Eric Johnsen

University of Michigan
1231 Beal Ave.
2043 Walter E. Lay Automotive Laboratory
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2133

office: 2015AL
phone: (734) 647-1450
email: ejohnsen at umich dot edu

Group website: Computational Flow Physics Laboratory

Teaching

Winter 2011: ME 320 (Fluid mechanics, undergraduate)
Fall 2010: ME 520 (Advanced fluid mechanics, graduate)
Winter 2010: ME 320 (Fluid mechanics, undergraduate)

Research interests

Fluid mechanics with an emphasis on multiphase flows, cavitation and bubble dynamics, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), unsteady flows, high-speed flows and shock waves, turbulence and mixing, interfacial instabilities and high-performance computing.

Applications include biomedical engineering, energy, aeronautics, turbomachinery and naval engineering.

Education

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Caltech, 2008
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Caltech, 2002
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, UCSB, 2001

 

Honors/awards

Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Fellow (2010, ORAU)
Center for Turbulence Research Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2007-2009, Stanford)
Centennial Prize (2008, Caltech ME)