Biography
I taught from 1970-1989 in the chemical engineering department at Caltech. I have been at UCSB since 1989. I have courtesy appointments in both Materials and ME.
Awards/Honors
- Distinguished Scholar Lecturer, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State Univ., 2006
- Pirkey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Texas, 2006
- David M. Mason Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, 2004
- Fluid Dynamics Prize, American Physical Society, 2004
- NCE Cullimore Memorial Lecturer, NJIT 2001, 2002, 2002
- Bingham Medal, The Society of Rheology,, 2001
- Highly Cited Researchers, Original Member, 100 Most Highly Cited Researchers in Engineering, ISI Thompson Scientific, 2001
- Distinguished Alumni Award, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, 2000
- George K. Batchelor Lecturer in Fluid Mechanics, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, U.K., 2000
- NASA Group Achievement Award for MSL-1 Project Team to L.G. Leal, 2000
- Rutgers Collaboratus X Lecturer, Department of Chemical
and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University, 2000
- Julian C. Smith Lecturer, School of Chemical Engineering, Cornell University, 1996
- Rothschild Visiting Professor, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematics, University of Cambridge, U.K., 1996
- Robert Pigford Lecturer, University of Delaware, 1994
- William H. Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature, AIChE, 1994
- Reilly Memorial Lectureship in Chemical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 1992
- Stanley Katz Memorial Lectureship, City College of the City University of New York, 1991
- Stanley Corrsin Lectureship in Fluid Mechanics, The Johns Hopkins University, 1990
- National Academy of Engineering, 1987
- Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1984
- Allan Colburn Memorial Lectureship, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, 1978
- Allan P. Colburn Award, AIChE, 1978
- John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, 1976
- • Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Grant, 1975
Selected Publications
- An experimental investigation of the effects of copolymer surfactants on flow-induced coalescence of drops, Physics of Fluids, 19, 2007, In Press, Y. Yoon, A Hsu and L.G. Leal
- Linear Stability of a Draining Film Squeezed Between Two Approaching Droplets, J. Colloid and Interface Science, 2007, In Prress, F. Baldessari, G.M. Homsy and L.G. Leal
- “Ericksen number and Deborah number cascade predictions of a model for liquid crystalline polymers for simple shear flow, Physics of Fluids, 19, 2007, In press, D. H. Klein, C. J. Garcia-Cervera, H. D. Ceniceros, and L. G. Leal
- Linear rheology of architecturally complex macromolecules: Comb polymers with linear backbones, Macromolecules, 38, 2005, 7852-7862, M. Kapnistos, D. Vlassopoulos, J. Roovers, and L. G. Leal,
- Viscosity ratio effects on the coalescence of two equal-sized drops in a two-dimensional linear flow, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 525, 2005, 355-379, Y. Yoon, M. Borrell and L.G. Leal
- Flow Induced Coalescence of Drops in a Viscous Fluid (Fluid Dynamics Prize Lecture), Physics of Fluids, 16, 2004, 1833-1851, L.G. Leal
- Extensional rheometry of entangled solutions, Macromolecules, 35, 2002, 10130-10148, P. K. Bhattacharjee, J. Oberhauser, G. H. Mckinley, L. G. Leal and T. Sridhar
- A Theory for Flowing Nematic Polymers with Orientational Distortion, Journal of Rheology, 44, 2000, 5, J. J. Feng, G. Sgalari and L. G. Leal
- Computational Studies of Nonlinear Elastic Dumbbell Models of Boger Fluids in a Cross-Slot Flow, J. non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 88, 1999, 149-172, Johan Remmelgas, Pushpendra Singh and L. G. Leal
- Surfactant and Viscoelastic Effects on Drop Deformation in 2-D Extensional Flow, AIChE Journal, 45, 1999, 929-937, Derek C. Tretheway and L. G Leal
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