Howard A. Stone

Ph.D., California Institute of Technology;

Gordon McKay Professor of Chemical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

Fluid Dynamics and Transport Phenomena (processing, modeling)

Professor Stone joined the Harvard faculty in 1989 after earning his Ph.D. at Caltech and spending one year as a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University. His research has been concerned witha veriety of fundamental problems in multiphase viscous flow and has frequently featured a combination of theory, numerical simulation and modeling, and experiments to provide a quantitative understanding of the flow phenomenon under investigation. Several studies have also been directed toward hear and mass transfer problems involving convection, diffusionand surface reactions. He has collaborated with chemical engineers, physicitys, chemists, applied mathematicians, and geophysicists to study a wide range of problems involving effecots of surfsce tension, buoyancy, fluid rotation, surfactants, and electric fields. His current research interests emphasize mulit-phase free-boundary problems, viscous flows of lipid monolayers and bilayers, viscous flows in some microgeometries, and particle motion in rotating fluids.

Awards and Honors

• NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1989)
• NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellow (1988)
• Caltech: IBM Graduate Fellowship (1986-87)
• Shell Doctoral Fellowship (1982-83)

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