Doctoral Dissertations directed by Prof. Poulikakos at the University of Illinois
- Kevin Renken. Experiment and Numerical Modeling of Forced Convection Heat Transport in a Channel Filled with a Porous Medium. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1987.
- Michael Kazmierczak. Transient Double Diffusion in a Fluid Layer and a Composite Porous/Fluid Layer Heated from Below. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1988.
- Wei-Zheng Cao. Experiments on the Solidification of a Binary Alloy in a Rectangular Cavity. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1990.
- Thomas Spatz. A Holographic Interferometry Study on the Freezing of an Alloy around a Pipe in the Presence of a Mixed Phase Region. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1991.
- Sanjay Rastogi. Heat and Mass Transfer in a Composite Layer Simulating the Freezing of a Binary Mixture. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1993.
- Dawid Getachew. Non-Newtonian Convection in a Porous Matrix: Costitutive Equations and an Application. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1994.
- Ziqun Zhao. Heat Transfer and Fluid Dynamics During the Impact of a Liquid Droplet on a Substrate. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Chicago 1994.
- Boseon Kang. A Holographic Study of the Dense Spray Region Created by Two Impinging Jets. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1995.
- John M. Waldvogel. Transport Phenomena and Solidification in Picoliter Solder Droplet Deposition. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Chicago 1995.
- Ron Stellman. Heat Transfer from Dimpled Surfaces. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1996.
- Yunbiao Shen. Impinging Jet Atomization at Elevated and Supercritical Ambient Conditions. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1997.