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Citations
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295

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 1992 - Fluids Engineering Award, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Christopher E. Brennen is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their academic contributions are recognized through honors awarded by prominent professional organizations.

Brennen has received the Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers distinction in 2010. This fellowship marks recognition of significant contributions to the field of mechanical engineering. Earlier, in 1992, they were awarded the Fluids Engineering Award by the same society.

Their research and professional focus encompass mechanical and fluids engineering disciplines, although specific details regarding publications, co-authors, and detailed fields of study are not present in the available data.

Best Publications

  • Cavitation and Bubble Dynamics

    Christopher Earls Brennen

  • Fluid Mechanics of Propulsion by Cilia and Flagella

    Christopher E. Brennen;Howard Winet

  • Fundamentals of Multiphase Flow

    Christopher Earls Brennen

  • Hydrodynamics of Pumps

    Christopher Earls Brennen

  • Computer simulation of granular shear flows

    Charles S. Campbell;Christopher E. Brennen

  • Swimming and Flying in Nature

    Flying in Nature;Theodore Y.-T. Wu;Charles J. Brokaw

  • Observations of shock waves in cloud cavitation

    G. E. Reisman;Yi-Chun Wang;C. E. Brennen

  • A Review of Added Mass and Fluid Inertial Forces.

    C. E. Brennen

  • Observations of the Dynamics and Acoustics of Travelling Bubble Cavitation

    S. L. Ceccio;C. E. Brennen

  • Measurements of Solid Spheres Bouncing Off Flat Plates

    R. Sondergaard;K. Chaney;C. E. Brennen

  • Cavitation in medicine.

    Christopher Earls Brennen

  • Fission of Collapsing Cavitation Bubbles

    Christopher E. Brennen

  • Experimental Investigation of Rotor-Stator Interaction in a Centrifugal Pump With Several Vaned Diffusers

    N. Arndt;A. J. Acosta;C. E. Brennen;T. K. Caughey

  • Linearized dynamics of spherical bubble clouds

    Luca d'Agostino;Christopher E. Brennen

  • Chute Flows of Granular Material: Some Computer Simulations

    C. S. Campbell;C. E. Brennen

  • Revisiting the 1954 suspension experiments of R. A. Bagnold

    M. L. Hunt;R. Zenit;C. S. Campbell;C. E. Brennen

  • The Dynamic Transfer Function for a Cavitating Inducer

    C. Brennen;A. J. Acosta

  • Heat transfer to flowing granular media

    J.K. Spelt;C.E. Brennen;R.H. Sabersky

  • Vertical Vibration of a Deep Bed of Granular Material in a Container

    C. R. Wassgren;C. E. Brennen;M. L. Hunt

  • A numerical solution of axisymmetric cavity flows

    Christopher Brennen

  • THE DYNAMICS AND ACOUSTICS OF TRAVELLING BUBBLE CAVITATION

    S. Ceccio;C. Brennen

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas K. Caughey
Thomas K. Caughey California Institute of Technology
Tim Colonius
Tim Colonius California Institute of Technology
Carl Wassgren
Carl Wassgren Purdue University West Lafayette
Yoshinobu Tsujimoto
Yoshinobu Tsujimoto Osaka University
Steven L. Ceccio
Steven L. Ceccio University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Robert W. Clayton
Robert W. Clayton California Institute of Technology
Jörg Imberger
Jörg Imberger University of Miami
Joseph E. Shepherd
Joseph E. Shepherd California Institute of Technology
Bruno Andreotti
Bruno Andreotti École Normale Supérieure
Yoichiro Matsumoto
Yoichiro Matsumoto University of Tokyo

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