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78
Citations
21410
World Ranking
606
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212

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1987 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For fundamental contributions to the understanding of the fluid mechanics of particulate systems, polymer solutions, and suspensions.
  • 1976 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

L. G. Leal is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a focus on materials science, chemical engineering, and engineering, reflecting a broad interdisciplinary approach.

The primary subfields within which they work include fluid flow and transfer processes, materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, polymers and plastics, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine. Their contributions address complex phenomena in these areas through experimental and theoretical frameworks.

Leal's scientific inquiries broadly cover several main topics such as rheology and fluid dynamics studies, material dynamics and properties, phase equilibria and thermodynamics, polymer crystallization and properties, blood properties and coagulation, minerals flotation and separation techniques, and nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Journal of Rheology
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Physical Review Materials
  • Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
  • Macromolecules

Selected recent papers from L. G. Leal's body of work are:

  • "Universal Gas Adsorption Mechanism for Flat Nanobubble Morphologies," 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • "Flow-Induced Concentration Nonuniformity and Shear Banding in Entangled Polymer Solutions," 2021, Physical Review Letters
  • "Bayesian estimations of orientation distribution functions from small-angle scattering enable direct prediction of mechanical stress in anisotropic materials," 2021, Physical Review Materials
  • "Predictions for flow-induced scission in well-entangled living polymers: The "living Rolie-Poly" model," 2021, Journal of Rheology
  • "Shear induced demixing in bidisperse and polydisperse polymer blends: Predictions from a multifluid model," 2020, Journal of Rheology

Collaborators frequently working with Leal include Matthew E. Helgeson, Patrick T. Corona, Michael C. Burroughs, Abhishek Shetty, and Joseph D. Peterson. These repeated partnerships indicate active involvement in collaborative research efforts.

Throughout their career, L. G. Leal has been recognized with several awards, notably:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2011
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 1987, for fundamental contributions to the understanding of the fluid mechanics of particulate systems, polymer solutions, and suspensions
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1976

Best Publications

  • Inertial migration of rigid spheres in two-dimensional unidirectional flows

    B. P. Ho;L. G. Leal

  • An experimental investigation of drop deformation and breakup in steady, two-dimensional linear flows

    B. J. Bentley;L. G. Leal

  • The effect of Brownian motion on the rheological properties of a suspension of non-spherical particles

    E. J. Hinch;L. G. Leal

  • An experimental study of transient effects in the breakup of viscous drops

    H. A. Stone;B. J. Bentley;L. G. Leal

  • Particle Motions in a Viscous Fluid

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  • Relaxation and breakup of an initially extended drop in an otherwise quiescent fluid

    H. A. Stone;L. G. Leal

  • The effects of surfactants on drop deformation and breakup

    H. A. Stone;L. G. Leal

  • Constitutive equations in suspension mechanics. Part 2. Approximate forms for a suspension of rigid particles affected by Brownian rotations

    E. J. Hinch;L. G. Leal

  • Numerical solution of free-boundary problems in fluid mechanics. Part 2. Buoyancy-driven motion of a gas bubble through a quiescent liquid

    G. Ryskin;L. G. Leal

  • Natural convection in a shallow cavity with differentially heated end walls. Part 1. Asymptotic theory

    D. E. Cormack;L. G. Leal;J. Imberger

  • An experimental investigation of concentrated suspension flows in a rectangular channel

    Christopher J. Koh;Philip Hookham;L. G. Leal

  • The motion of a deformable drop in a second-order fluid

    P. C.-H. Chan;L. G. Leal

  • Numerical solution of free-boundary problems in fluid mechanics. Part 1. The finite-difference technique

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  • The effect of weak Brownian rotations on particles in shear flow

    L. G. Leal;E. J. Hinch

  • Migration of rigid spheres in a two-dimensional unidirectional shear flow of a second-order fluid

    B. P. Ho;L. G. Leal

  • NONLINEAR BUBBLE DYNAMICS

    Z. C. Feng;L. G. Leal

  • The slow motion of slender rod-like particles in a second-order fluid

    L. G. Leal

  • Flow induced coalescence of drops in a viscous fluid

    L. G. Leal

  • Definitions of entanglement spacing and time constants in the tube model

    R G Larson;Tamarapu Sridhar;L G Leal;Gareth Huw McKinley

  • Drop deformation, breakup, and coalescence with compatibilizer

    Y. T. Hu;D. J. Pine;L. Gary Leal

  • Flow birefringence of dilute polymer solutions in two-dimensional flows

    G. G. Fuller;L. G. Leal

  • A computer-controlled four-roll mill for investigations of particle and drop dynamics in two-dimensional linear shear flows

    B. J. Bentley;L. G. Leal

  • The effect of surfactant on the transient motion of Newtonian drops

    W. J. Milliken;Howard A. Stone;L. G. Leal

  • Linear Rheology of Architecturally Complex Macromolecules: Comb Polymers with Linear Backbones

    M. Kapnistos;D. Vlassopoulos;J. Roovers;L. G. Leal

  • Constitutive equations in suspension mechanics. Part 1. General formulation

    E. J. Hinch;L. G. Leal

Frequent Co-Authors

E. J. Hinch
E. J. Hinch University of Cambridge
James J. Feng
James J. Feng University of British Columbia
Howard A. Stone
Howard A. Stone Princeton University
Andreas Acrivos
Andreas Acrivos City University of New York
Gerald G. Fuller
Gerald G. Fuller Stanford University
John H. Seinfeld
John H. Seinfeld California Institute of Technology
Dimitris Vlassopoulos
Dimitris Vlassopoulos Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas
Seong H. Lee
Seong H. Lee Chevron (Netherlands)
Seung-Man Yang
Seung-Man Yang Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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