Current Students
Oyewande Akinnikawe, M.A.S. Chemical Engineering (anticipated 2006), "Analysis of vinyl polymerization of PMMA in a PFR using benzoyl peroxide initiator and carbon black as catalyst", advisor: F. Teymour
Seyyed Abbas Mousavi, Visiting Scholar Chemical Engineering, "Synthesis and Study of Physical and Mechanical Properties of Branched
Polypropylene", advisor D.C. Venerus
Minh Tran, B.S. Chemical Engineering (anticipated 2007), "Experimental study of protein diffusion in well-characterized gels", advisor: J.D. Schieber
Mark Haase, B.S. Chemical Engineering (anticipated 2007), "User interface for Brownian dynamics simulation of the slip-link model ", advisor: J.D. Schieber
Venkata Narayan Ravuri, B.S. Chemical Engineering (anticipated 2007), "Experimental study of protein diffusion in well-characterized gels", advisor: J.D. Schieber
Renat Khaliullin, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, "Theoretical
Study of the Dynamics of Entangled Macromolecules", advisor:
J.D. Schieber.
Tai-Yi Shiu, Ph.D. 2007 (anticipated), "Rheological Behavior
of Polymer Melts
Equibiaxial Elongational Flows Measured using a Modified Lubricated
Squeezing Flow Technique", advisor: D.C. Venerus.
Teresita Guadarrama Medina, Ph.D. 2007 (anticipated), "Development
of a Modified Lubricated Squeezing Flow Technique for Generating
Equibiaxial Elongational Flows in Polymer Melts", advisor:
D.C. Venerus.
Dimitre Kolev, M.S. 2006 (anticipated), "Thermal Transport
and Mechanical Behavior of Cross-Linked Polybutadienes Subjected to Uniaxial
Elongation", advisor: D.C. Venerus.
Fang Xu, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, "Slip of Entangled
Polymers at Interfaces," (anticipated 2006) advisors: Prof.
Morton Denn, Levich Institute, City College, NY and J.D. Schieber.
Maxwell Rajan, BS Chemical Engineering (Anticipated 2007), "Analysis
of PMMA Catalytic Polymerization," advisor: F. Teymour.
Caroline E Acosta Acevedo, Ph.D. 2007 (anticipated), "Study
of Thermal Transport in Nano-fluids using Forced Rayleigh Scattering",
advisor: D.C. Venerus and J.D. Schieber.
Ruohong Xiong, Ph.D. (anticipated 2007), "Interpenetrating
Polymer Networks based on Pulverized Rubber Particles", advisors:
H.Arastoopour and F.Teymour
Wei-Hsun Yeh, Ph.D. (anticipated 2009), advisor J.D. Schieber.
Alumni and Alumnae
2006
Rima Tabash, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, "Modeling Linear Free Radical Copolymerization Using Digital Encoding", advisor: F. Teymour.
Jatin Kumar, M.S. "Pulverization of Rubber With and Without C- black", advisors: H.Arastoopour and B. Bernstein.
Mahnaz Eskandari, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, " Optimization of the solid-state shear extrusion process for low-cross-link density natural rubber with a Gaussian slip-link model," advisors: H. Arastoopour and J.D. Schieber.
Madhu Sudan Kabadi, M.S., "Study of Thermal Transport in
Nano-fluids using Forced Rayleigh Scattering", advisor: D.C. Venerus .
2005
Thidaporn Kitkrailard, M.S. Chemical Engineering, "Dynamics of Semi-Flexible Entangled Polymers," advisor: J.D. Schieber.
Mette Krog Jensen, Visiting Research Scholar, Chemical Engineering, "Modeling Extensional Flow of Entangled Polymer Melts,"
advisors: O. Hassager, DTU-Lyngby, Denmark and J.D. Schieber.
Dimitre Kolev B.S., "Anisotropic Thermal Conduction
in a Natural Rubber Subjected to Uniaxial Elongation", advisor:
D.C. Venerus.
Sung Hun Kim, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, "Synthesis and
Characterization of Hyperbranched Polymers by High Temperature
Continuous Polymerization ", advisor: F. Teymour.
Nima Shahidi, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, "Title?"
2004
Job Guzmán, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, "From synthesis
to processing: Links between polymerization mechanism, molecular
weight distribution, rheological behavior, and extrusion",
advisor: J.D. Schieber.
Deepa Nair, M.S. Chemical Engineering, "Brownian Dynamics
Simulation of
Consistently Unconstrained Brownian Sliplinks'', advisor:
J. D. Schieber.
Vaidyanath Ramakrishnan M.S. 2004, "Non-Fickian Mass Diffusion
in Polymer Liquids", advisor: D.C. Venerus.
Ritesh Nair M.S. 2004, "Step Strain Rheology of Entangled
Polymer Liquids", advisor: D.C. Venerus.
Kendal Bush, M.S. Chemical Engineering, "Relaxation of Anisotropic
Thermal Diffusivity Following the Cessation of Shear Flow in a
Polymer Melt", advisors: D.C. Venerus and J.D. Schieber.
