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Professor Liu's past and present research interests, largely theoretical and computational, span a cross-section of fluids and thermal sciences: gas dynamics of two-phase flows, hypersonic viscous flows, interactions between coherent structures and fine grained turbulence in free shear flows, and aerodynamic sound generation by coherent structures. More recently he has devoted much of his effort to the role of longitudinal vortices in heat and mass transfer enhancement and in the promotion of rapid free mixing.
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Professor Liu's past and present research interests, largely theoretical and computational, span a cross-section of fluids and thermal sciences: gas dynamics of two-phase flows, hypersonic viscous flows, interactions between coherent structures and fine grained turbulence in free shear flows, and aerodynamic sound generation by coherent structures. Much of his effort was devoted to elucidating the role of streamwise vortices in boundary layer heat and mass transfer enhancement and in the promotion of rapid free mixing. His recent theoretical studies (and explanation of experimental measurements) is on nanofluids, in particular, in the developing thermal boundary layer region where large heat transfer rates are obtained with small increases in nanoparticle concentration. He maintains a keen interest in nonlinear aspects of hydrodynamic instabilities.
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 JOSEPH T. C. LIU, BSE, Aero. E., 1957; BSE Mathematics, 1957; MSE, Aero. E. 1958 University of Michigan; Ph.D. Aeronautics, 1964, California Institute of technology http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Joseph_T._C._Liu On The Web: http://www.engin.brown.edu/Faculty/Liu/index.htm Proc. R. Soc. A Are you Joseph T. C. Liu? Click here to edit your research profile. |
