Defenses at the Mechanics Department



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Doctoral defenses

Doctoral defenses sorted by year. Follow each link for more information.

2019

Name	Title
Marcus Winroth
Lukas Schickhofer	Modelling the Production and Propagation of Sound in Individual Human Vocal Tracts

2018

Name	Title
Jacopo Canton
Clio Saglietti
S Sembian
Zeinab Moradi Nour	Numerical study of dynamics of mass-emitting particles in multi-phase flow

2017

Name	Title
Walter Fornari	Suspensions of finite-size rigid particles in laminar and turbulent flows
Mattias Brynjell-Rahkola	Studies on instability and optimal forcing of incompressible flows
Elias Sundström	Flow instabilities in centrifugal compressors at low mass flow rate
Marco Ferro	Experimental study on turbulent boundary-layer flows with wall transpiration
Tímea Kékesi	Scenarios of drop deformation and breakup in sprays
Julie Vernet	Plasma actuators for separation control on bluff bodies
Ellinor Appelquist	The rotating-disk boundary-layer flow studied through numerical simulations

2016

Name	Title
Ramin Imani Jajarmi	Acoustic separation and electrostatic sampling of submicron particles suspended in air
Nima Shahriari	On stability and receptivity of boundary-layer flows
Ugis Lacis	Models of porous, elastic and rigid materials in moving fluids
Tomas Rosén	Angular dynamics of non-spherical particles in linear flows related to production of biobased materials
Amit Patil	Inflation and Instabilities of Hyperelastic Membranes
Nicolò Fabbiane	Transition delay in boundary-layer flows via reactive control
Alexander Nygård	Investigation of jet pulsation effects on near-nozzle mixing and entrainment
Taras Khapko	Edge states and transition to turbulence in boundary layers
Nasseradeen Ashwear	Vibration-based Assessment of Tensegrity Structures
Yuli Wang	Capillarity and wetting of non-Newtonian droplets
Renzo Trip	Shedding light on the bluff body wake instability
Daniel Albernaz	Phase change, surface tension and turbulence in real fluids
Igor Grigoriev	Turbulence modeling of compressible flows with large density variation
Sohrab S. Sattarzadeh	Boundary layer streaks as a novel laminar flow control method

2015

Name	Title
Iman Lashgari	Stability analysis and inertial regimes in complex flows
Mohammad Hosseini	On stability, transition and turbulence in three-dimensional boundary-layer flows
Azad Noorani	Particle-laden Turbulent Wall-bounded Flows in Moderately Complex Geometries
Werner Lazeroms	Turbulence modelling applied to the atmospheric boundary layer
Karl Nilsson	Numerical computations of wind turbine wakes and wake interaction
Martin Söder	Creation and destruction of in-cylinder flows; Large eddy simulations of the intake and the compression strokes
Zeinab Pouransari	Numerical studies of turbulent flames in wall-jet flows
Shintaro Imayama	Studies of the rotating-disk boundary-layer flow

2014

Name	Title
Bernhard Semlitsch	Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Compressible Jets
Sasan Sarmast	Numerical study on instability and interaction of wind turbine wakes
Mathias Kvick	Transitional and turbulent fibre suspension flows
Johan Fjällman	Large Eddy Simulations of Complex Flows in IC-Engine's Exhaust Manifold and Turbine
Markus Pastuhoff	Measuring with pressure sensitive paint in time-varying flows
Karl Håkansson	Orientation of elongated, macro and nano-sized particles in macroscopic flows
Athanasia Kalpakli Vester	Vortices in turbulent curved pipe flow—rocking, rolling and pulsating motions
Reza Dadfar	Flow control and reduced-order modelling of transition in shear flows
Abdul Malik Tahir	Alloy element redistribution during sintering of powder metallurgy steels.
Ylva Odemark	Wind-turbine wake flows - Effects of boundary layers and periodic disturbances
Lailai Zhu	Simulation of individual cells in flow
Peter Lenaers	A new high-order method for direct numerical simulations of turbulent wall-bounded flows
Amin Rasam	Anisotropy-resolving subgrid-scale modelling using explicit algebraic closures for large eddy simulation
Feng Zhang	Instability in Settling Fibres: A Numerical Study
Enrico Deusebio	Numerical studies in rotating and stratified turbulence

