Frederick Witzigman Dissertation Title: "Laboratory Tests on Hydraulic Models of Lock and Dam No. 20, Mississippi River, Canton, MO"
Ph.D. students
2009
Ozan Abaci Dissertation Title: "Upland Erosion in a Semi-Humid, Agricultural Watershed: Monitoring and Modeling."
Jennifer Chesnutt Dissertation Title: "Discrete-Element Model of Red Blood Cell Aggregation in Blood Flow"
Joseph Daraio Dissertation Title: "Coupling Computational Fluid Dynamics and Ecological Models: Juvenile Mussel Dispersal in the Upper Mississippi River"
Xiongbin Liu Dissertation Title: ""Three-Dimensional Numerical Simulation of Orthogonal and Parallel Vortex Interaction with a Rigid Body""
Andrew McCoy Dissertation Title: ""Numerical Investigations Using LES Exploring Flow Physics and Mass Exchange Processes Near Groynes.""
Seng Keat Ooi Dissertation Title: "High Resolution Numerical Simulations of Lock-Exchange Gravity-Driven Flows"
Ceyda Polatel Dissertation Title: "Large-Scale Roughness Effect on Free-Surface and Bulk Flow Characteristics in Open-Channel Flows."
Jun Shao Dissertation Title: "Anisotropic Turbulence Model For Ship Flows"
Kyle Strom Dissertation Title: ""Cluster Bedforms in Mountain Rivers""
Yi Yang Dissertation Title: "Development of Sharp Interface Simulation Techniques For Study of Solidification Front-Particle Interactions."
Nathan Young Dissertation Title: "Physical Characterization of Freshwater Mussel Habitats in Upper Mississippi River Pool 16"
Jie Zeng Dissertation Title: ""Fully 3D Non-Hydrostatic Model to Compute Flow, Sediment Transport and Bed Morphology Changes for an Alluvial Open Channel Bend""
2005
Li-Chuan Chen Dissertation Title: ""An Investitgation of the Moisture Maximization for the Probable Maximum Precipitation""
James Fox Dissertation Title: "Fingerprinting Using Biogeochemical Tracers to Investigate Watershed Processes"
Atsuhiro Yorozuya Dissertation Title: "Scour at Bridge Abutments with Erodible Embankments"
2004
Maria-Laura Beninati Dissertation Title: ""External Turbulence Interaction with a Cloumnar Vortex""
Mekonnen Gebremichael Dissertation Title: "Evaluation of Space-Time Distribution of Rainfall and It's Characteristics: A Remote Sensing Perspective"
Marty Irvine Dissertation Title: "Towing Tank Tests for Surface Combatant for Coupled Pitch and Heave and Free Roll Decay Motions"
Taehun Lee
, Assistant Professor , City University of New York , New York , USA Dissertation Title: "A Lattice Boltzmann Study of Surface-Directed Immiscible Two-Fluid Flows in Microfluidic Systems"
Yenory Morales-Chaves
, School of Geography, Earth and Enviro. Sciences , University of Birminghan Edgbaston, Birmingham , N/A , United Kingdom Dissertation Title: "Analysis of Mussel Population Dynamics in the Mississippi River"
Kwonkyu Yu Dissertation Title: "Particle Tracking of Suspended-Sediment Velocities in Open-Channel Flow"
2003
Brian Nelson
, NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate , National Climatic Data Center NOAA/NESDIS , Asheville , USA Dissertation Title: "Development of High-Resolution Archival Precipitation Data Sets"
Wusi Yue Dissertation Title: "Numerical Investigations of Turbulent Free Surface Flows Using Level Set Method and Large Eddy Simulation"
2002
Zhiming Chen Dissertation Title: "Ice-Basin Experiments and Computational Modeling of Frazil Ice Ingestion by Submerged Water Intakes"
Heqing Huang Dissertation Title: "Computational Model of Total Dissolved Gas Downstream of a Spillway"
Jin Kim
, Senior Research Scientist , Korea Research Institute of Ships & Ocean Engineering , N/A , South Korea Dissertation Title: "Sub-Visual Cavitation and Acoustic Modeling for Ducted Marine Propulsor"
Paul Kucera
, Assistant Professor , Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of North Dakota , Grand Forks , USA Dissertation Title: "Performance Characteristics of a Spaceborne Precipitation Radar Over an Ocean Validation Site"
Lichun Zhang Dissertation Title: "Numerical Modeling of Flow and Total Dissolved Gas Supersatauration Downstream of Hells Canyon Dam"
2001
Emad Habib
, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineerig , The University of Louisiana at Lafayette , Lafayette , USA Dissertation Title: "Rainfall Small-Scale Variability: Certain Implications for Radar-Rainfall Estimation and Validation"
John Krieger Dissertation Title: "A Multiple Beam Lidar for Wind Measurement"
2000
Bin Chen Dissertation Title: "RANS simulations of tip vortex flows for a Finit-span hydrofoil and a marine propulsor"
Jie Cui Dissertation Title: "Large-Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Flow Over Rough Surfaces"
Jianchun Huang Dissertation Title: "Development and Validation of a Three-Dimensional Numerical Model for Application to River Flow"
Kevin Nielsen Dissertation Title: "Spillway Plunging Jets and Aeration: State-of-the-Art Assesment"
1999
Albert Gossler
, Postdoctoral Appointee , Sandia National Laboratories , Albuquerque , USA Dissertation Title: "A Tetrahedral Element Lagrangian Vorticity Method with Application to Vortex-Cylinder Interaction"
Mircea Grecu
, Postdoctoral Associate , University of Connecticut , Storrs , USA Dissertation Title: "Use of Radar Data in Short Term Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting"
1998
Hongbo Chen
, Engineer , Lucent Technologies , Lisle , USA Dissertation Title: "Lagrangian Vorticity Method for Simulation of Two-Phase Flows with Two-Way Phase Coupling"
Blair Greimann
, Hydrauic Engineer , Bureau of Reclamation , Denver , USA Dissertation Title: "Two-Phase Flow Modeling of Suspended Sediment Transport"
Veera Rajendran
, Senior Research Engineer , General Electric , Schenectady , USA Dissertation Title: "Experimental Investigation of Vortices in a Pump Bay Using Non-Intrusive Measurement Techniques"
Shin-Hyung Rhee
, Fluent, Inc. , Lebanon , USA Dissertation Title: "Unsteady RANS Method for Surface Ship Boundary Layer and Wake and Wave Field"
1997
Emmanouil Anagnostou
, Assistant Professor , University of Connecticut , Storrs , USA Dissertation Title: "Real-Time Radar Rainfall Estimation"
Matahel Ansar Dissertation Title: "Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Pump-Approach Flow Distributions at Water Intakes"
Brian Barkdoll
, Assistant Professor , The University of Mississippi , University , USA Dissertation Title: "Sediment Control at Lateral Diversions"
Grzegorz Ciach Dissertation Title: "Radar Rainfalll Estimation as an Optimal Prediction Problem"
George Constantinescu Dissertation Title: "Numerical Simulation of Flow in Pump Bays Using Near-Wall Turbulence Models"
Usama Hamdy Dissertation Title: "A Damage-Based Life Prediction Model of Concrete Under Variable Amplitude Fatigue Loading"
Usama Mohamed Krish Dissertation Title: "A Damage-Based Life Prediction Model of Concrete Under Variable Amplitude Fatigue Loading"
Srikanth Krishnamoorthy
, Postdoctoral Associate , McGill University , Montreal , Canada Dissertation Title: "Normal Vortex-Body Interaction in Three-Dimensional Viscous Flow"
Carl Mannheim Dissertation Title: "A Unique Approach of Modeling Gas Supersaturation Using a Physical Model"
Jeffrey McCollum
, Senior Research Scientist , FM Global , Norwood , USA Dissertation Title: "Error Analysis of Global Rainfall Estimation Algorithms"
Joel Walter
, Aerodynamic/Mechanical Engineer and Project Manage , Sverdrup Technologies , Novi , USA Dissertation Title: "Three-Dimensional Wake of a Surface-Mounted Ellipsoid"
1996
Timothy Johnson
, Research Engineer , Boeing Developmental Center , Seattle , USA Dissertation Title: "Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Flow Past a Sphere up to Reynolds Number of 300"
Fang Biao Lin
, Senior Development Engineer , Alden Research Lab , Holden , USA Dissertation Title: "Development of a Numerical Method for Three-Dimensional Incompressible Flow With Multigrid Acceleration and Near-Wall Turbulence Closure"
Joseph Longo Dissertation Title: "Effects of Yaw on Model-Scale Ship Flows"
Sanjiv Sinha
, Vice President , ECT Inc. , Ann Arbor , USA Dissertation Title: "Three-Dimensional Numerical Model for Turbulent Flows Through River Reaches of Complex Bathymetry"
