Faculty

Alvin Bayliss, Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics: combustion, astrophysics, acoustics, computational methods, reacting fluids

Wesley R. Burghardt, Chemical Engineering: viscoelastic fluid mechanics, dynamics of complex fluids

Stephen H. Davis, Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics: interfacial dynamics, instability, nonlinear evolution: films, contact lines, thermocapillarity, evaporation

Sandip Ghosal, Mechanical Engineering: fluid turbulence, combustion, particulate flows, biological applications

Mark Johnson, Biomedical Engineering: transport in the eye, surfactant behavior, chaotic diffusion, physiochemical hydrodynamics

Seth Lichter, Mechanical Engineering: turbulence, vortex dynamics, Hamiltonian systems, dynamics and folding of proteins

Richard M. Lueptow, Mechanical Engineering: experimental fluid dynamics, filtration, acoustics, granular flows

Moshe Matalon, Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics: combustion theory, chemically reacting flows, flame dynamics and stability

Bernard J. Matkowsky, Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics: combustion theory, combustion synthesis of materials, fluid-flame interactions, heterogeneous combustion

Michael Miksis, Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics: free boundary problems, multiphase flows, biofluid dynamics, computational fluid dynamics 

Lyle F. Mockros, Biomedical and Chemical Engineering: biomedical transport, artificial organs, flows of concentrated suspensions

Julio M. Ottino, Chemical Engineering: chaos and complex systems, fluid mixing, granular flows

Neelesh Patankar, Mechanical Engineering: computational fluid dynamics, two-phase flow, particulate flows

Hermann Riecke, Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics: pattern formation and spatio-temporal chaos, computational and analytical approaches 

Siavash H. Sohrab, Mechanical Engineering: combustion, thermodynamics, turbulence, scale-invariant forms of conservation equations

Mary C. Silber, Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics: pattern formation, spontaneous symmetry-breaking, nonlinear dynamics and chaos

Melody A. Swartz, Biomedical and Chemical Engineering: fluid mechanics in soft tissue, interstitial-lymphatic transport

Paul Umbanhowar, Physics: nonlinear surface waves, droplet break-up, pattern formation, granular statics and dynamics

Sascha Hilgenfeldt, Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering: interfacial structure and dynamical evolution of soft condensed matter, using experiment, theory, and numerical simulation

Departments

Biomedical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics
Mechanical Engineering
Physics and Astronomy

Conferences and Seminars

Nonlinear Science Seminar Series
Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics Colloquium

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