Gund Fellow, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Jeff Marshall is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the NSF-funded Smart Grid IGERT Program at the University of Vermont. Professor Marshall studies the mechanics of incompressible fluids and particulate flows, with applications to energy, biological and aerospace systems. His technical focus is on modeling of three-dimensional vortex flows and on the dynamics of flows containing adhesive particles. Some of the application areas of his recent work include modeling of multi-species biofilm dynamics, microalgae growth processes in turbulent flow, automated dust removal from solar panels, oscillatory diffusion (a new diffusion process for particulates in a porous media in the presence of acoustics), and turbine wake vortex interactions in wind farms.

Professor Marshall has authored 123 journal publications and book chapters, 90 conference papers and abstracts, and two books (Inviscid Incompressible Flow, John Wiley & Sons, 2001 and Adhesive Particle Flow, Cambridge University Press, 2014). He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and a recipient of the Henry Hess Award from ASME, the Young Investigator Award from the Army Research Office, and the CIES Fellowship from the French Ministry of Education.

Publications

Selected

  • Loth, E., and Marshall, J.S. (2023). Restitution coefficient models for collisions of airborne particles and drops. Journal of Aerosol Science (in press).
  • Tavangar, T., Hosseinpoor, M., Marshall, J.S., Yahia, A., and Khayat, K.H. (2023). Discrete-element modeling of shear-induced particle migration during concrete pipe flow: Effect of size distribution and concentration of aggregate on formation of lubrication layer. Cement and Concrete Research, 166, 107113.
  • Karki, A., Marshall, J.S., and Wu, J.R. (2022). Effect of ultrasound amplitude and frequency on nanoparticle diffusion in an agarose hydrogel. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152(1), 640-650.
  • Marshall, J.S., Arnold, C., Curran, K., and Chivers, T. (2021). Statistics of particle diffusion subject to oscillatory flow in a porous bed. Chemical Engineering Science, 231, 116239.
  • Seksinsky, D., and Marshall, J.S. (2021). Droplet impingement on a surface at low Reynolds number. Journal of Fluids Engineering, 143(2), 021304.
  • Jin, X. and Marshall, J.S. (2020). Mechanics of biofilms formed of bacteria with fimbriae appendages. PLoS ONE, 15(12), e0243280.
  • Jin, X. and Marshall, J.S. (2020). Influence of cell interaction forces on growth of bacterial biofilms. Physics of Fluids, 32(9), 091902.

Awards and Recognition

  • Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • Recipient of the Henry Hess Award from ASME
  • The Young Investigator Award from the Army Research Office
  • CIES Fellowship from the French Ministry of Education

Associations and Affiliations

  • Professor, UVM Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2006-present
  • Director, UVM Smart Grid IGERT Program, 2012-present
  • Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment, 2018-present
  • Sustainability Fellow, 2018-present
  • Faculty Associate, UVM Transportation Research Center, 2013-present
  • Director, UVM School of Engineering, 2006-07

 

Areas of Expertise and/or Research

Fluid mechanics and particulate flows; renewable energy (wind energy, algae biofuels, solar panel dust mitigation); complex systems; vortex dynamics and vortex-structure interaction; biofluid flows, Lagrangian and multiscale computational methods; thin-film flows

Education

  • PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
  • MS, Mechanical Engineering. University of California, Los Angeles
  • BS, Mechanical Engineering. University of California, Los Angeles

Contact

Email:

jeff.marshall@uvm.edu

Phone:
  • 802-656-3826
Office Location:

201 Votey Hall

Website(s):
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