Former Students

M.S. - Ph.D. - Post-Doc


David Mellenthin - M.S., 2001

Thesis: Numerical simulation of spinodal decomposition in thermally induced phase separation (TIPS)

DuPont PhotoMask, Round Rock, TX


Amy Nelson - M.S., 2001

Thesis: Numerical simulation of TIPS hollow fiber spinning

W.R. Grace, Boston, MA


Anna Saville-Johnson - M.S., 2001

Thesis: Theoretical evaluation of fluid-fluid interfacial area during drainage of a porous medium

Houston, TX



Anthony D. Schleizer - Ph.D., 1997

Thesis: Displacement of immiscible fluids with moving contact lines in straight and wavy capillaries

Exxon-Mobil, Houston, TX


Jason E. Butler - Ph.D, 1998

Thesis: Tomographic imaging for the visualization of multiphase flows

Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida


Ralf B. Lukner - Ph.D., 1999

Thesis: Piston-driven flow of highly concentrated suspensions

Medical Student at UT Southwestern Medical Branch


Angela C. Freeland - Ph.D., 2000

Thesis: Mathematical modeling of the dynamics and production of biosensors

FMC Lithium, Charlotte, NC


Jeffrey J. Gray - Ph.D., 2000

Thesis: Structure formation in colloidal and nanoscale systems
Dr. Gray's thesis received Honorable Mention at the 2001 Doctoral
Convocation at U.T.

Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University


D. Stefan Martula - Ph.D., 2000

Thesis: Coalescence induced coalescence in polymeric membrane formation

Shell Development, Houston, TX


Carolyn Schmit - Ph.D., 2001

Thesis: Evaluation of x-ray imaging to investigate hydraulic performance of vapor-liquid contractors

BP-Amoco, Naperville, IN


Srivatsan Lakshminarasimhan - Ph.D., 2004

Thesis: Study of the Flow of and Deposition from Turbidity Currents

Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, UT Austin


Jay Norman - Ph.D., 2004

Thesis: Imaging Particle Migration with Electrical Impedance Tomography: An Investigation into the Behavior and Modeling of Suspension Flows

Intel, Hillsboro, OR
jay.t.norman@intel.com


Shravanthi Reddy - Ph.D., 2006

Thesis: Fluid and Solid Mechanics in the Step and Flash Imprint Lithography Process

AAAS Fellow, Department of Homeland Security, Washington, D.C.


Brooks Rabideau - Ph.D., 2007

Thesis: The Self-Assembly of Colloidal Particles into 2D Arrays

Post-doctoral Fellow, The University of East Paris, Paris, France


Bomi Nam - Ph.D., 2008

Thesis: On the Behavior of the Porous Rotating Disk Electrode


Babatunde Oguntade - Ph.D., 2008

Thesis: The Transport of Suspensions in Geological, Industrial and Biomedical Applications


Jyoti Seth - Ph.D., 2008

Thesis: On the Rheology of Dense Pastes of Soft Particles



William Engblom

Post-doc work, 8/96 to 6/97

Aerospace Corp., El Segundo, CA


Emmanuel Etuke

Post-doc work, 3/96 to 4/98

AT&T, Holmdel, NJ


Hebri Nayak

Post-doc work, 5/02 to 2/05

General Electric Aircraft Engines, Cincinnati, OH