Research
Thermosciences Group Research
Thermosciences Group Research byTopic
| Computational & Experimental Fluid Mechanics |
Computational
& Experimental Heat Transfer |
Nanoscale Heat Transfer |
| Combustion Research |
Pollution Technology |
Materials Synthesis & Processing |
| Microfluidics & Microscale Transport Phenomena |
Plasma Sciences |
Advanced Laser- Based Diagnostics |

Recent Thermosciences Group Research by Faculty
(last item is name of sponsor)
Schmidt, Chad and Kemal, Abid "Reduction of NOx and CO emission from naval powerplants": ONR
Bates, Ron and Davidson, David "Spectroscopy and kinetics of combustion": DOE
Song, Soonho and Davidson, David "Natural gas combustion mechanics": SRI/GRI
Coleman, Colin "Analysis and experimental investigation of the stability of supersonic boundary layers": NASA Ames
Moriarty, Patrick "Turbulence measurements on a flap-edge model": NASA Ames
Kim, Dr. Joongsoo and Ji, Jin Seok "Diagnostics for Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition and Etch Systems": NASA
Berns, Darren and Schwendner, Katrin "Low Density Impinging Reacting Plasma Jets for Thin Film Synthesis": NSF
Loh, Michael and Kull, Alan "Low Temperature, Large Area Synthesis of Diamond Films using DC Arcjet Plasmas": Daimler-Benz Corporation
Glew, Alex "RF Plasma Synthesis of Diamond-Like Carbon Films on Video Tape Recorder Heads": LG Electronics Inc.
Crawford, Scott "Synthesis of Advanced Substrates for Packaging of Power Electronic Devices": SIMA, OTL, CIS
Cedolin, Renato; Storm, Vic; Hargus, Bill; Walker, Quentin and Meezan, Nathan "Development and Diagnostics of Advanced Plasma Propulsion Devices": AFOSR, Olin Aerospace, Boeing Corporation
DOE-ASCI , "Spray Physics for Large Eddy Simulation of Gas Turbine Combustion"
NASA, "Active Control of Combustion Instability in Air-Breathing Propulsion Systems"
BASE/NASA, "Piezoelectric Modulation of Simplex Sprays"
DOE-Sandia, "Experimental Studies of High-Pressure Diesel Sprays"
Asheghi, Mehdi "Phonon scattering in semiconductor structures" : Hewlett-Packard
Fletcher, Daniel A. "Near-field photothermal diagnostics and processing" : NSF
Ju, Y. Sungtaek "High-temperature thermal transport physics in semiconductors" : ONR
King, William P. "Thermal Nanomachining using the atomic force microscope (AFM)" : ONR
Kurabayashi, Katsuo "Anisotropic thermal conductivity in polymer films" : SRC
Srinivasan, Dr. Uma "Solid-state cooling technology for integrated circuits" : DARPA
Sverdrup, Per G. "Advanced thermal conduction modeling for transistors" : Texas Instruments
Touzelbaev, Maxat N. "Thermal properties of novel thin films" : Daimler-Benz AG
Zhou, Peng "Advanced thermomechanical diagnostics for IC packaging" : SRC
"Microscale Thermal and Thermoelectrical Simulations for Improved Cooling of Integrated Circuits" : IBM Corporation
"Simulation of Heat Transport in Nanostructures" : NASA (pending)
Bates, Ron "High pressure kinetic studies of combustion and propulsion chemistry using optical diagnostics": USAF, ONR, GRI, DOE
Ben-Yakar, Adela "Transverse fuel jet injection into a high-enthalpy, supersonic freestream": ARO
Cedolin, Renato "Laser-induced fluorescence diagnostics of xenon plasmas": AFOSR
Chang, Andrew "High-temperature absorption diagnostics of atomic oxygen and nitrogen using semiconductor diode lasers": AFOSR
Choi, Carlson "Multiplexed diode-laser absorption sensors for semiconductor process control": SIMA/CIS
Chou, Shang-I "Multiplexed diode-laser absorption sensors for semiconductor process control": SIMA/CIS
Furlong, Edward "Diode-laser sensor system for real-timein-situmonitoring and control": ONR (SERDP)
Kamel, Michel "Combined PLIF and schlieren imaging of unsteady combustion phenomena in hypersonic reactive flows": ARO
Kirby, Brian "PLIF measurement of infrared-active combustion species": ONR
Mihalcea, Radu "Multiplexed diode-laser sensor system for simultaneous measurements of CO, NO, CO2, and NO2": SERDP, AFOSR
Morris, Christopher "PLIF and schlieren imaging of oblique detonation waves on wedge-shaped bodies": ARO
Nagali, Venu "Diode laser based diagnostic for water in high pressure environments": AFOSR
Palmer, Jennifer "PLIF imaging of shock-tunnel free jets for velocity and temperature measurements": AFOSR
Petersen, Eric "Development of a shock tube and diagnostics for chemistry studies at high pressures": ONR, ARO, GRI
Rossman, Tobias "Mixing and combustion enhancement in supersonic turbulent shear flows"
Song, Soonho "Measurement of the equation of state of Argon at high pressures using a shock tube": ONR
Stouklov, Igor "CFx diagnostics with cavity ring-down spectroscopy": Lam Research Inc.
