Faculty Areas of Expertise

Faculty

Area

Expertise

Gregory Chini

Professor

Fluid Dynamics/Physical Applied Mathematics

Mathematical analysis and computational modeling of geophysical (especially oceanographic), environmental, biological and industrial flows.

 

Diane Foster

Professor

Ocean Engineering

Fluid-sediment interactions in coastal environments, ocean bottom boundary layer and sediment dynamics, fluid-structure-Sediment of submarine objects (i.e. mines, piers), Optical and wireless sensor development for ocean applications, suspension and transport of mixed-grain sediment.

 

Todd Gross

Professor

Materials Science/ Materials Systems

Mechanical behavior of material systems, mechanical behavior of composites, nanoscale deformation, scanning probe microscopy and nanoindentation methods.

 

John Hughes Clarke

Professor

Seabed Mapping

Integrated seabed mapping sonar systems, monitoring seabed deformation, sediment transport, acoustic seabed classification.

 

Brad Kinsey

Professor

Manufacturing

Electromagnetic forming and magnetic pulsed welding, materials characterization, stress based failure criterion evaluation, microforming.

 

Marko Knezevic

Professor

Materials Behavior

Understanding of materials behavior under complex loading using a combination of computational methods and experiments, development of constitutive material models, design and manufacturing at component levels, materials design at microstructural length scales, as well as the development of high-performance computational applications integrating multi-scale material models for predicting materials behavior.

 

John McHugh

Professor

Fluid Dynamics

Internal waves in the atmosphere of earth and other planets, origins of the deep ocean circulations, and non-linear waves on the surface of a fluid.

 

Nikhil Padhye

Assistant Professor

Mechanics/Manufacturing

Polymer Mechanics, Continuum Mechanics, Mechanics of Thin Structures, Finite Element Analysis, Engineering Optimization

May-Win Thein

Professor

System Dynamics

Nonlinear estimation and control with particular emphasis on spacecraft, quadcopters, extraterrestrial surface navigation and exploration and autonomous/remotely operated surface and underwater marine vehicles.

 

Igor Tsukrov

Professor

Mechanics of Materials/ Ocean Engineering

Micromechanics and fracture of composite materials, modeling of marine aquaculture and ocean energy installations, computational solid mechanics and finite element method.

 

Christopher White

Professor

Fluid Mechanics

Experimental fluid mechanics, combustion, energy conversion technologies, alternative energy.

 

Martin Wosnik

Associate Professor

Fluid and Thermal Sciences

Renewable energy applications, marine renewable energy, wind energy , turbulent flows, high-speed hydrodynamics, cavitation, flow measurement and hydraulic modeling.