Department of Aerospace and
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Multiphase DNS: An Introduction

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AME30331, Fall 2011

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Gretar Tryggvason

Viola D. Hank Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

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Education

• B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Iceland, 1980
• Sc.M., Brown University, Division of Engineering, 1982
• Ph.D., Brown University, Division of Engineering, 1985

Professional Activites and Recognitions

• Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Computational Physics
• Fellow of the American Physical Society
• Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• The 2005 Computational Mechanics Award from the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
• WPI Sigma Xi Outstanding Senior Faculty Research Award, 2006

Research

• Multiphase and Free Surface Flows
• Phase Changes, including Boiling and Solidification
• Vortex Flows and Combustion
• Numerical Methods

Selected Publications

• G. Tryggvason, R. Scardovelli and S. Zaleski. "Direct Numerical Simulations of Gas-Liquid Multiphase Flows." Cambridge University Press, 2011.
• L. Lu and G. Tryggvason. "Effect of Bubble Deformability in Turbulent Bubbly Upflow in a Vertical Channel." Physics of Fluids, 20 040701 (2008). Also selected for the May 12, 2008 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.
• S. Radl, A. Koynov, G. Tryggvason, and J. G. Khinast. "DNS-based Prediction of the Selectivity of Fast Multiphase Reactions: Hydrogenation of Nitroarenes." Chem Eng Sci. 63 (2008), 3279-3291.
• A. Prosperetti and G. Tryggvason (editors and main contributors). "Computational Methods for Multiphase Flow." Cambridge University Press, 2007. Paperback edition 2009. Reviewed in: J. Fluid Mech., 603 (2008), 474-475; Int'l. J. Multiphase Flow, 34 (2008), 1096-1097.
• J. Lu, A. Fernandez, and G. Tryggvason. "The effect of bubbles on the wall shear in a turbulent channel flow." Physics of Fluids 17 (2005), 095102 (12 pages).

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Last updated 8/18/2010 by Gretar Tryggvason