Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics

Hassan Aref

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Reynolds Metals Professor & Niels Bohr Visiting Professor (Technical University of Denmark)

320 Norris Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0219
540/231-5626

Interests:

Theoretical and computational fluid mechanics, particularly vortex dynamics, the application of chaos to fluid flows, and the mechanics of foams.

Education:

1980 PhD, Physics, Cornell University
1975 BS/MS, Physics/Mathematics, University of Copenhagen

Honors & Awards:

2006 Niels Bohr Visiting Professorship, Technical University of Denmark
2004 Zhou Pei-Yuan Memorial Lecture, 10th Asian Congress of Fluid Mechanics
2003 Reynolds Metals Professor, Virginia Tech
2001 Fellow, World Innovation Foundation
2000 Otto Laporte Award, American Physical Society “For his pioneering contributions to the study of chaotic motion in fluids, scientific computation, and vortex dynamics, and most notably for the development of the concept of chaotic advection.”
2000 Fellow, American Academy of Mechanics
1994 Toshiba Keio Lecture, Keio University, Japan
1991 Westinghouse Distinguished Lectureship, The University of Michigan
1991 Lecturer, Midwest Mechanics Seminar
1988 Fellow of American Physical Society “For the elucidation of chaotic motion in few-vortex problems and particle advection, and for the development of numerical methods based on many-vortex interactions.”
1988 Stanley Corrsin Lectureship, The Johns Hopkins University
1986 Foreign Member, Danish Centre for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics
1985 Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation
1975 NATO Fellowship; Cornell Graduate Fellowship, 1975-1980

CoursesTaught:

ESM 4114 Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Spring 2009
ESM 4114 Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Spring 2008
ESM 5984 SS: Adv Top in Fluid Mechanics Spring 2008
ESM 5994 Research and Thesis Spring 2008
ESM 7994 Research and Dissertation Spring 2008
ESM 5994 Research and Thesis Fall 2007
ESM 7994 Research and Dissertation Fall 2007
ESM 5994 Research and Thesis Spring 2007
ESM 6984 SS: Fund Prob in Fluid Dynamics Spring 2007
ESM 7994 Research and Dissertation Spring 2007
ESM 3124 Intermediate Dynamics Spring 2006
ESM 5504 Introduction to Ideal Flow Fall 2005