Recent Graduates of the UCBNE
University of California at Berkeley
Doctoral Students
- Fenglei Niu, "Experimental Investigation of Mixed Convection in Large Enclosure with Vertical Cooling Plate" (5/03)
- Robert Gamble, "Decoupling, Complexity and Importance in the Design and Analysis of Complex Transport Systems" (12/02)
- Steve Pemberton, "Thick Liquid Protection in Inertial Fusion Power Plants" (5/02)
- Michael Frank, "Optimizing Neutron Detector Design and Configuration for Fissile Material Tracking in the Presence of the Cosmic Ray-Induced Neutron Background" (5/02)
- M. Scott Armel, "Atomic Process for Heavy Ion Inertial Fusion," (2000)
- Caron Jantzen, "Gas Dynamics and Radiative Heat Transfer in IFE Chambers with Emphasis on the HYLIFE-II Design" (2000)
- John Scott, "X-Ray Ablated Plumes in Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactors" (1998)
- Andy Anderson, "X-Ray Ablation Measurements and Modeling for ICF Applications" (1996)
- Shine-Zen Kuhn, "Experimental Investigation of Downward Condensation in Vertical Tubes with Noncondensable Gases" (1995)
- Richard Fox, "Transport and Mixing in Passive Systems," (1995)
Masters Students
- Jeremy Coquard, "Effects of model resolution on temperature response to increased greenhouse gases in a global climate model" (2002)
- Christophe Debonnel, "Control of the Heavy-Ion Beam Line Gas Density in the HYLIFE Thick-liquid Chamber." (2001)
- Fenglei Niu, "Analytical and Experimental Investigation of Mixing in Large Passive Containment Volumes"(2001)
- Steven Pemberton, "Delivery of Scaled Impulse Loads Using Propellant Explosions." (2000)
- Ricardo K. Yamamoto, "Evaluation of the Structured Approach for Review of Requirements Specifications of a Nuclear Power Plant Protection System-Trial Application to an Advanced Boiling Water Reactor," (2000)
- Xingbo Yu, "BBN Software Reliability Model for Nuclear Power Plant Safety Systems and its Testing." (2000)
- Christopher Bauman, "Single-Jet Experiments for Heavy-Ion Fusion Thick-Liquid Chambers." (1999)
- Choonjoo Lee, "Mixing Processes by Natural Convection Flow through Two Openings in a Horizontal Partition." (1997)
- Imran Moton, "Study of Flow Partitioning in a Multi-Tube Condenser" (1996)
- Thomas Carter, "BWR Steam Swirler Separator Optimization" (1996)
- Mark Siewert, "Steam Separator Studies" (1996)
- David Jensen, "Low Pressure Drop Swirler Design," (1995)
- Thomas Carter, "Low Pressure Drop Swirler Testing," (1995)
- Steve Michals, "Spent Fuel Studies" (1995)
- Ken Wilson, "HYLIFE-II Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor Oscillating Sheet Jet Experiment" (1995)
- Jeremy Rich, "Aerosol Scrubbing in the SBWR PCCS Condensers." (1994)
- Christopher Cavanaugh, "Scale Modeling of Oscillating Sheet Jets for the HYLIFE-II Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor." (1994)
- Akiyoshi Obonai, "A Stationary Psychrometer for Measuring Gas Mole Fractions." (1994)
- George Dyer, "Experiments in Stratified Flow for Vertical Tube Assemblies in a Rectangular Tank." (1993)
- John C. Devine, "Conjugate Heat Transfer in Converging-Diverging Nozzle Flow." (1993)
- Shine-Zen Kuhn, "Experimental Investigation of Downward Condensation in Vertical Tubes with Noncondensable Gases" (1993)
- Takao Kageyama, "Application of Diffusion Layer Theory to Vertical Downflow Condensation Heat Transfer." (1992)
- Douglas McDonald, "Experimental Determination of Thermal Stratification Induced in Water Pools by Heat Injection." (1992)
- Richard J. Fox, "Plume Dynamics and Inertial Instabilities in Vertical Tube Arrays" (1992)
Postdoctoral Researchers
- Fenglei Niu, 2003 - present
- Shine-Zen Kuhn, 1996 - 2001
- Sukho Lee, Principal Engineer, Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety, 11/97 -7/98
- Reijo Munther, Research Engineer, Lappeenranta University of Technology, 9/95-9/96.
- Eiji Hihara, Professor, Univ. of Tokyo, 5/93-4/94, "Mixing in Thermally Stratified Fluid Volumes by Buoyant Jets" (1994)
- A. Akbarzadeh, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, "Transient Stratified Flow in Tube Bundles" (1991)