2013

Name	Title
Stevin van Wyk	Blood Flow variations in Large Arteries due to non-Newtonian rheology
Yue Wang	Numerical Studies of Flow and Associated Losses in the Exhaust Port of a Diesel Engine
Joy Klinkenberg	Transition in Particle-laden Flows
Krishnagoud Manda	Mechanics and growth of articular cartilage around a localized metal implant
Shahab Shahinfar	An experimental study on streamwise streaks in transitional boundary layers
Amer Malik	Phase change with stress effects and flow
Onofrio Semeraro	Active Control and Modal Structures in Transitional Shear Flows
Alexander Sakowitz
Olle Bodin	Simulations of compressible flows associated with internal combustion engines

2012

Name	Title
Seif Dalil Safaei
Fredrik Laurantzon	Flow measurements related to gas exchange applications
Natalia Kosterina	Modelling of muscular force induced by non-isometric contraction
Malte Kjellander	Energy concentration by converging shock waves in gases
Ruoli Wang	Biomechanical Consequences of Gait Impairment at the Ankle and Foot: Injury, Malalignment, and Co-contraction
Florian von Stillfried	Computational fluid-dynamics investigations of vortex generators for flow-separation control
Andreas Carlson	Capillarity and dynamic wetting

2011

Name	Title
Johan Malm	Spectral-element simulations of turbulent wall-bounded flows including transition and separation
David Tempelmann	Receptivity of crossflow-dominated boundary layers
Bengt Fallenius	Experimental design and vortex analyses in turbulent wake flows
Qiang Li	Direct and Large-eddy Simulations of Turbulent Boundary Layers with Heat Transfer
Outi Tammisola	Numerical stability studies of one-phase and immiscible two-phase jets and wakes
Antonios Monokrousos	Optimisation and control of shear flows
Gabriele Bellani

2010

Name	Title
Andreas Vallgren	Dynamic properties of two-dimensional and quasi-geostrophic turbulence
Lars-Uve Schrader	Receptivity of Boundary-Layer Flows over Flat and Curved Walls
Thomas Kurian	An experimental investigation of disturbance growth in boundary layer flows
Fredrik Hellström	Numerical computations of the unsteady flow in turbochargers
Tobias Strömgren	Model predictions of turbulent gas-particle shear flows
Lars Tysell	Hybrid grid generation for viscous flow computations around complex geometries
Shervin Bagheri	Analysis and control of transitional shear layers using global modes

2009

Name	Title
Ramis Örlü	Experimental studies in jet flows and zero pressure-gradient turbulent boundary layers
Allan Carlsson	Near wall fibre orientation in flowing suspensions
Ola Lögdberg	Turbulent boundary layer separation and control

2008

Name	Title
Mattias Gärdsback	Deployment Control of Spinning Space Webs and Membranes
Espen Åkervik	Global stability and feedback control of boundary layer flows
Linus Marstorp	Modelling of subgrid-scale stress and passive scalar flux in large eddy simulations of wall bounded turbulent flows
Yuan Lin	Modeling of dielectrophoresis in micro and nano systems
Marko Hyensjö	Fibre Orientation Modelling Applied to Contracting flows Related to Papermaking

2007

Name	Title
Daniel Ahlman	Numerical studies of turbulent wall-jets for mixing and combustion applications
Veronica Eliasson	On focusing of shock waves
Walter Villanueva	Diffuse-interface simulations of capillary phenomena

2006

Name	Title
Luca Facciolo	A study on axially rotating pipe and swirling jet flows
Olle Törnblom	Experimental and computational studies of turbulent separating internal flows
Astrid Herbst	Numerical studies of turbulent and separated flows
Carl-Ola Danielsson	Electropermutation Assisted by Ion-Exchange Textile - Removal of Nitrate from Drinking Water
Gustaf Mårtensson	Analysis of laminar and turbulent flows with turbomachinery, biotechnology and biomechanical applications
Jerome Hoepffner	Stability and control of shear flows subject to stochastic disturbances
Olof Grundestam	Modelling and simulation of turbulence subject to system rotation
Thomas Hällqvist	Large Eddy Simulation of Impinging Jets with Heat Transfer
Davide Medici	Experimental Studies of Wind Turbine Wakes - Power Optimisation and Meandering
Nulifer Ipek	Mathematical modelling and experimental studies of the electrolytic pickling of stainless steel