Ana Sirviente
, Assistant Professor , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , USA Dissertation Title: "Wake of an Axisymmetric Body Propelled by a Jet With and Without Swirl"
Andrew Whelan
, Asia Technicall Director , Tower Automotive Technical Center , Yokohama , Japan Dissertation Title: "Interfacial Fracture of Ice"
Jon Zufelt
, Research Hydraulic Engineer , Cold Regions Research Engineering Laboratory , Hanover , USA Dissertation Title: "Ice Jam Dynamics"
1995
Charles Brockway
, Water Resources Engineer , Brockway Engineering , Twin Falls , USA Dissertation Title: "An Evaluation of Streamflow Reconstructions for Estimation of Drought Statistics"
Jeffrey Haferman
, Physical Scientist , SNMOC Satellite Division , Monterey , USA Dissertation Title: "A Polarized Multi-Dimensional Discrete-Ordinates Radiative Transfer Model for Remote Sensing Applications"
Connie Liu Dissertation Title: "Numerical Analysis of Error Quantification and Propagation in Radar Remote Sensing for Rainfall Estimation"
Marian Muste Dissertation Title: "Particle and Liquid Velocity Measurements in Sediment-Laden Flows with a Discriminator Laser-Doppler Velocimeter"
Vincent Neary
, Assistant Professor , Tennessee Technological University , Cookeville , USA Dissertation Title: "Numerical Modeling of Diversion Flows"
Brennan Smith
, Civil Engineer , Tennessee Valley Authority Engineering Laboratory , Norris , USA Dissertation Title: "Ice-Cover Influence on Flow and Bedload Transport in Dune-Bed Channels"
1994
Wen-Tsun Fang Dissertation Title: "Sound Generation and Damping Effects by Neighboring Bubbles Near a Free Surface"
Ehab Meselhe
, Associate Professor, Civil Engineering , The University of Louisiana at Lafayette , N/A , USA Dissertation Title: "Numerical Simulation of Transcritical Flow in Open Channels"
Eric Paterson Dissertation Title: "Computation of Natural and Forced Unsteady Viscous Flow with Applications to Marine Propulsors"
1993
Jung-Eun Choi Dissertation Title: "Role of Free-Surface Boundary Conditions and Nonlinearities in Wave/Boundary-Layer and Wake Interactions"
Kyung-Nam Chung Dissertation Title: "Application of a Zonal Approach and Turbulence Models to Foils and Marine Propellers"
Ronald Copeland Dissertation Title: "Numerical Modeling of Hyraulic Sorting and Armoring in Alluvial Rivers"
Alex Guetter Dissertation Title: "Hydrology of the Continental United States"
Marion Kessy Dissertation Title: "Armoring and Pavement in Gravel-Bed Rivers: Numerical Physical Analysis"
Jae-Soo Lee Dissertation Title: "Modeling and Analysis of Soil Moisture Dynamics at Climate Scales"
Larry Weber Dissertation Title: "A Study of Fracture Toughness and Fatigue of Freshwater Ice"
Joon-Yong Yoon Dissertation Title: "Numerical Analysis of Flows in Channels with Sand Dunes and Ice Covers"
1992
Deg-Hyo Bae Dissertation Title: "Hydrologic Modeling for Flow Forecasting and Climate Studies in Large Drainage Basins"
Yusuke Tahara Dissertation Title: "An Interactive Approach for Calculating Ship Boundary Layers and Wakes for Nonzero Froude Number"
1991
Shaohua Hsu
, Professor & Department Head , Dept. of Water-Resources Engineering & Conservation, Feng Chia University , Taichung , Taiwan Dissertation Title: "An Assessment of Analytical and Numerical Prediction of One-Dimensional Mobile-Bed Dynamics"
Ching-Jer Huang Dissertation Title: "Diffraction of Acoustic Waves by a Ring Aperture in a Baffle of Arbitrary Impendance"
Kyung Soo Jun Dissertation Title: "Oxygen Transfer in Colsed-Conduit Turbulent Shear Flows"
Sungeun Kim Dissertation Title: "Numerical Studies of Three-Dimensional Flow Separation"
Wu-Joan Kim Dissertation Title: "An Experimental and Computational Study of Longitudinal Vortices in Turbulent Boundary Layers"
Tim Lee Dissertation Title: "A Stochastic-Dynamical Model for Short-Term Quantitative Rainfall Prediction"
Djoko Luknanto Dissertation Title: "Numerical Simulation of Saturated Groundwater Flow and Pollutant Transport in Karst Regions"
Alejo Sanchez Alias Dissertation Title: "A General Purpose Radiative Transfer Model for Application of Remote Sensing in Multi-Dimensional Systems"
Ljubodrag Savic Dissertation Title: "Vertical Mixing of Heated Effluents in Open-Channel Flow Computation of Open-Channel Discontinuous Flows Using the Modified Godunov Method"
Whey-Fone Tsai Dissertation Title: "A Study of Ice-Covered Bend Flow"
Yalin Wang Dissertation Title: "Sediment Control with Submerged Vanes"
Byungman Yoon Dissertation Title: "A Study of Atmospheric-Icing Formation and Forces"
1990
Mary Bergs Dissertation Title: "Flow Processes in a Curved Alluvial Channel"
Zhi Guo Dissertation Title: "General Planar Translation of Two Bodies in a Fluid"
Beom-Soo Hyun Dissertation Title: "Measurements in the Flow Around a Marine Propeller at the Stern of an Axisymmetric Body"
Mohammad Sharifi Dissertation Title: "Chaotic Dynamic Analysis of Nataural Phenomena: Convective Storm Rainfall"
Keh-Chia Yeh Dissertation Title: "Flow and Bed Topography in Fixed-Channel and River Bends"
1989
Hector Bravo Dissertation Title: "Flow Fields in Navigation Installations Induced by Hydropower Releases"
Seok Choi Dissertation Title: "Numerical Study of Laminar and Turbulent Flows Past Two Dimensional and Axisymmetric Bodies"
Wei-Shien Hwang Dissertation Title: "Rotating Flows of a Viscous Fluid"
Hyoung-Tae Kim Dissertation Title: "Computation of Viscous Flow Around a Propeller-Shaft Configuration with Infinite-Pitch Rectangular Blades"
Shih-An Yang Dissertation Title: "Nonlinear Viscous Waves Produced by an Impulsively Moving Plate"
1988
Sheng-Chuan Hsu Dissertation Title: "Mathematical Modelling of Flow and Bed Characteristics in Curved Channels with Nonuniform Bed Material"
Deborah McKechnie Dissertation Title: "Transport of Soluble Pollutants in a Run-of-the-River Impoundment"
Carlos Mosconi Dissertation Title: "River-Bed Variations and Evolution of Armor Layers"
Miodrag Spasojevic Dissertation Title: "Numerical Simulation of Two-Dimensional (Plan View) Unsteady Water and Sediment Movement in Natural Watercourses"
Anita Stojimirovic Dissertation Title: "Mechanic of Submerged Vanes on Flat Boundaries"
Chung-Chieh Hsu Dissertation Title: "Mechanics of Flow in Alluvial River Bends with Application to Iowa-Vane Bank Protection"
Pei-Pei Hsu Dissertation Title: "Centerplane Source Distribution for Slender Bodies"
Kemakolam Obasih Dissertation Title: "Prediction of Laminar and Turbulent Flows Past Single and Twin Airfoils"
Inbo Park Dissertation Title: "Numerical Simulation of Aggradation and Degradation of Aluvial-Channel Beds"
Marshall Richmond Dissertation Title: "Surface Curvature and Pressure Gradient Effects on Turbulent Flow: An Assessment Based on Numerical Solution of the Reynolds Equations"
Chi-Jau Tang Dissertation Title: "Free-Surface Flow Phenomena Ahead of a Two-Dimensional Body in Viscous Fluid"
1986
Wu-Sun Cheng Dissertation Title: "Finite Analytical Numereical Solutions of Incompressible Flow Past Inclined Axisymmetric Bodies"
Liang-Hsiung Huang Dissertation Title: "Trapping and Absorption of Underwater Sound"
J. Johnson Dissertation Title: "The Iowa Impulse Fish Guidance System: A Microcomputer-Controlled Fish Guidance System Feasibility Study"
Srba Jovic Dissertation Title: "Large-Scale Structure of the Turbulent Wake Behind a Flat Plate"
Om Sarda Dissertation Title: "Turbulent Flow Past Ship Hulls-An Experimental and Computational Study"
Mohamad Shiekholeslami Dissertation Title: "Computer Aided Analysis of Two-Dimensional Laminar and Turbulent Incompressible Flows"
Jose Silva Dissertation Title: "Kinematic-Wave Analysis of River Responses to Imposed Disequilibria"
Yogyakarta Sudjarwadi Dissertation Title: "A Simulation Model of Irrigation Water Requirements for Paddies in the Mountainous Progo River Basin"
Keiichi Toda Dissertation Title: "Numerical Modelling of Advection Phenomena"
Tzong-Shyan Wung Dissertation Title: "Experimental and Numerical Study of Heat Transfer and Flow for Arrays of Tubes in Crossflow"
