Faculty Bios

John D. Anderson (ENAE): computional fluid dynamics, hypersonics, history of aerodynamics
Mikhail A. Anisimov (IPST/ENCH): mesoscopic dynamics in complex fluids
Stuart S. Antman (IPST/MATH): continuum physics and nonlinear analysis
Thomas M. Antonsen (ENEE/PHYS/IREAP): nonlinear dynamics, hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics
James D. Baeder (ENAE): computational fluid dynamics
Ferdinand Baer (AOSC): numerical weather and climate prediction and atmospheric dynamics
Ilias Balaras (ENME): computational fluid dynamics, turbulence and bio-medical flows
Avram Bar-Cohen (ENME): thermofluid modeling, boiling and two-phase flow
Peter S. Bernard (ENME): vortex methods, turbulent flow prediction and theory
David I. Bigio (ENME): mixing of fluid systems and chaos theory of mixing
Kaye L. Brubaker (ENCE): hydrology, hydrologic and water-quality modeling, global water-vapor transport
Richard V. Calabrese (ENCH): multi-phase flow, turbulence and mixing
James A. Carton (ESSIC/AOSC): ocean dynamics
Gennady A. Chepurin (AOSC): ocean dynamics
Anil Deane (IPST): fluid dynamics, MHD, computation, visualization
Donald L. DeVoe (ENEE/ISR): bio-microfluidics and nanofluidics
Panagiotis Dimitrakopoulos (ENCH): computational fluid dynamics: multiphase flows, mesoscale polymer dynamics, biophysics, numerical analysis
J. Robert Dorfman (IPST/PHYS): kinetic theory and microscopic chaotic dynamics
William D. Dorland (PHYS/IREAP/CSCAMM): plasma turbulence, kinetic algorithms
James F. Drake (IPST/PHYS/IREAP): magnetohydrodynamics in plasmas
James A. Duncan (ENME): experimental fluid dynamics - breaking waves, bubble dynamics and solid/fluid interactions
Ramani Duraiswami (CSMC/UMIACS): computational fluid dynamics, multiphase flow
Howard Elman (CSMC): computational fluid dynamics, numerical analysis, numerical linear algebra, parallel computation
Nail Gumerov (UMIACS/AMSC): computational physics, multiphase flows, bubble dynamics and linear/nonlinear waves
Ashwani K. Gupta (ENME): swirl flows; combustion, fuel sprays, high-temperature air combustion and air pollution
Parvez N. Guzdar (IREAP): theory and simulations for fluids and fusion/space plasmas
Adil B. Hassam (PHYS/IREAP): magnetohydrodynamics and fusion
Sash Hier-Majumder (GEOL/AMSC): Geodynamics, multiphase flow, magma dynamics, physical properties of suspensions, non-quilibrium thermodynamics
Brian R. Hunt (IPST/MATH): nonlinear dynamics and chaos, numerical weather prediction
Kayo Ide (AOSC): data assimilation, atmospheric and oceanic variability, Lagrangian analysis, dynamical systems
Gregory S. Jackson (ENME): combustion and flame stability
Christopher Jarzynski (CHBC): foundations of nonequilibrium thermodynamics, thermodynamic properties of complex systems, biophysical statistical mechanics
Eugenia E. Kalnay (IPST/AOSC): atmospheric modeling)
Kenneth T. Kiger (ENME): multi-phase flows, turbulence and biological fluid dynamics
Jungho Kim (ENME): phase change heat transfer and fluid flow
Daniel Kirk-Davidoff (AOSC): climate dynamics
Daniel P. Lathrop (IPST/PHYS/IREAP): nonlinear dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, Geophysics
C. David Levermore (IPST/MATH): fluid dynamics and applied mathematics
Doron Levy (MATH/CSCAMM): computational fluid dynamics, bioscience
Mark J. Lewis (ENAE): hypersonic aerodynamics, optimal aerodynamics, propulsion flowpaths
Jian-Guo Liu (IPST/MATH): computational fluid dynamics
Wolfgang Losert (IPST/PHYS/IREAP): nonlinear dynamics, granular flows, bioscience
Dionisios Margetis (MATH/IPST/CSCAMM): mathematical materials science and statistical mechanics
Andre W. Marshall (ENFP): fire induced flows; atomization and sprays; combustion
Pino Martin (ENAE): physics of tubulent flows and numerical methods for simulation of turbulence
Howard M. Milchberg (IPST/ENCE/PHYS): nonlinear optics, plasma hydrodynamics
Laurent G. J. Montési (GEOL/AMSC): Geodynamics, nonlinear dynamics, rheology, melt migration
Raghuram Murtugudde (ESSIC/AOSC): computational fluid dynamics and ocean modeling
Sumant Nigam (ESSIC/AOSC): atmospheric and oceanic dynamics
Richard H. Nochetto (IPST/MATH): finite-element methods, projection methods, adaptivity
Serguei Novikov (IPST/MATH): mathematical physics and dynamics
Eve C. Ostriker (ASTR): astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics
Edward Ott (ENEE/PHYS/IREAP): nonlinear dynamics, chaos
K. Dennis Papadopolous (PHYS/ASTR): plasma physics and space physics
Srinivasan R. Raghavan (ENCH): rheology of complex non-Newtonian fluids
Chris Reynolds (ASTR): astrophysical magenetohydrodynamics, accretion disk theory
Derek Richardson (ASTRO): granular media
Rajarshi Roy (IPST/PHYS/IREAP): nonlinear dynamics and noise
Jan V. Sengers (IPST/ENCH/ENME): fluctuations and thermal transport phenomena
Benjamin Shapiro (ENAE) modeling and control of fluid dynamics
Adel Shirmohammadi (BIOE) computational fluid dynamics in porous media
Elisabeth Smela (ENME): micro-systems, conjugated polymers, bio-MEMS
Katepalli R. Sreenivasan (IPST/ENME): complex fluids, combustion, nonlinear dynamics and turbulence
Peter B. Sunderland (ENFP): experimental fire science and combustion
Eitan Tadmor (IPST/MATH/CSCAMM): mathematical analysis and computational fluid dynamics
Konstantina Trivisa (MATH): fluid dynamics, multicomponent reactive flows, non-linear analysis, nonlinear conservation laws and related models
Arnaud C. Trouve (ENFP): computational fluid dynamics, reacting flows
James M. Wallace (ENME/IPST): experimental fluid mechanics and turbulence
Peter H. Yoon (IPST): magnetohydrodynamics and plasma turbulence
James A. Yorke (IPST/MATH/PHYS): nonlinear dynamics and chaos
Da-Lin Zhang (AOSC): atmospheric dynamics, numerical weather prediction

Abbreviations

AMSC: Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation Program
AOSC: Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
ASTR: Department of Astronomy
BIOE: Deparmtent of Bioengineering
CSCAMM: Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling
CHBC: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
CSMC: Department of Computer Science
ENAE: Department of Aerospace Engineering
ENCE: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
ENCH: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
ENEE: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
ENFP: Department of Fire Protection Engineering
ENMA: Department of Materials and Nuclear Engineering
ENME: Department of Mechanical Engineering
ESSIC: Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center
GEOL: Department of Geology
IPST: Institute for Physical Science and Technology
IREAP: Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics
ISR: Institute for Systems Research
MATH: Department of Mathematics
PHYS: Department of Physics
UMIACS: University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies