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  • 1988 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For the elucidation of chaotic motion in fewvortex problems and particle advection, and for the development of numerical methods based on manyvortex interactions

Overview

Hassan Aref was affiliated with Virginia Tech in the United States. Their academic career was marked by contributions to the understanding of chaotic motion in fluid dynamics, particularly in vortex dynamics.

Aref's research received recognition in 1988 when they were named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). This honor cited their work on elucidating chaotic motion in few-vortex problems and particle advection, as well as their development of numerical methods based on many-vortex interactions.

Best Publications

  • Stirring by chaotic advection

    Hassan Aref

  • Passive mixing in a three-dimensional serpentine microchannel

    R.H. Liu;M.A. Stremler;K.V. Sharp;M.G. Olsen

  • The development of chaotic advection

    H Aref

  • INTEGRABLE, CHAOTIC, AND TURBULENT VORTEX MOTION IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOWS

    H Aref

  • Chaotic advection in a Stokes flow

    H. Aref;S. Balachandar

  • Motion of three vortices

    Hassan Aref

  • Chaotic advection by laminar flow in a twisted pipe

    Scott W. Jones;Oran M. Thomas;Hassan Aref

  • Point vortex dynamics: A classical mathematics playground

    Hassan Aref

  • Numerical experiments on Hele Shaw flow with a sharp interface

    Gretar Tryggvason;Hassan Aref

  • Frontiers of chaotic advection

    Hassan Aref;John R. Blake;Marko Budišić;Silvana S.S. Cardoso

  • Topological fluid mechanics of stirring

    Philip L. Boyland;Hassan Aref;Mark A. Stremler

  • Integrable and chaotic motions of four vortices I. The case of identical vortices

    Hassan Aref;N. Pomphrey

  • Integrable and chaotic motions of four vortices II. Collision dynamics of vortex pairs

    B. Eckhardt;Hassan Aref

  • Passive mixing in microchannels: Fabrication and flow experiments

    David J. Beebe;David J. Beebe;Ronald J. Adrian;Michael G. Olsen;Mark A. Stremler

  • Designing for chaos: applications of chaotic advection at the microscale

    Mark A. Stremler;F. R. Haselton;Hassan Aref

  • Chaotic advection in pulsed source–sink systems

    Scott W. Jones;Hassan Aref

  • Vortex dynamics of the two-dimensional turbulent shear layer

    Hassan Aref;Eric D. Siggia

  • Integrable and chaotic motions of four vortices

    Hassan Aref;Neil Pomphrey;Neil Pomphrey

  • Chaos applied to fluid mixing

    Hassan Aref;M. S. El Naschie

  • Topological fluid mechanics of point vortex motions

    Philip L. Boyland;Mark A. Stremler;Hassan Aref

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Beebe
David J. Beebe University of Wisconsin–Madison
Gretar Tryggvason
Gretar Tryggvason Johns Hopkins University
S. Balachandar
S. Balachandar University of Florida
Eliot Fried
Eliot Fried Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Ronald J. Adrian
Ronald J. Adrian Arizona State University
Bruno Eckhardt
Bruno Eckhardt Philipp University of Marburg
Tomas Bohr
Tomas Bohr Technical University of Denmark
Juan G. Santiago
Juan G. Santiago Stanford University
Deborah E. Leckband
Deborah E. Leckband University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jeffrey S. Moore
Jeffrey S. Moore University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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