Faculty
Our faculty work in many areas related to fluid dynamics.
Wesley Burghardt
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Associate Dean of Undergraduate Engineering
Research interests: rheology
Giuseppe Buscarnera
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Director of Graduate Studies
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
David Chopp
Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Research interests: Numerical methods; scientific computing; motion of interfaces.
Application areas: bacterial biofilms; neurophysiology; crack propagation; and solidification, among others.
Michelle Driscoll
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Research interests: soft matter
Research applications: materials, biology
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
Sandip Ghosal
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Research interests: microfluidics, electrokinetics
James Hambleton
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research interests: computational plasticity, geotechnical analysis, contact mechanics, soil-machine interaction, and the analysis of problems involving unsteady plastic flow
Mitra Hartmann
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Computer Science (by courtesy)
Mark Johnson
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Mechanical Engineering (by courtesy)
Professor of Ophthalmology (by courtesy)
Research interests: flow through porous media, biofluid mechanics, chaotic flows
Daniel Lecoanet
Assistant Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Research interests: internal wave generation by convection, convective overshoot
Research applications: aerospace
Seth Lichter
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: statistical mechanics, fluid mechanics and energy
Wing Liu
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests: computational mechanics
Yoram Lithwick
Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy
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.
Richard Lueptow
Professor of Mechanical Engineering (and by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering
Senior Associate Dean
Research interests: granular flows and segregation, chaotic dynamics, filtration flows
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
Michael Markl
Lester B. and Frances T. Knight Professor of Cardiac Imaging
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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
Michael Miksis
Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering
Director of MS Studies for Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Research interests: interfacial flows, microfluidics, biofluids, electrohydrodynamics, and soft matter theory.
Research applications: materials, biology
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
Julio Ottino
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Management and Organizations (by courtesy)
Distinguished Robert R. McCormick Institute Professor
Research interests: complex systems, dynamics of granular matter, mixing and segregation
Aaron Packman
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering and Chemical and Biological Engineering
Research interests: environmental transport processes
K.-C. Kenneth Park
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: biologically-inspired interfacial thermofluidics, hydrodynamic and thermal interactions of droplets, bubbles, and particles with surfaces
Neelesh Patankar
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Research interests: CFD of fluid-structure problems, biofluids, heat transfer and phase change
Research applications: organ physiology and medicine, surface engineering, neuromechanics, neurosensing
Alexander Tchekhovskoy
Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy
Research interests: computational astrophysics: black holes and neutron stars, astrophysical accretion
Petia Vlahovska
Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: interfacial flows, electrohydrodynamics, rheology, biofluids, membrane biophysics
Research applications: materials, biology
Gregory Wagner
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Bette and Neison Harris Chair in Teaching Excellence
Director of Graduate Studies for Mechanical Engineering
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