Theo G Theofanous

Summary

Senior Academic, International Consultant, Research Entrepreneur, with experience in Nuclear, Chemical, Mechanical, and Environmental Engineering, and Risk Management. Special expertise and basic contributions to the subjects of Thermo-fluid Science, Multiphase Flow, and Managing of Rare, potentially High-Consequence Technological Risks. Major technological impact on Chemical and Nuclear Power Plant Safety, and as of recently on National Security issues involving infrastructure protection and Weapons of Mass Destruction. Unique and multifaceted experience in conceiving, securing resources for, and implementing effective strategies for addressing large, complex technological issues, and seeing efforts through to successful and documented resolution. Demonstrated abilities in building and motivating team efforts. Extensive regulatory perspectives gained through direct participation on all sides: government, industry, national laboratories, consulting companies. Influential track record on numerous major national-level program review committees and advisory panels.

Major Honors

E.O. Lawrence Medal in Nuclear Technology, US DOE (1997). Citation: For his development and application of Risk Oriented Accident Analysis Methodology (ROAAM) and for his achievements in the fundamental understanding of relevant physical processes, which together have allowed the resolution of several complex, long-standing reactor safety issues.

Elected to the National Academy of Engineering (1998). Citation: For Nuclear Reactor Safety including the incorporation of deterministic principles into risk assessment.

Elected Foreign Member, National Academy of Sciences, Bashkortostan, Russian Fed. (1998). Citation: For significant research contributions focusing on the mechanics of multiphase flow.

Honorary Doctorate, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland (May 1999). Citation: For his leadership and technical contributions in hardening the Loviisa nuclear power plants against severe accidents, and for his extensive educational contributions to the nuclear community in Finland.

Shell Distinguished Lecturer (1998); Fellow American Nuclear Society (1989).

Theos J. “Tommy” Thompson Award (2015) For his commitment to risk assessment and management of complex technological and environmental systems. As professor at UCSB and founding Director of the Center for Risk Studies and Safety (CRSS), his contributions have brought about integrative and systematic efforts towards understanding and optimizing real system behavior, assessing risks, and improving safety. American Nuclear Society, Nuclear Installations Safety Division.

Books, Chapters, Special Reports

Risk Assessment and Management
Chapter 2 in Volume 1 of Comprehensive Structural Integrity, Elsevier, March 2003

Transmission pipelines and land use: a risk-informed approach (co-author)
National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 2004

Safety Issues at the Defense Production Reactors (co-author)
National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1987

Safety Issues at the DOE Test and Research Reactors (co-author)
National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1988

Findings of the Peer Review Panel on the Draft Reactor Risk Reference Document NUREG-1150 (co-author) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Report NUREG/CR-5113, UCID-21346, May, 1988

Professional Experience

Member, Director’s Advisory Committee for the Engineering Directorate,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (1999-2008)

Member, University of California President’s Council on National Laboratories, Panel on Environmental Health and Safety (1993-97)

Advisor to National and International research programs on nuclear reactor safety: USNRC’s Advanced Code Development and Verification, Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor, Severe Accident Management, USDOE’s Advanced Reactor Severe Accident Program, New Production Reactor, Advanced Neutron Source, OECD’s RASPLAV program in Russia.

Founding President, Institute for Multifluid Science and Technology (IMuST) (1997-2004)

Consultant on multiphase flow, safety, risk assessment and management issues to: US Government (NRC, DOE); National Laboratories (ANL, BNL, INEL, ORNL, LLNL, LANL); Industry: Aerojet Nuclear Co., United Nuclear Industries, Givaudan & Cie (Geneva), UCAR Carbon Co., SAIC, ABB Atom AB (Sweden), Imatran Voima Oy (Finland), Teollisuuden Voima Oy (Finland), Exxon, Scientech, Korean Electric Power Research Institute, Korean Power Engineering Company, Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute, Nuclear Power Engineering Corporation (Japan), ATUCHA I Nuclear Power Station (Argentina), General Electric-Hitachi Nuclear Energy, Westinghouse Nuclear Corporation, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, US Army (DoD), Oceanit Laboratories (Honolulu).

