Mechanical Engineering Faculty Profile:

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

3118 Glenn L. Martin Hall, Building 088
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

Phone: 301.405.5260
Fax: 301.314.9477
Email: duncan@umd.edu
Website

Research Interests

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.

Education

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1979

Select 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 sophomores; 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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