Department of Mathematics
Penn State University


Faculty working in Fluid Mechanics

(as of Academic Year 2009-10)

Andrew Belmonte
Associate Professor of Mathematics

Viscoelastic Fluids, Free Surface Flows, Turbulence, conformal mapping

Leonid Berlyand
Professor of Mathematics

Multiscale modeling of Complex Fluids, active fluids and bacteria swimming

Alberto Bressan
Eberly Professor of Mathematics

Swimming Motions in Fluids

Qiang Du
Willaman Professor of Mathematics (and Professor of Material Science & Engineering)

Complex Fluids, Bose-Einstein Condensates

Diane Henderson
Professor of Mathematics

Water waves, Nonlinear Waves

Mark Levi
Professor of Mathematics

Ideal Fluids, conformal mapping

Chun Liu
Professor of Mathematics

Complex Fluids, Liquid Crystals, Electrorheological Fluids

Anna Mazzucato
Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Navier-Stokes Equation, Turbulence

Alexei Novikov
Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Turbulence

Jinchao Xu
Distinguished Professor of Mathematics

Numerical analysis and computation of Non-Newtonian Fluids, Fuel cells

Yuxi Zheng
Professor of Mathematics

Compressible Flows


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