Member of the National Academy of Engineering Panel that reviewed the safety of DOE’s defense and research reactors in the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident (1986-1988)

Vice-President, Fauske, Grolmes, Henry & Theofanous, Ltd. (1979-81): Design Institute for Emergency Relief Systems (DIERS), funded by a consortium of 40 US and international chemical companies

President, Theofanous & Co., Inc. (1981-present): Discovered the causes of the Seveso disaster (published in Nature and Chemical Engineering Science). Developed science and software for simulating energetic dispersal of chemical agents in the atmosphere (the tools of choice for DoD purposes). Developed science and software for predicting window damage of missile domes flying through weather (NAVY/ARMY SBIR Phase I completed, Phase II underway).

President, Extreme Multiphase Simulations Inc. (2018-present): V&V and DoD Certification of the ARMS suite of codes for simulating energetic dispersals of chemical agents in the atmosphere.

Academic Appointments

Purdue University: Assistant, Associate, Full Professor in the Schools of Chemical Engineering and Nuclear Engineering (1969-1985)

University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB): from Professor to Professor Above-Scale in the Departments of Chemical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering (1985-2012)

Professor Emeritus since 2013.

University of California at Santa Barbara: Founder and Director of the Center for Risk Studies and Safety (CRSS) (1985-2012).

Education & Other

Ph.D.

Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 1969

B.S.
ChE, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 1965

Citizenship
USA

Publications

(NOT INCLUDED IN THE LISTS UNDER CURRECT RESEARCH TOPICS)

