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Professor Shaughnessy's research interests include analytical, experimental, and computational studies of flow problems arising in biology, medicine, biotechnology, and traditional mechanical engineering applications. His current research efforts focus on the effects of flow in non-Newtonian fluids, properties of flow separation near tee junctions representing model blood flow near coronary artery grafts, and heat and momentum transfer near rough surfaces modeled with fractal distributions of surface roughness. He also investigates the influence of flow on particle trajectories in electrostatic precipitators and inertial separators for aerosol sampling devices, as well as flow processes near deformable boundaries. His work employs finite element-based computational fluid dynamics, utilizing both steady and transient simulations in 2-D and 3-D flow.
Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)