Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1970. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1967. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--University of Wisconsin--Madison. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 170-178).

Inaug.-diss.--Marburg, 1912. / Lebenslauf.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1958. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 133-134).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brown University, 2005. / Vita. Thesis advisor: Yan Guo. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 196-200). Also available online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1916. / "Private Edition, Distributed by the University of Chicago Libraries, Chicago, Illinois." "Reprinted from the Physical Review, N.S., Vol. X, No. 4, October 1917." Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Phase change phenomena have been of interest mainly due to large latent heats associated with the phase transition and independency on external energy to drive the phase change process. When combined with micro/nano structures, phase change systems become a promising approach to address challenges in high heat flux thermal management. The objective of this thesis is to implement micro and nano structured surfaces for better understanding the underlying fundamentals of evaporation and boiling phase change heat transfer and enhancing the heat transfer performance. First, we study single bubble dynamics on superheated superhydrophobic (SHB) surfaces and the corresponding heat transfer mechanism of water pool boiling. Because of the large contact angle, such surfaces are ideal for correlating pool boiling with single bubble dynamics by accurately controlling the number of nucleation sites in a defined area. The fundamental parameters of single bubble dynamics are collected and put into the heat flux partitioning model. We find that latent heat transport and bulk liquid water convection contribute together to the heat removal on superhydrophobic surfaces. Next, we present a novel method to fabricate silicon nanowires by one-step metal assisted chemical etching (MACE) on micro-structured surfaces with desired morphologies. Patterned vertically aligned silicon nanowires are fabricated on dense cavity/pillar arrays due to trapped hydrogen bubbles serving as an etching mask. Uniformly grown silicon nanowires on structured surfaces can be fabricated if extra energy is introduced to remove the trapped bubbles. An enhanced pool boiling heat transfer performance on such structured surfaces is demonstrated. Finally, we study the ultimate limits of water evaporation in single 2D nanochannels and 1D nanopores. These ultimate transport limits are determined by the maximum evaporation fluxes that liquid/vapor interfaces can provide regardless of liquid supply or vapor removal rates. A hybrid nanochannel design is utilized to provide sufficient liquid supply to the evaporating meniscus and evaporated vapor is efficiently removed by air jet impingement or a vacuum pump. The effect of nanoscale confinement on evaporation flux has been investigated, with feature size ranging from 16 nm to 310 nm. An ultra-high heat flux of 8500 W/cm2 is demonstrated in a single 16-nm nanochannel at 40 °C. / 2017-09-09T00:00:00Z

This study entails an investigation of a novel moment closure, originally constructed for rarefied-gas prediction, to the modelling of inert, dilute, disperse, particle flows. Such flows are important in many engineering situations. As one example, in internal-combustion engines, fuel is often injected as a spray of tiny droplets and, during combustion, a cloud of tiny soot particles can be formed. These particle phases are often difficult to model, especially when particles display a range of velocities at each location in space. Lagrangian methods are often too costly and many Eulerian field-based methods suffer from model deficiencies and mathematical artifacts. Often, Eulerian formulations assume that all particles at a location and time have the same velocity. This assumption leads to nonphysical results, including an inability to predict particle paths crossing and a limited number of boundary conditions that can be applied. The typical multi-phase situation of many particles is, in many ways, similar to that of a gas compressed of a huge number of atoms or molecules. It is therefore expected that powerful techniques from the kinetic theory of gases could be applied. This work explores the advantages of using a modern fourteen-moment model, originally derived for rarefied gases, to predict multi-phase flows. Details regarding the derivation, the mathematical structure, and physical behaviour of the resulting model are explained. Finally, a numerical implementation is presented and results for several flow problems that are designed to demonstrate the fundamental behaviour of the models are presented. Comparisons are made with other classical models.

Bibliography: pages 131-140. / Kinetic Family Drawings (KFDs) are Projective drawings which require the drawer to give 'action' to the depicted figures. A number of studies have been conducted following its inception in 1970. (Burns & Kaufman, 1970; 1972). Upon examination of these studies, however, it is evident that those studies pertaining to aspects of family functioning obtained significant results to a greater degree. It was the contention of the present study, that the KFD may be measuring aspects of family functioning. The present study thus incorporated a measure of family functioning, the McMaster Family Assessment Device (FAD) (Epstein, Baldwin & Bishop, 1983), to assess whether KFD depictions were indices of family functioning. The results were obtained through KFDs of 96 individuals who constituted 24 families. These individuals consisted of (n=48) parents and (n=48) adolescents. Due to constraints of research design, there were unequal numbers of males and females i.e. 38 males and 58 females.