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Professor Howle's research interests span disciplines including thermal science, fluid dynamics, and nonlinear dynamics. His present research projects focus on the visualization of convective fluid patterns and the stabilization of no-motion states in free convection bifurcation within imperfect distributed parameter systems, employing both experimental and computational methods. A key problem faced by researchers studying convection in fluid-saturated porous media is the lack of general, non-invasive methods for pattern visualization and wave number measurement. To address this, Professor Howle designed innovative porous media that allow optical techniques to be used over time as a pattern visualization tool to study porous media convection. Furthermore, he developed reduced Galerkin methods which significantly decrease the execution time for simulating large problems, thus extending the range of problems for which spectral methods can be applied. Currently, he is investigating porous free convection systems with distributed properties and binary convection using the reduced Galerkin method.
Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)