1969	“A Theoretical Study on Bubble Growth in Constant and Time-Dependent Pressure Fields” T.G. Theofanous, L. Biasi, H.S. Isbin, and H.K. Fauske	Chemical Engineering Science 24, No. 5, 885-897
1970a	“On Some Aspect of Steam Bubble Collapse” T.G. Theofanous, H.K. Fauske and H.S. Isbin	J. Heat Transfer Feb., 211-212
1970b	“An Integral Method for Convective Diffusion—Bubble Dissolution” T.G. Theofanous, H.S. Isbin, and H.K. Fauske	AIChE Journal 16, No. 4, 688-690
1970c	“Nonequilibrium Bubble Collapse—A Theoretical Study” T.G. Theofanous, L.Biasi, H.S. Isbin, and H.K. Fauske	Chemical Engineering Progress Symposium Series 66, No. 102, 37-47
1971a	“An Approximate Analytical Solution for Non-Planar Moving Boundary Problems” T.G. Theofanous and H.C. Lim	Chemical Engineering Science 26, No. 8, 1297-1300
1971b	“On Unsteady State Moving Boundary Problems for Non-Plane Geometrics” H.C. Lim and T.G. Theofanous	J. Chemical Eng. Japan 4, No. 1, 100-101
1971b	“A Course in Transport Phenomena” T.G. Theofanous	Chemical Engineering Education 5, No. 4, 174-177; 199-200
1972a	“Relationship Between Dose Effect, Time and Biophasic Drug Levels” V.F. Smolen, R.G. Barile and T.G. Theofanous	J. Pharmaceutical Sciences 61, No. 3 467-470
1972b	“Multiple-Dose Kinetics of Pharmacological Effects of Indirect Anticoagulants” T.G. Theofanous and V.F. Smolen	J. Pharmaceutical Sciences 61, No. 6, 980-982
1973a	“Multiple-Dose Kinetics of Oral Anticoagulants: Method of Analysis and Optimized Dosing” T.G. Theofanous and R.G. Barile	J. Pharmaceutical Sciences 62, No. 2, 261-266
1973b	“The Effect of Noncondensibles on the Rate of Sodium Vapor Condensation from a Single-Rising HCDA Bubble” T.G. Theofanous and H.K. Fauske	Nuclear Technology 19, No. 3, 132-139
1975	“Turbulent Mass Transfer at Free Gas-Liquid Interfaces with Applications to Film Flows” L.K. Brumfield, R.N. Houze and T.G. Theofanous	Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer 18, 1077-1081
1976a	“Universal Relations for Bubble Growth” T.G. Theofanous and P.D. Patel	Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer 19, 425-429
1976b	“Turbulent Mass Transfer at Free Gas-Liquid Interfaces, with Applications to Open-Channel, Bubble, and Jet Flows” T.G. Theofanous, R.N. Houze, and L.K. Brumfield	Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer 19, 613-624
1976c	“Incoherency Effects in Clad Relocation Dynamics of LMFBR CDA Analyses” T.G. Theofanous, M. DiMonte, and P.D. Patel	Nuclear Engineering and Design 36, No. 1 59-67
1976d	“Boundary Layer Replenishment and Unsteady-State Phenomena in Hydrogen-Oxygen Fuel Cells” L.F. Albright, T.G. Theofanous and A.G. Rohrer	J. of the Electrochemical Society 123, 445-448
1976e	“On the Prediction of Heat Transfer Across Turbulent Liquid Films” L.K. Brumfield and T.G. Theofanous	J. Heat Transfer (ASME) 98, No. 3, 496-502
1976f	“Turbulent Mass Transfer in Jet Flow and Bubble Flow: A Reappraisal of Levich’s Theory” L.K. Brumfield and T.G. Theofanous	AIChE Journal 22 No. 3, 607-610
1978	“Experiments and Universal Growth Relations for Vapor Bubbles with Micro-layers” T.G. Theofanous, T.H. Bohrer, M.C. Chang and P.D. Patel	J. Heat Transfer (ASME) 100, No. 1, 41-48
1980a	“The Boiling Crisis in Nuclear Reactor Safety and Performance,” T.G. Theofanous	Int. J. Multiphase Flow 6, 69-95
1980b	“Emergency Pressure Relief Systems Associated with Flashing Liquids” H.K. Fauske, M.A. Grolmes, R.E. Henry, and T.G. Theofanous	Swiss Chem 2, Nr. 7/8, 73-78
1981a	“A Fast ICE Solution Procedure for Flows with Largely Invariant Compressibility” C.C. Maio, and T.G. Theofanous	J. Comp. Physics 40, (1) 254-261
1981b	“A Physicochemical Mechanism for the Ignition of the Seveso Accident” T.G. Theofanous	Nature 291, (5817) 640-642
1981c	“An Assessment of Class-9 (Core-Melt) Accidents for PWR Dry-Containment Systems” T.G. Theofanous and M. Saito	Nuclear Engineering and Design 66, (3)301-332
1983a	“The Physicochemical Origins of the Seveso Accident—I Initial Heatup” T.G. Theofanous	Chemical Engineering Science 38, No. 10, 1615-1629
