Conference Proceedings
More details on Professor Orme's research can be found in the following publications:
  • M. Orme "Droplet Velocity Dispersion Device,"  presented at the AIAA Aeronautics Conference, Paper 85-0077,  1985
  • M. Orme, H. Legge, G. Koppenwallner, and E.P. Muntz, "Cavitation of Liquid Streams in a Vacuum", AIAA/ASME 4th Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference, Paper 86-1325,  1986 
  • M. Orme, T. Farnham, G. Pham Van Diep, E.P. Muntz, A. White, "The Design and Performance of  a Multi-Stream Droplet Generator for the Liquid Droplet Radiator", AIAA 22nd Thermophysics Conference, Paper 87-1538, 1987
  • M. Orme, "Precision Droplet Stream Manufacturing", Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Synthesis of Engineered Structural Materials,  San Francisco, California, 1992
  • M. Orme,  "Rapid Solidification Materials Synthesis with Nano-Liter Droplets" SAE Aerotech, Anaheim, California, 1993 (selected for Arch T. Colwell Award)
  • M. Orme, K. Willis, J. Courter, "The Development of Rapid Prototyping of Metallic Components via Ultra-Uniform Droplet Deposition," Fifth International Conference on Rapid Prototyping, Dayton, Ohio , 1994
  • M. Orme, "Manipulation of Precisely Controlled Droplet Streams with Application to Materials Synthesis," Proceedings to the ILASS Americas 7th Annual Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, Bellevue, Washington, 1994 
  • W. Sirignano, R.H. Rangel, D. Dunn-Rankin and M. Orme, "Droplet Arrays and Streams"  Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Mechanics and Combustion of Droplets and Sprays, 1994
  • M. Orme "Microstructure Refinement and Net-Form Materials Synthesis with Controlled Nano-liter Droplet Deposition."  Proceedings of the 1995 NSF Design and Manufacturing Grantees Conference, January 1995 
  • M. Orme, C. Huang, "Thermal Design Parameters Critical to the Development of Solid Freeform Fabrication of Structural Materials with Controlled Nano-Liter Droplets" Proceedings of the Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, edited by Marcus, Beaman, Bourell, Barlow and Crawford, pp 88 - 95, 1995
  • M. Orme, C. Huang, J. Courter  "Interactions Between Impacted Metallic Droplets"  Proceedings of the ILASS Americas 9th Annual Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, San Francisco, California, May 1996
  • M. Orme, C. Huang, J. Courter, "Deposition Strategies for Control of Microstructure, Microporosity and Surface Roughness in Droplet-Based Solid Freeform Fabrication of Structural Materials", Proceedings of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society: Melt Spinning, Strip Casting and Slab Casting,  Edited by E.F. Matthys and W.G. Truckner, 1996
  • Muntz EP, Orme M, Pham-Van-Diep G, Godin R, "An Analysis of Precision, Fly-Through Solder Jet Printing for DCA Components" presented at the 30th International Symposium on Microelectronics, Pennsylvania, published by IMAPS -Int. Microelectronics Packaging Soc., Reston, VA, USA 1997, pp. 671-680
  • K. Willis and M. Orme "Deformation Dynamics of Binary Droplet Collisions" Proceedings of the ILASS Americas 11th Annual Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, Sacramento, CA  May 1998
  • M. Orme, Q. Liu, and R. Smith, C. Huang, and J. Fischer "Net-Form Manufacturing of Aluminum Components:  the Dependence of Processing Parameters on Component Quality,"  presented at the Tenth Annual Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, University of Texas at Austin, August 9-11, 1999  download here
  • M. Orme and A. Bright "Recent Advances in Highly Controlled Molten Metal Droplet Formation from Capillary Stream Break-up For Advanced Manufacturing Applications," 2000 TMS Annual Meeting, March 12-16, 2000 Nashville TN  (invited paper) download here 
  • M. Orme, J. Courter, Q. Liu, J. Zhu, R. Smith "Charged Molten Metal Droplet Deposition as a Direct Write Technology"  To be presented at the  MRS 2000 Spring Meeting, San Francisco, April, 2000 download here
  • M. Orme, Q. Liu, and J. Fischer, "Mono-disperse Aluminum  Droplet Generation and Deposition for Net-Form Manufacturing of Structural Components"  to be presented at the Eighth International Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, Pasadena, CA,  July 2000 download here
  • A. Bright, M. Orme, "Experimental Study of Transmission of Acoustic Waves to a Liquid Jet Emerging from a Reservoir" to be presented at the Eighth International Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, Pasadena, CA July 2000 download here
  • Matthew Michaelis, Jun Zhu, and Melissa Orme, "Solidification and Fusion of Discrete Layers in Precision Droplet Manufacturing:  Simulation and Experiment," to be presented at the TMS 2002 Fall Meeting October 6-10 2002
  • Matthew Michaelis, Jun Zhu, and Melissa Orme,  "Heat Transfer Manipulation for Precision Droplet Manufacturing:  Simulation and Experiment," to be presented at the 13th Annual Solid Freeform Fabrication Conference, August 5-7 2002