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

ME 320 (Fluid mechanics, undergraduate)
ME 520 (Advanced fluid mechanics, graduate)

 

Research interests

Fluid mechanics, including multiphase flows (cavitation, bubble  and droplet dynamics), computational fluid dynamics (CFD), unsteady flows, high-speed flows and shock waves, turbulence and mixing, interfacial instabilities, plasmas, and high-performance computing.

Applications: biomedical engineering, energy, aeronautics, turbomachinery, naval engineering and high-energy density physics.

Education

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

 

Honors/awards

Young Investigator Award (2012, ONR)
Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Fellow (2010, ORAU)
Center for Turbulence Research Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2007-2009, Stanford)
Centennial Prize (2008, Caltech ME)