Venkat Balasubramanian, M.S. Chemical Engineering, "Anisotropic
Thermal Diffusivity and Flow Birefringence in Polymer Melts Following
Step Strain Deformations" , advisors:J.D. Schieber
and D.C. Venerus.
Cari Youngblood B.S."Transducer Compliance Effects
in Torsional Flow of a Viscoelastic Fluid", advisor: D.C.
Venerus.
Tony Thomas "A Simplified Sliplink Model for Entangled Polymer Diffusion", advisor: J.D. Schieber.
Stoyan Smoukov, Postdoctoral Associate, advisors: J.D. Schieber and D.C. Venerus.
2003
Magesh Sundaram, M.ChE. Chemical Engineering, "Measurements
of Anisotropic Thermal Diffusivity in Shear Flows of Polymer Melts,"
advisors: D.C. Venerus and J.D. Schieber
2002
Sachin Gupta, M.S. Chemical Engineering, "Simulations of
a Temporary
Network/Sliplink Model", advisor: J. D. Schieber
Chirag Chodankar, M.S. Chemical Engineering, "Rheology of
Branched Polymer Melts in Single- and Double-Step Strain Flows,"
advisors: D.C. Venerus and J.D. Schieber
2001
Jesper Neergaard, Ph.D., "A stochastic approach to modelling
the dynamics
of linear entangled polymer melts", advisors: Prof.
Ole Hassager, Danish Technical University-Lyngby, Denmark, and
J.D. Schieber
Rajeev Dilipkumar, B.S. Chemical Engineering, "Anisotropic
Thermal Diffusivity Measurements in a Butadiene Rubber Subjected
to Uniaxial Extensions," advisors: D.C. Venerus and
J.D. Schieber
Jacqueline Johnson B.S. "Development of an Optical
Grating Imaging System", advisors: D.C. Venerus and J.D. Schieber
Ecevit A. Bilgili, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, "Experimental
and Theoretical Analyses of Pulverization and Recycling of Vulcanized
Rubber," advisors: H. Arastoopour and B. Bernstein
Jerome Hannecart, M.ChE. Chemical Engineering, "Diffusion
in Irradiated EVOH Polymer Films for Food Packaging," advisors: G. Sadler and D.C. Venerus
2000
Kelly O'Leary, B.S. Chemical Engineering, "Thermal Diffusivity
Measurements in a Nafion® Polymers for use in Fuel Cells," advisors: D.C. Venerus and G.S. Smotkin
Danielle Tullman B.S.,"Squeeze Flow Modeling of Viscoelastic
Fluids"
1999
Ioannis Giannakitsas, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, "Mixed
mode polymerization," advisor F. Teymour
Youngjoon Ahn, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, "PET Foaming
Studies Using Environmentally-Safe Blowing Agents," advisors: F. Shutov, G. Ivanov and D.C. Venerus
1998
Andrew Broerman, B.S. Chemical Engineering, "Anisotropic
Thermal Diffusivity Measurements in a Silicone Rubber Subjected
to Uniaxial Extensions," advisors: D.C. Venerus and
J.D. Schieber
1997
Naveen Andrews, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, "Conformation
and Rheology of semiflexible macromolecules using non-equilibrium
Brownian dynamics and Monte Carlo
simulations", advisors: Prof. Anthony J.\ McHugh, University
of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, and J.D. Schieber.
Daniel A. Schocke, M.S. Chemical Engineering, "The pulverization
of natural rubber under high shear and normal forces," advisors: H. Arastoopour and B. Bernstein
John L. Gossage, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, "Numerical
fractionation modeling of nonlinear polymerization," advisor: F. Teymour
Rachel Koshy, B.S. Chemical Engineering, "Preparation and
Mechanical Characterization of -Carrageenan Gels,"
advisor: D.C. Venerus
Mandana Kompani, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, "Development
and Evaluation of Lubricated Squeezing Flow Methods for Polymer
Melts," advisor: D.C. Venerus
1996
Riahi, Amir, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, "Study of pulverization
of low density polyethylene using solid state shear extrusion," advisor: F. Shutov
1995
Nadia Yala, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, "Analysis of Diffusion-Induced
Bubble Growth in Polymeric Liquid," advsior: D.C.
Venerus
Hassan Kahvand, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, "Strain Coupling
Effects in Viscoelastic Liquids," advisor: D.C. Venerus
1993
Syed Ali Tariq, M.S. Chemical Engineering, "Strain Coupling
Effects in LDPE Melt Rheology," advisor: D.C. Venerus
Donald E. Duvall, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, "Creep and
Stress Rupture of Polyethylene Sheets under Equal Biaxial Stresses," advisor: L. Broutman (retired)
1991
Kathleen A. Feigl, Ph.D. Mathematics, Numerical Simulation of
a K-BKZ Fluid in a 4:1 Contraction Domain," advisors:
E.T. Olsen and B. Bernstein.
