Faculty

Our faculty work in many areas related to fluid dynamics.

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Wesley Burghardt

Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Associate Dean of Undergraduate Engineering

Email Wesley Burghardt

Research interests: rheology

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Giuseppe Buscarnera

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Director of Graduate Studies

Email Giuseppe Buscarnera

Research interests: mechanics of geological materials, including mechanics of geological materials: unsaturated soil behavior, instabilities in multi-phase porous solids, chemical degradation of particulate materials, hydrologic processes in crushable soils and the high-pressure compaction of granular rocks

Research applications: environment

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David Chopp

Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics

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Research interests: Numerical methods; scientific computing; motion of interfaces.

Application areas: bacterial biofilms; neurophysiology; crack propagation; and solidification, among others.

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Michelle Driscoll

Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Email Michelle Driscoll

Research interests: soft matter

Research applications: materials, biology

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Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere

Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy

Email Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere

Research interests: galaxy formation and evolution: star formation, galaxy-black hole co-evolution, galactic dynamics, and connections with the intergalactic medium and cosmology

 

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Sandip Ghosal

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics

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Research interests: microfluidics, electrokinetics

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James Hambleton

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Research interests: computational plasticity, geotechnical analysis, contact mechanics, soil-machine interaction, and the analysis of problems involving unsteady plastic flow

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Mitra Hartmann

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Professor of Computer Science (by courtesy)

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Mark Johnson

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Professor of Mechanical Engineering (by courtesy)

Professor of Ophthalmology (by courtesy)

Email Mark Johnson

Research interests: flow through porous media, biofluid mechanics, chaotic flows

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Daniel Lecoanet

Assistant Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics

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Research interests: internal wave generation by convection, convective overshoot

Research applications: aerospace

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Seth Lichter

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

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Research interests: statistical mechanics, fluid mechanics and energy

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Wing Liu

Walter P. Murphy Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Materials Science and Engineering

Email Wing Liu

Research interests: computational mechanics

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Yoram Lithwick

Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy

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Research interests: theoretical astrophysics: formation and evolution of planets, and systems of planets, convection in rotating planets and stars, accretion disks, and dark matter haloes.

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Richard Lueptow

Professor of Mechanical Engineering (and by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering

Senior Associate Dean

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Research interests: granular flows and segregation, chaotic dynamics, filtration flows

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Erik Luijten

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, and Chemistry

Associate Dean for Research and Doctoral Education

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Malcolm MacIver

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

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Michael Markl

Lester B. and Frances T. Knight Professor of Cardiac Imaging

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Email Michael Markl

Research interests: clinical translational cardio- and neurovascular imaging, in-vivo flow imaging with MRI, 4D flow MRI

Application areas: heart valve disease, aortic and pulmonary disease, bicuspid aortic valve, congenital heart disease, heart transplantation, neurovascular abnormalities

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Michael Miksis

Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering

Director of MS Studies for Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics

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Research interests: interfacial flows, microfluidics, biofluids, electrohydrodynamics, and soft matter theory. 

Research applications: materials, biology

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Monica Olvera de la Cruz

Lawyer Taylor Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry and (by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering, Physics and Astronomy

Director, Center for Computation & Theory of Soft Materials

Deputy Director, Center for Bio-Inspired Energy Science

Email Monica Olvera de la Cruz

Research interests: soft matter

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Julio Ottino

Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering

Distinguished Robert R. McCormick Institute Professor

Professor of Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management

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Research interests: complex systems, dynamics of granular matter, mixing and segregation

 

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Aaron Packman

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering and Chemical and Biological Engineering

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Research interests: environmental transport processes  

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K.-C. Kenneth Park

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Email K.-C. Kenneth Park

Research interests: biologically-inspired interfacial thermofluidics, hydrodynamic and thermal interactions of droplets, bubbles, and particles with surfaces

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Neelesh Patankar

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics

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Research interests: CFD of fluid-structure problems, biofluids, heat transfer and phase change

Research applications: organ physiology and medicine, surface engineering, neuromechanics, neurosensing 

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Alexander Tchekhovskoy

Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy

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Research interests: computational astrophysics: black holes and neutron stars, astrophysical accretion

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Petia Vlahovska

Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering

Email Petia Vlahovska

Research interests: interfacial flows, electrohydrodynamics, rheology, biofluids, membrane biophysics

Research applications: materials, biology

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Gregory Wagner

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Director of Graduate Studies for Mechanical Engineering

Email Gregory Wagner

Research interests: multiscale simulations: fluid flows around moving or deformable structures, material behavior spanning atomic to continuum scales, and phase changes in manufacturing simulations

Research applications: environment, additive manufacturing