Faculty Profiles
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Andre Benard |
| Associate Professor | |
| Michigan State University | |
| Mechanical Engineering | |
| 2425 Engineering Building | |
| East Lansing, MI 48824-1226 | |
| Ph:(517) 432-1522 | |
| Fax:(517) 353-1750 | |
| benard@egr.msu.edu | |
| http://www.egr.msu.edu/~benard/ & www.egr.msu.edu/mtp | |
| Research Interests: Transport phenomena and materials processing, polymer microstructures, heat transfer, multiphase problems, finite elements. Current funded research projects: Formulation of moment closure models for complex fluids (NSF) Experimental and numerical study of the solidification of alloy analogs (NASA, NSF) Partnership for codes and models for the automotive industry (Ford, Daimler-Chrysler) Flame spread over polymeric surfaces (NIST) Design and development of underwater biomimetic robotic systems (IRGP) Other research projects: Heat transfer in core-annular flows Fictitious domain methods Inverse materials design Level set methods and their variational formulations |
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