MEAM Seminar: “Exploring the Structure of Sediment-Laden Turbidity Currents”
Turbidity currents are sediment-laden turbulent shear flows that run over a sloping bed, submerged beneath a deep layer of quiescent ambient fluid, driven by the excess hydrostatic pressure. As the […]
MEAM Seminar: “Fusion for Robot Perception and Controls”
Machine learning has led to powerful advances in robotics: deep learning for visual perception from raw images and deep reinforcement learning (RL) for learning controls from trial and error. Yet, […]
MEAM Seminar: “Understanding and Controlling Pattern Formation of Soft Materials”
Soft elastic solids, such as elastomers and hydrogels, are used in many practical applications ranging from adhesives to biocompatible scaffolds for tissue engineering. Biological cells and tissues have very similar […]
Inaugural Joseph Bordogna Forum: “A Call to Action for Racial Justice and Equity in Engineering”
Racism and anti-Blackness are crises that jeopardize our democracy, productivity and well-being and call into question whether we can all live together peaceably and harmoniously in a just and equitable […]
MEAM Seminar: “Nonintrusive Reduced Order Models Using Physics Informed Neural Networks”
The development of reduced order models for complex applications, offering the promise for rapid and accurate evaluation of the output of complex models under parameterized variation, remains a very active […]
MEAM Seminar: “Target: COVID-19”
Until such a time when the world’s population has achieved herd immunity either through vaccination against or exposure to the SARS-Cov-2 virus, the most effective means for controlling the COVID-19 […]
MEAM Seminar: “Modeling the Behavior of Shape Memory Alloy Structures”
I will present recent work on the modeling of the structural response of shape memory alloy tubes, bars, and beams. We have developed a new constitutive model that captures pseudoelastic […]
MEAM Seminar: “Wave Engineering: From Geometry to Fragility”
The elastic properties of materials are determined by a few material constants such as the Young’s modulus. Using super-structures one can effectively change these “constants”. In this way we obtain […]
MEAM Seminar: “Engineering Interfaces To Improve The Thermal Performance of Wide Bandgap Semiconductors”
Wide bandgap electronics are currently under development due to their potential to create some of the most advanced RF and power electronics in the world. A key concern in their […]
MEAM Seminar: “Control of Turbulent Wall Shear Flows and the Potential for ‘Designer Turbulence'”
The financial and environmental cost of turbulence is staggering: manage to quell turbulence in the thin boundary layers on the surface of a commercial airliner and you could almost halve […]