Gretar Tryggvason has been named the new Charles A. Miller Jr. Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and head of the Whiting School of Engineering's Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins, effective July 1. He comes to Johns Hopkins from the University of Notre Dame, where he was the Viola D. Hank Professor and chair of the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering.
Image caption: Gretar Tryggvason
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In his new role in the Whiting School, Tryggvason will lead a department with more than 30 full-time faculty members who conduct research in fields such as energy and the environment, mechanical applications in biology and medicine, fluid mechanics and heat transfer, micro- and nanoscale science and engineering, and robotics.
Tryggvason himself is widely recognized for his contributions to computational fluid dynamics, including the development of methods for computations of multiphase flows, as well as for pioneering direct numerical simulations of such flows.
He has served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Computational Physics (2002-2015) and is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His numerous awards include the 2012 ASME Fluids Engineering Award.
Tryggvason earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Iceland and his doctorate at Brown University. After assuming his new departmental post at the Whiting School, he will be installed as the Miller Professor on Aug. 31.
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