Jinn-Chuang Yang Dissertation Title: "Numerical Simulation of Bed Evolution in Multi-Channel River Systems"
Ali Shahshahan Dissertation Title: "Effects of Viscosity on Wavemaking Resistance of a Ship Model"
Kanwerdip Singh Dissertation Title: "Development of a Two-Scale Turbulence Model and its Applications"
Keh-Han Wang Dissertation Title: "Nonlinear Impulsive Motion of a Vertical Cylinder"
1984
Je Hyun Baek Dissertation Title: "Three-Dimensional Turbulent Boundary Layers on the Bodies of Revolution at Incidence"
Sen-Ming Chang Dissertation Title: "Prediction of Turbulent Internal Recirculating Flows with K-å Models"
Wen-Chung Chen Dissertation Title: "Finite Analytic Numerical Solution of Supersonic Flows in Two-Dimensional Non-Symmetric Channels"
Jaime Collado Dissertation Title: "Optimization in Water Resources"
Robert Hoeksema Dissertation Title: "The Geostatisticall Approach to the Inverse Problem in Two-Dimensional Steady State Groundwater Modeling"
Long-Cheng Huang Dissertation Title: "Seismic Water Pressures on Dames for Arbitrarily Shaped Reservoirs"
Hong-Yuan Lee Dissertation Title: "Flow and Bed Characteristics in Alluvial Channel Bends"
John Vadnal
, Associate Dean, School of Eng & Computational Sci , Liberty University , Lynchburg , USA Dissertation Title: "A Numerical Model For Steady Flow in Meandering Alluvial Channels"
1983
Muguru Chandrasekhara Dissertation Title: "Study of Vertical Plane Turbulent Jets and Plumes"
James Dlubac Dissertation Title: "Oscillatory Singularities in a Saturated Poroelastic Medium"
Hiroyuki Haniu Dissertation Title: "Turbulence Measurements in Plane Jets and Plumes in Cross-Flow"
Kuo-San Ho Dissertation Title: "Finite Analytic Numerical Method for Laminar Two-Dimensional Flow and Heat Transfer Problems Using Boundary Fitted Coordinates"
Wilson Jaramillo-Torres Dissertation Title: "Aggradation and Degradation of Alluvial-Channel Beds"
Angel Menendez Dissertation Title: "Study of Unsteady Turbulent Boundary Layers"
Saleh Wasimi Dissertation Title: "Operation of a System of Reservoirs Under Flood Conditions Using Linear Quadratic Gaussian Stochastic Control"
1982
Hamn-Ching Chen Dissertation Title: "Development of Finite Analytic Method for Unsteady Three-Dimensional Navier-Stikes Equations"
Nevzat Yildirim Dissertation Title: "Velocity and Temperature Fields in Long Sidearms of Cooling Ponds"
1981
Md. Karim Dissertation Title: "Computer-Based Predictors for Sediment Discharge and Friction Factor of Alluvial Streams"
Chu-Lian Lee Dissertation Title: "Fow and Absorption in a Contracting Channel with Application to the Human Intestine"
Chien-Kuo Lo Dissertation Title: "Risk Consideration in Reservoir Operation Optimization with Application to the Red Rock Reservoir, Iowa"
Henry Meneses Dissertation Title: "On Cylindrical Solitary Waves"
Sastry Munukutla Dissertation Title: "Turbulent Wake Development Behind Streamlined Bodies"
Chikashi Sato Dissertation Title: "Characerization of Heavy Metals Effects on Nitrosomonas Europea by Graphical and Regression Methods"
Shuen-Wei Tu Dissertation Title: "Study of Periodic Turbulent Pipe Flow"
1980
Ismail Celik Dissertation Title: "Mean Flow Past Circular Cylinders"
Jenq-Shing Chiou Dissertation Title: "Turbulent Heat Transfer to Liquid Metals in a Circular Pipe"
Mustafa Gogus Dissertation Title: "Flow Characteristics Below Floating Covers with Application to Ice Jams"
1979
Marco Falcon Dissertation Title: "Analysis of Flow in Alluvial Channel Bends"
Hamid Naseri-Neshat Dissertation Title: "Development of the Finite-Differential Numerical Method and Its Application to Two-Dimensional Navier-Stokes Equation"
David Stavitsky Dissertation Title: "Flow and Mixing in a Contracting Channel with Applications to the Human Intestine"
1978
Do-Hyung Choi Dissertation Title: "Three-Dimensional Boundary Layers on Bodies of Revolution at Incidence"
Nuray Denli Dissertation Title: "An Analytical Solution of the Thick Axisymmetric Turbulent Boundary Layer on a Long Cylinder of Constant Radius"
Shin-Hyoung Kang Dissertation Title: "Viscous Effects on the Wave Resistance of a Thin Ship"
Rosa Lee Dissertation Title: "Optimum Combination of Selected Cooling Alternatives for Electric Power Plants"
Yu-Tai Lee Dissertation Title: "Thick Axisymmetric Turbulent Boundary Layer and Wake of a Low-Drag Body"
Shu-Guang Li Dissertation Title: "Finite Differential Methods-Applications of Analytical Solution Techniques to the Numerical Solutions of Partial Differential Equations"
Kuo-Kung Shih Dissertation Title: "The Impact of Urbanization on Floods of Ralston Creek"
1977
Shie-Yui Liong Dissertation Title: "Effects of Vertical Distortion on Thermal-Hydraulic Modeling of Surface Discharges"
Tzouh-Ying Su Dissertation Title: "Thermal Regimes of Upper Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and Hybrid Once-Through Wet Tower Cooling Systems for Power Plants"
1976
Mow Cheng Dissertation Title: "Analysis of Different Types of Dry-Wet Cooling Towers"
Robert Eli Dissertation Title: "An Hourley Precipitation Model for Ralston Creek"
Alfred Parr Dissertation Title: "Prototype and Model Studies of the Diffuser-Pipe System for Discharging Condenser Cooling Water at the Quad Cities Nuclear Power Station"
Terry Sturm Dissertation Title: "An Analytical and Experimental Investigation of Density Currents in Sidearms of Cooling Ponds"
Joe Willis Dissertation Title: "Sediment Discharge of Alluvial Streams Calculated From Bed-Form Statistics"
1975
Kuo-Cheng Chang Dissertation Title: "Calculation of Three-Dimensional Boundary Layers on Ship Forms"
Jost Grimm-Strele Dissertation Title: "Longitudinal Mixing of Heated Water in Open-Channel Flow"
Oktay Guven Dissertation Title: "An Experimental and Analytical Study of Surface-Roughness Effects on the Mean Flow Past Circular Cylinders"
Arthur Giaquinta Dissertation Title: "Numerical Modelling of Unsteady Flow with Natural and Forced Separation"
Ken-Ichi Hirayama Dissertation Title: "An Investiagion of Ice Forces on Vertical Structures"
Robert Hwang Dissertation Title: "On the Hydrodynamic Stability of Stoke's First and Second Problems"
Tatsuaki Nakato Dissertation Title: "Wave-Induced Sediment Entrainment from Rippled Beds"
Akihiko Nakayama Dissertation Title: "Viscid-Inviscid Interaction Due to the Thick Boundary Layer Near the Tail of a Body of Revolution"
Francis Noblesse Dissertation Title: "A Perturbation Analysis of the Wavemaking of a Ship, with an Interpretation of Guilloton's Method"
Poothrikka Paily Dissertation Title: "Winter-Regime Thermal Response of Heated Streams"
Hung Shen Dissertation Title: "Second-Order Wave Resistance Theory of a Submerged Spheroid"
Robert Singerman Dissertation Title: "Fluid Mechanics of the Human Duodenum"
Mehmet Uzuner Dissertation Title: "Hydraulics and Mechanics of River Ice Jams"
Tso-Ping Yeh Dissertation Title: "Transverse Mixing of Heated Effluents in Open-Channel Flow"
1973
Kuang-Shen Hsu Dissertation Title: "Spectral Evolution of Ice Ripples"
Eric Schiller Dissertation Title: "Verticall Mixing of Heated Effluents in Open-Channel Flow"
1972
Daniel Chan Dissertation Title: "Turbulent Nonbuoyant or Buoyant Jets Discharged into Flowing or Quiescent Fluids"
Touvia Miloh Dissertation Title: "Higher-Order Theory of Ship Waves From Centerplane Source Distributions"
Yasuo Onishi Dissertation Title: "Effects of Meandering on Sediment Discharges and Friction Factors of Alluvial Streams"
Chii-Ell Tsai Dissertation Title: "Study of Total, Viscous and Wave Resistance of a Family of Series-60 Models; Further Development of a Procedure for Determination of Wave Resistance from Longitudinal-Cut, Surface-Profile Measurements"
1971
Yaw Akyeampong Dissertation Title: "The Local Sediment Transport Rate in Periodically Non-Uniform Flows"
Carlos Alonso Dissertation Title: "Time-Dependent Confined Rotating Flow of an Incompressible Viscous Fluid"
George Ashton Dissertation Title: "The Formation of Ice Ripples on the Underside of River Ice Covers"
Yung-Chi Chang Dissertation Title: "Lateral Mixing in Meandering Channels"
Subhash Jain Dissertation Title: "Evolution of Sand Wave Spectra"
