Polk, James E.

Committee Member — 13 thesises

• Duchemin, Olivier Bernard — An investigation of ion engine erosion by low energy sputtering (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wintenberger, Eric — Application of Steady and Unsteady Detonation Waves to Propulsion (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Moeller, Robert Carlos — Current Transport and Onset-Related Phenomena in an MPD Thruster Modified by Applied Magnetic Fields (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wirz, Richard Edward — Discharge Plasma Processes of Ring-Cusp Ion Thrusters (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yun, Gunsu Soonshin — Dynamics of Plasma Structures Interacting with External and Self-Generated Magnetic Fields (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Perkins, Rory James — Experimental and Analytical Studies of Merging Plasma Loops on the Caltech Solar Loop Experiment (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kolasinski, Robert David — Fundamental Ion-Surface Interactions in Plasma Thrusters (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• White, Nicholas Conlan — Nonlinear Dynamics and Stability of Viscous Free-Surface Microcapillary Flows in V-Shaped Channels and on Curved Surfaces (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ha, Quoc Bao Nguyen — Plasma Loop and Strapping Field Dynamics: Reproducing Solar Eruptions in the Laboratory (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Guerrero Vela, Pedro Pablo — Plasma Surface Interactions in LaB₆ Hollow Cathodes with Internal Xe Gas Discharge (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Capece, Angela Maria — Plasma-Surface Interactions in Hollow Cathode Discharges for Electric Propulsion (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Albertson, Theodore Glenn — Simulations of Conic Cusp Formation, Growth, and Instability in Electrified Viscous Liquid Metals on Flat and Curved Surfaces (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yanes, Nelson Javier — Ultraviolet Radiation of Hypervelocity Stagnation Flows and Shock/Boundary-Layer Interactions (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))