Mechanical Engineering Faculty Profile:

Dr. Peter Bernard
Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Fluid mechanics; vortex methods; calculation of turbulent flows; turbulent transport theory

(301) 405- 5272 |  bernard@umd.edu | website | Room 3116, Bldg 088, Glenn L. Martin Hall

Education
Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley), 1977, M.S., University of California (Berkeley), 1973, B.E.(M.E.), City College of CUNY, 1972

Recent Publications
Bernard, P.S., and J.M. Wallace, (2002) Turbulent Flow: Analysis, Measurement and Prediction, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, N.J.

Bernard, P. S., Potts, M. A., Krispin, J. (2003) "Studies of Turbulent Mixing using the VorCat Implementation of the 3D Vortex Method,'' AIAA Paper AIAA-2003-3599.

Bernard, P. S., Collins, J. P. and Potts, M. (2004) "Prediction of External Flows Using the VorCat Formulation of the Vortex Method,'' AIAA Paper AIAA-2004-2553.

Bernard, P. S. and Shen, J. (2004) "A Grid-Free Dilatation Element Method For Quasi-One-Dimensional Gas Dynamics," Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 199, pp. 41 - 65.

Bernard, P. S., Collins, P. and Potts, M. (2005) "Vortex Method Simulation of Ground Vehicle Aerodynamics," SAE Paper 2005-01-0549, to appear in SAE Transactions.

Scientific and Professional Membership
Journal reviewer, The Physics of Fluids, AIAA Journal, ASME Journal Fluids Engineering, Journal of Computational Physics, Journal of Fluid Mechanics; Proposal reviewer, National Science Foundation; Organizer, Symposium on Vortex Methods and Vortex Flows, ASME Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting

Honors and Awards
Fellow, American Physical Society

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