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University of New Mexico
Institute for Space & Nuclear
Power Studies
Farris Engineering Center
Room 239, MSC01-1120
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Phone: 505.277.0446
Fax: 505.277.2814
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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

  • 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
Jean-Michel Tournier

  • 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

Jeffrey C. King

  • 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.eduHamed Saber

  • 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

 

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