Center for Fluid Mechanics

People

Learn about the faculty, postdoctoral and graduate students in the Center for Fluids Mechanics at Brown.

Faculty

  • Linda Abriola

    Linda Abriola

    Joan Wernig and E. Paul Sorensen Professor of Engineering
    Research Interests Groundwater hydrology, Soil and groundwater remediation, Mathematical modeling of multiphase flow and transport in porous media, Nanoparticle transport and reactivity
  • Kenny Breuer

    Kenny Breuer

    Professor of Engineering, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Director of the Center for Fluid Mechanics
    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
    Research Interests Ocean climate and its impact on marine ecosystems and coastal communities, Equitable and practicable ocean-based solutions to climate
  • Baylor Fox Kemper

    Baylor Fox-Kemper

    Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
    Research Interests Oceanography, Turbulence and waves, Model-observation comparisons and statistics
  • Mara Freilich

    Mara Freilich

    Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics, and Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
    Research Interests Ocean and climate modeling, ecosystem dynamics and modeling, oceanography and microbial ecology observations, community-engaged research
  • Dan Harris

    Dan Harris

    Assistant Professor of Engineering
    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
  • Chris Horvat

    Christopher Horvat

    Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
    Research Interests Polar oceanography, Connections between Earth's climate, oceans, sea ice, Life across physical scales
  • Chris Huber

    Christian Huber

    Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
    Research Interests Research interests: multiphase fluid dynamics of magmas, porous media flows, lattice Boltzmann numerical methods., Lattice Boltzmann numerical methods
  • George Karniadakis

    George Karniadakis

    Charles Pitts Robinson and John Palmer Barstow Professor of Applied Mathematics and Engineering
    Research Interests Machine learning for fluid mechanics
  • Jung-Eun Lee

    Jung-Eun Lee

    Associate Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
    Research Interests Climate Modeling, Global Water Cycle, Paleoclimate
  • Amanda Lynch

    Amanda Lynch

    Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Sloan Lindemann and George Lindemann, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies
    Research Interests Intersection between atmospheric science, Climate and limited area modeling, Environmental governance, with particular interests in the Arctic
  • Brad Marston

    Brad Marston

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

    Monica Martinez Wilhelmus

    Assistant Professor of Engineering
    Research Interests Experimental Fluid Mechanics, Arctic climate change - sea ice, atmospheric composition, climate modeling
  • Martin Maxey

    Martin Maxey

    Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics and Engineering
    Research Interests Shear Flows of Viscous Suspensions, Two-phase Flows and applications of machine learning
  • Jeff Oishi

    Visiting Associate Professor of Physics
    Research Interests Computational fluid dynamics
  • Tom Powers

    Tom Powers

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

    Mauro Rodriguez

    Assistant Professor of Engineering
    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

    Jay Tang

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

    Victor Tsai

    Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
    Research Interests Seismology, Geomechanics, Fluid-Solid Interactions, Debris Flows, Waves
  • Roberto Zenit

    Roberto Zenit

    Professor of Engineering
    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.

Postdoctoral Fellows

  • Adam Ayouche

    Research Interests Large Eddy Simulations of offshore wind farms, Coastal ocean & wave modeling
    Group Baylor Fox-Kemper
  • Asimanshu Das

    Group Roberto Zenit
  • Lilian Dove

    Research Interests Southern Ocean dynamics and biophysical processes
    Group Mara Freilich
  • Xiaowei He

    Research Interests Fluid Structure Interactions
    Group Kenny Breuer
  • Adrian Herrera-Amaya

    Research Interests Propulsion at intermediate Reynolds
    Group Dan Harris, Monica M Wilhemus
  • Robert Hunt

    Research Interests Fluid-structure interactions, interfacial flows
    Group Dan Harris
  • Minki Kim

    Research Interests Simulation of rocking bioreactors
    Group Monica Wilhelmus
  • Xueke Li

    Research Interests Arctic climate change - sea ice, atmospheric composition, climate modeling
    Group Amanda Lynch
  • Eli Silver

    Research Interests Research Engineer
    Group Dan Harris
  • Yunxing Su

    Research Interests Viscoelastic coiling, Flow around rotating helices
    Group Roberto Zenit

Graduate Students

  • Kian Abeywick

    Group Brad Marston
  • John Antolik

    Group Dan Harris
  • Jack-William Barotta

    Group Dan Harris
  • Federico Cao

    Group Tom Powers
  • Morgan Castleberry

    Group Jesse Ault
  • Anson Cheung

    Group Baylor Fox-Kemper
  • Eva Erickson

    Group Kenny Breuer
  • Madeline Federle

    Group Roberto Zenit
  • Joel Feske

    Group Baylor Fox-Kemper
  • Ronan Gissler

    Group Kenny Breuer
  • Eric Handy-Cardenas

    Group Kenny Breuer
  • Siyang Hao

    Group Kenny Breuer
  • Anoop Kiran

    Group Kenny Breuer
  • Maya Lewis

    Group Dan Harris
  • Zifei Liu

    Group Tom Powers
  • Anna Lo Piccolo

    Group Baylor Fox-Kemper
  • Anna Lo Piccolo

    Group Baylor Fox-Kemper
  • Brad Lockhart

    Group Amanda Lynch
  • Mohammad Majidi

    Group Mauro Rodriguez
  • Robben Migacz

    Group Jesse Ault
  • John Nicklas

    Group Baylor Fox-Kemper
  • Mithun Ravisankar

    Group Roberto Zenit
  • Sawyer Remillard

    Group Roberto Zenit
  • Lulabel Ruiz Seitz

    Group Mara Freilich
  • Pranay Sampat

    Group Tom Powers
  • Jian Teng

    Group Jesse Ault
  • Avery Trevino

    Group Roberto Zenit
  • Haoyi Wang

    Group Jesse Ault
  • Weixuan (Rosa) Xu

    Group Baylor Fox-Kemper
  • Gabriel Yerger

    Group Tom Powers
  • Andres Zambrano

    Group Roberto Zenit
  • Andrey Zanin

    Group Mauro Rodriguez