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  1. Matthias Flury. Experimentelle Analyse der Mischungsstruktur in turbulenten nicht vorgemischten Flammen. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 13312, Zurich, 1999. This dissertation was honored with the ETH Medal. Download
  2. Roger Salzmann. Fuel Staging for NOX Reduction in Automatic Wood Furnaces. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 13531, Zurich, 2000. Download
  3. Andreas Obieglo. PDF Modeling of H2 and CH4 Chemistry in Turbulent Nonpremixed Combustion. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 13936, Zurich, 2000. Download
  4. Daniel Attinger. An Investigation of Molten Microdroplet Surface Deposition: Transient Behavior, Wetting Angle Dynamics and Substrate Melting Phenomen. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 14004, Zurich, 2000. This dissertation was honored with the ETH Medal. Download
  5. Christian Bruch. Beitrag zur Modellierung der Festbettverbrennung in Automatischen Holzfeuerungen. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 14040, Zurich, 2001. Download
  6. Steve Glod. Explosive Vaporization of Water on Thin-Film Microheaters and Ultrathin Platinum Wires. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 14286, Zurich, 2001. Download
  7. Stefan Haferl. Transport Phenomena During Molten Droplet Pile-Up in Micro-Manufacturing. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 14287, Zurich, 2001. This dissertation was honored with the ETH Medal. Download
  8. Vincent Butty. Three Dimensional Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer in the Collision of a Microdroplet with a Moving or a Stationary Surface. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 14329, Zurich, 2001. Download
  9. Phillip Morf. Secondary Reactions of Tar During Thermochemical Biomass Conversion. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 14341, Zurich, 2001. Download
  10. Pankaj Bajaj. NOx Reduction in Partially Premixed Combustion. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 14492, 2002. Download
  11. Kevin Boomsma. Metal Foams as Novel Compact High Performance Heat Exchangers for the Cooling of Electronics. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 14708, Zurich, 2002. Download
  12. Kristian Haller. High-Velocity Impact of a Liquid Droplet on a Rigid Surface: The Effect of Liquid Compressibility. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 14826, Zurich, 2002. Download
  13. Andreas Chaniotis. Remeshed Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics for the Simulation of Compressible, Viscous, Heat Conducting, Reacting and Interfacial Flows. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 14869, Zurich, 2002. Download
  14. Christian Del Taglia. Numerical Investigation of the Non-Reacting Unsteady Flow behind a Disk-Stabilized Burner with Large Blockage. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 14875, Zurich, 2002. Download
  15. Lale Demiraydin. Numerical Investigation of Turbulent Nonpremixed Methane-Air Flames. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 14947, Zurich, 2002.
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  16. Nicole Renée Bieri. Transport Phenomena in the Microprinting and Laser Annealing of Gold Nanoparticle Inks. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 15590, Zurich, 2004. This dissertation was honored with the ETH Medal. Download
  17. Salvatore Arcidiacono. Surface Phenomena and Phase Change in Nanoparticles and Nanodroplets - A Molecular Dynamics Study. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 15812, Zurich, 2004. Download
  18. Lars Blum. Flow Field and Turbulence Measurements in Different Non-Reacting and Reacting Flow Configurations. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 15967,
    Zurich, 2005. Download
  19. Stephan Senn. Multi-Scale Branching Flow Structures Optimizing High-Performance Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 16088, Zurich, 2005. Download
  20. Sandro De Gruttola. Particle Separation Processes with Emphasis on Blood Separation. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 16089, Zurich, 2005. Download
  21. Mathias Dietzel. Modeling of the Surface Deposition and Thermal Treatment of Plain Liquids, Melts and Nanoparticle Inks: Multiscaled/Multiphase Phenomena and Engineering Applications. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 16162, Zurich, 2005. Download
  22. Sevket Baykal. A Hybrid Unsteady Flamelet Model for Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Diffusion Flames. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 16179,
    Zurich, 2005. Download
  23. Iordanis Chatziprodromou. A Computational Study on Cerebral Aneurysms: Pathogenesis, Aneurysmal Growth and Patient Specific Haemodynamic Simulations. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 16197, Zurich, 2005. Download
  24. Vartan Kurtcuoglu. Computational Modeling of the Cerebral Ventricular Cerebrospinal Fluid System. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 16713, Zurich, 2006. Download
  25. Philipp Schön. Phase Transition in Nanoenclosures and Particle Transport in Carbon Nanotubes. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 16877, Zurich, 2006. Download
  26. Stefano Piffaretti. Flame Age Model: A Transient Laminar Flamelet Approach for Turbulent Diffusion Flames. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 16961, Zurich, 2006. Download
  27. Evangelos Boutsianis. Anatomically Accurate Hemodynamic Simulations in the Aorta and the Coronary Arteries. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 16996, Zurich, 2006. Download
  28. Gloria Romera. Explosive Vaporization in Microenclosures and Boiling Phenomena on Submicron Thin Film Strip Heaters. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 17032, Zurich, 2007. Download
  29. Cédric Dockendorf. On Maskless Gold Nanoparticle and Carbon Nanotube Deposition and Processing for Device Nanomanufacturing. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 17261, Zurich, 2007. Download
