Theses and Dissertations — 2016

Masters Theses
Student	Advisor(s)	Thesis/Dissertation Title
James Kelly Allen	Dr. Gangbing Song	Experiments on Vibration Control of a Subsea Structure in NASA JSC’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab Using an Innovative Passive Damper
Ehsan Baseri	Dr. Philippe Masson	Evaluation of Implementing Thermoelectric Materials as a Power Generator [Link]
Bahareh Eslami	Dr. Hadi Ghasemi	Non-isothermal Buoyancy Driven Exchange Flow of Miscible Fluids in Inclined Pipes [Link]
Nazanin Farokhnia	Dr. Hadi Ghasemi	Rational Micro-Nano Structuring for Thin Film Evaporation [Link]
Peyman Irajizad	Dr. Hadi Ghasemi	Dispensing Nano-Pico Droplets of Ferrofluids [Link]
Seyed Mohammad Sajadi	Dr. Hadi Ghasemi	Micro-Nano Structures for Tuned Heat Transfer [Link]
Shadi Shariatnia	Dr. Hadi Ghasemi	Double Diffusive Effects in Buoyancy Driven Exchange Flow of Miscible Fluids in Inclined Pipes [Link]

Dissertations
Student	Advisor(s)	Thesis/Dissertation Title
Fatemeh Ahmadpoor	Dr. Pradeep Sharma	Statistical Mechanics of Two-Dimensional Materials; From Biological Membranes to Graphene [Link]
Hatem Brahmi	Dr. Anastassios Mavrokefalos	Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Thermal, Thermoelectrical, Optical and Structural Properties in Nanostructures [Link]
Farah Hammami	Dr. Yashashree Kulkarni	Atomistic Modeling of Nanostructures via Molecular Dynamics and Time-Scaling Methods [Link]
Ahmed Mohamed Ibrahim	Dr. Charles Dalton	Numerical Study of an Internal Solitary Wave Past a Circular Cylinder
Mejdi Kammoun	Dr. Haleh Ardebili	Flexible and Stretchable Lithium-Ion Batteries Based on Solid Polymer Nanocomposite Electrolyte [Link]
Xiaobao Li	Dr. Pradeep Sharma	The Coupling between Quantum Mechanics and Elasticity [Link]
Farshad Mozaffari	Dr. Ralph Metcalfe	Thermal Analysis of Thin Film Lubrication with Applications in Soft Rotary Seal Design
Seyed Mohammad Parvasi	Dr. Gangbing Song	Advances in Piezoelectric Modeling for Health Monitoring of Structures with Interface Elements [Link]
Xin Yan	Dr. Pradeep Sharma	Time-Scaling in Atomistics and the Mechanical Behavior of Materials [Link]
Matthew R. Zelisko	Dr. Pradeep Sharma	Electromechanical Couplings in Soft Matter and Biology [Link]
Junxiao Zhu	Dr. Gangbing Song	Innovative Applications of Piezoelectric Ceramic for Structural Impulse Events Monitoring [Link]