Thermodynamics and Kinetics Laboratory
Personnel
Dr. C.A.Ward, Director
Present Students www.mie.utoronto.ca/labs/tkl/people/recent
Past Students
Ph. D. Degrees
- Min Wang, Boundary Conditions for Simulation of
Liquid Evaporation, 2009.
- Jiyu Wu, Effect of Adsorption on the Surface
Tension of Solids, 2008.
- Fei Duan, Thermocapillary Convection During
Evaporation, 2005.
- Ali Keshavarz,
Where
Adsorption Affects the Contact Angle, Wetting and Condensation Transitions,
2004.
- Payam
Rahimi,
Effect
of
Pressure
on
the
Rate
of Evaporation, 2003.
- H.
Bastani-Parizi,
Thermal Desorption of Hydrogen with Phase Transition: Statistical Rate
Theory
Approach, 1999.
- G. Fang, Rate
of
Liquid Evaporation: Statistical Rate Theory Approach, 1998.
- M. R. Sasges,
The
Effect of Gravity on Fluid Configuration and Contact Angle Hysteresis,
1997.
- J. A. W. Elliott,
Advancements in the Statistical Rate Theory Treatment of Adsorption,
1996.
- J. Garcia,
Molecular
Adsorption on Single Crystal Surfaces with Heterogeneous Bonding Sites
and
Adsorboluminescence, 1995.
- F. Skinner,
Ionic
Transport Mechanisms in a Model of Gastric Smooth Muscle, 1992.
- M. Elmoselhi,
Molecular
Properties Controlling the Adsorption of Gases on Solid Surfaces, 1988.
- B. Farahbakhsh,
A
Rate-Limiting Analysis of the Hydrogen Absorption Kinetics in Metals,
1986.
- R. Findlay, The
Rate
of Gas Adsorption, 1985.
- D. Yee, Solute
Rate
Theory of Solute Transport Across a Liquid-Liquid Interphase, 1984.
- M. Risk,
Statistical
Rate Theory of Gas Absorption in Dilute Solution, 1983.
- P. Tikuisis,
The
Stability and Evolution of a Gas Bubble in a Finite Volume of Stirred
Liquid,
1981.
- T. Forest, On the
Measurement of the Superheat Limit of Liquid-Gas Solutions, 1976.
- A. Abdul-Haddi,
Role
of Bulk Properties of the Substrate on the Heat-Transfer During Drop
Wise
Condensation of Different Steam-Air Mixtures, 1975.
- A. S. Tucker,
Measurement
of Dissolved Gas and Diffusion Coefficient Using Critical State of
Bubbles,
1974.
- M.-R. Lin,
Superposition
of the Modes of Sound Propagation in Rarefied Gases, 1974.
M. A. Sc. Degrees
- Nilendri L. Fernando, The Effects of Marangoni
Convection on the Rate of Condensation of Pure Water, 2010.
- Min Wang, Boundary Conditions for Simulation of
Liquid Evaporation, 2009.
- Ian Thompson, Energy Transport to the Interface
During Water Evaporation, 2007.
- Linda Anne Smith, The Statistical Mechanical
Model of the Gating Charge of K+ Voltage-Gated Channels, 2006.
- Alexander, Oong, The Source of the "Uniform
Temperature Layer"
During Water
Evaporation, 2005.
- Tanvir I. Farouk, Measurement of Adsorption for
Pressures Very
Close to the Saturation Vapor Pressure, 2004.
- Anna Moser, Open Questions on Liquid-Vapor Phase
Transitions,
2003.
- Frank van den
Bosch,
An Examination of the Relation Between the Configurational Stability of
Contained Fluids and Adsorption, 2002.
- A. J. H.
McGaughey,
The Evaporation and Stability of a Droplet in a Finite System, 2000.
- A. Keshavarz, An
Investigation of the Stable Equilibrium State of a Bubble in a Finite
Volume
of a Water-Nitrogen Solution, 1998.
