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Details of Stokes' research theses are presented below:

 

  Thesis Degree
Date
Author
Title Of Thesis
PhD
2011
F. O'Leary
The Influence of Surfactants on Capillary Driven Flow in Open Hydrophobic Microchannels with an Application toward Fluorescent HSV Detection
PhD
2011
P. Fleming
Direct Amplification of Nucleic Acids from Cells
PhD 2011
A. Munari
An Investigation of the Fabrication and Characterisation of Nanocomposite Thermal Interface Materials
PhD
2011
S. Chiavaroli
3D Hydrodynamic Dispensing and Focussing of Leukaemia Cells in a Microscale Device
PhD 2011
M. Cleary
An Experimental Investigation on the Operation of Variable Conductance Heat Pipes and Gas-Loaded Thermosyphons
PhD 2011
M. O'Donnell
Intramural Stress and Strain in the Femoral Artery and Bypass Graft-Experiment and Prediction
PhD 2010
J. Stafford
On the Miniaturisation of Convection Cooling Solutions Applicable to Portable Electronic Devices
PhD 2010
O. Taheny
On the Effect of Digitising Flows in Networked Microfluidic Systems for Nucleic Acid Analysis
PhD 2010
K. Hanly
An Investigation of Aerodynamics and Heat Transfer in Miniature Radial Flow Heat Sinks
PhD 2009
K. Nolan
On the Measurement and Analyis of Turbulent Spots Evolving Naturally due to Freestream Turbulence
PhD 2009
M. Forget
The Generation of Microfluidic Reactors for Biological Processing
PhD 2009
N. Jeffers
On the Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics of a Normally-Impinging, Submerged and Confined Liquid Jet
PhD 2009
D. Kearney
A Miniature-Scale Integrated Liquid Pump and Heat Exchanger for Electronics Cooling Applications
PhD 2009
K. Hannigan
The Corrosion Resistance of Lead-Free Printed Circuit Board Finishes
PhD 2009
M. Sheehy
The Failure Mechanisms of Single Crystal Silicon Micro-Cantilevers under Shock and Vibration Stimuli
PhD 2009
G. Kelly
The Design and Characterisation of a Small-Form Factor Velocity Amplified Shock Tester
PhD 2009
D. Herkommer
A Study of Sn-Ag-Cu Solder Creep and Reliability
PhD
2009
B. Barrett
A New Digital Technology for DNA Detection
PhD
2009
M.Sayers
On Novel Quantitative DNA Amplification Instruments for High-Throughput Molecular Medicine
PhD
2009
N. Sirr
On Continuous Flow Discretised DNA Amplification
PhD
2008
A. Morris
On Genetic Amplification in Droplets for the Classification of Childhood Leukaemia
PhD
2008
R. Enright
On Transport in Superhydrophobic Microchannels
PhD
2008
C. Ryan
The Development and Characterisation of an Impact Tolerant Lead-Free Solder Alloy
PhD
2008
D. Kinahan
On the Development of Space-Domain Fluorescent Melting Curve Analysis for Genetic Analysis
PhD
2007
J. Daly
A Quantitative Natural Convection DNA Amplifier
PhD
2007
D. Hernon
An Experimental Investigation into the Routes to Bypass Transition
PhD
2006
P. Walsh
Optical Field Measurements in Microscale Flow Focusing
PhD
2006
D. McGuire
On the Interferomertric Measurements of Convective Mass Transfer
PhD
2006
D. Quin
Micro Scale Axial Flow Fans
PhD
2006
D. Curtin
On the Fluid Mechanics of Continuous-Flow DNA Amplifiers
PhD
2006
J. Garvey
The Application of Interferometry to Micro Channel Phase Measurement
PhD
2005
K. Curran
Novel Micro-Device for Use in Medical Diagnostics
PhD
2005
C. Eason
Measurement of Pressure Drop and Heat Transfer Analysis of Microchannels
PhD
2005
G. Heaslip
On the Reliability of Lead-Free Solder Joints Under Impact Stimuli
PhD
2005
B. A. Rodgers
On the Fatigue Life of Lead-Free Solder Joints
PhD
2004
V. Egan
Experimental Investigations and Optical Field Measurements of Combined Modes of Enclosure Heat Transfer
PhD
2004
G. Nosenzo
Damage Detection in Composite Structures using Fibre Optic Sensors and Finite Element Model Updating
MSc
2004
C. Ryan
A Reliability Evaluation of Lead-Free Ball Grid Array Solder Joints
PhD 2003
P. Griffin
The Effect of Free Stream Turbulence on Aerodynamic Entropy Generation Rate
MEng 2003
D. O'Rourke
The Design and Prototyping of an Optical Rotary Data Transfer Device
PhD 2002
E. Kehoe
Optical Field Measurement of Mixed Convection Air Flows
PhD 2002
E. Walsh
The Measurement, Prediction and Minimization of Viscous Entropy Generation in Transitional Boundary Layers
PhD 2001
R. Cole
Measurement and Prediction of Operational Electronic Component Temperatures
PhD 2001
R. Grimes
On Air Flow and Heat Transfer in Fan Cooled Electronic Systems.
PhD 2000
J. Fitzgerald
The Measurement of Turbine Blade Aerodynamic Wall Shear Stress using Surface Mounted Hot Films.
PhD 2000
D.T. Newport
Optical Field Measurements of Enclosure Free Convection
PhD 2000
F.K. O'Donnell
Entropy Measurements in Laminar Boundary Layers.
PhD 2000
P.J. Rodgers
An Experimental Assessment of Numerical Predictive Accuracy for Electronic Component Heat Transfer.
PhD 1997
T.M. Dalton
On Enclosure Natural Convection for Electronic Cooling Applications
MEng 1997
E.P. Fitzgerald
Junction to Ambient Thermal Resistance Measurement and Prediction
MEng 1997
T. Mulcaire
The Design and Manufacture of a Transonic Blowdown Cascade Wind Tunnel
PhD 1996
C. Byrne
Turbine Aerodynamics and Heat Transfer Instrumentation Systems
PhD 1996
J.D. Wallace
Turbine Blade Boundary Layer Entropy Generation
PhD 1995
J.T. Duffy
The Calibration of Surface Mounted Aerodynamics Shear Stress Gauges
MEng 1995
L. Hamilton
Thin-Film Gauges for Wall Shear Stress Applications
PhD 1995
J.M. Lohan
An Investigation into the Thermal Interaction Between Electronic Components on a Printed Circuit Board
PhD 1994
J. Punch
The Thermal Behaviour of Multiple Layer Substrates
MTech 1990
J.P. Coffey
Thermal Optimisation of a Reheat Furnace
PhD 1984
M.R.D. Davies
The Unsteady Aerodynamics of an Annular Cascade

 

 
   
 
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