  30. Michael Stutz. Hydrocarbon Fuel Processing of Micro Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Systems. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 17455, Zurich, 2007. Download
  31. Dorothea Hollnagel. Hemodynamics in Cerebral Arteries and Aneurysms. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 17658, Zurich, 2008. Download
  32. Sumeet Gupta. Numerical Simulation of Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow in the Subarachnoid Space of Human Central Nervous System. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 17885, Zurich, 2008. Download
  33. Nico Hotz. Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Micro Fuel Cell Systems Including Fuel Reforming and Exhaust Post-Combustion. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 17898, Zurich, 2008. Download
  34. Magnus Fischer. Enhanced Transport Phenomena involving Droplets with Nanoparticles. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 18345, Zurich, 2009. Download
  35. Timo Schwamb. Dielectrophoretic Assembly and Property Measurements of Carbon Nanostructures. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 18405, Zurich, 2009. Download
  36. Bernd Pinzer. Dynamics of Temperature Gradient Snow Metamorphism - Microstructural Evolution and Transport Processes, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 18456, Zurich, 2009. Download
  37. Joseph Knight. Addressing Clinical Needs of the Aortic Root and Coronary Arteries through the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics and Computed Tomography. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 18501, Zurich, 2009. Download
  38. Christian Weinmüller. A Flexible Polymer Based Thin-Film Direct Methanol Micro Fuel Cell: Concept, Fabrication, Electrical Characterization and Multiphase Microfluidics, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 18650, Zurich, 2009. Download
  39. Werner Escher. Ultra Thin High Efficiency Heat Sinks with Water or Nanofluid for Electronics, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 18667, Zurich, 2009. Download
  40. Reto Wälchli. Oscillating Flow Liquid Cooling for High Performance Computing Systems, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering. Doctoral Thesis, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 18690, Zurich, 2009. Download
  41. Ufuk Olgac. Computational Modeling of Low-Density Lipoprotein Transport in Human Coronary Arteries: Implications for Atherosclerosis. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 18750, Zurich, 2009. Download
  42. Brian Burg. Directing Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene: Fundamentals and Parallel Device Integration using Dielectrophoresis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering. Doctoral Thesis, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 19095, Zurich, 2010.
  43. Niklas Schirmer. Dielectrophoresis assisted printing of colloids for 2D and 3D submicron structure generation. Doctoral Thesis, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 19215, Zurich, 2010. Download
  44. Fraser Callaghan. The role of wall stress in the pathogenesis of spontaneous internal carotid artery dissection. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 19444, Zurich, 2011. Download
  45. Stefan Jung. The role of surface properties and environmental conditions on the freezing of supercooled droplets . Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 20169, Zurich, 2012. Download
  46. Nada Bjelobrk. Line-focussed acoustic levitator for contactless transport and merging of liquids and solids in air. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 20479, Zurich, 2012. Download
  47. Anastasios Marmaras. Cell motility in organogenesis and wound healing. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 20488, Zurich, 2012. Download
  48. Daniele Foresti. Acoustophoretic contactless transport and handling of matter in air.Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 20708, Zurich, 2012. Download
  49. Davide Franco. Surface microstructuring and particle nanoengineering for cell motion and behavioral tagging . Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 20847, Zurich, 2012. Download
  50. Simone Bottan. In vitro Model of Intracranial Pressure and Cerebrospinal Fluid Dynamics. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 20926, Zurich, 2013. Download
  51. Patrick Galliker. New Frontiers of Functional Printing: Fundamentals of Ultra-small Droplet Deposition for 3D-Nanofabrication and Microfluidics. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 21150, Zurich, 2013. Download
  52. Fabio Alfieri. Numerical modeling of 3D integrated water cooling of electronic chip stacks . Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 21202, Zurich, 2013. Download
  53. Adrian Renfer. Microscale thermofluidics in integrated water cooling of 3D electronic chips . Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 21203, Zurich, 2013. Download
  54. Alejandro Javier Santis Alvarez. On-Board Hydrocarbon Fuel Processing for Portable Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Power Plants. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 21324, Zurich, 2013. Download
  55. Wolfgang Wiedemair. Modelling of microbubble dynamics in medical applications . Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 21404, Zurich, 2013. Download
  56. Farhad Rikhtegar Nezami. Hemodynamics and Mass Transfer in Stented Coronary Arteries. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 21518, Zurich, 2013. Download
  57. Giulia Tagliabue. On Harvesting, Confinement and Conversion of the Energy of Light with Facile Plasmonic Nanostructures. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 22053, Zurich, 2014. Download
  58. Ashish Asthana. Microscale Engineering for Advanced Interfacial Fluidics: From Extreme Microchannel Heat Transfer to Resilient Superhydrophobic Conductive Surfaces. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 22142, Zurich, 2014. Download
  59. Chander Shekhar Sharma. Liquid Cooling of Microprocessors - Energy Efficiency Optimisation with Waste Heat Recovery and Passive Hotspot Targeting. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 22184, Zurich, 2014. Download
