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Mechanical Engineering

Dunham Laboratory, 432.4250
M.Eng., M.S., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Chair
Marshall Long

Professors
Ira Bernstein (Emeritus), Boa-Teh Chu (Emeritus), Juan Fernández de la Mora, Alessandro Gomez, Robert Gordon, Shun-Ichiro Karato, Amable Liñan-Martinez (Adjunct), Marshall Long, Manohar Panjabi, Lisa Pfefferle, Daniel Rosner, Ronald Smith, Mitchell Smooke, Katepalli Sreenivasan (Adjunct), George Veronis, Peter Wegener (Emeritus), Forman Williams (Adjunct)

Associate Professors
Jacek Cholewicki, Udo Schwarz, Wei Tong, David Wu

Assistant Professors
Jerzy Blawzdziewicz, Eric Dufresne, David LaVan, Corey O'Hern, Ainissa Ramirez

Lecturers
Beth Anne Bennett, Kailasnath Purushothaman, Glenn Weston-Murphy

Fields of Study
Mechanics of Fluids: Dynamics and stability of drops and bubbles; dynamics of thin liquid films; macroscopic and particle-scale dynamics of emulsions, foams, and colloidal suspensions; experimental, theoretical, and computational studies of turbulence; chaos; fractals; aerodynamics; kinetic theory of gases and mixtures; electrospray theory and characterization; combustion and flames; computational methods for fluid dynamics and reacting flows; laser diagnostics of reacting and nonreacting flows; atmospheric turbulence, climate, theoretical and laboratory modeling of large-scale ocean circulation.

Mechanics of Solids/Material Science: Mechanisms of deformation, mass transport, and nucleation within material systems through experimental, analytic, and computational studies; mechanical testing of small-scale structures; characterization of microscale inhomogeneities in plastic flow; impact loading of materials; diffusion of dopants within semiconductor films; evolution of surface roughness during plastic deformation; ion implantation-induced disorder in crystalline films; incorporation of microstructural information into constitutive laws; biomechanics of the heart; electromigration in metallic interconnects; transient nucleation in multicomponent systems; jamming in particulate systems such as glasses, colloids, and granular materials.

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