Graham, Michael D.

Viscoelastic and Newtonian fluid mechanics, especially stability and nonlinear dynamics
Microstructural and multiscale simulations of complex fluids; applications to microfluidics, nanotechnology and biology
Applied and computational mathematics

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Selected Awards, Honors and Societies

Allan P. Colburn Memorial Lecture, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Delaware, 2005
Francois Naftali Frenkiel Award for Fluid Mechanics, American Physical Society, 2004
Vilas Associate in the Physical Sciences, 2002-2004
3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, 1997
NSF CAREER Award, 1995
Shell Faculty Fellowship, 1994
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) fellowship, 1990

Selected Professional Activities

Associate Editor, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2005-
Editorial Board, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 2004-2007

Summary

The Graham group studies the dynamics of flowing complex and multiphase fluids - materials whose microstructure interacts in a nontrivial way with how it is deformed by flow. These fluids - suspensions, emulsions, gels, molten plastics, solutions of macromolecules and many others - arise in a tremendous variety of natural and technological settings, and an important and intriguing aspect of the dynamics of these fluids is their intrinsically multiscale nature - the bottom-up and top-down coupling all the way from the scales of the whole process down to the scale of individual particles or molecules. Specific current interests are motivated by applications in microfluidics, nanotechnology, biology and energy conservation, and include manipulation of genomic DNA in micro- and nanofluidic devices, flow of suspensions of cells or vesicles, the swimming of populations of microorganisms and the dynamics of complex fluids in turbulent flows.

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