Theses & Dissertations

PhD

Guangyu Bao: Fabrication, surface interactions, and implantations of multiphase hydrogels

Qiman Gao: Needle-free liquid jet injection for dental anesthesia

Master's

Nasibeh Mirvakali: Cell Migration through porous and non-porous hydrogel

PhD

Hossein Ravanbakhsh Habibabadi: Design and fabrication of hydrogels for tissue engineering applications

Master's

Anna Henley: Mechanics of needle-free drug delivery

PhD

Mostafa Najafiyazdi: Large-Eddy simulations on unstructured grids using explicit differential filters in approximate deconvolution models

Master's

Nicolas Poirier: Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics using the variational quantum eigensolver

Paria Makaremi-Esfarjani: Characteristic boundary conditions for magnetohydrodynamics equations

Rayane Ait Oubahou: Investigation of Explicit Filtering Strategies for the Lattice Boltzmann Method

PhD

Farshad Navah: Development, verification and validation of high-order methods for the simulation of turbulence

Kaveh Habibi: Numerical simulations of sound generation from jet flows through orifices and lobed mixers

Xianke Dong: Robotic micromanipulation of the nematode worm «Caenorhabditis Elegans»

Zhengdong Lei: Voice detection and pattern recognition using neck skin vibration signals

Master's

Alicia Reyes: In vitro analysis of polymeric microspheres containing human vocal fold fibroblasts for regeneration of vocal fold lamina propria

Mika Brown: Decellularized extracellular matrix (dECM) microparticle based hydrogels for vocal fold tissue engineering

Pooya Tavakoli Saberi: Inverse poroelastic model of human vocal folds tissue

Sarah Bouhabel: Functional outcomes of injectable substances on surgically injured rabbit vocal folds: a comparative study

PhD

Neda Latifi Alavijeh: Nano-fibrillar hybrid biomaterials and phono-mimetic perfusion bioreactor for vocal fold tissue engineering Public Deposited

Master's

Aman Garg: Computational agent-based modeling of surgical vocal fold injury and repair

Caroline Shung: Agent based model of hyaluronic acid-gelatin tissue scaffold for vocal fold regeneration

Lei Xi Chen: Adhesive strength and cytotoxicity of surgical adhesives for vocal fold wound closure

Mahmoud Alreefi: The development and validation of a synthetic septoplasty surgical training model

Marius Müller: Rayleigh wave method for measuring the frequency-dependent shear modulus of soft biomaterials

PhD

Reza Lotfalian: Reliability-Based Life-Cycle Cost Analysis of Engineering Elements and Systems

Ying Yu Su: An experimental study of flapping flight through imposed motion on a symmetric airfoil

Master's

Vahid Noohi: Fabrication and characterization of single-strand chitosan fibers for chitosan hydrogel scaffolds

PhD

Meisam Asgari: Modeling and analysis of self-assembled hierarchical nano-structures: Wormlike micelles, toroidal bundles, open lipid bilayers, and collagen fibrils

Master's

Yazeed Alghonaim: An in vivo study of a novel composite hyaluronic acid and gelatin hydrogel to improve healing of vocal fold scars in a rat model

PhD

Ahmad Jamal: Three-dimensional nonlinear dynamics of cantilevered cylinders in axial flow

Shahin Amiri: Heat transfer characteristics of heat exchanger elements in acoustic standing waves

Siavash Kazemirad: Wave propagation methods for the experimental characterization of soft biomaterials and tissues

Yasser Rafat: Experimental and numerical study of acoustic streaming with applications in thermoacoustic refrigerator

Master's

Daniel Armstrong:Towards the design of low-noise aircraft landing gears using the lattice Boltzmann method

PhD

Amir Kamal Miri Ramsheh: Mechanical characterization of vocal folds using a multiscale study

Hani Bakhshaee Computational models of human and animal larynx and vocal folds

Hossein Khadivi Heris: Investigation of a hyaluronic acid-gelatin crosslinked microgel-hydrogel extracellular matrix for superficial lamina propria restoration in scarred vocal folds

Master's

Hao Gong: Numerical study of jet noise generated by turbofan engine nozzles equipped with internal forced lobed mixers using the lattice boltzmann method

PhD

Alireza Najafi-Yazdi: Large Eddy Simulation of Sound Generation by Turbulent Reacting and Nonreacting Shear Flows

Master's

Alfred Chan: Vocal fold vibration measurements using laser Doppler vibrometry

Jonathan Young: Determination of impact stress on the superior surface of Ex-vivo porcine vocal folds using digital image correlation

Master's

Nathalie Bufi: Identification of soft tissue material constants using tailored finite element model based regressions"

Jennifer Robb: Study of impact stress in physical models and human vocal folds from high-speed video

Master's

Shuangdong Wang: Simulation and analysis of water transport from the human larynx during speech production"