Howard A. Stone
Howard Alvin Stone (born January 19, 1960 ) is an American chemical engineer and hydrodynamics expert.
Stone graduated from the University of California, Davis with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering in 1982 and received his PhD from the California Institute of Technology in 1988 with L. Gary Leal. As a post-doctoral student , he was with EJ Hinch at Cambridge University. From 1989 he taught as an assistant professor, from 1992 as an associate professor and from 1996 as a professor at Harvard University , where he became Vicky Joseph Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics. In 2000 he became Harvard College Professor for his contribution to teaching undergraduates. In 2009 he became Professor at Princeton University , where he is Donald R. Dixon '69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering .
He works both experimentally and theoretically and with computer simulations, for example in microfluidics (behavior of bubbles and droplets, red blood cells, bacteria from a hydrodynamic point of view, chemical kinetics). He investigated the flow at low Reynolds number, the limit case of liquids dominated by viscosity, and movement in biological membranes, surface tension and surfactants .
In 2008 he received the first GK Batchelor Award in hydrodynamics and he received the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society , whose Hydrodynamics section he chaired, as well as the National Academy of Engineering (2009), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2011) and the National Academy of Sciences (2014).
In 2016, he received the American Physical Society's Hydrodynamics Award for outstanding contributions to understanding small Reynolds number fluxes, microfluidics, interfacial phenomena, and biological hydrodynamics, and for inspiring contributions to teaching and communicating the beauty and strength of hydrodynamics, physics, and engineering.
He was Associate Editor of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics for ten years.
Fonts (selection)
- with LG Leal: Relaxation and Breakup of an Initially Extended Drop in an Otherwise Quiescent Fluid, J. Fluid Mech., Volume 198, 1989, pp 399-427
- Dynamics of Drop Deformation and Breakup in Viscous Fluids, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, Volume 26, 1994, pp. 65-102
- with AD Stroock a. a .: Chaotic mixer for microchannels, Science, Volume 295, 2002, p. 3100
- with SL Anna, N. Bontoux: Formation of dispersions using “flow focusing” in microchannels, Applied Physics Letters, Volume 82, 2003, pp. 364-366
- with E. Lauga: Effective slip in pressure-driven Stokes flow, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Volume 489, 2003, pp. 55-77
- with DR Link, SL Anna, DA Weitz: Geometrically mediated breakup of drops in microfluidic devices, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 92, 2004, p. 054503
- with AD Stroock, A. Ajdari: Engineering flows in small devices, Microfluidics Toward a Lab-on-a-Chip, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, Volume 36, 2004, pp. 381-411
- with AS Utada u. a .: Monodisperse double emulsions generated from a microcapillary device, Science, Volume 308, 2005, pp. 537-541
- with R. Dreyfus u. a .: Microscopic artificial swimmers, Nature, Volume 437, 2005, p. 862
- with P. Garstecki, MJ Fuerstman, GM Whitesides: Formation of droplets and bubbles in a microfluidic T-junction — scaling and mechanism of break-up, Lab on a Chip, Volume 6, 2006, pp. 437-446
- with E. Lauga, M. Brenner: Microfluidics: the no-slip boundary condition, in: Springer Handbook of Experimental Fluid Mechanics, 2007, pp. 1219-1240
- with J. Feng u. a .: Nanoemulsions obtained via bubble-bursting at a compound interface, Nature Physics, Volume 10, 2014, pp. 606-612.
- with Z. Gitai a. a .: Colonization, Competition, and Dispersal of Pathogens in Fluid Flow Networks, Current Biology, Volume 25, 2015, pp. 1201-1207.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ For seminal contributions to our understanding of low Reynolds number flows, microfluidics, interfacial phenomena, and biological fluid dynamics, and for his inspirational contributions to teaching and communicating the beauty and power of fluid mechanics, physics and engineering (laudation). APS 2016 hydrodynamics award
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Stone, Howard A. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stone, Howard Alvin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American chemical engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1960 |