1983b	“The Physicochemical Origins of the Seveso Accident—II Induction Period” T.G. Theofanous	Chemical Engineering Science 38, No.10, 1631-1636
1983c	“An Assessment of Clinch River Breeder Reactor Core Disruptive Accident Energetics” T.G. Theofanous and C.R. Bell	Los Alamos Rept. LA-9716-MS, and NUREG/CR-3224
1986a	“An Assessment of Clinch River Breeder Reactor Core Disruptive Accident Energetics” T.G. Theofanous and C.R. Bell	Nuclear Science and Engineering 93, 215-228
1986b	“A Criterion for Predicting Thermal Stratification Due to High Pressure Injection in a Circulating Reactor Loop” H.P. Nourbakhsh and T.G. Theofanous	Nuclear Science and Engineering 94, 77-79
1986c	“Findings of the Peer Review Panel on the Draft Reactor Risk Reference Document, NUREG-1150” T.G. Theofanous, Co-author	Lawrence Livermore Lab Report NUREG/CR-5113, UCID-21346 March 1986
1986d	Buoyancy Effects on Overcooling Transients Calculated for the NRC Pressurized Thermal Shock Study” T.G. Theofanous, K. Iyer, P. Gherson and H.P. Nourbakhsh	NUREG/CR-3702 May 1986
1987a	“Mixing Phenomena of Interest to SBLOCAs” T.G. Theofanous and K. Iyer	Nuclear Engineering and Design 102, 91-103
1987b	“An Assessment of Steam-Explosion-Induced Containment Failure. Part I: Probabilistic Aspects” T.G.Theofanous, B. Najafi and E. Rumble	Nuclear Science and Engineering 97, 259-281
1987c	An Assessment of Steam-Explosion-Induced Containment Failure. Part II: Premixing Limits” M. Abolfadl and T.G. Theofanous	Nuclear Science and Engineering 97, 282-295
1987d	“An Assessment of Steam-Explosion-Induced Containment Failure. Part III: Expansion and Energy Partition” W.H. Amarasooriya and T.G. Theofanous	Nuclear Science and Engineering 97, 296-315
1987e	“An Assessment of Steam-Explosion-Induced Containment Failure. Part IV: Impact Mechanics, Dissipation and Vessel Head Failure” G.E. Lucas, W.H. Amarasooriya and T.G. Theofanous	Nuclear Science and Engineering 97, 316-326
1987f	“Safety Issues at the Defense Production Reactors” T.G. Theofanous, Co-author	National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.
1988a	“The Cooldown Aspects of the TMI-2 Accident” T.G. Theofanous	Nuclear Engineering and Design 105, 373-391
1988b	“On the Use of Discrete Probability Distributions in Failure Analysis—Numerical Aspects” A. Moghadam and T.G. Theofanous	Reliability Eng. & Systems Safety 23, 81-107
1988c	“DOE Defense Production Reactors: Safety Issues and Possible Fixes” T.G. Theofanous	Physics and Society Vol. 17, No. 4, 4-6
1989	Some Considerations on Severe Accidents at Loviisa” T.G. Theofanous	Theofanous & Co., Inc. IVO Proprietary Report
1990	“Bubble-Induced Circulation and Associated Boundary Heat Transfer” T.G. Theofanous, A.S. Wanniarachchi and U. Ratnam	Nuclear Engineering and Design 121, 93-101
1991a	“Decay of Buoyancy Driven Stratified Layers with Applications to Pressurized Thermal Shock: Reactor Predictions” K. Iyer and T.G. Theofanous	Nuclear Science and Engineering 108, 184-197
1991b	“Flooding-Limited Thermal Mixing: The Case of High Froude Number Injection” K. Iyer and T.G. Theofanous	Nuclear Science and Engineering 108, 198-207
1991c	“Premixing of Steam Explosions: A Three-Fluid Model” W.H. Amarasooriya and T.G. Theofanous	Nuclear Engineering and Design 126, 23-39
1991d	“Triggering and Propagation of Steam Explosions” S. Medhekar, M. Abolfadl and T.G. Theofanous	Nuclear Engineering and Design 126, 41-49
1991e	“Boron Mixing in the Lower Plenum of a BWR” T.G. Theofanous and E.A. Shabana	Nuclear Engineering and Design 126, 245-255
1991f	“On the Measurement and Mechanism on Dryout in Volumetrically Heated Coarse Particle Beds” K. Hu and T.G. Theofanous	Int. J. Multiphase Flow 17, No. 4, 519-532
1991g	“An Integrated Structure and Scaling Methodology for Severe Accident Technical Issue Resolution” T.G. Theofanous, Co-author	U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Report, NUREG/CR-5809 November 1991
