Courses
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MAE 524/624 Physics of Micro- and Nanoscale Fluid Mechanics.
Introduction to fluid mechanics in micro- and nanofabricated devices.
Fluid mechanics: physicochemical description of hydrodynamics, mixing phenomena
at low Re, capillarity, double layer phenomena and electrokinetic effects, optical and
electrical particle manipulation, nanofluidic applications such as entropic
and confinement effects, nonlinear E-field effects.
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MAE 423/523 Intermediate Fluid Dynamics.
Spring 2008 students--Click Here for Blackboard Course Webpage
Emphasis is placed on
both the fundamental principles and numerical calculation of real flows
using a computational fluid dynamics package. Topics covered include some
exact solutions to the
Navier-Stokes equations, boundary layers, wakes and jets, separation,
compressible flow, and turbulence.
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MAE 427 Experimental Laboratory in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer.
Laboratory
exercises in fluid mechanics and the thermal sciences. Measurements of flame
temperature, pressure, heat transfer, viscosity, lift and drag, fluid-flow rate,
effects of turbulence, air foil stall, flow visualization, and spark-ignition
engine performance. Instrumentation, techniques and analysis, and interpretation of results.
Biweekly written assignments with extensive feedback.
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Double layer overlap in nanochannels. The interplay of
shielding ion layers in nanoscale channels is a hallmark of
nanofluidics,
one of our key research interests.
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Mechanical and electrokinetic properties of
tissue-engineered scaffolds
used for seeding chondrocytes.
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