David Moran Dissertation Title: "Finite-Integral Longitudinal-Cut Technique for Computing the Wave Resistance of a Ship Model in a Towing Tank"
Alfonso Pujol Dissertation Title: "Numerical Experiments on the Stability of Poiseuille Flows of Non-Newtonian Fluids"
Kanwar Satija Dissertation Title: "On the Thick Boundary Layer Near the Tail of a Body of Revolution"
Men-Cheh Tao Dissertation Title: "Turbulent Mixing of Density Stratified Fluids"
1970
Clark Lin Dissertation Title: "A Free-Streamline Model of a Two-Dimensional Wake"
Roger Multer Dissertation Title: "A Nonlinear Numerical-Hydrodynamic Model of a Mechanical Water Wave Generator"
1969
Fred Locher Dissertation Title: "Some Aspects of Flow-Induced Vibrations of Hydraulic Control Gates"
Harihara Padmanabhan Dissertation Title: "Wake Deformation in Density-Stratified Fluids"
Jean-Claude Tatinclaux Dissertation Title: "Effect of a Rotational Wave on the Wave-Making Resistance of an Ogive"
Kent Tzou Dissertation Title: "On the Determination of the Viscous Drag of a Ship Model"
1968
Cesar Farell Dissertation Title: "Potential Flow About a Prolate Spheriod in Axial Horizontal Motion Beneath a Free Surface"
Sheng-Tien Hsu Dissertation Title: "Turbulent Flow in Wavy Pipes"
David Squarer Dissertation Title: "An Analysis of Relationships Between Flow Conditions and Statistical Measures of Bed Configurations in Straight and Curved Alluvial Channels"
1967
Rene Chevray Dissertation Title: "Turbulence in the Wake of a Body of Revolution"
Shin-Kien Chow Dissertation Title: "Free-Surface Effects on Boundary-Layer Separation on Vertical Struts"
Bruce Hunt Dissertation Title: "Numerical Solution of an Integral Equation for Flow from a Circular Orifice"
Antonio Pita-Szczesniewski Dissertation Title: "Vibration Frequencies of a Free-Free Cylindrical Beam of Finite Length Immersed in an Inviscid Fluid"
Kotha Rao Dissertation Title: "Effect of Shape on the Mean-Flow Characteristics of Turbulent Flow Through Smooth Rectangular Open Channel"
Chin-Lien Yen Dissertation Title: "Bed Configuration and Characteristics of Subcritical Flow in a Meandering Channel"
1966
Jonathan Hinwood Dissertation Title: "The Stability of a Stratified Flow in the Region of Flow Establishment"
Tin-Kan Hung Dissertation Title: "Laminar Flow in Conduit Expansions"
Ernest Pogge Dissertation Title: "Mechanics of Bank Seepage During Flood Flows"
Sedat Sami Dissertation Title: "Velocity and Pressure Fields of a Diffusing Jet"
1965
John Glover Dissertation Title: "Techniques for Detecting and Analyzing Unsteady-Flow Variables"
Helmut Kobus Dissertation Title: "Analytical and Experimental Study of Eggers' Relationship Between Transverse Wave Profiles and Wave Resistance of a Modified Ogive in Channel"
John Roberson Dissertation Title: "Surface Resistance as a Function of the Concentration and Size of Roughness Elements"
1959
Satya Garg Dissertation Title: "Distribution of Head at a Rectangular Conduit Outlet"
Milton Martin Dissertation Title: "Roll Damping Due to Bilge Keels"
1958
David Huber Dissertation Title: "Irrotational Motion of Two Fluid Strata Towards a Line Sink"
H.J. Koloseus Dissertation Title: "The Effect of Free-Surface Instability on Channel Resistance"
Emmett Laursen Dissertation Title: "The Total Sediment Load of Streams"
1956
Michel Hug Dissertation Title: "Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Forces on Cavitating Hydrofoils"
1955
Sung-Ching Ling Dissertation Title: "Measurement of Flow Characteristics by the Hot-Film Technique"
Robert Moorman Dissertation Title: "Motion of a Spherical Particle in the Accelerated Portion of Free Fall"
1954
Philip Hubbard Dissertation Title: "Constant-Temperature Hot-Wire Anemometry with Application to Measurements in Water"
Ibrahim Mostafa Dissertation Title: "A Policy for Flood Control"
Turgut Sarpkaya Dissertation Title: "Oscillatory Grsvity Waves in Flowing Water"
Tien-To Siao Dissertation Title: "Characteristics of Turbulence in an Air-Flow Model of the Hydraulic Jump"
1953
David Appel Dissertation Title: "An Instrument for Rapid Size-Frequency Analysis of Sediment"
Temel Orga Dissertation Title: "Simultaneous Flows of Air and Water in a Closed Flume"
1952
Harry Ambrose Dissertation Title: "The Transportation of Uniform Sand in a Smooth Pipe"
Simon Ince Dissertation Title: "A History of Hydraulics to the End of the Eighteenth Century"
1951
William Bauer Dissertation Title: "The Development of a Turbulent Boundary Layer on Steep Slopes"
John Craven Dissertation Title: "A Study of the Transportation of Sand in Pipes"
Pin-Nam Lin Dissertation Title: "Effect of Spacing and Size Distribution on the Fall Velocity of Sediment"
Walter Moore Dissertation Title: "An Experimental Investigation of the Boundary-Layer Development Along a Rough Surface"
1950
W. Baines Dissertation Title: "An Exploratory Investigation of Boundary-Layer Develpoment on Smooth and Rough Surfaces"
Marion Carstens Dissertation Title: "Accelerated Motion of a Sphere"
En-Yun Hsu Dissertation Title: "Approximate Analyses Interrelating Pressure Distribution and Axisymmetric Body Form"
Hsieh-Ching Hsu Dissertation Title: "Characteristics of Mean Flow and Turbulence at an Abrupt Two-Dimensional Expansion"
1949
Abdel-Hadi Abul-Fetouh Dissertation Title: "Characteristics of Irrotational Flow From Axially Symmetric Orifices"
Vaughn Hansen Dissertation Title: "Evaluation of Unconfined Flow to Multple Wells by the Membraine Analogy"
Jamil Malaika Dissertation Title: "Effect of Shape of Particles on Their Setting Velocity"
1948
Maurice Albertson Dissertation Title: "Analysis of Evaproation as a Boundary-Layer Phenomenon"
Mohamed Hassan Dissertation Title: "Use of the Three-Dimensional Electical Analogy in the Design of Conduit Tansitions"
Herrol Skidmore Dissertation Title: "Development of a Stratified-Suspension Technique for Size-Frequency Analysis"
Chia-Shuen Yih Dissertation Title: "Free Convection Due to a Point Source of Heat"
1943
Wallis Hamilton Dissertation Title: "Measurements of Velocity Distribution Around a Stationary Ship Model in Flowing Water"
Chen-Huan Hsia Dissertation Title: "A Study of the Transporation of Fine Sediments by Flowing Water"
1942
Baboobhai Bhoota Dissertation Title: "Characteristics of Supercritical Flow at an Abrupt Open-Channel Enlargement"
1941
Clifford Pien Dissertation Title: "Investigation of Turbulence and Suspended Material Transportation in Open Channels"
James Robertson Dissertation Title: "Entrainment of Air in Pipes by Flowing Water"
Chen-Hsing Yen Dissertation Title: "Determination of Best Proportions for Canal Bend"
1940
Warren Wilson Dissertation Title: "The Flow of Water in Transition Sections of Rectangular Channels at Supercritical Velocities"
1938
Fu-Te I Dissertation Title: "The Functional Design of Flood-Control Reservoirs"
1937
Pei-Su Hsing Dissertation Title: "The Hydraulic Jump in Trapezoidal Channels"
Te-Yun Liu Dissertation Title: "A Study of Bottom Velocity and Capacity in the Transportation of Bed Load"
Kenneth Nichols Dissertation Title: "Obseved Effects of Geometric Distortion in Hydraulic Models"
Tsung-Pei Tsui Dissertation Title: "An Investigation of Ground Water Movements"
1935
Gwoh-Fan Djang Dissertation Title: "Falling of Bodies in a Stream and the Effect of Turbulence"
Andreas Luksch Dissertation Title: "A Study of the Hydrodynamics of Spreading Draft Tubes"
Charles Mockmore Dissertation Title: "Flow Characteristics in Elbow Draft Tubes"
Edward Wilsey Dissertation Title: "Experimental and Analytical Study of the Permeability of Sand"
1934
Yun-Cheng Tu Dissertation Title: "Sediment Transporting Power in Open Channels"
1927
Elmer Moots Dissertation Title: "A Study of Flood Waves"
M.S.E. students
2003
Andrew McCoy Dissertation Title: "Three-Dimensional Hydrodynamic and total Dissolved Gas Simulations of Rock Island Dam Spillway"
1971
Shoji Fukuoka Dissertation Title: "Longitudinal Dispersion in Sinuous Channels"
M.S. students
2009
Philip Ellis Dissertation Title: "Non-Point Source Pollution in an Agricultural Watershed: Uplands Soil Erosion and Instream Sediment Transport."