1992a	“FLUTE: FLUorescent TEchnique for Two-Phase-Flow Liquid-Fraction Measurements” S. Angelini, W.M. Quam, W.W. Yuen and T.G. Theofanous	Chemical Engineering Communications 118, 237-249
1992b	“Universal Treatment of Plumes and Stresses for Pressurized Thermal Shock Evaluations” T.G. Theofanous, S. Angelini and H. Yan	NUREG/CR-5854 June 1992
1993a	“The Probability of Liner Failure in a Mark-I Containment. Part I: Probabilistic Framework and Results” T.G. Theofanous, H. Yan and F. Eltawila	Nuclear Technology 101 No. 3, 299-331
1993b	“The Probability of Liner Failure in a Mark-I Containment. Part II: Melt Release and Spreading Phenomena” T.G. Theofanous and H. Yan	Nuclear Technology 101 No. 3, 332-353
1993c	“The Probability of Liner Failure in a Mark-I Containment. Part III: Corium-Contrete Interactions and Liner Attack Phenomena” W.H. Amarasooriya, H. Yan, U. Ratnam, and T.G. Theofanous	Nuclear Technology 101 No. 3, 354-384
1993d	The Use of Fluorescence in the Measurement of Local Liquid Content in Transient Multiphase Flows” H. Yan, W.W. Yuen and T.G. Theofanous	Nuclear Engineering and Design 141, 315-328
1994a	“Universal Treatment of Plumes and Stresses for Pressurized Thermal Shock Evaluations” T.G. Theofanous, S. Angelini and H. Yan	Nuclear Engineering and Design 146, 1-14
1994b	“Multiphase Transients in the Premixing of Steam Explosions” S. Angelini, E. Takara, W.W. Yuen and T.G. Theofanous	Nuclear Engineering and Design 146, 83-95
1994c	“On the Fundamental Microinteractions That Support the Propagation of Steam Explosions” W.W. Yuen, X. Chen and T.G. Theofanous	Nuclear Engineering and Design 146, 133-146
1994d	“A Consistent Approach to Severe Accident Management” H. Tuomisto and T.G. Theofanous	Nuclear Engineering and Design 148, 171-183
1994e	“Heat Flux Distribution from a Volumetrically Heated Pool with High Rayleigh Number” O. Kymäläinen, H. Tuomisto, O. Hongisto and T.G. Theofanous	Nuclear Engineering and Design 149, 401-408
1994f	“ULPU Experiments — Critical Heat Flux on a Vertical Surface of a Large Naturally Convecting Loop” O. Kymäläinen and T.G.Theofanous	IVO Report LO1-GT1-59 February 1994
1994f	“Loviisa 1&2—In-Vessel Retention of Corium During a Severe Accident” O. Kymäläinen, H. Tuomisto, and T.G.Theofanous	IVO Report LO1-GT1-64 March 1994
1994g	“Ignition of Aluminum Droplets Behind Shock Waves in Water,” T.G. Theofanous, X. Chen, P. Di Piazza, M. Epstein and H.K. Fauske	Physics of Fluids, 6, 3513-3515
1994h	“Critical Heat Flux Through Curved, Downward Facing, Thick Walls” T.G. Theofanous, S. Syri, T. Salmassi, O. Kymäläinen and H. Tuomisto	Nuclear Engineering and Design 151, 247-258
1994i	“Recent Progress in the Understanding of Steam Explosions” D.F. Fletcher and T.G. Theofanous	J. Loss Prevention Process Industries 7, 457-462
1995a	“The Study of Steam Explosions in Nuclear Systems” T.G. Theofanous	Nuclear Engineering and Design 155, 1-26
1995b	“Premixing-Related Behavior of Steam Explosions” S. Angelini, W.W. Yuen and T.G. Theofanous	Nuclear Engineering and Design 155, 115-157
1995c	“The Prediction of 2D Thermal Detonations and Resulting Damage Potential” W.W. Yuen and T.G. Theofanous	Nuclear Engineering and Design 155, 289-309
1995d	“The Probability of Alpha-Mode Containment Failure Updated” T.G. Theofanous and W.W. Yuen	Nuclear Engineering and Design 155, 459-473
1995e	“ESPROSE.m: A Computer Code for Addressing the Escalation/Propagation of Steam Explosions” W.W. Yuen and T.G. Theofanous	US Department of Energy Report DOE/ID-10501
1995f	“PM-ALPHA: A Computer Code for Addressing the Premixing of Steam Explosions” W.W. Yuen and T.G. Theofanous	US Department of Energy Report DOE/ID-10502
1996a	“Momentum Transfer in the Mixing of Particle Clouds Plunging Into Water” S. Angelini and T.G. Theofanous	Chem. Eng. Communications Vols. 141-142, 461-477
1996b	“The Prediction of Direct Containment Heating” H. Yan and T.G. Theofanous	Nuclear Engineering and Design 164, 95-116
