MEMSDUKEPRATT School of engineering

Education

  • PhD, University of Virginia, 1975
  • MS, University of Virginia, 1971
  • BE, Manhattan College, 1969
Edward J Shaughnessy
  • Office Location: 056 Engineering Building
  • Office Phone: (919) 660-5304
  • Email Address: eshaughn@duke.edu

    • Professor Shaughnessy's research interests include analytical, experimental, and computational studies of flow problems arising in biology, medicine, and biotechnology as well as in more traditional mechanical engineering applications.

    Current research efforts include the effect of flow of non-Newtonian fluid properties on the flow separation near a tee junction representing a model of blood flow near a coronary artery graft; heat and momentum transfer near rough surfaces modeled by fractal distributions of surface roughness; the influence of flow on particle trajectories in electrostatic precipitators, inertial separators and aerosol sampling devices; and flow processes within or near deformable boundaries. The above work employs finite element based computational fluid dynamics using steady and transient simulations of 2-D and 3-D flow.

    Specialties
    Fluid Mechanics

    TEACHING (Fall 2009)

    ME 221.01, COMPRESSIBLE FLUID FLOW, MWF 08:45 AM-09:35 AM
    ME 226.01, INTERMED FLUID MECHANICS, MWF 10:20 AM-11:10 AM

    TEACHING (Spring 2010)

    ME 126L.001, FLUID MECHANICS,
    ME 126L.01L, FLUID MECHANICS,
    ME 227.01, ADVANCED FLUID MECHANICS,

    Recent Publications More Publications

    1. Ren, Hong and Fair, Richard B. and Pollack, Michael G. and Shaughnessy, Edward J., Dynamics of electro-wetting droplet transport, Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical, vol. 87 no. 1 (2002), ppt. 201 - 206 , [S0925-4005(02)00223-X] [abs]
    2. Shaughnessy, Edward J. and Van Gilder, James W., Low Rayleigh number conjugate convection in straight inclined fractures in rock, Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications, vol. 28 no. 4 (1995), ppt. 389 - 408 [abs]
    3. Katz, I.M. and Shaughnessy, E.J. and Cress, B.B., Technical problem in the calculation of laminar flow near irregular surfaces described by sampled geometric data, Journal of Biomechanics, vol. 28 no. 4 (1995), ppt. 461 - 464 , [0021-9290(94)00086-J] [abs]
    4. Katz, I.M. and Shaughnessy, E.J. and Cress, B.B., A technical problem in the calculation of laminar flow near irregular surfaces described by sampled geometric data, J. Biomech. (UK), vol. 28 no. 4 (1995), ppt. 461 - 4 , [0021-9290(94)00086-J] [abs]
    5. Katz, Ira M. and Shaughnessy, E.J. and Zhang, Zongqin, Method for calculating the average cross-section pressure distribution in tube flows within the vorticity-streamfunction formulation, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals, vol. 22 no. 3 (1992), ppt. 349 - 365 [abs]

    Research Interests

      Analytical, experimental, and computational studies of flow problems arising in biology, medicine, and biotechnology as well as in more traditional mechanical engineering applications.

    The mission of Duke's Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science educational programs is to provide the knowledge, skills, and credentials needed to be successful in the practice of engineering; the preparation necessary to undertake professional registration; an educational preparation for graduate or professional study; and an education background that is the basis for professional growth and leadership throughout a career that may encompass a broad range of endeavors, both technical and non-technical.