SOCREF at Penn State: Dr. Deborah Levin: People

 

Student Name Type of
Degree
Date Degree
Granted
Title of Thesis
K.N. Ramachandran MS * 8/2015 Development of a Poisson Solver for use on an AMR Grid
Ozgur Tumuklu PhD * 5/2016 Modeling of Shock-Shock Interactions Using Particle Approaches in an Automatic Mesh Refinement Scheme
Neal Mehta PhD* 5/2016 Use of Reaction Force Field/MD Methods to Study Spore Deactivation Processes
Revathi Jambumatha PhD * 8/2016 Modeling of Porous Materials using Gridless Particle Methods
Tong Zhu  PhD * 5/2016  Modeling of Hypersonic Unsteady Flows
Saurabh Sawant MS * 5/2015 Study of Particle BGK Methods for Modeling Hypersonic Shocks with Thermal Nonequilibrium
Burak Korkut  PhD * 12/2015 Modeling of Neutral and Charged Particle Interactions in Space Plumes Using Massively Parallel Automatic Mesh Refinement Techniques
Neal Parsons  PhD * 5/2014 Development of Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Models using Fundamental Molecular Dynamics Methods
Arnaud Borner  PhD * 12/2014  Use of advanced particle methods in modeling space propulsion and its supersonic expansions
Varun Patil  MS 8/2013 Modeling of Shock-Shock Interactions Using Particle Hybrid Approaches 
Neal Mehta MS 8/2013  Fiber-Optic recession embedded in a TPS material
Tong Zhu  MS 5/2013 DSMC Analysis of Fractal-like Aggregates of Spores in the Semi-rarefied Flow Regime
Shiang-Ting Yeh BS  5/2013 

Schreyer Honors College Thesis:

Plume Impingement Analysis on the Lunar Lion

Hao Deng  MS  8/2011  Analysis of Chemistry Models For DSMC Simulations of the Atmosphere of Io
Ilyoup Sohn  PhD  8/2011  Hypersonic Non-equilibrium Flow and Radiation
Rakesh Kumar  PhD  5/2011  Development of a Kinetic Particle-Based Method to Model the Multi-Scale Physics of Expanding 
Sergey Gratiy  PhD  8/2009  Modeling radiation from the atmosphere of Io with Monte Carlo Methods 
Zheng Li  PhD  5/2009  Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Modeling of Condensation in Supersonic Plume Expansions of Small Polyatomic Systems
Samarth Saurav  MS  12/2008  Heat Transfer To Spores In An Abruptly Expanding Axisymmetric Flow Field Computed Using CFD
Nilesh Moghe  MS  8/2007  Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Collisionally Induced Dissociation of Sulfur Dioxide, An Atmospheric Species of Io. 
Allison Gallagher-Rogers  MS  8/2007  High Fidelity Simulation of Plume Backflows for Modeling Spacecraft Contamination 
Evgeny Titov  PhD  8/2007  Examination of a New DSMC Method for Modeling o Multi-Scale Flows in MEMS Devices 
Takashi Ozawa  PhD  8/2007  Modeling and Simulation of Radiation Produced by Plasma-Impact in the Atmosphere in Io. 
Matthew Garrison  MS  8/2005  The Development of an Efficient Radiation Model for Chemically Reactant Flow at the Exhaust of Rocket Nozzles 
Jianqiang Zhong  PhD  5/2005  Modeling of Homogeneous Condensation in free-expanding Plumes with the direct simulation Monte Carlo Method 
Dmitry Fedosov  MS  8/2004  Investigation of Numerical Errors in Direct Simulation Monte Carlo 
Kamal Viswanath  MS  12/2003  Modeling of Soot Oxidation and Prediction of Optical Radiation in Underexpanded Plumes 
Takashi Ozawa  MS  12/2003  Use of Quasiclassical Trajectory Methods in the modeling of PH Production Mechanisms in DSMC 
Alina Alexeenko  PhD  12/2003  Modeling and Simulation of MEMS and Millimeter Thruster Devices 
Natasha Gimelshein  MS  5/2002  Modeling and Simulation of Water Dissociation in Rarefied Space Flows 
Craig Benson (GWU)  PhD  5/2002  Modeling and Simulation of Droplet Evaporation and Coalescence in Inductively Coupled Plasma Diagnostic Devices 
  * In progress    

 

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