Timothy Lauth Dissertation Title: "Acoustic Response to Gravel-Bedload Particle Mode of Transport."
John Thomas Dissertation Title: "Knickpoint Migration in Western Iowa"
2008
Ryan Asman Dissertation Title: "Review and Assesment of ADCP Capabilities to Characterize River Hydrodynamics"
Ben Clark Dissertation Title: "Observations of Saturated Hydraulic Conductiity Under Different Land Use Management Practices"
George Reins Dissertation Title: "Experimental Study of an Impulsive Plunging Breaker Downstream of a Bump in a Shallow Water Open Channel Flume"
Adrian Strain Dissertation Title: "Hydrodynamic Study of Prairie Du Sac Dam Forebay and Fish Bypass System"
Achilleas Tsakiris Dissertation Title: "Determination of Fractal Properties of Clusters Via the Box Counting Method"
2007
Jodi Benson Dissertation Title: "Simulating the Hydrodynamics for Studies of the Behavioral Responses of Sea Lamprey (Petromyzon Marinus)"
Brandon Billing Dissertation Title: "Techniques to Characterize Aggregative Fluidization in a Pure Kaolin Mud Layer"
Michael Cloos Dissertation Title: "Measuring Hydrometeor Size, Shape and Velocity Using a New Non-Video, Two-Dimensional Disdrometer"
Dimitrios Dermisis Dissertation Title: "Sand Movement Over and Within an Immobile Gravel Bed with the Presence of Distinguishable Isolated Roughness Elements"
Gaston Ferrari Dissertation Title: "Numerical Simulation of Rocky Reach Dam Forebay and Juvenile Fish Bypass System"
Renato Frasson Dissertation Title: "Observational Studies of Rainfall Interception by Corn"
Antonio Massi Dissertation Title: "Temporal Moment Analysis of Partitioning Tracer Tests in Synthetic Heterogeneous Geologic Media"
Kwaku Oben-Nyarko Dissertation Title: "Pier and Abutment Scour Interaction in Compound Channels"
Ranjani Theregowda Dissertation Title: "A Century Simulation of Soil Organic Matter (SOM) in Clear Creek, Iowa"
William Wombacher Dissertation Title: "Fate of Syntheic Musk Fragrances in a Conventional Drinking Water Treatment Plant With Lime Softening"
Danting Yin Dissertation Title: "Hydraulic Tomography Using Temporal Moments of Drawdown-Recovery Data: Synthetic and Laboratory Sandbox Study"
2006
Benjamin Fennelly Dissertation Title: ""Three-Dimensional Hydrodynamic Model of Pool 13, Mississippi River""
John Mousel Dissertation Title: "A Computational Investigation of Particle Aggregate Growth in Micro-Nozzles Using Discrete-Element Modeling"
JohnThomas Sanford Dissertation Title: "One Dimensional Sediment Transport Model to Simulate Rill Erosion Processes"
Loren Wehmeyer Dissertation Title: "Evaluation of Design Flood Frequency Methods for Iowa Streams"
2005
Shae Hoschek Dissertation Title: "Phase Detection Probe Development and Application to Air Entrainment in A Laboratory Model Spillway"
Casey Kramer Dissertation Title: "The Role of Relative Submergence on Cluster Microtopography and Bedload Predictions in Mountain Streams"
Matthew McConville Dissertation Title: "A Three-Dimensional Comptational Fluid Dynamics Model of Hydrodynamics and Temperature in the Brownlee Dam Power Canal"
Antonio Pinto Heredero Dissertation Title: "Urans and DES For Wigley Hull at Extreme Drift Angles"
Nobuaki Sakamoto Dissertation Title: "RANS Simulations for High Speed Ships in Deep and Shallow Water"
Talia Tokyay Dissertation Title: "Investigation of Flow Physics of Pump Intake Flows Using Large Eddy Simulation"
2004
Ozan Abaci Dissertation Title: "Modeling of Stratified Flows in a Vertically Distorted Hydraulic Model of a Lake Intake"
Gokhan Kirkil Dissertation Title: "Similtude of Coherent Eddies in Flume Experiments on Bridge Scour"
Recep Korkut Dissertation Title: "Geobags as Abutment-Scour Countermeasure"
Efthymios Nikolopoulos Dissertation Title: "Analysis of High Resolution Data of Vertical Structure of Rainfall"
Alexandros Ntelekos Dissertation Title: "On the Uncertainties of the Flash Flood Guidance System (FFGS) Towards Probabilistic Forecasting of Flash Floods"
2003
Rui Cheng Dissertation Title: "A Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulation of Mechanical Heart Valve Flow Dynamics"
Manivannan Kandasamy Dissertation Title: "Rans Simulation of Free-Surface Wave-Induced Separation Around a Surface-Piercing NACA 0024 Hydrofoil"
Geoffrey McAlister Dissertation Title: "The Breakup of Sheet FLow to Rivulets and Rivulets to Droplets"
Benjamin Miriovsky Dissertation Title: "Towards the Statistical Characterization of Small-Scale Rainfall Variability Using Field Experiments"
Jennifer Nichols Dissertation Title: "Suggested Corrections for Monin-Obukhov Estimates of Evapotranspiration in the Presence of Multiple step Changes for Stable, Neutral, and Unstable Atmospheres"
Amit Thakur Dissertation Title: "An Experimental Investigation of Flow Past a Single Cylinder and Two Parallel Cylinders at an Angle of Yaw"
Sreedevi Krishnan Dissertation Title: ""CFD Modeling of Flow in Blood Vessels Affected by Cerebral Aneurysm""
Huei-Tau Ouyang Dissertation Title: "Design Optimization of Submerged Vane System for Sediment Control"
Renee Van't Land Dissertation Title: "Suggested Corrections for Monin-Obukhov Estimates of Evapotranspiration in the Presence of a Surface Emission Step Change"
R. Zimmerman Dissertation Title: "Rocky Reach Bypass Fish Sampling Screen"
2000
Fernando Andrade Dissertation Title: "Rocky Reach Dam: Calibration and Validation of a Numerical Model Applied to Fish Passage"
Jeffrey Blank Dissertation Title: "Numerical Simulations of the Fish Passage Facilities at Lower Granite Dam"
Irene Gil-Llamas Dissertation Title: "Performance of the SST and BSL k-w Turbulence Models in the Prediction of the Flow Around a Surface Piercing Flat Plate with Stokes' Waves External Flow"
Owen Kubit Dissertation Title: "Debris-Skimming Booms for Riverside Water Intakes"
Leiji Liu Dissertation Title: "Radap II Data Processing and Rainfall Estimation"
Seng Keat Ooi Dissertation Title: ""Hydraulic Performance of Debris-Deflecting Booms""
Zhijian Xiong Dissertation Title: "Practical Aspects of Large-Scale Particle Image Velocimetry Implementation for Analysis of Free-Surface Flow"
Nathan Young Dissertation Title: "Hydraulics Model Study of of Extended-length Submerged Bar Screen Perforated Plate Vibration"
Brian Nelson
, NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate , National Climatic Data Center NOAA/NESDIS , Asheville , USA Dissertation Title: "Raingage Network Design in a Mountainous Region Using Nexrad Precipitation Estimates"
Jeff Streitz Dissertation Title: "A Preliminary Study of Thin-Sheet and Riculete Icing Formation on Planar Surfaces"
1998
Florin Braileanu
, Senior Water Resources Engineer , HDR , Phoenix , USA Dissertation Title: "A Method for Calculating Sediment-Transport Rate in Ice-Covered Channels"
Matthew Cole
, Cold Regions Research Engineering Laboratory , Hanover , USA Dissertation Title: "Investigation of Forebay Influence Zones at Dam Surface Spill Structures"
Jennifer Holman-Dodds Dissertation Title: "Effect of Temporal Sampling of Precipitation on Hydrologic Model Calibration"
Eric Shumate
, Engineer in Training , Corps of Engineers , Kansas City , USA Dissertation Title: "Experimental Description of Flow at an Open-Channel Junction"
