Supervision of Graduate Research (Doctoral)

1. Ali Arefmanesh, Ph.D (1991) "Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Bubble Growth in Viscous Fluids" 

2. Mehmet Erhun, Ph.D. (1991), "Modeling Heat Flow During Crystallization of Semi-Crystalline Polymers" 

3. Chiu Y. Chan,(co-advisor Dr. Beris, Chemical Engineering) Ph.D (1991) "Use of Higher Order Boundary Elements to Model Hydrodynamic Interactions around Ellipsoids" 

4. Michiel V Bruschke, Ph.D. (1992), "A Predictive Model for Permeability and Non--Isothermal Flow of Viscous and Shear--Thinning Fluids in Anisotropic Fibrous Media" 

5. Sridhar Ranganathan, Ph.D. (1992) "Mechanics of Fiber-Fiber Interactions during the Flow of Non-Dilute Fiber Suspensions" 

6. Sunil Gupte, Ph.D. (1995) "Modeling and Experimental Investigation of Transport Processes during the Flow of Viscous Fluids in Porous Materials" 

7. Suranjan RoyChowdhary, Ph.D (1995) (Co-Advisor. Jack Gillespie, Material Science) "Void Formation and Growth in Amorphorous Thermoplastic Polymeric Materials" 

8. Andre Benard, Ph.D. (1995), "Transport Phenomena and Microstructure Development during Solidification of Semi-crystalline Polymers and Composites" 

9. Steve Shuler, Ph.D.(1996), (Co-advisors: Dr. Santare ? Dr. Pipes, Purdue University) "Rheology and Forming of Long Discontinuous Thermoplastic Composite Materials" 

10. Terry Creasy, Ph.D. (1997) "Characterization of Rheology of Collimated Fiber Materials" . 

11. Krishna Pillai, Ph.D. (1997)," Modeling, Simulation and Control of RTM Processes" 

12. Simon Bickerton, Ph.D. (1999), "Modeling and Control of Flow during Impregnation of Heterogeneous Porous Media, with Application to Composite Mold Filling Processes".

13. Kuang-Ting  Hsiao, Ph.D.  (1999), "Heat Transfer During Laminar Incompressible Flow of Fluids in Periodic Porous Media".

14. Sylvia Kueh, Ph.D. (2001)  (Co-Advisor: Richard Parnas, Associate Professor, U. of Connecticut), "Development, Calibration and Implementation of Fiber Optic Sensors in Molds Used in RTM".

15. Roopesh Mathur, Ph.D. (2002), (Co-Advisor: Bruce Fink, ARL),  "Optimization of Input Process Parameters in Composite Processing”.

16. Ali Gokce, Ph.D. (2003), “Modeling of Flow Continuum and Optimal Design of Control-Oriented Injection Systems in Liquid Composite Molding Processes”.

17. Jeff Lawrence, Ph.D. (2005), “Methodologies for Resin Flow Prediction and Manipulationin Liquid Composite Molding Processes”.

18. Fuping Zhou, Ph.D. (2006)(Co-Advisor: Eric Wetzel, ARL), “Creeping Flow Behavior Of Dense Granular Materials Under High Confinement Pressure”

19. Zhihang Fan, Ph.D. (2007) "Flow And Rheology Of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Thermoset Resin Suspensions In Processing Of Glass Fiber Composites"

20. Weizhong Tang, Ph.D. (2007), "Molecular Dynamic Simulations Of Carbon Nanotubes In Liquid Flow" 

21. Valentin Neacsu, Ph.D. (Expected 2008), "Modeling and Measurement of Micro Flow in Dual Scale Porous Media"

22. Dusan Spernjak, Ph.D. (Expected 2008), (Co-Advisor: Ajay Prasad) "Water Management in PEM Fuel Cells,"

23. Srikanth Arisetty, Ph.D. (Expected 2008), (Co-Advisor Ajay Prasad), "Transport Processes in Direct Methonal Fuel Cells,"

24. Justin Alms, Ph.D. (Co-Advisor, Jim Glancey, Expected 2008), "Characterization and Processing of Composite Materials with Liquid Molding,"

25. Clare Steggall, Ph.D. (Expected 2009), (Co-Advisor, Shridhar  Yarlagadda) "Modeling and Processing of Thick Thermoplastic Composites,"

26. Vasan Churchill, Ph.D. (Expected 2010) (Co-Advisor, Michael Santare), " Interlaminar Shear Strength of Carbon Nanotube Fiber Composites"
 


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