Gretar Tryggvason

Prof. Tryggvason was the Viola D. Hank Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notra Dame from 2010 to 2017. He is currently the Charles A. Miller, Jr. Distinguished Professor and Department Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218

Education

• B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Iceland, 1980
• Sc.M., Brown University, Division of Engineering, 1982
• Ph.D., Brown University, Division of Engineering, 1985

Professional Activities and Recognitions

• ASME Fluids Engineering Award, 2012
• WPI Sigma Xi Outstanding Senior Faculty Research Award, 2006
• Computational Mechanics Award from the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2005
• Fellow of the American Physical Society
• Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Computational Physics, 2002-2015

Research

• Multiphase and Free Surface Flows
• Phase Changes, including Boiling and Solidification
• Vortex Flows and Combustion
• Numerical Methods

Books

• G. Tryggvason, R. Scardovelli and S. Zaleski. Direct Numerical Simulations of Gas-Liquid Multiphase Flows. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
• A. Prosperetti and G. Tryggvason (editors and main contributors). Computational Methods for Multiphase Flow. Cambridge University Press, 2007. Paperback edition 2009. Reviewed in: J. Fluid Mech., 603 (2008), 474-475; Int'l. J. Multiphase Flow, 34 (2008), 1096-1097.
• G. Tryggvason and D. Apelian (editors). Shaping Our World: Engineering Education for the 21st Century. John Wiley & Sons-TMS, 2011.