{"id":68,"date":"2017-08-10T20:48:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T00:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/tryggvason\/?page_id=68"},"modified":"2025-06-17T14:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T18:47:17","slug":"gretar-tryggvason","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/tryggvason\/gretar-tryggvason\/","title":{"rendered":"Gretar Tryggvason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-78\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/tryggvason\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Tryggvason-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"240\" \/><br \/>Charles A. Miller Jr. Distinguished Professor<br \/>and Department Head<br \/>Department of Mechanical Engineering<br \/>223 Latrobe Hall, 3400 N. Charles Street<br \/>Johns Hopkins University,<br \/>Baltimore, MD, 21218-2681<br \/>Email: gtryggv1@jh.edu<\/p>\n<h2>Online Profiles<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"menu\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.researcherid.com\/rid\/H-4445-2011\">ResearcherID Profile<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=tUXL6-oAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">Google Scholar Profile<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Gretar_Tryggvason\">ResearchGate Profile<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scopus.com\/authid\/detail.uri?authorId=7005126358\">Scopus<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9884-8901\">ORCID<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Education<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"menu\">\n<li>B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Iceland, 1980<\/li>\n<li>Sc.M., Brown University, Division of Engineering, 1982<\/li>\n<li>Ph.D., Brown University, Division of Engineering, 1985<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Professional Activities and Recognitions<\/h2>\n<p><b>Professional Experience<\/b><\/p>\n<p>2017 \u00a0 \u00a0Charles A. Miller, Jr. Distinguished Professor and Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. From 7\/1\/2017.<\/p>\n<p>2017 \u00a0 \u00a0Adjunct Professor, University of Notre Dame<\/p>\n<p>2015 \u00a0 \u00a0Adjunct Professor, North Carolina State University<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>2011 &#8211; 2017 \u00a0 Chair, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, IN (Interim, 3\/23\/2011-12\/31\/2011).<\/p>\n<p>2010 &#8211; 2017 \u00a0 \u00a0Viola D. Hank Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, IN<\/p>\n<p>2016 \u00a0 \u00a0Visiting Professor, University of Paris VI, France, 6\/13-7\/9<\/p>\n<p>2000 \u2013 2010 \u00a0 \u00a0Professor and Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA<\/p>\n<p>1999 \u00a0 \u00a0Visiting Scientist, University of Paris VI, France, 4\/19-5\/8<\/p>\n<p>1998 \u00a0 \u00a0Visiting Professor, Institut Universitaire des Syst\u00e8mes Thermiques\u00a0Industriels (IUSTI), University of Aix-Marseille, France, 4\/15-5\/15<\/p>\n<p>1994 \u00a0 \u00a0Visiting Research Associate, Caltech, 1\/1-5\/31 (Sabbatical)<\/p>\n<p>1993 &#8211; 1997 \u00a0 \u00a0Associate Chairman, Department of Mechanical Engineering and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Applied Mechanics. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor<\/p>\n<p>1991 &#8211; 1996 \u00a0 \u00a0Visiting Research Position, Institute for Computational Mechanics in\u00a0Propulsion, NASA Lewis Research Center, every summer.<\/p>\n<p>1985 &#8211; 2000 \u00a0 \u00a0Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics.\u00a0University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. (Assistant Professor, 1985-1991; Associate Professor, 1991-1997; \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Professor, 1997-2000)<\/p>\n<p>1984 &#8211; 1985 \u00a0 \u00a0Associate Research Scientist, Courant Institute of\u00a0Mathematical Sciences, New York University.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Selected Honors and Awards<\/b><\/p>\n<p>2019 \u00a0 \u00a0Thermal Fluids Engineering Award from the American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineering (ASTFE). <i>For prolific scholarship focused on numerical analysis of multiphase \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0flow and career-long active engagement with engineering education.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>2014 \u00a0 \u00a0Outstanding Paper Award. Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan.<\/p>\n<p>2013 \u00a0 \u00a0Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). <i>For the advancement of numerical methods to track the motion of fluid interfaces and \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 innovative approaches to undergraduate engineering education.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>2012 \u00a0 \u00a0Fluids Engineering Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). <i>For remarkable contributions to the art, science and practice of computation in fluids \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 engineering; and for outstanding leadership in mechanical engineering education.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>2005 \u00a0 \u00a0Computational Mechanics Award from the Computational Mechanics Division of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME).<\/p>\n<p>2005 \u00a0 \u00a0Elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.<\/p>\n<p>2000 \u00a0 \u00a0Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (Division of Fluid Dynamics). <i>For pioneering the use of direct numerical simulations for the study of finite Reynolds number \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 multiphase flows, including the development of computational methods and studies of bubbly flows.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>1983 \u00a0 \u00a0Predoctoral Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.<\/p>\n<p><b>Selected Journal Editorships<\/b><\/p>\n<p>2020 &#8211; now \u00a0 Advisory Editorial Board, Physics of Fluids<\/p>\n<p>2011 &#8211; now \u00a0 Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal of Multiphase Flow<\/p>\n<p>2002 &#8211; 2015 \u00a0 \u00a0Editor-in-chief, Journal of Computational Physics<\/p>\n<p>2002 &#8211; 2009 \u00a0 \u00a0Associate Editor, International Journal of Multiphase Flow<\/p>\n<p>1992 &#8211; 2002 \u00a0 \u00a0Associate Editor, Journal of Computational Physics<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Research<\/h2>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h2>Books<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"menu\">\n<li>G. Tryggvason, R. Scardovelli and S. Zaleski.<br \/>Direct Numerical Simulations of Gas-Liquid Multiphase Flows.<br \/>Cambridge University Press, 2011.<\/li>\n<li>A. Prosperetti and G. Tryggvason (editors and main contributors).<br \/>Computational Methods for Multiphase Flow.<br \/>Cambridge University Press, 2007. Paperback edition 2009.<br \/>Reviewed in: <i>J. Fluid Mech.,<\/i> 603 (2008), 474-475;<br \/><i>Int&#8217;l. J. Multiphase Flow<\/i>, 34 (2008), 1096-1097.<\/li>\n<li>G. Tryggvason and D. Apelian (editors).<br \/>Shaping Our World: Engineering Education for the 21st Century.<br \/>John Wiley &amp; Sons-TMS, 2011.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click here for a <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/npsk8th8lnbrxrz\/TryggvasonBib.bib?dl=0\">Bibtex File<\/a><\/b> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Educational Activities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/tryggvason\/educational-activities\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> for an overview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Curriculum Vitae<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Tryggvason\u2019s full CV is available&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/cnhlt06xj5phm5y\/TryggvasonCV.pdf?dl=0\">here<\/a><\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles A. 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