Mechanical Engineering Faculty Profile:

Dr. James Duncan
Professor of Mechanical Engineering,
Keystone: The Clark School Academy of Distinguished Professors

Experimental and theoretical/numerical investigations of fluid flows: breaking water waves, growing and collapsing bubbles interacting with compliant boundaries, turbulent boundary layers interacting with compliant walls, and quantitative flow visualization

(301) 405-5260 | duncan@umd.edu | website | Room 3118, Building 088, Glenn L. Martin Hall

Education
Ph. D. Johns Hopkins University, 1979

Recent Publications
X. Liu and J. H. Duncan, “An Experimental Study of the Effects of Surfactants on Spilling Breakers,” J. Fluid Mech., Vol. 567, pp. 433-455, 2006.

X. Liu, J. H. Duncan, G. M. Korenowski and J. S. Kelly, “A Laboratory Study of Longitudinal Waves in Surfactant Films in a Water Wave Tank,” J. Geophysical Res., Vol. 112, C06005, 2007.

X. Liu and J. H. Duncan, “Weakly Breaking Waves in the Presence of Surfactant Micelles,” Physical Review E, Vol. 76, No. 6, December, 2007, DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.76.061201.

M. Shakeri, E. Maxeiner, T. Fu and J. H. Duncan, “An Experimental Examination of the 2D+T Approximation,” J. Ship Research, in press August, 2008.

M. Shakeri, M. Tavakolinejad, and J. H. Duncan, “An Experimental Investigation of Divergent Bow Waves Simulated by a 2D+T Technique,” J. Fluid Mech., submitted, March, 2008.

Scientific and Professional Membership
Former Director of the Science, Technology and Society Program of College Park Scholars, a living and learning program for honors level freshman and sophmores; Graduate Committee, Chair of Thermal-Fluids Group, College APT Committee, Campus Graduate Research Committee, University of Maryland; A. James Clark School of Engineering Space Audit Committee; Chair, Clark School Faculty Affairs Committee; Reviewer: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Physics of Fluids, ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, Experiments in Fluids, DOE, National Science Foundation, and many other journals; Co-organizer of the Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society

Honors and Awards
Fellow American Physical Society; Poole and Kent Teaching Award for Senior Faculty of the College of Engineering, University of Maryland 2003; Distinguished Scholar Teacher University of Maryland 2004.

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