Alumni by Decade

Browse for alumni from the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.

1980s

• David Louie
  Degree: M.S.
  Thesis Title: Effect of Venting System Failure on the Operation of Heat Pipe Space Nuclear Reactors
  Date: August 1984

• William Barrattino
  Degree: Ph.D.
  Dissertation Title: Coupled Radiation Transport / Thermal Analysis of the Radiation Shield for a Space Nuclear Reactor
  Date: May 1985

• Ted Williams
  Degree: M.S.
  Thesis Title: Experimental Heat Transfer Studies of Laminar and Transition Flows of Water in Vertical Annuli
  Date: December 1985

• Jong-Tae Seo
  Degree: M.S.
  Thesis Title: SNPSAM-System Model for Space Nuclear Power System
  Date: May 1986

• John Buksa
  Degree: M.S.
  Thesis Title: Decay Heat Thermal Management in Liquid Metal Space Reactors
  Date: August 1986
  Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
  jbuksa@lanl.gov

• David Louie
  Degree: Ph.D.
  Dissertation Title: Characterization of Fuel Swelling in Helium-Bonded (U,Pu)C Fuel Pins
  Date: May 1987

• Stanley Haynes
  Degree: M.S.
  Thesis Title: Experimental Studies for Critical Heat Flux at Low Flow of Water in Vertical Annuli near Atmospheric Pressure
  Date: August 1987

• Stephen Ross
  Degree: M.S.
  Thesis Title: Uranium Nitride Fuel Swelling and Thermal Conductivity Correlations
  Date: December 1987

• Kim, Sung-Ho
  Degree: Ph.D.
  Dissertation Title: Heat Transfer Experiments in Rod Bundles at Low Reynolds Number
  Date: May 1988
  
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• Jong-Tae Seo
  Degree: Ph.D.
  Dissertation Title: Transient Analysis of Space Nuclear Power Systems
  Date: May 1988

• Richard Jimenez
  Degree: Ph.D.
  Dissertation Title: Coupled Thermal Radiation / Nuclear Heating of Nuclear-Powered Spacecraft Subjected to the Radiations of the Natural Space Environment
  Date: May 1989

• John M. McGhee
  Degree: Ph.D.
  Dissertation Title: Gas Production and Behavior in the Coolant of the SP-100 Space Nuclear Power System
  Date: May 1989
  Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
  mcghee@lanl.gov

• John Metzger
  Degree: Ph.D.
  Dissertation Title: An Adaptive Load-Following System for a Space Nuclear Power System
  Date: May 1989
  Organization: State University of New York - Stoney Brook
  jmetzger@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

• William Rider
  Degree: M.S.
  Thesis Title: Parametric and Transient Analyses of the SP-100 System
  Date: August 1989
  Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
  wjr@lanl.gov

• Desari Venkateswara Rao
  Degree: Ph.D.
  Dissertation Title: Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Heat Transfer to Low Reynolds Number Flow in Vertical Annuli
  Date: August 1989
  Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
  dvrao@lanl.gov

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1990s

• Dean Dobranich
  Degree: Ph.D.
  Dissertation Title: Heat Transfer and Thermal Stress Analyses of Multilayered Spherical Fuel Particles in a Particle Bed Space Reactor
  Date: May 1990
  Organization: Sandia National Laboratories
  ddobran@sandia.gov

• Kenneth Chidester
  Degree: M.S.
  Thesis Title: Experimental Investigation of Uranium Dicarbide Densification and the Influence of Free Carbon Diffusion
  Date: August 1990
  Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
  kchidester@lanl.gov

• Nick Morley
  Degree: M.S.
  Thesis Title: Conceptual Studies on the Integration of a Nuclear Reactor to a Manned Mars Rover
  Date: May 1991

• Frederick Harper
  Degree: Ph.D.
  Dissertation Title: Computer Simulation of Liquid Drop Breakup Behavior using Discrete Element Techniques
  Date: December 1991

• Huimin Xue
  Degree: M.S.
  Thesis Title: Natural Circulation Decay Heat Removal from an SP-100, 550 kWe Power System for a Lunar Outpost
  Date: August 1992

• Bingling Su
  Degree: M.S.
  Thesis Title: Experimental Investigation on Heat Transfer of Water in Square Arrayed Rod Bundles at Low Reynolds Number
  Date: August 1992

• Lianmin Huang
  Degree: M.S.
  Thesis Title: Experimental Investigation of the Transient Performance of an Inclined Water Heat Pipe
  Date: August 1993

• Nick Morley
  Degree: Ph.D.
  Dissertation Title: Two-Dimensional Thermal-Hydraulic Analyses of High Temperature Packed Beds, with Applications to the Pellet Bed Reactor
  Date: December 1993

• Christopher Murray
  Degree: Ph.D.
  Dissertation Title: Experimental and Theoretical Studies of a High Temperature Cesium-Barium Tacitron, with Application to Low Voltage-High Current Inversion
  Date: December 1993

• Dmitry Paramonov
  Degree: M.S.
  Thesis Title: Thermionic Transient Analysis Model for TOPAZ-II Space Nuclear Reactor Power System
  Date: December 1993
  Organization: Westinghouse Electric - Pittsburgh
  paramodv@westinghouse.com

• Richard Mason
  Degree: Ph.D.
  Dissertation Title: Constitutive Relations in the Ruthenium-Uranium-Rhenium Binary and Ternary Systems
  Date: December 1993
  Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
  remason@lanl.gov

