney (1995)
PhD Thesis: ``A study of tip vortices and cavitation on a propeller in a non-uniform flow field''
Staff member at Jet Propulsion Laboratory
E-mail: Elizabeth.McKenney@jpl.nasa.gov
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Yi-Chun Wang (1996)
PhD Thesis: ``Shock waves in cavitating flows''
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
E-mail: wangyc@mail.ncku.edu.tw
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Carl R. Wassgren (1997, jointly with Prof. M.L.Hunt)
PhD Thesis: ``Vibration of granular materials''
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
E-mail: wassgren@ecn.purdue.edu
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Garrett E. Reisman (1997)
PhD Thesis: ``Acoustics, dynamics and control of cloud cavitation on hydrofoils''
former NASA Astronaut; now with SpaceX, California.
E-mail: garrett.e.reisman@jsc.nasa.gov
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Robert L. Behnken (1997, jointly with Richard Murray)
PhD Thesis: ``Nonlinear control and modeling of rotating stall in an axial flow compressor''
NASA Astronaut
E-mail: robert.l.behnken@jsc.nasa.gov
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Joseph Sivo (1997, jointly with Prof. Allan Acosta)
PhD Thesis: "Rotordynamic forces due to annular leakage flows in shrouded centrifugal pumps"
Professor at Bergen Community College, New Jersey
E-mail:
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Robert V. Uy (1998)
PhD Thesis: ``Studies of rotordynamic forces generated by annular flows''
Research Staff Member, Institute for Defense Analyses
E-mail: ruy@ida.org
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Tricia A. Waniewski (1998, jointly with Prof. F.Raichlen)
PhD Thesis: ``Air entrainment by bow waves''
Director of Business Development, ATA, San Diego, CA
E-mail: tricia.sur@ata-e.com
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Fabrizio d'Auria (199?, jointly with Prof. L. d'Agostino of Univ. of Pisa)
PhD Thesis: ``??''
Portfolio Analyst at The Capital Group Companies, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
E-mail: fad@capgroup.com
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Roberto Zenit (1998, jointly with Prof. M.L.Hunt)
PhD Thesis: ``Collisional mechanics in solid-liquid flows''
Faculty member at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City
E-mail: zenit@servidor.unam.mx
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Mark E. Duttweiler (2000)
PhD Thesis: ``Surge instability on a cavitating propeller''
Staff Member at Applied Minds, Glendale, CA.
E-mail: mark@appliedminds.net
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Yun Hsu (2001)
PhD Thesis: ``Rotordynamic forces generated by annular leakage flows in centrifugal pumps''
Staff Member at Jaycor, San Diego
E-mail: yhsu@jaycor.com
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Stephen R. Hostler (2004)
PhD Thesis: ``Wave propagation in granular materials''
Lead Scientist, reXorce Thermionics, Inc., Akron, Ohio
E-mail: hostler@case.edu
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Alastair T. Preston (2004, jointly with Prof. Tim Colonius)
PhD Thesis: ``Modeling heat and mass transfer in bubbly cavitating flows and shock waves in cavitating nozzles''
Researcher at Flowscience, Pasadena, CA
E-mail:
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Erin Koos (2009, jointly with Prof. M.L.Hunt).
PhD Thesis: ``Shear stress measurements of non-spherical particles in high shear rate flows.''
Research Fellow at University of Karlsruhe.
E-mail: erin.koos@mvm.uni-karlsruhe.de
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Nathalie Vriend (2009, jointly with Prof. M.L.Hunt).
PhD Thesis: ``Booming sand dunes.''
Research Fellow at Cambridge University, England.
E-mail: nv253@cam.ac.uk
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Keita Ando (2010, jointly with Prof. T.Colonius).
PhD Thesis: ``Effect of polydispersity in bubbly flows.''
Assistant Professor, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
E-mail: KAndo@ntu.edu.sg
Former Engineers Degree and Masters Theses Students:
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Albert Charles (1981)
Engineers Thesis: ``Synfuel systems. A review of letdown devices and other multiphase flow problems.''
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E-mail:
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Jan Spelt (1982)
Engineers Thesis: `` An experimental study of heat transfer to flowing granular media''
Prof. University of Toronto
E-mail: spelt@mie.utoronto.ca
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Tak-Yiu Wong (1983)
Engineers Thesis: ``Calculation of wave characteristics in bubbly two-phase flows''
E-mail: ??
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Fei Zhuang (1989)
Engineers Thesis: ``Experimental investigation of the hydrodynamic forces on the shroud of a centrifugal pump impeller''
Researcher at University of Southern California
E-mail: ??
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Susan Beatty (1993)
Engineers Thesis: "Size segregation of binary granular materials in vertical channel flows."
Lecturer at California State University, Northridge
E-mail: susan.beatty@csun.edu
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Jim Cory (199?)
Employed by
E-mail: ???.com
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Scott Miskovish (199?)
Masters Publication: ``Some unsteady fluid forces on pump impellers.''
Employed by ATA, San Diego
E-mail: rmiskovi@ata-e.com
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Javier del Valle (1992)
Masters Publication: ` The effects of inlet flow modification on cavitating inducer performance''
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E-mail: jdvjdv88@sbcglobal.net
Last updated 2/20/11.
Christopher E. Brennen, brennen@caltech.edu