Photonics for Quantative Biology and Medicine
Research Interests:
Bioengineering, optics and spectroscopy, developing integrative photonics solutions to complex problems in biological research and medical diagnosis. Advancement of photonics methods for applications in clinical diagnosis. Comprehensive characterization of biomolecules, investigation of pharmaceutical drugs and their interaction with biological systems, and rapid measurements in microfluidic platforms.
Research Interests:
Haptic feedback, upper-limb prosthetics, surgical robotics, rehabilitation robotics, human-machine interaction.
Lab of Mechanochemistry and Functional Imaging Applications
Research Interests:
Cell Mechanics, biophysical properties of cancer microenvironment, mechanosignaling pathways, drug delivery, bioenergetics in mitochondria.
The Robot and Protein Kinematics (RPK) Laboratory
Research Interests:
Computational structural biology (in particular, computational mechanics of large proteins), conformational statistics of biological macromolecules, developed theory for ‘hyper- redundant’ (snakelike) robot motion planning, designs and builds hyper-redundant robotic manipulator arms, applied mathematics (applications of group theory in engineering), self-replicating robotic systems.
Research Interests:
Robot dynamics, animal biomechanics, and sensorimotor control; theory and application of control systems and system identification techniques for closed-loop systems (especially biological systems); biological motor control and systems neuromechanics; medical robotics.
Research Interests:
Nonlinear mechanics of solids, mechanical response of compliant biological tissues, finite deformation elasticity, Static and dynamic fracture of ductile materials.
Research Interests:
Multiscale materials modeling, machine learning for materials design and accelerated materials property/damage predictions, materials by design, advanced small scale testing of materials, material in extreme environments, nano- and micro-scale materials and structures, fatigue and fracture, and material degradation.
Research Interests:
Dynamics and control of nonlinear, networked and spatially distributed systems such as the electric power grid, and wind farms. Modeling of turbulence and transition to turbulence in wall bounded shear flows and wind farms. Grid integration of renewable energy sources.
Research Interests:
Atomic-scale processes that govern the mechanical behavior of advanced material systems. Making key observations and discoveries that define the way the mechanics and materials community thinks about and understands the properties of: nanocrystalline materials, MEMS and micro-lattice materials, thermal barrier coatings, armor ceramics, and high temperature structural materials.
Research Interests:
Experimental heat transfer and fluid mechanics, optical measurement techniques, image processing. Thermoacoustic refrigeration, influence of electric fields on boiling in terrestrial conditions and microgravity, heat exchangers, heat transfer in boiling, optical tomography, holographic interferometry, cooling of electronic equipment, digital image processing, heat transfer augmentation.
Inertial Microfluidics for Biophysics and Biotechnology
Research Interests:
Inertial microfluidics, nonlinear fluid dynamics, multiphase flow, cellular biophysics, cell mechanics, single cell manipulations, personalized medicine, regenerative medicine.
Research Interests:
Mechanical behavior and failure mechanisms of granular materials, concrete, and ceramics; In-situ x-ray imaging and diffraction; Dynamic failure mechanism; Wave propagation
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The Kang Group for Bioinspired Materials and Mechanical Systems
Research Interests:
Complex behaviors of material systems and structures with novel properties based on inspiration from nature; rational design followed by rapid prototyping using a 3D printer; designing experimental model systems and/or using computational models to identify key design parameters of systems to make desired structures and properties by tailoring behaviors of systems.
Center for Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics (CEAFM)
Laboratory for Experimental Fluid Dynamics (LEFD)
Research Interests:
Experimental fluid mechanics. Cavitation phenomena and multiphase flows: Interaction between bubbles and flow structure, mixing mechanisms and droplet formation in water-fuel stratified shear flows. Transport of microscopic particles and droplets in turbulent flows. Development of optical flow diagnostics techniques, including Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and Holographic Particle Image Velocimetry (HPIV). Applications to turbomachine flows and oceanography. Studies of flow-induced vibrations and noise.