- M. Dejmek, The
Interface
Concentration: A Crystal Dissolution Rate Study, 1997.
- A.
Nieto-Rodriguez,
Study of the Corrosion of Carbon and its Impurities in PTFE-Bonded
Alkaline
Fuel Cell Electrodes, 1996.
- J. Cargnelli,
Water
Removal in PTFE-Bonded Pt Carbon Electrodes: The Rate Determing
Process,
1995.
- J. A. Wade, Shape
of the Phase Boundary in Rotating Liquid-Vapour Systems Subjected to
Different Gravitational Intensities, 1992.
- C. Bland,
Mechanical
Properties Controlling the Adsorption of Hydrogen Gas on Metal
Surfaces, 1989.
- I. Cheng,
Material
Properties Controlling the Equilibrium Thermodynamic Behaviour of
Metal-Hydrogen
Systems, 1988.
- J. Garcia, Study
of the Internal Resistance of Alkaline Fuel Cells, 1986.
- G. Woiceshyn,
An
Experimental Approach on the Investigation of the Evaporative Rate of
Liquids,
1982.
- M. P. Martin,
The
Rate of Gas Desorption from a Metal: The Statistical Rate Theory
Approach,
1982.
- R. D. Findlay,
On
the Rate of Adsorption - A Statistical Rate Theory Approach, 1980.
- J. Neal, On the
Predicted
Evaporation Rate of Liquids, 1979.
- D. Yee, A Study
of
the Diffusion of 2-Propanol Alcohol in Strained Polystyrene, 1977.
- A. Tadros, The
Evolution
of a Bubble in a Multicomponent Liquid, 1975.
- V. Langman,
Thermodynamic
Parameters Affecting the Efficient Charging of a Lead-Acid Battery,
1975.
- C. W. So,
Non-Equilibrium
Interfacial Mass Transfer and Isothermal Bubble Growth in Quiescent
Gas-Liquid Solutions, 1972.
- J. Peters,
Solution
of Diffusion Problem Associated with a Non-Linear Boundary Condition at
a
Liquid-Gas Interface, 1972.
- T. Forest, On
the
Formation of Bubbles in Liquid-Gas Solutions Exposed to Ideally Rough
Solid Surfaces, 1972.
- D. Stanga, On
the
Mechanism of Light Emission from Bubbles Collapsing in Liquids, 1971.
- S. Gupta, A
Description
of Forced Sound Propagation in Gases, 1970.
- L. Araujo,
Kinetic
Theory Description of Entropy, 1970.
- J. Tong, Sound
Propagation
in Rarefied Gases, 1969.
- A. Balakrishnan,
Real Gas Effects Inside Nucleate Bubbles, 1969.
M. Eng. Degrees
- Guangwei Su, Surface Tension Measurement
Technique that is
Independent of the Contact Angle, 2004.
- Yufeng Qian,
Determination
Bubble Evolution in Solution with Temperature Discontinuity at
Interface: Statistical Rate Theory Approach, 2003.
- P. Rivard,
Humidity
Sensor for Application in Hydrogen Storage, 1994.
Student Awards
- 1998 NSERC
Doctoral
Prize, J. A. W. Elliott
- 1996 First
Prize
for best paper at the First University of Toronto Mechanical/Industrial
Graduate Student Conference, J. A. W. Elliott
- 1996 Gordon
Cressy
Student Leadership Award - most prestigious student leadership award at
the
University of Toronto (for undergraduate or graduate students). J. A.
W.
Elliott
- 1994 Les
Quatorze
Award - awarded to the male or female (graduate or undergraduate)
Mechanical Engineering student at the University of Toronto who is
outstanding both
academically and extracurricularly and who does something to further
the
role of women in engineering, J. A. W. Elliott.
- 1988 Robert W.
Angus
Medal, The Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering and the
Engineering Institute of Canada, Best paper on a Mechanical Engineering
subject, M. Elmoselhi.