ResearchMaterial Processing and Characterization
Πάντα ῥεῖ, 'everything flows' (attributed to Heraclitus). Processing and applications of materials, from food to plastics, involve fluid flows with complex characteristics. Rheology finds the answers to questions of practical importance such as how to make a paint that is easy to spread but does not drip, how to make a smooth, creamy chocolate, or how to blend polymers for plastics with enhanced properties.
The faculty below research material processing and characterization area fluid dynamics.
Surface Engineering, Anti-icing, Boiling
Neelesh Patankar
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Rheology
Wesley Burghardt
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Associate Dean of Undergraduate Engineering
Petia Vlahovska
Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering