Charles A. Miller Jr. Distinguished Professor
and Department Head
Department of Mechanical Engineering
223 Latrobe Hall, 3400 N. Charles Street
Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, MD, 21218-2681
Phone: 410-516-5970
Online Profiles
Education
Professional Activities and Recognitions
Professional Experience
2017 Charles A. Miller, Jr. Distinguished Professor and Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. From 7/1/2017.
2017 Adjunct Professor, University of Notre Dame
2015 Adjunct Professor, North Carolina State University
2011 – 2017 Chair, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, IN (Interim, 3/23/2011-12/31/2011).
2010 – 2017 Viola D. Hank Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, IN
2016 Visiting Professor, University of Paris VI, France, 6/13-7/9
2000 – 2010 Professor and Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA
1999 Visiting Scientist, University of Paris VI, France, 4/19-5/8
1998 Visiting Professor, Institut Universitaire des Systèmes Thermiques Industriels (IUSTI), University of Aix-Marseille, France, 4/15-5/15
1994 Visiting Research Associate, Caltech, 1/1-5/31 (Sabbatical)
1993 – 1997 Associate Chairman, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1991 – 1996 Visiting Research Position, Institute for Computational Mechanics in Propulsion, NASA Lewis Research Center, every summer.
1985 – 2000 Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. (Assistant Professor, 1985-1991; Associate Professor, 1991-1997; Professor, 1997-2000)
1984 – 1985 Associate Research Scientist, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.
Selected Honors and Awards
2019 Thermal Fluids Engineering Award from the American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineering (ASTFE). For prolific scholarship focused on numerical analysis of multiphase flow and career-long active engagement with engineering education.
2014 Outstanding Paper Award. Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan.
2013 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). For the advancement of numerical methods to track the motion of fluid interfaces and innovative approaches to undergraduate engineering education.
2012 Fluids Engineering Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). For remarkable contributions to the art, science and practice of computation in fluids engineering; and for outstanding leadership in mechanical engineering education.
2005 Computational Mechanics Award from the Computational Mechanics Division of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME).
2005 Elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
2000 Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (Division of Fluid Dynamics). For pioneering the use of direct numerical simulations for the study of finite Reynolds number multiphase flows, including the development of computational methods and studies of bubbly flows.
1983 Predoctoral Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Selected Journal Editorships
2020 – now Advisory Editorial Board, Physics of Fluids
2011 – now Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal of Multiphase Flow
2002 – 2015 Editor-in-chief, Journal of Computational Physics
2002 – 2009 Associate Editor, International Journal of Multiphase Flow
1992 – 2002 Associate Editor, Journal of Computational Physics
Research
Computations of multiphase flows. Direct numerical simulations of complex multiphase flows, including heat transfer, boiling, cavitation, solidification, surfactants, and reactions. Applications to turbulent bubbly flows, atomization, additive manufacturing, and other problems. Numerical methods for tracking sharp fluid interfaces. Averaged and reduced order models of multiphase flows. Multiscale approaches to capture small-scales in multiphase flows.
Books
Click here for a Bibtex File with my journal papers, book chapters, Ph.D. Dissertations that I have supervised, and some of my conference papers. The list of conference papers is very incomplete.
Educational Activities
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Curriculum Vitae
Tryggvason’s full CV is available here.