Omar M. Knio

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Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. Professor, and Director of Uncertainty and Risk Assessment

My research interests encompass computational fluid mechanics, oceanic and atmospheric flows, turbulent flow, physical acoustics, chemically-reactive flow, energetic materials, microfluidic devices, dynamical systems, numerical methods, and asymptotic and stochastic techniques.

Contact Information:
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Education:

PhDMassachusetts Institute of Technology1990
SCMassachusetts Institute of Technology1986
BSEAmerican University of Beirut1984

Specialties:

Computational Mechanics
Fluid Mechanics
Acoustics

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions:

  • Associated Western Universities Faculty Fellowship Award, Associated Western Universities
  • Distinguished Alumnus Award, American University of Beirut
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award, Humboldt Foundation
  • Penrose Award, American University of Beirut
  • R&D 100 Award for "Nanofoil Product", R&D Magazine

Representative Publications: (More Publications)
    • Rizzi, F. and Salloum, M. and Marzouk, Y. M. and Xu, R. G. and Falk, M. L. and Weihs, T. P. and Fritz, G. and Knio, O. M., BAYESIAN INFERENCE OF ATOMIC DIFFUSIVITY IN A BINARY NI/AL SYSTEM BASED ON MOLECULAR DYNAMICS, MULTISCALE MODELING \& SIMULATION, vol 9 no. 1 (2011), pp. 486--512 [doi] [abs].
    • Salloum, M. and Knio, O. M., Simulation of reactive nanolaminates using reduced models: I. Basic formulation, COMBUSTION AND FLAME, vol 157 no. 2 (2010), pp. 288--295 [doi] [abs].
    • Klein, R. and Achatz, U. and Bresch, D. and Knio, O. M. and Smolarkiewicz, P. K., Regime of Validity of Soundproof Atmospheric Flow Models, JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, vol 67 no. 10 (2010), pp. 3226--3237 [doi] [abs].
    • Le Maitre, O. P. and Mathelin, L. and Knio, O. M. and Hussaini, M. Y., ASYNCHRONOUS TIME INTEGRATION FOR POLYNOMIAL CHAOS EXPANSION OF UNCERTAIN PERIODIC DYNAMICS, DISCRETE AND CONTINUOUS DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS, vol 28 no. 1 (2010), pp. 199--226 [doi] [abs].
    • Salloum, M. and Knio, O. M., Simulation of reactive nanolaminates using reduced models: III. Ingredients for a general multidimensional formulation, COMBUSTION AND FLAME, vol 157 no. 6 (2010), pp. 1154--1166 [doi] [abs].