The Autonomous Systems, Control, and Optimization Laboratory
Research Interests:
Developing intelligent robotic vehicles that can perceive, navigate, and accomplish challenging tasks in uncertain, dynamic, and highly constrained environments. Performing research in analytical and computational methods for mechanics, control, motion planning, and reasoning under uncertainty, and in the design and integration of novel mechanisms and embedded systems. Application areas include mobile robots, aerial vehicles, and nanosatellites.
Research Interests:
Fluid-structure interaction; dynamic systems; ocean wave energy conversion, engineering pedagogy.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Novel tools, image guidance, and robot control techniques for medical robotics
Research Interests:
Terradynamics, locomotion, biological physics, biorobotics, robophysics
Research Interests:
Mechanical engineering undergraduate curriculum, first-year engineering courses, undergraduate laboratories, mechanical design, biomechanics.
Center for Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics (CEAFM)
Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science
Research Interests:
Theoretical, experimental, and numerical studies in turbulence, Large-eddy-Simulation and turbulence modeling, fractals and scaling in complex systems, Applications of LES to environmental flows, wind energy and turbomachinery flows, Development of database techniques for turbulence research.
Flow Physics and Computation Lab
Research Interests:
Computational fluid dynamics, Low Reynolds number aerodynamics, biomedical flows, active flow control, LES/DNS, Immersed Boundary Methods, fluid dynamics of locomotion (swimming and flying), biomimetics and bioinspired engineering, turbomachinery flows.
Mechanics of Soft Adaptive Materials
Research Interests:
Biomechanics: mechanical behavior, growth and remodeling of fibrous soft tissues. Constitutive Modeling: thermomechanics, viscoelasticity, viscoplasticity of shape memory polymers and polymer composites. Fracture Mechanics: fracture and failure of rate dependent materials.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Experimental fluid mechanics, Turbulence and turbulent multiphase flow, Dusty flow and particle-laden flow, Environmental fluid dynamics, Lagrangian particle tracking, Physiological flow, Animal collective behaviors, and Complex system
Research Interests:
Multiphase flow; theoretical and computational fluid mechanics and acoustics; gas and vapor bubbles
Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute
Center for Materials in Extreme Dynamic Environments
Shock and Awe: Impacts in Space, Science, and Society (mini-course)
Research Interests:
Nanomaterials, planetary impact, dynamic failure mechanisms, shock, impact, and wave propagation, high-strain-rate behavior of materials, injury biomechanics, constitutive and failure modeling.
Research Interests:
Principles and practice of engineering design education.
Research Interests:
Experimental solid mechanics, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), microsample testing.
Research Interests:
Mechanobiology of the cell, molecular biomechanics and biophysics, molecular motors and muscle, statistical mechanics and nonlinear phenomena.
Computational Multiphase Flow Group
Research Interests:
Computations of multiphase flows. Direct numerical simulations of complex multiphase flows including heat transfer, boiling, cavitation, solidification, surfactants, and reactions. Applications to turbulent bubbly flows, atomization, additive manufacturing, and other problems. Numerical methods for tracking sharp fluid interfaces. Averaged and reduced order models of multiphase flows. Multiscale approaches to capture small-scales in multiphase flows.
BioMEMS & Single Molecule Dynamics Lab
Research Interests:
BioMEMS and microfluidics, single molecule manipulation and detection, nano/micro scale fabrication, conformational dynamics of biomolecules.
Dynamical Systems and Control Laboratory
Research Interests:
Control Systems: Adaptive and model-based control of linear and nonlinear systems, with focus on problems arising in mechanical systems, robots, and robotic vehicles. Underwater Robotics: Dynamics, control, instrumentation, and navigation of underwater vehicles and inhabited submersibles – with focus on deep submergence oceanographic vehicles. Industrial and Medical Robotics: Dynamics, control, instrumentation, and operation of precision robotics for novel medical and industrial applications.
Research Interests:
Transitional and turbulent shear flows: linear and non-linear instability waves, secondary instabilities, breakdown to turbulence, direct numerical simulations, transition modelling. Two-fluid shear flows: linear and non-linear instability methods, interface tracking, the interaction of vortical disturbances with interfaces, direct numerical simulations, laminar-to-turbulence transition. Turbulence: boundary layer turbulence, separation, drag reduction, and large-scale high-performance computing.