André Bénard
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Michigan State University
Research Interests: Transport phenomena and materials processing, polymer
microstructures, heat transfer, multiphase problems, finite elements.
Research
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
Teaching - Spring 2005
Introduction to Finite Elements
Graduate students
Dilip Mandal (Ph.D), Liping Jia (Ph.D.), Sriharsha Chunduru (M.Sc.), Praveen Kumar (M.Sc.), Yanbing Li (M.Sc.)
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