Meihong Sun Dissertation Title: "A Study of Vortex Interaction with a Sphere Wake"
1997
Garth Dolphin Dissertation Title: "Evaluation of Computational Fluid Dynamics for a Flat Plate and Axisymmetric Body from Model- to Full-Scale Reynolds Numbers"
Cheng-Ann Tan Dissertation Title: "Numerical Simulation of Contaminat Mixing in Ice-Covered Channels"
Scott Wright Dissertation Title: "Thermal Regime of the Missouri River Along its Iowa Border"
Hongbiao Zhao Dissertation Title: "Detection of Nonstationarity in Heavy Precipitation Series"
1996
Mark Allen Dissertation Title: "An Analytical Model for Flow Through Vertical Barrier Screens"
Deborah Bauer Dissertation Title: "Subsurface Vortex Suppression in Water Intakes with Multiple-Pump Sumps"
Bin Chen Dissertation Title: "Computational Fluid Dynamics of Four-Quadrant Marine-Propulsor Flow"
Jeffrey Den Bleyker
, Water Resource Engineer , CH2M Hill , Salt Lake City , USA Dissertation Title: "Mitigation of Predation at a Juvenile Bypass Outfall Site"
Brady Fuller
, Project Manager , CH2M Hill , Bellevue , USA Dissertation Title: "Nitrogen Modeling in One-Dimensional Unsteady Flow"
Mircea Grecu
, Postdoctoral Associate , University of Connecticut , Storrs , USA Dissertation Title: "Quality Control of Weather Radar Echo Using Neural Networks"
Anil Kumar Dissertation Title: "Extensions of a Viscous Ship-Flow CFD Method for the Calculation of Sinkage and Trim"
Tracy Longo Dissertation Title: "A GIS-Based Study of Sediment Transport in the North Branch of Ralston Creek Using the ANSWERS Models"
James Potter Dissertation Title: "Measurement of Ice Scraping Forces on Snow-Plow Underbody Blade"
William Walker Dissertation Title: "Continuous Long-Term Simulation to Determine the Frequency and Severity of Extreame River Temperatures"
Emmanouil Anagnostou
, Assistant Professor , University of Connecticut , Storrs , USA Dissertation Title: "Three-Dimensional Simulation of Radar-Rainfall Observations"
Todd Frisbie Dissertation Title: "Measurements of Plow Loads During Ice Removal Operations From Pavement"
Tomasz Gawronski Dissertation Title: "Blade Geometry Effects on Ice Scraping Forces"
Hanping Huang Dissertation Title: "Effects of Waves and Free Surface on Turbulence in the Boundary Layer of a Surface-Piercing Flat Plate"
Jeffrey McCollum
, Senior Research Scientist , FM Global , Norwood , USA Dissertation Title: "Studies of Calibration Procedures for Space-Based Rainfall Estimation Methods"
Mike Pokomy Dissertation Title: "Video Based Data-Acqusition Technique For Measuring Oscillatory Loads on Galloping Conductor"
Martin Teal Dissertation Title: "Estimation of Mean Velocity for Flow Under Ice Cover"
1992
Cheng-Hua Chung Dissertation Title: "Development of Cutting Edges for Ice Removal From Pavements"
Mark French Dissertation Title: "Quantitative Real-Time Rainfall Forecasting Using Remote Sensing"
Charles Lamb Dissertation Title: "The Effect of Angles of Yaw on Pressure Distribution Around Various Head Forms"
Vincent Neary
, Assistant Professor , Tennessee Technological University , Cookeville , USA Dissertation Title: "Flow Structure at an Open Channel Diversion"
Diana Paez Rivadeneira Dissertation Title: "Experimental Study of Truncated Helicoidal-Ramp Drop Structures"
Marc Serre Dissertation Title: "A Study of Energy Loss at Comnining Pipe Junction in Fish Bypass System"
Brennan Smith
, Civil Engineer , Tennessee Valley Authority Engineering Laboratory , Norris , USA Dissertation Title: "No Thesis"
Mir Wasif Dissertation Title: "Compressive Behavior of S2 Freshwater Ice"
Ya Chen Dissertation Title: "Diffracted Acoustic Waves Due to a Soft Sphere Near Flat Wall"
Wen-Tsun Fang Dissertation Title: "Uncertainty Analysis in Prediction of River Water Temperature"
Timothy Johnson
, Research Engineer , Boeing Developmental Center , Seattle , USA Dissertation Title: "Visualization of Topology of Separated Flow Over Semi-Elliptic Wing at Incidence Intersecting a Plane Wall"
Ehab Meselhe
, Associate Professor, Civil Engineering , The University of Louisiana at Lafayette , N/A , USA Dissertation Title: "Simulation of Unsteady Flow in Irrigation Canals with Dry Bed"
Joel Walter
, Aerodynamic/Mechanical Engineer and Project Manage , Sverdrup Technologies , Novi , USA Dissertation Title: "Development of Quantitative Velocity Imaging System and Its Application to Offset Channel Flow"
1988
Juliet Chon Dissertation Title: "A Numerical Study of Flow Over Wavy Walls"
Alex Guetter Dissertation Title: "An Analytical Solution for Straified Flows Induced by Settling Solids"
Roger Lehman Dissertation Title: "Calibration and Adaptation of Iowa Rapid Sediment Analyzer to an IBM Compatible Microcomputer"
Michael Brown Dissertation Title: "Experimental Investigation of the Interaction Between a Longitudinal Vortex and a Turbulent Boundary Layer"
Patrick Sauvaget Dissertation Title: "A Numerical Model for Stratified Flows in Estuaries and Reservoirs"
Ping-Ho Tsai Dissertation Title: "Turbulent Flow in a Curved Streamwise Corner"
Yeu-Pin Yeh Dissertation Title: "Finite Analytic Numerical Solution of Laminar Flow in Curved Ducts"
1984
Krishnaprasad Kalale Dissertation Title: "Developnment of a Heat-Tagging Technique for the Study of Large-Scale Mixing in a Developing Two-Dimensional Wake"
Dharmvir Krishan Dissertation Title: "Shallow Flows Over Large Roughness Elements"
Mohamad Shiekholeslami Dissertation Title: "Application of Finite Analytic Method to the Numerical Solution of Two-Point Boundary Value Problems of Ordinary Differential Equations"
Gene Whelan Dissertation Title: "Distributed Model for Sediment"
Edward Fischer Dissertation Title: "Scour Around Bridge Piers at High Flow Velocities"
George Gay Dissertation Title: "Model Study of the Quad-Cities Nuclear Power Plant Intake Structure"
Hiroyuki Haniu Dissertation Title: "An Experimental Study of Two-Dimensional Buoyant Jets in Cross-Flow"
Long-Cheng Huang Dissertation Title: "An Analytical and Experimental Study of Multiple Plumes"
Yih-Fey Lee Dissertation Title: "Meandering of Supraglacial Channels"
John Vadnal
, Associate Dean, School of Eng & Computational Sci , Liberty University , Lynchburg , USA Dissertation Title: "Field Study of Sediment Transport Characteristics in the Mississippi River Near Buzzard Island"
Robert Woodhouse Dissertation Title: "Evaluation of Thermal Standards on the Missouri and Upper Mississippi Rivers"
King Chang Dissertation Title: "Investigation of Fluid Motion in a Recoil Mechanism"
Bih-Ling Chen Dissertation Title: "Daily Streamflow Time Series Analysis"
Titus Keng Dissertation Title: "Thermal IRegimes of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Downstream from the Southerns Iowa Border"
Shyi-Jang Lin Dissertation Title: "Instability of Two Dimensional Incompressible Parallel Turbulent Shear Flow"
Bruce McEnroe Dissertation Title: "Two-Dimensional Heated Jet in Shallow Stagnant Water"
Constantinos Nikitopoulos Dissertation Title: "Buoyancy Effects in the Zone of Flow Establishment of Round Vertical Buoyant Jets Discharged into a Stagnant Environment"
Gang Song Dissertation Title: "Sediment Transport and Bed Forms Under Ice Covers"
