Gretar Tryggvason

Charles A. Miller Jr. Distinguished Professor
and Department Head
Department of Mechanical Engineering
223 Latrobe Hall, 3400 N. Charles Street
Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, MD, 21218-2681
Email: gtryggv1@jh.edu

Gretar Tryggvason is the Charles A. Miller, Jr. Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins University and the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He received his PhD from Brown University in 1985 and was on the faculty of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor until 2000, when he moved to Worcester Polytechnic Institute as the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Between 2010 and 2017 he was the Viola D. Hank professor at the University of Notre Dame and the chair of the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. Professor Tryggvason is well known for his contributions to computational fluid dynamics; particularly the development of methods for computations of multiphase flows and for pioneering direct numerical simulations of such flows. He served as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Computational Physics 2002-2015, is a fellow of APS, ASME and AAAS, and the recipient of the 2012 ASME Fluids Engineering Award and the 2019 ASTFE Award.

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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

Professional Experience

2017 Charles A. Miller, Jr. Distinguished Professor and Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. From 7/1/2017.

2017 Adjunct Professor, University of Notre Dame

2015 Adjunct Professor, North Carolina State University

2011 - 2017 Chair, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, IN (Interim, 3/23/2011-12/31/2011).

2010 - 2017 Viola D. Hank Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, IN

2016 Visiting Professor, University of Paris VI, France, 6/13-7/9

2000 - 2010 Professor and Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA

1999 Visiting Scientist, University of Paris VI, France, 4/19-5/8

1998 Visiting Professor, Institut Universitaire des Systèmes Thermiques Industriels (IUSTI), University of Aix-Marseille, France, 4/15-5/15

1994 Visiting Research Associate, Caltech, 1/1-5/31 (Sabbatical)

1993 - 1997 Associate Chairman, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

1991 - 1996 Visiting Research Position, Institute for Computational Mechanics in Propulsion, NASA Lewis Research Center, every summer.

1985 - 2000 Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. (Assistant Professor, 1985-1991; Associate Professor, 1991-1997; Professor, 1997-2000)

1984 - 1985 Associate Research Scientist, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.

Selected Honors and Awards

2019 Thermal Fluids Engineering Award from the American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineering (ASTFE). For prolific scholarship focused on numerical analysis of multiphase flow and career-long active engagement with engineering education.

2014 Outstanding Paper Award. Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan.

2013 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). For the advancement of numerical methods to track the motion of fluid interfaces and innovative approaches to undergraduate engineering education.

2012 Fluids Engineering Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). For remarkable contributions to the art, science and practice of computation in fluids engineering; and for outstanding leadership in mechanical engineering education.

2005 Computational Mechanics Award from the Computational Mechanics Division of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME).

2005 Elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

2000 Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (Division of Fluid Dynamics). For pioneering the use of direct numerical simulations for the study of finite Reynolds number multiphase flows, including the development of computational methods and studies of bubbly flows.

1983 Predoctoral Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Selected Journal Editorships

2020 - now Advisory Editorial Board, Physics of Fluids

2011 - now Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal of Multiphase Flow

2002 - 2015 Editor-in-chief, Journal of Computational Physics

2002 - 2009 Associate Editor, International Journal of Multiphase Flow

1992 - 2002 Associate Editor, Journal of Computational Physics

Research

Computations of multiphase flows. Direct numerical simulations of complex multiphase flows, including heat transfer, boiling, cavitation, solidification, surfactants, and reactions. Applications to turbulent bubbly flows, atomization, additive manufacturing, and other problems. Numerical methods for tracking sharp fluid interfaces. Averaged and reduced order models of multiphase flows. Multiscale approaches to capture small-scales in multiphase flows.

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.

Click here for a Bibtex File with my journal papers, book chapters, Ph.D. Dissertations that I have supervised, and some of my conference papers. The list of conference papers is very incomplete.

Educational Activities

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Curriculum Vitae

Tryggvason's full CV is available here .