Troian, Sandra M.

Committee Member — 16 thesises

• Peng, Jifeng — A Lagrangian Approach to Transport of Momentum and Biomass in Aquatic Biological Systems (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nicolov, André — A Song of Ice and Plasma: The Formation and Behavior of Ice-Dusty Plasmas, from the Laboratory to the Edge of the Universe (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhou, Chengzhe — Collection of Solved Nonlinear Problems for Remote Shaping and Patterning of Liquid Structures on Flat and Curved Substrates by Electric and Thermal Fields (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Learsch, Robert Whitson — Droplet Control in Aqueous and Hydrocarbon Fluids: Long, End-Associative Polymers Dictate Fluid Behavior Under Elongational Flows (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Haw, Magnus Albert — Experimental and Numerical Studies of Cavities, Flows, and Waves in Arched Flux Ropes (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhou, Yi — Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Unstable Dynamics of Caltech’s Plasma Jet: X-Rays, Ultraviolet, and Visible Light (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sansom, Elijah Bodhi — Experimental Investigation on Patterning of Anchored and Unanchored Aligned Carbon Nanotube Mats by Fluid Immersion and Evaporation (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fiedler, Kevin Robert — Fundamentals of Thermocapillary Sculpting of Liquid Nanofilms and Applications to Thin Film Micro-Optics (2017, 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.))
• Heng, Xin — Optofluidic Microscopy: Technology Development and Its Applications in Biology (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Im, Cheolmin — Simulation of Electrohydrodynamic Distortion Relevant to Liquid Metal Ion Sources (2025, 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.))
• Kaifu, Hiroki — Structural and Dynamical Correlations Linked to Smaller Thermal Resistance at a Classical Liquid/Solid Interface (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chang, Yi Hua — Studies of the Evolution and Stability of the Thin Film Equation for Externally Modulated Control of Electrohydrodynamic and Thermocapillary Patterning (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nicolaou, Zachary George — Symmetry and Variational Analyses of Fluid Interface Equations in the Thin Film Limit (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rosenberg, Robert Alan — The Impact of Surface Chemistry on Photoelectrochemical Device Characteristics (2011, Senior thesis (Major))