Kuchibhotla Rao Dissertation Title: "Stochastic Trade-Offs for Reservoir Operation"
Tzuu Po Wang Dissertation Title: "Thickness of Ice Jam Due to Accumulation and Submergence of Ice Floes"
Chun-Yen Wu Dissertation Title: "An Experimental Investigation of Flexural Strength of Ice"
1975
Vaiyapuri Danushkodi Dissertation Title: "An Experimental Investigation of the Turbulent Structure of Sediment Suspensions"
Nuray Denli Dissertation Title: "An Analytical Model of Flow Induced by Longitudinal Contractions in the Small Intestine"
Yu-Tai Lee Dissertation Title: "Two Blockage-Effect Studies: Wind Tunnel Measurements on a Prolate Spheriod and Mathematical Model of the Flow About a Normal Flat Plate with Separation"
Miguel Moreno Dissertation Title: "Experimental Study of the Influence of the Wake on the Wavemaking Resistance of a Ship Model"
Mehmet Uzuner Dissertation Title: "Stability of Floating Ice Blocks"
1970
Oktay Guven Dissertation Title: "On the Measurement of the Total Resistance and the Viscous Resistance of a Submerged Spheriod"
Julian Shyr Dissertation Title: "Laminar Flow Through Orifices Onto Filaments"
1969
Julian Aguirre-Pe Dissertation Title: "Confined Flows of Homogeneous and Stratified Fluids Induced by a Rotating Disk"
V.S. Annambhotla Dissertation Title: "Statistical Properties of Bed Forms in Alluvial Channels in Relation to Flow Resistance"
Yung-Chi Chang Dissertation Title: "Spectral Analysis of Pressure and Velocity Fluctutions in a Submerged-Jet Scour Model"
Jose Ortega-Luevano Dissertation Title: "Characteristics of a Turbulent Round Jet in a Coaxial Stream"
1968
I-Ming Cheng Dissertation Title: "Boundary Layer Effects on the Pressure Distribution of a Hangar-Type Building"
Ting Hung Dissertation Title: "Effect of High-Polymer Additives in Water on Characteristics of Turbulent Flow in Pipes and Along a Flat Plate"
Federico Lovera-Vegas Dissertation Title: "Friction Factors for Flat-Bed Flows in Alluvial Channels"
Satyesh Nanda Dissertation Title: "Evaluation of Polyurethane Coated Wires for Hot-Wire Anemometry"
1967
Carlos Alonso Dissertation Title: "Effects of Curvilinearity on Stratified Flows"
Tommy Camarillo Dissertation Title: "Comparison of Peak Discharge From Rainfall and From Combined Rainfall and Snow Melt"
Yih-Shung Chen Dissertation Title: "Effects of Confining Walls on the Periodic Wake of Ninety Degree Wedges"
Yen-Hsi Chu Dissertation Title: "Pressure Fluctuations in a Cavitating Flow Past a Wall"
Lewis Hulman Dissertation Title: "Erosion of Riprapped Embankments by Oblique Waves"
Brasil Machado Dissertation Title: "Some Considerations on the Three-Dimensional Aspects of Fully Developed Turbulent Flow in an Open Channel of Circular-Segment"
Subhash Mehrotra Dissertation Title: "Scale Effects in Model Tests of Rock-Protected Structures"
Jurgen Richter Dissertation Title: "Effect of Solutions of Guar-Gum in Water on Shear Stress and Velocity Distribution in Flow Through a Pipe"
Chun-Yo Shen Dissertation Title: "The Use of Probability and Statistics in Prediction of Runoff Frequency Based on Precipitation and Infiltration Frequencies"
Daniel Rueda-Briceno Dissertation Title: "Pressure Conditions at the Outlet of a Pipe"
Go Shieh Dissertation Title: "Aeration Demand of a Sharp-Crested Weir"
Alberto Val Dissertation Title: "Evaluation of the Storage Factor for Flood Routing in Natural Channels"
1953
Clark DeHaven Dissertation Title: "Drag Test on Cylinders Aranged in a Straight Grid"
Rasin Etiman Dissertation Title: "Efficiency of Short Sand Traps"
William Hall Dissertation Title: "The Study of the Price Current Meter in Low Velocity Flow"
Arthur Johnston Dissertation Title: "An Exploratory Study of Vortex Rings"
Leoncio Roda Dissertation Title: "An Experimental Study of Energy Dissipators for Culvert Outlets"
John Rogers Dissertation Title: "Initial Bed-Load Movement Caused by a System of Periodic Standing Waves"
John Sheppard Dissertation Title: "Effect of the Reduction of Stilling Basin Sidewalls on Tailwater Elevations in the Basin"
Harold Vallentine Dissertation Title: "Transportation of Sand in a Pipe"
Cay Weinel, Jr. Dissertation Title: "Exploratory Study of the Measurement of the Suspended Sediment Characteristics by Sonic Means"
1952
Henry Manamperi Dissertation Title: "Tests of Graded Riprap for Protection of Erosible Material"
Arthur Toch Dissertation Title: "The Effect of Lip Angle Upon Flow Under a Tainter Gate"
Richard Warnock Dissertation Title: "A Study of the Relationship Between Watershed Characteristics and Distribution Graph Properties"
John Whitehouse Dissertation Title: "An Investigation into the Point of Incipient Cavitation of Submerged Jets"
1951
Carlos Acosta-Sierra Dissertation Title: "Experimental Investigation of the Discharge Coefficient for a Rectangular Side Weir"
Aly Baligh Dissertation Title: "The Effect of Sand-Trap Proportions on the Efficiency of Operation"
Jose DeAbreu Dissertation Title: "Protection of Earth Embankments by Riprap of Uniform Size"
William Morgan Dissertation Title: "Protection of Earth Embankments by Riprap of Uniform Size"
Stavros Nicolau Dissertation Title: "Effect of the Submergence of the Stilling Basin Sidewalls on the Hydraulic Jump"
Douglas Schneible Dissertation Title: "An Investigation of the Effect of Bridge-Pier Shape on the Relative Depth of Scour"
Adolfo Yanes Dissertation Title: "Studies of Multiple Laterals in Manifold Flow"
1950
Raj Bammi Dissertation Title: "Mutual Influence of Two Freely Falling Spheerical Particles and the Effects of a Plane Vertical Boundary on a Single Spherical Particle"
Michael Bar-Shany Dissertation Title: "Pressure Distribution on the Downstream Face of a Submerged Weir"
Peter Bernsten Dissertation Title: "A Direct Potical Method for Measuring Fluid Velocities in Laminar Flow"
Harold Henry Dissertation Title: "A Study of Flow From a Submerged Sluice Gate"
Harold Humphreys Dissertation Title: "Gravitational Convection from Line Sources"
Charles Lewald Dissertation Title: "Minimum Expected Yield from Small Watersheds Using Synthetic Meterological Years"
John Newlin Dissertation Title: "Effect of a Cylindrical Boundary on the Drag of Spheres"
Cezar Nuguid Dissertation Title: "A Study of Meanders"
Ellis Pickett Dissertation Title: "A Direct Optical Method for Measuring Fluid Velocities in Laminar Flow"
Shri Himansu Pramanik Dissertation Title: "Effect of Shape of Particles on Their Setting Velocities-Triaxial Particles"
Robert Shirley Dissertation Title: "Entrainment of Air by Liquid Jets"
Tien-To Siao Dissertation Title: "Drag Coefficients of Multiple Plates as a Function of Solidity Ratio"
Yu-Cheh Soong Dissertation Title: "Influence of the Location of Storm Runoff on Shape of the Unit Hydrograph"
1949
David Appel Dissertation Title: "The Development of a Turbulence Pitot for Use in Water"
Philip Hubbard Dissertation Title: "A Constant-Temperature Hot-Wire Anemometer for the Measurement of Turbulence in Air"
Russell Kennedy Dissertation Title: "Experimental Investigations of the Discharge Coefficient for a Rectangular Side Weir"
Hsin-Kuan Liu Dissertation Title: "Diffusion of Flow From a Submerged Sluice Gate"
Aristokli Spengo Dissertation Title: "Cavitation and Pressure Distribution at Gate Slots"
1948