2005

Name	Title
Ori Levin	Numerical studies of transition in wall-bounded flows
Federica De Magistris	Wood fibre deformation in combined shear and compression
Olivier Macchion	CFD in the design of gas quenching furnace
Tom Wright	The linear and nonlinear biomechanics of the middle ear.
Anders Ahlström	Aeroelastic Simulation of Wind Turbine Dynamics
Claes Holmqvist	Mechanical Modelling of Blade Forming and Drainage of Flocculated Suspensions
Richard Holm	Fluid mechanics of fibre suspensions related to papermaking

2004

Name	Title
Johan Gullman-Strand	Turbulence and scalar flux modelling applied to separated flows
Minh Do-Quang	Parallel computations on fusion welding and floating zones
Mattias Chevalier	Feedback and Adjoint Based Control of Boundary Layer Flows
Arnim Brüger	A hybrid high order method for simulation of turbulent flow in complex geometries.
Jan Östlund	Supersonic flow separation with application to rocket engine nozzles
Erik Birgersson	Mathematical modelling of transport phenomena in polymer electrolyte and direct methanol fuel cells

2003

Name	Title
Jens Fransson	Flow control of boundary layers and wakes
Junichiro Shiomi	Control of oscillatory thermocapillary convection
Jan Eriksson	Experimental studies of the plane turbulent wall jet
Irina Loginova	Phase-field modeling of diffusion controlled phase transformations
Jan Pralits	Optimal Design of Natural and Hybrid Laminar Flow Control on Wings
Henrik Sandqvist	Theoretical studies of acoustic waves with consideration of nonlinearity, dispersion, dissipation and diffraction
Kristian P. Angele	Experimental studies of turbulent boundary layer separation and control
Karl Borg	Dynamics of bodies small compared to the mean free path
Luca Brandt	Numerical studies of bypass transition in the Blasius boundary layer
Fredrik Lundell	Experimental studies of bypass transition and its control

2002

Name	Title
Björn Lindgren	Flow facility design and experimental studies of wall-bounded turbulent shear-flows
Petri Piiroinen	Recurrent Dynamics of Nonsmooth Systems with Application to Human Gait
Gunnar Tibert	Deployable Tensegrity Structures for Space Applications
Jean-Marc Battini	Co-rotational beam elements in instability problems

2001

Name	Title
Markus Högberg	Optimal Control of Boundary Layer Transition
Ruben Wedin	Two-Phase Flows in Gas-Evolving Electrochemical Applications
Jesper Adolfsson	Passive Control of Mechanical Systems: Bipedal Walking and Autobalancing
Pedro Olivas	On the fluid mechanics of electrochemical coating and spray painting
Martin Skote	Studies of turbulent boundary layer flow through direct numerical simulation
Mehran Parsheh	Flow in contractions with application to headboxes

2000

Name	Title
Ola Widlund	Modeling of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
Jukka Komminaho	Direct numerical simulation of turbulent flow in plane and cylindrical geometries
Francois Gurniki	Turbulent Convective Mass Transfer in Electrochemical Systems
Christian Winkler	Thermocapillary convection in fusion welding and floatzones and the role of surfactants
Carl Häggmark	Investigations of disturbances developing in a laminar separation bubble flow.
Stefan Wallin	Engineering turbulence modelling for CFD with a focus on explicit algebraic Reynolds stress models
Koji Fukagata	Large Eddy Simulation of Particulate Turbulent Channel Flows
Jafar Mahmoudi

1999

Name	Title
Jens Österlund	Experimental studies of zero pressure-gradient turbulent boundary layer flow
Paul Andersson	Modelling of Boundary Layer Stability.
Krister Alvelius	Studies of turbulence and its modelling through large eddy- and direct numerical simulation.
Daniel Söderberg	Hydrodynamics of Plane Liquid Jets Aimed at Applications in Paper Manufacturing.
Anders Lennartsson	Efficient Multibody Dynamics.

