Eckart Meiburg

Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Eckart Meiburg

Contacts

Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

tel: (805) 893-5278
fax: (805) 893-8651
meiburg@engineering.ucsb.edu

Personal web site

Turbidity Current Simulation

Turbidity Current Simulation

The image shows a high-resolution, direct numerical simulation of a turbidity current in the lock-exchange configuration

Research Description

Professor Meiburg's research interests lie in the general area of fluid dynamics and transport phenomena. His group primarily employs the tools of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), in particular highly resolved direct numerical simulations, in order to obtain insight into the physical mechanisms that govern the spatio-temporal evolution of a wide variety of flow fields. Occasionally, his group extends their analyses to address issues of linear stability as well. Frequently, they collaborate closely with corresponding experimental investigations. Some current interests are focused on particle and droplet laden flows, free shear flows with and without swirl, gravity and turbidity currents, fluid transport in porous media, and miscible fluid flows with steep concentration gradients.

Research Groups

Biography

1/86-8/87 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University. 9/87-7/90 Assistant Professor, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University. 8/90-3/00 Associate Professor and Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern California. 4/00-present Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara. 7/03-6/07 Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara.


Awards/Honors

  • Gledden Fellowship, University of Western Australia, 2008
  • Invited Plenary Speaker, 6th International Symposium on Stratified Flows, Perth, Australia, 2006
  • Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Research Award, 2005
  • Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2005
  • ERCOFTAC Visitor, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2003, 2006
  • Invited Plenary Speaker, GAMM 2003 Annual Scientific Conference, Padua, Italy, 2003
  • Invited Speaker, Gordon Conference, 2001
  • Outstanding Teaching Award, School of Engineering, USC, 1997, 1998
  • Presidential Young Investigator Award (National Science Foundation), 1990

Selected Publications

See complete list of publications
  • High-Resolution Numerical Simulations of Resuspending Gravity Currents: Conditions for Self-Sustainment, J. Geophys. Res. C: Oceans, 110, 205, C12, F. Blanchette et al.
  • Miscible Displacements in a Hele-Shaw Cell: Two-Dimensional Base States and Their Linear Stability, J. Fluid Mech, 558, 2006, 329, N. Goyal and E. Meiburg
  • Small Particles in Homogeneous Turbulence: Settling Velocity Enhancement by Two-Way Coupling, Physics of Fluids, 18, 2006, 027102, T. Bosse, L. Kleiser and E. Meiburg
  • Influence of Variable Viscosity on Density-Driven Instabilities in Capillary Tubes, J. Fluid Mechanics, 525, 2005, 333, M. Payr, S.H. Vanaparthy and E. Meiburg
  • Mixing and Dissipation in Particle-Driven Gravity Currents, J. Fluid Mechanics, 545, 2005, 339, F. Necker et al.
  • Three-Dimensional Miscible Displacement Simulations in Homogeneous Porous Media with Gravity Override, J. Fluid Mechanics, 494, 2003, 95, A. Riaz and E. Meiburg
  • Three-Dimensional Vortex Breakdown in Swirling Jets and Wakes: Direct Numerical Simulation, J. Fluid Mechanics, 486, 2003, 331, M. Ruith et al.
  • Miscible Rectilinear Displacements with Gravity Override. Part 2: Heterogeneous Porous Media, J. Fluid Mechanics, 420, 2000, 259, M. Ruith, E. Camhi and E. Meiburg
  • Three-Dimensional Features of Particle Dispersion in a Nominally Plane Mixing Layer, Physics of Fluids, 8, 1996, 2266, B. Marcu and E. Meiburg
  • Three-Dimensional Shear Layers via Vortex Dynamics, J. Fluid Mechanics, 189, 1988, 87, W.T. Ashurst and E. Meiburg