User:Hassan Aref
Hassan Aref is the Reynolds Metals Professor in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech, and the Niels Bohr Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Denmark. Prior to joining Virginia Tech as Dean of Engineering in 2003-2005 Aref was Head of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign for a decade from 1992-2003. Before that he was on the faculty of University of California, San Diego, split between the Department of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Science and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics 1985-1992. Simultaneously, he was Chief Scientist at the San Diego Supercomputer Center for three years 1989-1992. Aref started his faculty career in the Division of Engineering at Brown University 1980-85. He was educated at the University of Copenhagen Niels Bohr Institute, graduating in 1975 with a cand. scient degree in Physics and Mathematics. Subsequently he received the PhD degree in Physics from Cornell University in 1980.
Aref is particularly well known for having developed the concept of
chaotic advection in fluid mechanics. The notion that regular, laminar
flows can produce chaotic particle trajectories is now understood as a
cornerstone of fluid flow kinematics and the term chaotic advection is
used as a classifying keyword by leading journals of the field and for
major conferences. Applications of chaotic advection range from mixing
by atmospheric and oceanographic flows to mixing in microfluidic
devices. Aref received the 2000 Otto Laporte Award from the American
Physical Society for this work and for his work on vortex dynamics for
which he is also well known.
Aref is the author of some 80 articles in leading journals in the
field of fluid mechanics. He has also authored chapters in several
books, edited two collections of papers, and given presentations at
conferences and universities around the world.
Throughout his career Aref has been involved in editorial work. He
was Associate Editor of Journal of Fluid Mechanics 1984-94, founding
editor with David G. Crighton of Cambridge Texts in Applied
Mathematics, and today serves on the editorial board of Theoretical
and Computational Fluid Dynamics and as co-editor of Advances in
Applied Mechanics. He has served on the editorial boards of Physics
of Fluids, Physical Review E, and Regular and Chaotic Dynamics.
Aref has served as chair of the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the
American Physical Society. He has chaired the US National Committee
on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and has served on advisory boards
for several professional societies. He is a member of the Executive
Committee of the Congress Committee of the International Union of
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM), a member of the National
Academies Board on International Scientific Organizations, and a
member of the Board of the Society of Engineering Science. He served
as Secretary for the Midwest Mechanics Seminar, 1994-2003.
Aref was president of the 20th International Congress of Theoretical
and Applied Mechanics held in Chicago in 2000. In the 70+ years of
these significant congresses they have been held three times in USA:
In 1938 in Boston, MA, with MIT and Harvard University as the host
institutions, in 1968 with Stanford University as the host, and in
2000 with a consortium led by University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
as the hosts.
Hassan Aref was born in Alexandria, Egypt. Previously a citizen of
Canada, he acquired U.S. citizenship in 1998.
Honors and Awards
- 2006 Niels Bohr Visiting Professor, Technical University of Denmark
- 2003 Reynolds Metals Professor, Virginia Tech
- 2001 Fellow, World Innovation Foundation
- 2000 Otto Laporte Award, American Physical Society, Citation: "For
his pioneering contributions to the study of chaotic motion in fluids, scientific computation, and vortex dynamics, and most notably for the development of the concept of chaotic advection."
- 2000 Fellow, American Academy of Mechanics
- 1994 Toshiba Keio Lecture, Keio University, Japan
- 1991 Westinghouse Distinguished Lectureship, The University of Michigan
- 1991 Lecturer, Midwest Mechanics Seminar
- 1988 Fellow of American Physical Society. Citation: "For the
elucidation of chaotic motion in few-vortex problems and particle advection, and for the development of numerical methods based on many-vortex interactions."
- 1988 Stanley Corrsin Lectureship, The Johns Hopkins University
- 1986 Foreign Member, Danish Centre for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics
- 1985 Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation
- 1975 NATO Fellowship; Cornell Graduate Fellowship, 1975-1980
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