• Jennifer Liscum-Powell
  Degree: M.S.
  Thesis Title: Design and Optimization of the Pellet Bed Reactor for Bimodel Power and Propulsion Applications
  Date: December 1994
  Organization: Sandia National Laboratories
  jlpowel@sandia.gov

• James Luke
  Degree: M.S.
  Thesis Title: A Transient Model of a Cesium-Barium Diode
  Date: December 1994

• Alexander Glebov
  Degree: M.S.
  Thesis Title: Pool Boiling from Downward-Facing Curved Surfaces
  Date: May 1995

• Cheng Gao
  Degree: M.S.
  Thesis Title: Effects of Material Properties and Surface Curvatures on Pool Boiling from Downward-Facing Convex Surfaces
  Date: May 1996

• Tournier, Jean-Michel
  Degree: Ph.D.
  Dissertation Title: "HPTAM", A Two-Dimensional Heat Pipe Transient Analysis Model, Including the Startup from a Frozen State
  Date: May 1996
  Organization: University of New Mexico
  tournier@unm.edu

• Gaius Roemer
  Degree: M.S.
  Thesis Title: A Colloid Transport Model and its Application to Site Characterization
  Date: May 1996

• Dmitry Paramonov
  Degree: Ph.D.
  Dissertation Title: Analysis of Emitter Material Transport in Single-Cell Thermionic Fuel Elements
  Date: August 1996
  Organization: Westinghouse Electric - Pittsburgh
  paramodv@westinghouse.com

• Lianmin Huang
  Degree: Ph.D.
  Dissertation Title: Heat Transfer and Flow Visualization of Conventional and Swirling Impinging Jets
  Date: December 1996

• Amr Abdel Fattah
  Degree: M.S.
  Thesis Title: Sorption of Hydrophobic, Negatively Charged Microspheres onto a Stagnant Air / Liquid Interface
  Date: December 1997
  Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
  amr2350@lanl.gov

• Bernard Wernsman
  Degree: Ph.D.
  Dissertation Title: Extinuguishing Mechanism of Cesium-Barium Tacitrons Using Thick, Low Transparency, Circular Holed Grids
  Date: December 1997
  Organization: Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory
  wernsman@bettis.gov

• James Luke
  Degree: Ph.D.
  Dissertation Title: Investigation of Grid Design and Placement in the Cesium-Barium Tacitron
  Date: May 1998

• Dennis Pelaccio
  Degree: Ph.D.
  Dissertation Title: Probabilistic Uncertainty Analysis of Laser / Material Thermal Interactions
  Date: May 1998

• John Veilleux
  Degree: Ph.D.
  Dissertation Title: Etching of UO2 in NF3 RF Plasma Glow Discharge
  Date: May 1999
  Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
  veilleux@lanl.gov

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2000s

King, Jeffrey C. Degree: Ph.D. Dissertation Title: "Effects of Spectral Shift Absorbers on the Design and Safety of Fast Spectrum Space Reactors" Date: May, 2006 Degree: M.S. Thesis Title: Performance and Stress Analysis of Nb-1Zr/C-103 Multitube Vapor-Anode AMTEC Cells for Space Applications Date: August 2000 Organization: University of New Mexico kingjc@isnps.unm.edu

• Hamed Saber
  Degree: Ph.D.
  Dissertation Title: Operation Envelope and Performance Analyses of Closed Two-Phase Thermosyphons
  Date: December 2000
  Organization: University of New Mexico
  hsaber@unm.edu

• Huseyin Bostanci
  Degree: M.S.
  Thesis Title: Effects of Inclination Angle and Subcooling on Nucleate Boiling and Critical Heat Flux of HFE-7100
  Date: August 2001
  Organization: RINI Technologies
  Huseyon.Bostanci@RiniTech.com

• Amr Abdel Fattah
  Degree: Ph.D.
  Dissertation Title: Colloid Deposition onto a Solid Surface under Low-Flow Conditions in Parallel-Plate Geometry
  Date: August 2001
  Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
  amr2450@lanl.gov

• Larry James
  Degree: Ph.D.
  Dissertation Title: Natural Convection and Reversed Air Flow Between Two Vertical Parallel Plates
  Date: December 2003

• Yoichi Momozaki
  Degree: Ph.D.
  Dissertation Title: Performance of Thermionic Converters with Smooth and Grooved Molybdenum Electrodes
  Date: December 2003
  Organization: Argonne National Laboratory
  momo@anl.gov

• Steven A. Hatton
  Degree: M.S.
  Dissertation Title: Parametric Studies of the Sectored Compact Reactor(SCoRe-S) for Space Power.
  Date: May 2007
  Organization: Northrop Grumman IT/DTRA
  shatton.ctr@cnttr.dtra.mil

• Devin Gray
  Degree: M.S.
  Dissertation Title: An Investigation of Gas Bubble Injection from Single Nozzles into Water and Liquid Metal Pools
  Date: May 2008
  Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
  devingray@lanl.gov

• Jack L. Parker
  Degree: Ph.D.
  Dissertation Title: Boiling of Dielectric Liquids on Porous Graphite and Extended Copper Surfaces
  Date: May 2008
  

• Gallo, Bruno
  Degree: M.S.
  Thesis Title: Brayton Rotating Unit designs and Analyses for Space Reactor Power Systems
  Date: December 2008

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