Eckart Meiburg

Institute Role
Member of Buildings & Design Solutions Group

Role in Affiliated Centers
Member of the Center for Energy Efficiency Design

Research
Eckart Meiburg's research interests lie in the general area of fluid dynamics and transport phenomena. He primarily employs the tools of computational fluid dynamics (CFD)—in particular highly-resolved direct numerical simulations—in order to obtain insight into the physical mechanisms that govern the spatio-temporal evolution of a wide variety of flow fields. Occasionally, he extends his analyses to address issues of linear stability as well. One application of his research is the multiphysics modeling of complex fluid flows as it relates to fluid transport of energy in building systems. Additional interests are focused on particle and droplet laden flows, free shear flows with and without swirl, gravity currents, fluid transport in porous media, and miscible fluid flows with steep concentration gradients.

Biography
Eckart Meiburg received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe in Germany in 1985. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University, he spent three years as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University. In 1990, he moved to the University of Southern California as an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering. He joined UC Santa Barbara in 2000, where he currently serves as  a Professor of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering.  Meiburg has held a number of visiting appointments at several foreign institutes, including the Institute for Fluid Dynamics at ETH Zurich in Switzerland; the Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles in Paris, France; the Max-Planck Institute in Goettingen, Germany; and the University of Western Australia in Perth. He is the recipient of a number of awards including the Gledden Senior Fellowship (2005), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Research Award (2005); the Gallery of Fluid Motion, Flow Visualization Award from the American Physical Society (2001, 2004); and an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1990). He is also a fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Meiburg has authored or co-authored over 150 refereed publications and two book chapters.