W. Baines Dissertation Title: "Investigations in the Diffusion of Submerged Jets"
Ning Chien Dissertation Title: "Pressure Distribution on Models of Three-Dimensional Buildings Exposed to Moving Air"
Hari Chowdhary Dissertation Title: "Tests on Morning-Glory Type of Siphon-Spillway"
Selahattin Engez Dissertation Title: "An Extension of the Study of Boundary Influence on the Fall Velocity of Spheres"
Yin Feng Dissertation Title: "Pressure Distribution on Models of Three-Dimensionall Buildings Exposed to Moving Air"
Donald Metzler Dissertation Title: "A Model Study of Tainter-Gate Operation"
Hector Moreno-Gomez Dissertation Title: "A Study of Flow Over Lateral Spillways"
Julio Oscobar Dissertation Title: "Studies of Manifold Flow"
Elmo Peterson Dissertation Title: "An Invetigation of the Aerodymanic Stability of Bridge Sections"
Robert Smith Dissertation Title: "A Study of Concentration Time on Ralston Creek Watershed"
Hung-Ju Wang Dissertation Title: "Pressure Distribution on Models of Three-Dimensional Buildings Exposed to Moving Air"
Edward Pretious Dissertation Title: "Discharge Coefficients for Non-Submergible Tainter Gates"
Fa Yao Wong Dissertation Title: "Chinese River Control During the 16th Century"
1938
John Bogardi Dissertation Title: "Traction of Pebbles by Flowing Water"
Ross Brudenell Dissertation Title: "The Hydraulics of Tainter Gates"
Tsze-Ting Cheng Dissertation Title: "Water Requirements for Rice Irrigation"
Edwin Eden, Jr. Dissertation Title: "A Study of Bed Movement and Hydraulic Roughness Changes in the Lower Mississippi River"
Hung-Chi Lay Dissertation Title: "A Digest of the English Literature of Flood Waves"
Clifford Morgan Dissertation Title: "Hydraulic Studies of a Model of the University Dam at Iowa City"
Clifford Pien Dissertation Title: "Water Requirements for Rice Irrigation"
Chen-Hsing Yen Dissertation Title: "Traction of Pebbles by Flowing Water"
1937
Cecil Camp Dissertation Title: "Determination of Shape of Nappe and Coefficient of Discharge of a Vertical Sharp-Crested Weir, Circular in Plan, with Radially Inward Flow"
Hsi-Hou Chang Dissertation Title: "Tests of Model Flaring Draft Tube with Conical Inserts"
Arthur Frye, Jr. Dissertation Title: "Scour Below a Model Dam with Shallow Backwater"
Carl Kindsvater Dissertation Title: "Hydraulic Jump in Enclosed Conduits"
James Lang Dissertation Title: "A Slope Ratio Study of a Movable Bed River Model"
K.W. Liu Dissertation Title: "A Study of Piping Action Below Masonry Dams on Earth Foundations by Electric Analogy"
John McNown Dissertation Title: "A Model Study of the Ralston Creek Control"
Clarence Morang Dissertation Title: "The Effect of Symmetrical and Unsymmetrical Roller Gate Operation on Discharge Coefficients"
Jung-Ko Peng Dissertation Title: "Determination of the Coefficient of Discharge of a Tainter Gate Over a Horizontal Sill"
Phillip Stein Dissertation Title: "The Effect of Scale Ratio on Scour in Model Stilling Pools"
Edward Van Driest Dissertation Title: "The Control of Silt Depostis Near Condenser Intakes at a Steam Power Plant"
Marvin Webster Dissertation Title: "Investigation of Hydraulic Characteristics of Inflow and Outflow Conduits of Inland Waterway Locks"
Charles Willey Dissertation Title: "Hydrological Phases of Water Development on the Upper Des Moines River"
1936
George Beeler Dissertation Title: "The Hydraulics of the Curtis Bend of the Iowa River"
Hoy Davis Dissertation Title: "Coefficients of Discharge of Tainter Gates"
William Smith Dissertation Title: "The Hydraulics of the Curtis Bend of the Iowa River"
1935
Archie Carter Dissertation Title: "Transportation of the Bottom Load in an Open Channel"
Charles Kinney Dissertation Title: "Stilling Pools for Spillways"
Te-Yun Liu Dissertation Title: "Transportation of the Bottom Load in an Open Channel"
Herrol Skidmore Dissertation Title: "A Laboratory Investigation of Overflow Sections with Sand Core"
Horace Sykes Dissertation Title: "The Solution of Certain Two-Dimensional Flow Problems by Means of an Electrical Analogy"
Tsung-Pei Tsui Dissertation Title: "A Laboratory Study of Ground Water Profiles"
Chih-Chao Wang Dissertation Title: "A Laboratory Study of the Flow of Water Through Granular Material"
1934
Thomas Adcock Dissertation Title: "Channel Strightening by Cut-offs With Special Reference to the Mississippi River"
Orval Baldwin Dissertation Title: "History of the Art of Building Earth Dams"
John Cassidy Dissertation Title: "A Comparison of the European and American Methods of Towing Barge Fleets"
Richard Jewett Dissertation Title: "Capillary Flow Through Sand Dams"
Edward Soucek Dissertation Title: "A Study of the Use of Bernoulli's Theroem"
1933
Frank Blue, Jr. Dissertation Title: "An Investigation of the Flow Around River Bend"
Henry Evans Dissertation Title: "Investigation of Side-Contraction Meter"
James Herbert Dissertation Title: "An Investigation of the Flow Around a River Bend"
Chitty Ho Dissertation Title: "Determination of Bottom Velocity Necessary to Start Erosion in Sand"
Roland Kampmeier Dissertation Title: "A Critical Analysis of Grove Karl Gilbert's "The Transportation of Debris by Running Water""
Philip Kromer, Jr. Dissertation Title: "Stress Analysis in a Roller Gate Dam, No. 15, Mississippi River"
Frank Kulas Dissertation Title: "An Investigation of the Characteristics of a Jet Pitot Tube"
R.L. Lancefield Dissertation Title: "An Investigation of the Flow Around a River Bend"
Andreas Luksch Dissertation Title: "An Experimental Study of the Most Favorable Distance of a Water Turbine Draft Tube from the Tail Race Floor"
Geroge Marston Dissertation Title: "Sedimentation in Southern Iowa Reservoirs"
Robert Vierck Dissertation Title: "A Study of Certain Analogies in the Fields of Dynamics and Elasticity"
Frederick Witzigman Dissertation Title: "Lateral Dispersion of Spillway Discharge"
1932
Tevfik Fikret Dissertation Title: "The Causes of Failure of Gravity Masonry Dams"
Quentin Graves Dissertation Title: "A Study of Sedimentation at the University Water Treatment Plant"
Sudhendu Guha Dissertation Title: "Discharge Coefficients of Tainter Gates"
Charles Mockmore Dissertation Title: "Flow in Bends of Quarter-Tum Draft Tubes"
Charles Mullinex Dissertation Title: "A Study of the Characteristics of Sewage Flow of West Iowa City"
R.F. Poston Dissertation Title: "An Investigation of the Side-Contraction Meter"
1931
Donald Curtis Dissertation Title: "Loss of Energy in the Gradual Expansion of an Open Channel"
Karl Jetter Dissertation Title: "Tests on Sand Dikes Protected Against Erosion by Overflowing Water"
Nolan Page Dissertation Title: "Pressure and Velocity Conditions at a Conduit Outlet"
Mon Tom Dissertation Title: "An Investigation of theCauses for Variation in the Discharge Coefficients of Triangular Weirs"
1930
Frank Edwards Dissertation Title: "Model Study of Sediment Removal at Gays Mills Hydro-Electric Plant, Wisconsin"
Herbert Howe Dissertation Title: "Measurement of Pressure in the Interior of Pipes"
James Reeves Dissertation Title: "Flood Control of Mill Creek, Milan, Illinois"
C. Stanley Dissertation Title: "Study of Stilling Basin Design"
1929
Harold Cox Dissertation Title: "Infiltration of Water in Some Iowa Soils"
