Alumni
DARREN C. TINKER, PH.D. 2021
Ph.D. Dissertation: “Compact Augmented Spark Igniters for Liquid Rocket Engines”
MARSALIS PULLEN, M.S. 2021
M.S. Thesis: “Examination of Premixed Methane Air Tubular Flame Response to Elevated Pressure”
GARRETT J. MARSHALL, PH.D. 2021
Ph.D. Dissertation: “Atomic Oxygen and Heat Release Rate Monitoring in Hydrogen Tubular Flames”
CHAD D. CARPENTER, PH.D. 2020
Ph.D. Dissertation: “Improved Applications of Filtered Rayleigh Scattering”
WILLIAM BEARDEN, M.S. 2017
M.S. Thesis: “Laser Based Velocity Measurements in High Speed Flows”
CARL HALL, PH.D. 2016
Ph.D. Dissertation: “Instability of Premixed Lean Hydrogen Laminar Tubular Flames”
NATHAN GRADY, M.S. 2010, PH.D. 2015
M.S. Thesis: “Hydroxyl Tagging Velocimetry in a Supersonic Flow Over a Ramped-Wall Cavity Flameholder with an Upstream Strut”
Ph.D. Dissertation: “Laser Diagnostics of Turbulent Flames in High Speed Flows”
MARC RAMSEY, PH.D. 2013
Ph.D. Dissertation: “Energetic Cavitation Collapse”
AMBER PERKINS, M.S. 2011
M.S. Thesis: “Hydroxyl Tagging Velocimetry in Highly Accelerated Flows”
SCOTT SHOPOFF, M.S. 2010
M.S. Thesis: “Combustion Instabilities In Non-Premixed Opposed-Flow Tubular Flames”
YU WANG, M.S. 2008
M.S. Thesis: “Cellular Instability Phenomenon In Premixed Tubular Flames And Non-Premixed Opposed Tubular Flames”
SHENGTENG HU, PH.D. 2007
Ph.D. Dissertation: “Measurements And Modeling Of Non-Premixed Tubular Flames: Structure, Extinction And Instability”
PEIYONG WANG, PH.D. 2006
Ph.D. Dissertation: “Investigation Of Stretch And Curvature Effects On Flames”
MICHAEL LAHR, M.S. 2005
M.S. Thesis: “Hydroxyl Tagging Velocimetry in Supersonic Flow Over a Wall Cavity Flameholder”
Z. X. CHENG, M.S. 2001, PH.D. 2004
M.S. Thesis: “Visible Laser Raman Diagnostics Application in Partially Premixed Flames of Premixed Fuel versus Hot Products”
Ph.D. Dissertation: “Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Flame Structures for Stretched Lean Premixed Planar/Tubular Flames and Oxygen-Enhanced Planar/Coflow Flames”
MATTHEW MOSBACHER, M.S. 2002, PH.D. 2004
M.S. Thesis: “An Application of Non-Instrusive Laser-Based Diagnostics in Tubular Flames”
Ph.D. Dissertation: “Temperature Measurements Using UV-Induced Vibrational Hydrogen Raman Bandshape Spectroscopy”
SASTRI P. NANDULA, M.S. 1995, PH.D. 2003
M.S. Thesis: “Measurement of Mixing Scalars and Scalar Dissipation in Turbulent Flames by Line Raman Imaging”
Ph.D. Dissertation: “Lean Premixed Flame Structure in Intense Turbulence: Rayleigh/Raman/LIF Measurements and Modeling”
RIBAROV LUBOMIR, PH.D. 2002
Ph.D. Dissertation: “Nonintrusive Molecular Velocity measurements in Air and Reacting Flows using Hydroxyl Tagging Velocimetry”
ROBIN OSBORNE, M.S. 1999
M.S. Thesis: “Application of Ultraviolet Raman Spectroscopy to Methane-Air vs. Air Counterflow Flames”
THOMAS M. BROWN III, M.S. 1991, PH.D. 1996
M.S. Thesis: “Low-Level Smoke and NO2 Measurements using Pulsed Photothermal Laser Deflection”
Ph.D. Dissertation: “Investigation of Steady and Periodically Stretched Counterflow Diffusion Flames”
DEBDIP MUKHERJEE, M.S. 1995
M.S. Thesis: “Use of an Intensified Charge-Coupled Device (ICCD) Camera for UV Raman Imaging of Turbulent Flames”
JOHN S. MAGGART, M.S. 1995
M.S. Thesis: “Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing for Measurement of NOx via Thermal Gratings”
TAMARA COLE, M.S. 1993
M.S. Thesis: “Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing for Measurement of Smoke and NO2 Concentration”
WARREN COLE, M.S. 1993
M.S. Thesis: “Two-Photon Predissociative Fluorescence to Measure H2O Concentration and Temperature in Hydrogen/Air Flames”
RAFAEL VILLASE–OR, PH.D. 1991
Ph.D. Dissertation: “Interaction Between Chemical Reaction and Turbulence in Non-Premixed H2-Air Combustion”
T. S. CHENG, PH.D. 1991
Ph.D. Dissertation: “Laser Raman Diagnostics in Subsonic and Supersonic Turbulent Jet Diffusion Flames”
STANLEY R. MARCH, M.S. 1990
M.S. Thesis: “Temperature and Species Concentration Measurements in a Swirled Hydrogen Diffusion Flame”
JOSEPH A. WEHRMEYER, PH.D. 1990
Ph.D. Dissertation: “UV Raman Scattering for Flame Diagnostics using a KrF Excimer Laser”
JOHN MICHAEL BOWLING, M.S. 1988
M.S. Thesis: “Temperature, Density, and Concentration in a Hydrogen-Air Flame by Excimer-Induced Raman Scattering”