1998

Name	Title
Robert Tönhardt	Convective effects on Dendritic solidification
Petra Wikström	Measurements, direct numerical simulation and modeling of passive scalar transport in turbulent flows
Mats Fredriksson	Topics in impacting system dynamics
Stellan Berlin	Oblique waves in boundary layer transition
Per Elofsson	Experiments on oblique transition in wall bounded shear flows

1997

Name	Title
Lars-Göran Sundström	Studies on mass transfer in electrochemical systems.
Sima Zahrai	On the fluid mechanics of twin-wire formers.
Torbjörn Sjögren	Development and calibration of turbulence models through experiment and compucation
Johan Westin	Laminar turbulent boundary layer transition influenced by free stream turbulenc
Magnus Olsson	Large eddy simulation of turbulent jets.

1996

Name	Title
Erik Lindborg	Studies in classical turbulence theory

1995

Name	Title
Ardeshir Hanifi	Local and Non-local Stability Analysis and Transition Prediction of Compressible Boundary Layer Flows.
Nils Tillmark	Experiments on transition and turbulence in plane couette flow.

1994

Name	Title
Claes Hedberg	Theoretical studies of nonlinear propagation of modulated harmonic sound waves
Mårten Levenstam	Thermocapilllary Convection in Floatzones.
Elna Holmberg	Evolution of Spherical Flames in Turbulence.
Bai Xue-Song	On the Modeling of Turbulent Combustion at Low Mach Numbers.

1993

Name	Title
John Matsson	Channel flow instabilities induced by curvature and rotation.
Anders Lundbladh	Simulation of bypass transition to turbulence in wall bounded shear flows.
Magnus Hallbäck	Development of Reynolds Stress Closures of Homogeneous Turbulence through Physical and Numerical Experiments.

1992

Name	Title
Arne Nordmark	Grazing Bifurcations in a Two Degree of Freedom Oscillator.
Jiyuan Tu	Three-dimensional overlapping grids and multigrid methods for flow calcuations in complex IC engine geometries.
Yohannes Ketema	Studies of bifurcations and chaos in engineering mechanics.
Yuguo Li	Simulation of flow and heat transfer in ventilated rooms.

1991

Name	Title
Barbro Klingmann	Laminar-turbulent transition in plane Poiseuille flow
Johan Groth	On the modelling of homogeneous turbulence.

1988

Name	Title
Dan Henningson	The development of localized disturbances in plane Poiseuille flow.
Ingemar Lindblad	Noise generation by rotors in the subsonic regime.
Per-Åke Lindberg	The effect of interaction between long and short waves on the growth of wind generated water waves.

1987

Name	Title
Shu-Ang Zhou	Material multipole mechanics of electromagnetoelastic solids with defects.

1985

Name	Title
Nicholas Apazidis	Some problems of stability and structure of two-phase flow.

1983

Name	Title
Göran Tolf	Mechanical macro- and microproperties of fibercomposites.
Claes Inge	Cavitation and bubble oscillations in dilute polymer solutions.
Peter Simonsson	The pinnate propeller.
John Stokes	Field equations for flow trough poroua media and their relation to the microstructure.
Lars Lindbeck	Biomechanical models of the human spine in equilibrium and leg under impact.

1982

Name	Title
Arne Johansson	An experimental study of the structure of turbulent channel flow.
Henrik Alfredsson	An experimental study of turbulent channel flow using conditional sampling methods.

1980

Name	Title
Hernan Tinoco	The hydrodynamic stability of fibre suspensions.

1979

Name	Title
Christer Nyberg	Remote sensing of double layers in the upper ionosphere by radio wave transmission.
Torgny Lagerstedt	An experimental study of the relation between turbulent drag reduction and anomalous flow behaviour of polymer solutions.

1978

Name	Title
Håkan Gustavsson	On the evolution of disturbances in boundary layer flows.
Richard Hsieh	Polar macrodeformation fields in micropolar media.

1977

Name	Title
Laszlo Fuchs	Finite-Difference methiods for plane steady inviscid transonic flows
Kurt Berglund	Studies in micropolar elasticity.

1974

Name	Title
Fritz Bark	On the wave structure of turbulent boundary layers with application to drag reduction.

1973

Name	Title
Lars Thor	Studies in the two-nucleon problem

1957

Name	Title
Rune Lindgren	The transition process and other flow phenomena in viscous flow.