Center for Fluid Mechanics

People

Learn about the Center for Fluid Mechanics (CFM) faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students.

People

Learn about the Center for Fluid Mechanics (CFM) faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students.

Faculty

Linda Abriola

Joan Wernig and E. Paul Sorensen Professor of Engineering

Linda_Abriola@Brown.edu

Research Profile

Research Interests Groundwater hydrology, Soil and groundwater remediation, Mathematical modeling of multiphase flow and transport in porous media, Nanoparticle transport and reactivity
Kenny Breuer

Professor of Engineering, Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Director of the Center for Fluid Mechanics

kbreuer@brown.edu

Research Profile

Breuer Lab

Research Interests Experimental Fluid Mechanics, Animal Flight, Vortex Dynamics, Energy Harvesting, Active Matter, Micron-scale Fluidics
Emanuele Di Lorenzo

Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences

e.dilorenzo@Brown.edu

Research Profile

Research Interests Ocean climate and its impact on marine ecosystems and coastal communities, Equitable and practicable ocean-based solutions to climate
Baylor Fox-Kemper

Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences

Baylor_Fox-Kemper@brown.edu

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Research Interests Oceanography, Turbulence and waves, Model-observation comparisons and statistics
Mara Freilich

Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics, and Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences

mara_freilich@brown.edu

Research Profile

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Research Interests Ocean and climate modeling, ecosystem dynamics and modeling, oceanography and microbial ecology observations, community-engaged research
Dan Harris

Associate Professor of Engineering

Daniel_Harris3@Brown.edu

Harris Lab

Research Interests Fluid-Solid Interactions at the Capillary Scale, Particle and Solute Dispersion in Viscous Flows, Open Hardware and Accessible Science, Mathematical Modeling for Biomedical Device and Cultivated Meat Technologies
Christopher Horvat

Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences

Christopher_Horvat@Brown.edu

Website

Research Interests Polar oceanography, Connections between Earth's climate, oceans, sea ice, Life across physical scales
Christian Huber

Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences

Christian_Huber@brown.edu

Research Profile

Research Interests Research interests: multiphase fluid dynamics of magmas, porous media flows, lattice Boltzmann numerical methods., Lattice Boltzmann numerical methods
George Karniadakis

Charles Pitts Robinson and John Palmer Barstow Professor of Applied Mathematics and Engineering

George_Karniadakis@brown.edu

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Research Interests Machine learning for fluid mechanics
Jung-Eun Lee

Associate Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences

Jung-Eun_Lee@brown.edu

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Research Interests Climate Modeling, Global Water Cycle, Paleoclimate
Amanda Lynch

Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Sloan Lindemann and George Lindemann, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies

amanda_lynch@brown.edu

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Research Interests Intersection between atmospheric science, Climate and limited area modeling, Environmental governance, with particular interests in the Arctic
Brad Marston

Professor of Physics

Brad_Marston@brown.edu

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Research Interests Statistical description of turbulent flows, including geophysical and astrophysical fluids, Waves of topological origin in fluids and plasmas
Monica Martinez Wilhelmus

Thomas J. and Alice M. Tisch Assistant Professor of Engineering

mmwilhelmus@brown.edu

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Research Interests Experimental Fluid Mechanics, Arctic climate change - sea ice, atmospheric composition, climate modeling
Martin Maxey

Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics and Engineering

Martin_Maxey@brown.edu

Research Profile

Research Interests Shear Flows of Viscous Suspensions, Two-phase Flows and applications of machine learning
Tom Powers

Professor of Engineering, Professor of Physics

Thomas_Powers@brown.edu

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Research Interests Soft Matter: membranes, liquid crystals, colloids, and polymers, Active Matter, Locomotion at low Reynolds numbers
Mauro Rodriguez

Assistant Professor of Engineering

Mauro_Rodriguez@Brown.edu

Research Profile

Research Interests Continuum mechanics, Fluid mechanics, Computational multi-phase and -component flow dynamics, Diffused interfaces, Non-linear viscoelasticity, Cavitation bubble dynamics, Droplets, High-strain-rate flow physics, Fluid-structure interactions, High-performance computing, Eulerian methods
Jay Tang

Professor of Physics and Engineering

Jay_Tang@brown.edu

Research Profile

Research Interests Bacterial motility-swimming and swarming; self-assembly & active matter; pattern formation & collective motion
Victor Tsai

Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences

Victor_Tsai@brown.edu

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Research Interests Seismology, Geomechanics, Fluid-Solid Interactions, Debris Flows, Waves
Roberto Zenit

Professor of Engineering

Roberto_Zenit@brown.edu

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Research Interests Two-phase flows: solid-liquid flows, bubbly flows, granular flows, Swimming in creeping flows: synthetic swimmers, non Newtonian effects, The mechanics artistic painting: Siqueiros, Pollock, watercolors, etc.