Solid Mechanics Faculty
Associate Professor
Hydroelastic modeling of deformable structures, transport in thermal and chemical systems, experimental and computational fluid dynamics, nonlinear and complex systems, heat and mass transport in biological systems, stability of fluid motions, machine learning, data mining, econophysics, reduced...
Associate Professor and Co-director, Energy & Environment Certificate; Associate-Director, Gendell Center
Fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, and dynamics
Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. Professor, and Director of Uncertainty and Risk Assessment
Professor
Professor Virgin's research is centered on studying the behavior of nonlinear dynamical systems. This work may be broadly divided into two components. First, investigation of the fundamental nature of nonlinear systems based on a mathematical description of their underlying equations of motion....
Assistant Professor
Dr Zhao's research is to understand the fundamental mechanics and physics of materials and phenomena emerging on the interface between engineering and biological systems and to design new materials and structures capable of extraordinary functions. He is currently particularly interested in soft...