| Student |
Mentor |
Thesis Topic |
| Oleskiy Byutner |
G. Smith |
Polymer/particle composites, force field development |
| William Ciro |
Eddings/Sarofim |
Measurements of heat flux and soot behavior in a pilot-scale pool fire facility |
| Lyle D. Gunderson |
P. Smith |
Validation for fire |
| Liwei Li |
G. Smith |
Polymer/particle composites |
| Randy McDermott |
P. Smith |
Large-eddy simulations |
| John McCorquodale (LOA) |
Hansen |
Languages for large-scale simulations (currently at CACR at Cal Tech |
| Diem-Phuong Nguyen |
P. Smith |
Subgrid scale reaction models for fire |
| Jeff Peterson |
Wight |
Thermal decomposition kinetics of composite explosives |
| Spencer Shellman |
Sikorski |
Nonlinear optimization and fixed points |
| James Sutherland |
P. Smith |
Direct numerical simulations for fire validation |
| Jeremy Thornock |
P. Smith |
Multimaterial computational fluid dynamics |
| Kirk VanOpdorp |
Voth |
Condensed phase HMX |
| Jun Wang |
Wight |
Incorporation of solid state kinetic models into combustion models for energetic materials |
| Ephriam Washburn |
Beckstead |
Condensed phase reactions in HMX |
| Tie Wei |
McMurtry |
One dimensional turbulence modeling (focused on developing a subgrid model at container/fire interface) |
| Shihong Yan |
Eddings/Sarofim |
Development and validation of jet fuel surrogate for use in pool fires |
| Wing Yee |
P. Smith |
Parallel solvers for fire |
| Amy Xia |
McMurtry |
Fluid-structure interaction |
| Hongzhi Zhang |
Sarofim |
Soot mechanisms |
| Student |
Mentor |
Thesis Topic |
Status |
| Wendell Duncan |
Truong |
Theoretical studies of gas-phase reactions |
Software designer for Cogni Tech |
| Richard Evans |
Voth |
gas-phase reactive pathways of HMX |
Pursuing MBA at Wharton |
| Qibo Jing |
Beckstead |
Transient combustion/ignition calculations for HE |
(June 2001 grad, not employed yet) |
| Kelly Knight |
McMurtry |
Lagrangian linear eddy model of turbulent mixing |
Bectel |
| Seshadri Kumar |
P. Smith |
Analysis of Solution Approaches for Internal Flows |
C-SAFE staff |
| Steve Parker |
Johnson |
The SCIRun Problem Solving Environment |
C-SAFE staff |
| Student |
Mentor |
Thesis Topic |
Status |
| Oleskiy Byutner |
G. Smith |
Viscoelastic properties of polymer melts from MD simulations |
current Ph.D. student |
| Xiaodong Chen |
Sikorski |
Quasi-Monte Carlo methods |
Medical/surgical IT company |
| Dawen Li |
Nairn |
dynamic fracture |
current Ph.D. at Michigan |
| Phil Sutton |
Hansen |
T-Bon - Isosurface Extraction in Time-Varying Fields |
Went to LLNL (currently with tellme.com) |
| Raman Talamraj |
G. Smith |
Force field development for fluorinated polymer melts |
Switched to CS MS program on east coast |
| Tushar Udeshi |
Hansen |
Hybrid Rendering: Towards Interactive Photorealistic Rendering |
Went to Argonne National Lab (currently with a MEMS company in Texas) |
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-1114