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Fluid Mechanics Lab

Research Theses

Masters Theses

  • Stefan Storey "Experimental Study of Non-Newtonian Displacement Flows in Vertical Eccentric Annuli", May 2007, MASc
  • Shilpa Ghadge "Dynamics of viscoplastic films"
  • Sydney Pachman "Swimming in slime"
  • Siddharth Khullar, An experimental study of bubbles and droplets rising in a nematic liquid crystal. August 2007, M.A.Sc.
  • Huen, C.K., " Experimental Studies of Visco-plastic Lubrication," M.Sc. Thesis (2005).
  • Ebbehoj, M., " Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer in an Industrial Crystal Fabricator," M.Sc. Thesis (2005).
  • Sood, S., " Experimental Study of Visco-plastic Fluid Displacements in a Near-vertical Eccentric Annulus," M.Sc. Thesis (2004).
  • Sood, S., " Experimental Study of Visco-plastic Fluid Displacements in a Near-vertical Eccentric Annulus," M.Sc. Thesis (2004).
  • Landry, M.P., " Taylor-Couette Instability of a Bingham Fluid" M.Sc. Thesis (2003).
  • Pelipenko, S., "Displacement Flow of Non-Newtonian Fluids in an Eccentric Annulus," M.Sc. Thesis (2002).
  • Young, N.R., "Design and Construction of an Annular Flow Loop for Fluid-fluid Displacements," M.Eng. Thesis (2002).
  • Moyers-Gonzalez, M.A., "Nonlinearly Stable Multi-layer Viscoplastic Flows," M.Sc. Thesis (2002).
  • Ryan, D., " Slow Flow of a Bingham Fluid in a Gap of Slowly Varying Width" M.Sc. Thesis (2001).

PhD Theses

  • Moyers-Gonzalez, M., " Transient Effects in Oilfield Cementing Flows," Ph.D. Thesis (2006).
  • Shreyas Mandre "Two Probelms of Hydrodynamic Stability"
  • Jeff Carpenter "Holmboe's instability"
  • Chunfeng Zhou, Simulations of interfacial dynamics of complex fluids using diffuse interface method with adaptive meshing. August 2008, Ph.D.
  • Pramod Patil, Modeling and flow simulation of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) past extrusion. January 2007, Ph.D.
  • Bulent Guzel " Observation of laminar-turbulent transition of a yield stress fluid in Hagen-Poiseuille flow" Jan 2009