Thurber, Mark "Laser-induced acetone fluorescence for temperature imaging diagnostics": AFOSR
Webber, Michael "Diode-laser sensor system for real-timein-situmonitoring and control": ONR (SERDP)
Wehe, Shawn "Tunable diode laser absorption measurements of temperature, velocity and species in hypervelocity flowfields": AFOSR
Khan, Zia "Studies on vortex generator jets": NSF
Johnston, James P. "Diffuser design, analysis and performance": no sponsor
Dr. Christophe O. Laux, Dr. Thomas G. Owano, Richard J. Gessman, Denis Packan, Lan Yu "Mechanisms of Ionizational Nonequilibrium in Air Plasmas": Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Dr. Thomas G. Owano, Edward H. Wahl, Maosheng Zhao, Hugh T. Stinnette "Nonequilibrium Plasma Chemistry": Department of Energy
Dr. Christophe O. Laux, Richard J. Gessman, Denis M. Packan "Infra-red Signature Masking by Air Plasma Radiation": NASA
Dr. Christophe O. Laux, Dr. Laurent Pierrot "Collisional-Radiative Modeling of Air Plasma Radiation": European Space Agency, NASA.
Tsai, Nancy "Pressurized Coal Gasification Studies": Shell Synthetics Fuel, Inc.
Diaz, Ruben and Akanetuk, A. E. Jacob "Char Fragmentation Studies": DOE
Akanetuk, A. E. Jacob "Pyrite Transformation Studies": DOE
Batchelder, Keith "The effects of high free-stream turbulence on heat transfer: scale and intensity variations": General Electric
Mukerji, Debjit "Convective heat transfer from small heated patches" (with Prof. Eaton): General Electric
Urban, William and Rossmann, Tobias "Research on Supersonic Turbulent Reacting Flows": AFOSR
Hasselbrink, Charlie, Muniz, Lorelei and Urban, William "Structure of Turbulent Diffusion Flames": GRI
Hasselbrink, Charlie, Muniz, Lorelei and Urban, William "Research in Turbulent Combustion": NASA
Hasselbrink, Charlie, Muniz, Lorelei and Urban, William "Simultaneous PIV and PLIF Studies of the Effect of Heat Release Upon Chemically Reacting Jet Flows": NSF
Advanced DNA separation devices, Ebara Corporation, 2004-2008
Proteomic Analysis of the Blood Components in Autoimmune Disease, National Institutes of Health, 2002-2009
Investigation of Directed Cell Migration Using Electrokinetic Systems, Stanford BIOX Program, Stanford Univ., 2007-2008
A Hybrid Electrochemical Microstimulator Implant for Denervated Muscles, Department of Defense, 2007-2009
Novel Isotachophoresis Assays for Toxin Detection, DARPA MF3 Center, 2007-2009
Experimental and Computational Design of a Microfluidic Device for Micro-Barcode Based Oligonucleotide Synthesis, National Science Foundation, 2008-2011
Extraction of Genetic Material from Virus Samples Using Isotachophoresis, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, 2008-2009
Extraction of micro-RNA from Cell Lysate, Genome Technology Center, Stanford University, 2008-2013






