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Professor Howle's research interests span disciplines including thermal science, fluid dynamics, and nonlinear dynamics. His current research projects focus on the visualization of convective fluid patterns and the stabilization of no-motion states in free convection bifurcations. He has designed innovative porous media that permit optical techniques to be employed for time-pattern visualization tools needed to study porous media convection. A key problem facing researchers studying convection in fluid-saturated porous media is the lack of a general, non-invasive method for pattern visualization and wave number measurement. To address this, Professor Howle has developed efficient computational spectral methods suitable for simulating small aspect ratio convection systems. He has also created a reduced Galerkin method that significantly decreases execution times for large problems, extending the range of problems solvable by spectral methods. Currently, he is investigating porous free convection systems with distributed properties and binary convection utilizing the reduced Galerkin method.
Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)