Research Faculty

Projects

Potential Applications

Graham V. Candler
Professor

Simulations of Microscale Flows for Active Material Actuators

Potential applications include development of microsurgery methods, advanced actuators for flow control, as well as microscale aircraft.

Richard James
Russell J. Penrose Professor

Computational methods for the direct passage from atomic scale to continuum scale. Past Project: (MURI)

Behavior of active materials (shape memory and magnetostrictive materials) at nanoscale.

Epitaxial growth and properties of nanoscale films of the ferromagnetic shape memory material Ni₂MnGa (joint with Chris Palmstrom).

Phase transformations in the nanoscale virus Bacteriophage T-4, and possible man-made analogs.

Basic question: "Does a material that undergoes the shape memory effect at large scales still undergo the effect at nanoscale?". Producing motion at small scales particularly using remotely applied fields.

Daniel D Joseph
Professor

Heat transfer by convection in nanofluids (with R.J. Goldstein, D.H. Pui).

Understand the fluid transport properties of the highly viscous composite fluid.

Ellen K. Longmire
Professor

Fluid/structure interactions in MEMS

In this project, we examine the effect of micro- and nanoscale gaps on the motion of structures in MEMS.