Conducts fundamental research in solid mechanics and structural dynamics, numerical and analytical methods in acoustic and elastic wave propagation, image processing applied to acoustic and optical signals, and design of structures for extraterrestrial habitats. An Introduction to its Physical Principles and Applications. Research interests include supersonic flight, sonic booms, wave-based applications involving elastic structures and fluids, identification and measurement of statistical descriptors of dynamical systems with high complexity, optoacoustic and electroacoustic devices, acoustic detection systems, bioacoustics of aneurysms, active materials in control of vibration and sound radiation, and wave propagation through turbulence. Ronald Roy, Ph.D., Yale. Ann Stokes, Ph.D., Harvard.
Research focuses on nonlinear dynamics and theoretical issues in the control of mechanical systems.
Applications include the design of robotic manipulators and active noise control. Ananias Tomboulides, Ph.D., Princeton. Daniel Udelson, Ph.D., Harvard. Current research is in biomechanics, focusing on the urodynamics and hemodynamics of the human urinary system. Donald Wroblewski, Ph.D., Berkeley.