Continuum Mechanics
| This graduate thrust area embraces all scientific and technological aspects of the deformation of fluids and solids and their unifying features. Ph.D. dissertations, M.S. theses and formal courses encompass theoretical, computational and experimental approaches to studying the macroscopic behavior of fluids and solids. A wide range of topics are addressed in both course work and research including continuum mechanics, fluid-dynamic instabilities, incompressible and compressible turbulent flows, turbulence control, flow optimization, multiphase flows, high-speed flows, chemically reacting and other nonequilibrium flows, aeroacoustics, aero-optics, laser propagation in turbulence, fluid-solid interactions, bio-fluid dynamics, large strain and large rotation inelastic solids, constitutive modeling, and fracture mechanics. |