1996c	“The Probability of Containment Failure by Direct Containment Heating in Zion” M.M. Pilch, H. Yan and T.G. Theofanous	Nuclear Engineering and Design 164, 1-36
1996d	“On the Proper Formulation of Safety Goals and Assessment of Safety Margins for Rare and High-Consequence Hazards” T.G. Theofanous	Reliability Eng. & Systems Safety 54, 243-257
1996e	“The Probability of In-Vessel Coolability and Retention of a Core Melt in the AP600” T.G. Theofanous, S. Additon, C. Liu, O. Kymäläinen, S. Angelini, and T. Salmassi	US Department of Energy Report DOE/ID-10460 Vols. I & II,
1997a	“In-Vessel Coolability and Retention of a Core Melt” T.G. Theofanous, C. Liu, S. Additon, S. Angelini, O. Kymäläinen and T. Salmassi	Nuclear Engineering and Design 169, 1-48
1997b	“The First Results from the ACOPO Experiment” T.G. Theofanous, M. Maguire, S. Angelini and T. Salmassi	Nuclear Engineering and Design 169, 49-57
1997c	“The Coolability Limits of a Reactor Pressure Vessel Lower Head,” T.G. Theofanous and S. Syri	Nuclear Engineering and Design 169, 59-76
1997d	“In-vessel Retention of Corium at the Loviisa Plant” O. Kymäläinen, H. Tuomisto and T.G. Theofanous	Nuclear Engineering and Design 169, 109-130
1997e	“The Mixing of Particle Clouds Plunging Into Water” S. Angelini, T.G. Theofanous and W.W. Yuen	Nuclear Engineering and Design 177, 285-301
1997f	“On the Constitutive Description of the Microinteractions Concept in Steam Explosions” X. Chen, W.W. Yuen and T.G. Theofanous	Nuclear Engineering and Design 177, 303-319
1997g	“Loviisa 1&2—Hydrogen Management Strategy for the Loviisa NPP” P. Lundström, H. Tuomisto and T.G. Theofanous	IVO Report L01-GT1-78 March 1997
1998a	“Application of the Risk Oriented Accident Analysis Methodology (ROAAM) to Severe Accident Management in the AP600 Advanced Light Water Reactor” J.H. Scobel, T.G. Theofanous and S.W. Sorrell	Reliability Eng. & Systems Safety 62, 51-58
1998b	“Lower Head Integrity Under In-Vessel Steam Explosion Loads” T.G. Theofanous, W.W. Yuen, S.Angelini, J.J. Sienicki, K. Freeman, X. Chen and T. Salmassi	US Department of Energy Report DOE/ID-10541
1998c	“An Integrated Structure and Scaling Methodology for Severe Accident Technical Issue Resolution: Development of Methodology” T.G. Theofanous (co-author) 13-member working Group	Nuclear Engineering and Design 186, 1-21
1998d	“Quantitative Radiography for Transient Multi-dimensional, Multiphase Flows” T.G. Theofanous, S. Angelini, X. Chen, R. Luo	Nuclear Engineering and Design 184, 163-181
1998e	“Application of the Risk Oriented Accident Analysis Methodology (ROAAM) to Severe Accident Management in the AP600 Advanced Light Water Reactor” J.H. Scobel, T.G. Theofanous and S.W. Sorrell	Reliability Eng. & Systems Safety 62, 51-58
1998f	“Propagation of Steam Explosions: ESPROSE.m Verification Studies” T.G. Theofanous, W.W. Yuen, S. Angelini, J.J. Sienicki, K. Freeman, X. Chen, T. Salmassi	US Department of Energy Report DOE/ID-10503
1998g	“Premixing of Steam Explosions: PM-ALPHA Verification Studies” T.G. Theofanous, W.W. Yuen and S. Angelini	US Department of Energy Report DOE/ID-10504
1999a	“Experimental Simulation of Microinteractions in Large Scale Explosions” X. Chen, R. Luo, W.W. Yuen and T.G. Theofanous	Nuclear Engineering and Design 189, 163-178
1999b	“On the Regimes of Premixing” S. Angelini, T.G. Theofanous and W.W. Yuen	Nuclear Engineering and Design 189, 139-161
1999c	“Lower Head Integrity Under Steam Explosion Loads” T.G. Theofanous, W.W. Yuen, S. Angelini, J.J. Sienicki, K. Freeman, X. Chen and T. Salmassi	Nuclear Engineering and Design 189, 7-57
1999d	“The Verification Basis of the PM-ALPHA Code” T.G. Theofanous, W.W. Yuen and S. Angelini	Nuclear Engineering and Design 189, 59-102
1999e	“The Verification Basis of the ESPROSE.m Code” T.G. Theofanous, W.W. Yuen, K. Freeman and X. Chen	Nuclear Engineering and Design 189, 103-138
1999f	“On the Existence of Multiphase Thermal Detonations” W.W. Yuen and T.G. Theofanous	Int. JL Multiphase Flow 25, 1505-1519
