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Kenneth Breuer | |
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Born | June 1960 New Brunswick, NJ |
Other names | Kenny Breuer |
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Occupation(s) | Professor of Engineering Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology |
Website | https://sites.brown.edu/breuerlab/ |
Kenneth Breuer is an American academic, who is a Professor of Engineering and Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology at Brown University and the director of the Center of Fluid Mechanics at Brown University. [1] He is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and a Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology member. [2] [3] [4]
Kenny Breuer was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in June 1960. He grew up in London before moving back to the US in 1976. He received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Brown University in 1982 and his PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT (1988) under the supervision of Märten Landahl and Joseph Haritonidis. [5] His doctoral dissertation was titled "The Development of a Localized Disturbance in a Boundary Layer". [6] He spent two years at Brown as a postdoctoral fellow with Lawrence Sirovich in applied mathematics and nine years as faculty at MIT in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics before returning to Brown in 1999. [7] He is currently a Professor of Engineering and Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology at Brown University and co-director of the center for the Mechanics of Undersea Science and Engineering (MUSE). [1] [8] His field of research is fluid mechanics.
He was a visiting professor at the University of Queensland in 2005, Harvard University in 2008, Paris Tech. in 2015, Imperial College and Tel Aviv University in 2019, and the University of Colorado in 2022. [9]
His research interests cover a wide range of topics in fluid mechanics, animal locomotion, and turbulent flows. [10] Among these topics are the mechanics and dynamics of bat and bird flight, fluid-structure interactions, focusing on the interactions of fluids with extremely compliant structures, vortex dynamics, renewable energy harvesting, bioinspired engineering, and micron-scale bio-fluid mechanics. [11]
At the macro-scale, he has worked on animal flight mechanics, the formation, growth, and unsteady dynamics of vortical flows, flow interactions with highly compliant structures such as membrane and spring-mounted wings, and energy harvesting from fluid flows. [12] [13] [14] At the micron scale, he's done research in bacterial motility and flagellar mechanics, the nanoscale flow near a moving contact line, and the development of nanoscale velocimetry techniques. [15] [16] [17] He has also done research on the transmission of covid-19. [18]
He holds several patents awarded by the European Patent Office and United States Patent and Trademark Office on Kinetic energy harvesting using cyber-physical systems, [19] Sensing and control of flows over membrane wings [20] and Free streamline airfoil, [21] among others. [22]
He is active in fluid dynamics education and outreach. He is a co-author of the best-selling DVD: Multimedia Fluid Mechanics (Camb. Univ. Press) [30] , and co-editor of the compilation of flow visualization: A Gallery of Fluid Motion (Camb. Univ. Press) [31] . He has also appeared on programs such as PBS's NOVA (Bat superpowers, 2021; [32] The four-winged dinosaur, 2008 [33] ), NPR's Science Friday, [34] the Discovery Channel's series Weird Connections, and the BBC's series Invisible Worlds [35] . His research has been featured in the New York Times, [36] Discover magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, [37] National Geographic, [38] ABC News [39] and has been highlighted on the National Science Foundation website [40] and the California Academy of Sciences. [41] Dr. Breuer's bat flight research has been featured on the popular science YouTube channel SmarterEveryDay, hosted by Destin Sandlin. [42]
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