  60. Tanmoy Maitra. Droplet/Surface Interaction at Conditions Conductive to Icing: Towards the Nanoengineering of Supericephobic Surfaces. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 22837, Zurich, 2015. Download
  61. Julian Schneider. Electrohydrodynamic nanoprinting and its applications. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 22694, Zurich, 2015. Download
  62. Patric Eberle. Extreme Resistance to Icing and Controlled Valving of Single Nanoscopic Objects with Rationally Designed Nanostructures. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 23253, Zurich, 2016. Download
  63. Ying Pan. Surface Nanoengineering for Advanced Thermoelectrics. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 23742, 2016. Download
  64. Patrizia Richner. Electrohydrodynamic NanoDrip Printing and Applications in Light-Matter Interactions.Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 23389, 2016. Download
  65. Julian Marschewski. Transport Phenomena in Miniaturized Redox Flow Batteries with Novel Flow Mixing and Guidance Concepts for Integrated Electronic Chip Cooling and Powering. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 24030, 2017. Download
  66. Francesco Robotti. Surface Microstructuring for Control of Cellular Activities and Bio-Synthesized Cellulose Biolithography. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 24314, 2017. Download
  67. Thomas Vasileiou. Studies of Droplet Behavior in Emerging Technologies: Elasticity Effects on Surface Superhydrophobicity and Contactless Acoustophoretic DNA Transfection. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 24388, 2017. Download
  68. Georgios Stefopoulos. Towards Long Term Endothelialization of Cardiovascular Devices. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation 24798. Download
  69. Raja, Shyamprasad N. Studies of Phonon Transport in Nanomaterials: Limits of Diffusive Transport in Nanowires and Annealing Effects in Polycrystalline Graphene. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation Nr. 24641, 2017. Download
  70. Magdalini Panagiotakopoulou. Artificial Metastasis: Cancer Cell Migration in Microengineered Environments. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation 24908. 2018. Download
  71. Bjoern Johann Bachmann. Engineering Strategies for Sustainable Endothelialization of a New Type of Ventricular Assist Device. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation 25118. 2018.
  72. Patrik Rohner. The nanoengineering of highly conductive or light-emitting structures through direct electrohydrodynamic printing. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation 25059. 2018.
  73. Gustav Graeber. Freezing Physics and Derived Surface Nano-Engineering for Spontaneous Deicing. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation 25649. 2018.
  74. Tobias Lendenmann. Reference-Free Traction Force Microscopy: Experimental Platform and Algorithmic Analysis Pipeline for Complex Cell Studies. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation 25798. 2019.
  75. Christopher Walker. Rational Surface Nanoengineering for Phase Change and Separation Applications: From Desublimation Control to Sunlight-driven Antifogging. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation 26159. 2019.
  76. Efstratios Mitridis.Transparent metasurfaces harvesting sunlight for icephobicity, antifogging and water repellency applications. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation 26374. 2019
  77. Claudio Hail. Rational engineering of light-matter interactions: From optical metasurfaces to printing single fluorescent molecules. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation 26602. 2020.
  78. Christian Hoeller. Dielectrophoretic Nanovalving and Characterization of Individual Nano-Objects in Biological Solutions. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation 26680. 2020
  79. Julia Gerber. Wetting, Bouncing, Drying and Freezing of Drops on Soft Materials. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation 26921. 2020
  80. Francesca Michela Pramotton. Shape and Noise in the Guidance of Epithelial Collectives. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation 27303. 2021.
  81. Karl-Philipp Schlichting. Synthesis of Nanoporous Graphene Membranes for Separation. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation 27315. 2021.  
  82. Jana Chaaban. On Droplet Microfluidics and Security Feature Microfabrication with Scalable Electrohydrodynamic Nanoprinting Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, ETH Dissertation 27326. 2021.
  83. Tarpoudi Baheri, Farrokh. On the Behaviour of Bituminous Surfaces at Subzero Temperatures: Condensation-Frosting and Icing Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation 27614. 2021.
  84. Sophie Lohmann. Controlling Collective Behavior at Soft Living Interfaces Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation 28174. 2022.
  85. Henry Lambley. Phase Change-Induced Wetting Transitions on Superhydrophobic Surfaces. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation 28846. 2022.
  86. Nafsika Chala. The adaptive response of human cells and tissues to engineered mechanical stimulation. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation 28991. 2023. 
  87. Iwan Haechler. Tailoring water condensation with sunlight-selective metamaterials. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation 29072. 2023.
  88. Hyunchul Park. Hydrogel-based Materials for Atmospheric Water Harvesting and Surface Antifogging. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation 29490. 2023.
  89. Cheuk Wing Edmond Lam. Condensate behaviour and heat transfer on engineered surfaces. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation 29469. 2023.
  90. Matteo Andrea Donati. Surface Engineering Approaches for Enhanced and Durable Heat Transfer Performance in Dropwise Condensation. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, ETH Dissertation 29506. 2023.
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