Fluid Mechanics
Lead by Professor Patricia J. Culligan, the department's research in fluid mechanics focuses on fluid and contaminant transport in porous media systems, with an emphasis on:
- Experimental investigation of fundamental transport processes
- Scaling laws for physical modeling of fluid and contaminant transport
- Particle transport in porous media
- Nano-scale transport processes
- Visualization systems for flow and transport
- Theoretical modeling of flow and transport