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Richard M. Lueptow

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

Senior Associate Dean

Contact

2145 Sheridan Road
Tech L258
Evanston, IL 60208-3109

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Richard M. Lueptow's Research Group

Departments

Mechanical Engineering

Affiliations

Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Graduate Program

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Education

Sc.D. Mechanical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA

S.M. Mechanical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA

B.S. Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI


Research Interests

Richard Lueptow's current research interests are in two areas: 1) Modeling, simulation, and experiments on the segregation and mixing of bi-and poly-disperse granular materials, both spherical and non-spherical, in quasi-2D and fully 3D geometries; 2) Molecular level simulation of transport processes in polymeric nanofiltration and reverse osmosis membranes.


Significant Recognition

  • American Institute of Chemical Engineers Dow Particle Processing Recognition Award, 2021
  • Northwestern University McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science Teacher of the Year Award (2 times)
  • Society of Automotive Engineers Teetor Educational Award
  • American Society for Engineering Education Dow Outstanding Young Faculty Award
  • William M. Carey Award, National Fire Protection Research Foundation (2 times)
  • Space Act Award from the NASA Inventions and Contributions Board
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics, 2008
  • Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012

Significant Professional Service

  • Editorial Board, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2020-present
  • Editorial Board, Physical Review E, 2020-present
  • Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence

Selected Publications

  • Liu, Suwei; Keten, Sinan; Lueptow, Richard M., Effect of molecular dynamics water models on flux, diffusivity, and ion dynamics for polyamide membrane simulations, Journal of Membrane Science (2023).
  • Xiao, Hongyi; Deng, Zhekai; Ottino, Julio M.; Umbanhowar, Paul B.; Lueptow, Richard M., Modeling stratified segregation in periodically driven granular heap flow, Chemical Engineering Science (2023).
  • Duan, Yifei; Peckham, Jack; Umbanhowar, Paul B.; Ottino, Julio M.; Lueptow, Richard M., Designing minimally segregating granular mixtures for gravity-driven surface flows, AIChE Journal (2023).
  • Gao, Song; Ottino, Julio M.; Umbanhowar, Paul B.; Lueptow, Richard M., Percolation of a fine particle in static granular beds, Physical Review E (2023).
  • Jing, Lu; Ottino, Julio M.; Umbanhowar, Paul B.; Lueptow, Richard M., Drag force in granular shear flows, Journal of fluid Mechanics (2022).
  • D'Ortona, Umberto; Thomas, Nathalie; Lueptow, Richard M., Mechanisms for recirculation cells in granular flows in rotating cylindrical rough tumblers, Physical Review E (2022).
  • Liu, Suwei; Ganti-Agrawal, Saahir; Keten, Sinan; Lueptow, Richard M., Molecular insights into charged nanofiltration membranes, Journal of Membrane Science (2022).
  • Duan, Yifei; Jing, Lu; Umbanhowar, Paul B.; Ottino, Julio M.; Lueptow, Richard M., Segregation forces in dense granular flows, Journal of fluid Mechanics (2022).
  • Duan, Yifei; Umbanhowar, Paul; Ottino, Julio M.; Lueptow, Richard M, Segregation models for density-bidisperse granular flows, Physical Review Fluids 5(4) (2020).
  • Yu, Mengqi; Umbanhowar, Paul B.; Ottino, Julio M.; Lueptow, Richard M., Pattern formation in a fully three-dimensional segregating granular flow, Physical Review E 99(6) (2019).
  • Umbanhowar, Paul B.; Lueptow, Richard M.; Ottino, Julio M., Modeling segregation in granular flows, Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 10:129-153 (2019).
  • Smith, Lachlan D.; Umbanhowar, Paul B.; Lueptow, Richard M.; Ottino, Julio M., The geometry of cutting and shuffling, Physics Reports 802:1-22 (2019).
  • Zaman, Zafir; Yu, Mengqi; Park, Paul P.; Ottino, Julio M.; Lueptow, Richard M.; Umbanhowar, Paul B., Persistent structures in a three-dimensional dynamical system with flowing and non-flowing regions, Nature communications 9(1) (2018).
  • Fry, Alexander M.; Umbanhowar, Paul B.; Ottino, Julio M.; Lueptow, Richard M., Effect of pressure on segregation in granular shear flows, Physical Review E 97(6) (2018).
  • Deng, Zhekai; Umbanhowar, Paul B.; Ottino, Julio M.; Lueptow, Richard M., Continuum modelling of segregating tridisperse granular chute fow, Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 474(2211) (2018).
  • Smith, Lachlan D.; Umbanhowar, Paul B.; Ottino, Julio M.; Lueptow, Richard M., Mixing and transport from combined stretching-and-folding and cutting-and-shuffling, Physical Review E 96(4) (2017).
  • Xiao, Hongyi; Ottino, Julio M.; Lueptow, Richard M.; Umbanhowar, Paul B., Transient response in granular quasi-two-dimensional bounded heap flow, Physical Review E 96(4) (2017).
  • Martinand, Denis; Serre, Eric; Lueptow, Richard M., Linear and weakly nonlinear analyses of cylindrical Couette flow with axial and radial flows, Journal of Fluid Mechanics 824:438-476 (2017).
  • Fan, Yi; Jacob, Karl V.; Freireich, Ben; Lueptow, Richard M, Segregation of granular materials in bounded heap flow, Powder Technology 312:67-88 (2017).
  • Park, Paul P.; Lynn, Thomas F.; Umbanhowar, Paul B.; Ottino, Julio M.; Lueptow, Richard M., Mixing and the fractal geometry of piecewise isometries, Physical Review E 95(4) (2017).
  • Xiao, Hongyi; McDonald, David; Fan, Yi; Umbanhowar, Paul B.; Ottino, Julio M.; Lueptow, Richard M., Controlling granular segregation using modulated flow, Powder Technology 312:360-368 (2017).
  • Yu, Mengqi; Umbanhowar, Paul; Ottino, Julio M; Lueptow, Richard M, Cutting and Shuffling of a Line Segment, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 26(14) (2016).
  • Shen, Meng; Keten, Sinan; Lueptow, Richard M., Dynamics of water and solute transport in polymeric reverse osmosis membranes via molecular dynamics simulations, Journal of Membrane Science 506:95-108 (2016).
  • Shen, Meng; Keten, Sinan; Lueptow, Richard M., Rejection mechanisms for contaminants in polyamide reverse osmosis membranes, Journal of Membrane Science 509:36-47 (2016).
  • Xiao, Hongyi; Umbanhowar, Paul B.; Ottino, Julio M.; Lueptow, Richard M., Modelling density segregation in flowing bidisperse granular materials, Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 472(2191) (2016).
  • Park, Paul P.; Umbanhowar, Paul B.; Ottino, Julio M.; Lueptow, Richard M., Mixing with piecewise isometries on a hemispherical shell, Chaos 26(7) (2016).
  • Schlick, Conor P.; Isner, Austin B.; Freireich, Ben J.; Fan, Yi; Umbanhowar, Paul B.; Ottino, Julio M.; Lueptow, Richard M., A continuum approach for predicting segregation in flowing polydisperse granular materials, Journal of fluid Mechanics 797:95-109 (2016).