2000a	“Natural Convection for In-Vessel Retention at Prototypic Rayleigh Numbers” T.G. Theofanous and S. Angelini	Nuclear Engineering and Design 200, 1-9
2000b	“The Mechanism and prediction of Critical Heat Flux in Inverted Geometries” S. Angelini, J.P. Tu, Yu. A. Buyevich and T.G. Theofanous	Nuclear Engineering and Design 200, 83-94
2000c	“On the Mechanism of Aluminum Ignition in Steam Explosions” M. Epstein, H.K. Fauske and T.G. Theofanous	Nuclear Engineering and Design 201, 71-82
2002a	“The Boiling Crisis Phenomenon. Part I: Nucleation and Nucleate Boiling Heat Transfer” T.G. Theofanous, J.P. Tu, A.T. Dinh and T.N. Dinh	Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science 26, 775-792
2002b	“The Boiling Crisis Phenomenon. Part II: Dryout Dynamics and Burnout” T.G. Theofanous, J.P. Tu, A.T. Dinh and T.N. Dinh	Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science 26, 793-810
2003a	“The Lattice Boltzmann Equation Method: Theoretical Interpretation, Numerics and Implications” R.B. Nourgaliev, T.G. Theofanous, T.N. Dinh and D. Joseph	Int’l J. Multiphase Flow 29 (1) 117-169
2003b	“Risk Assessment and Management” T.G. Theofanous	Ch. 19 in Vol. 1 of Handbook “Comprehensive Structural Integrity”, Eds. I. Milne, R.O. Ritchie, B. Karihaloo, Elsevier
2003c	“On the Prediction of Flow Patterns as a Principal Scientific Issues in Multifluid Flow” T.G. Theofanous and T.N. Dinh	Multiphase Science and Technology 5(1-4), pp.57-76, (2003).
2003d	“On the Multiscale Treatment of Multifluid Flow” T.N. Dinh, R.R. Nourgaliev and T.G. Theofanous	Multiphase Science and Technology 5(1-4), pp.275-288
2003e	“Nucleation Phenomena in Boiling” T.N. Dinh and T.G. Theofanous	Multiphase Science and Technology 5(1-4), pp.349-363
2003f	“A Computational Platform for Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer” T.G. Theofanous	Multiphase Science and Technology 5(1-4), pp.177-180
2004	“Transmission Pipelines and Land Use: a Risk Informed Approach” co-Author	National Academy Press
2005	“Risk and Decisions, About the Disposition of Transuranic and High Level Radioactive Wastes” co-Author	National Academy Press
2006	“High heat flux boiling and burnout as a microphysical phenomena: Mounting evidences and opportunities” T.G. Theofanous and T-N Dihn	Multiphase Science and Technology 18, No 3, pp.251-276
2008	“Integration of multiphase science and Technology with risk management in nuclear power reactors: Application of the Risk-Oriented Accident Analysis Methodology to the Economic, Simplified Boiling Water Reactor Design” Theo G. Theofanous and Truc-Nam Dinh	Multiphase Science and Technology 20, No 2, pp. 81-211
2009a	“Mesoscopic dynamics of polymer chains in high strain rate extensional flows” D. Kivotides, V.V. Mitkin, T.G. Theofanous,	Jl. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech. 161, pp 69-86
2009b	“An Assessment of the State-of-the-Art on Explosive Dissemination of Chemical Agents with Perspectives for Future Work” R. Babarsky and T. G. Theofanous	US Army Report WF-67774
2009c	“Entangled chain dynamics of polymer knots in extensional flow” D. Kivotides, S. Louise Wilkin and Theo G. Theofanous	Physical Review E80, pp 041808-1 to -16
2010a	“Stochastic entangled chain dynamics of dense polymer solutions” D. Kivotides, S. L. Wilkin and T. G. Theofanous	Jl. Chemical Physics 133, 144903 2010
2010b	“Stretching of polymer chains by fluctuating flow fields” D. Kivotides, S. L. Wilkin and T. G. Theofanous	Physics Letters A 375 (2010) 48–52
2011a	“Nuclear Reactor Melt Arrest and Coolability Device” T. G. Theofanous, T. N. Dinh, and R Wachowiak	European Patent Office PATENT No: 10187579.7-2208 Date 01-07-2011
2011b	“The inertial regime of drop impact on an anisotropic porous substrate” H Ding, TG Theofanous	Jl Fluid Mech. doi:10.1017/jfm.2011.491
2012	“Superfast, nonlinear diffusion: Capillary transport in particulate porous media” AV Lukyanov, MM Sushchikh, MJ Baines, and TG Theofanous	Physical Review Letters 109, 214501 (2012)