Center for Fluid Mechanics

People

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
    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
  • Jesse Ault

    Jesse Ault

    Assistant Professor of Engineering
    Jesse_Ault@brown.edu
    Ault Lab
    Research Interests Classical fluid dynamics theory, Non-linear dynamical systems, Thermo-fluidic multi-physics phenomena, High-performance computing, Computational fluid dynamics, Electrokinetics
  • Kenny Breuer

    Kenny Breuer

    Professor of Engineering, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary 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 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
    Baylor_Fox-Kemper@brown.edu
    Research Profile
    Website
    Research Interests Oceanography, Mixing and Turbulence, Climate Modeling, Waves
  • Dan Harris

    Dan Harris

    Assistant 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

    Senior Lecturer in Physics at the University of Auckland and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Brown University
    Christopher_Horvat@Brown.edu
    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
    Christian_Huber@brown.edu
    Research Profile
    Website
    Research Interests Research interests: multiphase fluid dynamics of magmas, porous media flows, lattice Boltzmann numerical methods.
  • George Karniadakis

    George Karniadakis

    Charles Pitts Robinson and John Palmer Barstow Professor of Applied Mathematics
    George_Karniadakis@brown.edu
    Website
  • Jung-Eun Lee

    Jung-Eun Lee

    Associate Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
    Jung-Eun_Lee@brown.edu
    Research Profile
    Website
    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
    amanda_lynch@brown.edu
    Research Profile
    Website
  • Brad Marston

    Brad Marston

    Professor of Physics
    Brad_Marston@brown.edu
    Website
    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
    mmwilhelmus@brown.edu
    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
    Martin_Maxey@brown.edu
    Research Profile
    Research Interests Shear Flows of Viscous Suspensions, Two-phase Flows and applications of machine learning

  • Jeff Oishi

    Visiting Associate Professor of Physics
    Jeffrey_Oishi@Brown.edu
    Research Interests Computational fluid dynamics
  • Tom Powers

    Tom Powers

    Professor of Engineering, Professor of Physics
    Thomas_Powers@brown.edu
    Website
    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
    Mauro_Rodriguez@Brown.edu
    Research Interests Computational fluid dynamics, Two-phase flows: solid-liquid flows, bubbly flows, granular flows
  • Jay Tang

    Jay Tang

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

    Victor Tsai

    Associate Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
    Victor_Tsai@brown.edu
    Research Profile
    Website
    Research Interests Seismology, Geomechanics, Fluid-Solid Interactions, Debris Flows, Waves
  • Roberto Zenit

    Roberto Zenit

    Professor of Engineering
    Roberto_Zenit@brown.edu
    Website
    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

  • Asimanshu Das

    Group Roberto Zenit

  • Xiaowei He

    Research Interests Fluid Structure Interactions
    Group Kenny Breuer

  • Navid Hooshanginejad

    Research Interests Interfacial phenomena
    Group Dan Harris

  • 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

  • Joel Newbolt

    Research Interests Mechanics of flexible cylinders inspired by Seal Vibrissae
    Group Kenny Breuer

  • Eli Silver

    Research Interests Research Engineer
    Group Dan Harris

  • Yunxing Su

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

  • Sakthi Swarrup

    Research Interests Active wing materials for Flapping flight
    Group Kenny Breuer

Graduate Students

  • Luke Alventosa

    Group Dan Harris

  • 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

  • Xiaozhou Fan

    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

  • Yutian He

    Group Tom Powers

  • Anoop Kiren

    Gropu Kenny Breuer

  • Zifei Liu

    Group Tom Powers

  • Anna Lo Piccolo

    Group Baylor Fox-Kemper

  • Anna Lo Piccolo

    Group Baylor Fox-Kemper

  • Brad Lockhart

    Group Amanda Lynch

  • Wan Luo

    Group Tom Powers

  • 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

  • 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

  • Andres Zambrano

    Group Roberto Zenit

  • Andrey Zanin

    Group Mauro Rodriguez

  • Chenyu Zhang

    Group Brad Marston