Kenneth Breuer Explained

Kenneth Breuer
Other Names:Kenny Breuer
Birth Date:June 1960
Birth Place:New Brunswick, NJ
Occupation:Professor of EngineeringProfessor 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]

Early life and education

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]

Research

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]

Selected publications

Outreach

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]

Awards and honors

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2024-04-15 . Kenneth Breuer Engineering . 2024-08-29 . Brown University .
  2. Web site: Yumpu.com . THE 64TH ANNUAL DFD MEETING - American Physical Society . 2024-08-29 . yumpu.com .
  3. Web site: ASME Fellows List.
  4. Web site: AIAA Associate Fellows.
  5. Web site: Marten Landahl - The Mathematics Genealogy Project . 2024-08-29 . www.mathgenealogy.org.
  6. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/4400073.pdf
  7. Web site: SSL Faculty . 2024-08-29 . web.mit.edu.
  8. Web site: University establishes Mechanics of Undersea Science and Engineering Center Engineering Brown University . 2024-08-29 . engineering.brown.edu .
  9. Web site: Seminar: What animals can teach us about aerodynamics - November 4 Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences University of Colorado Boulder . 2024-08-29 . www.colorado.edu .
  10. Web site: Kenneth . Breuer . engineering.brown.edu . 15 April 2024 . 2024-09-01.
  11. Web site: Breuer Lab . Brown University . 2024-09-01.
  12. News: Gorman . James . 2014-06-16 . New Insight Into How Bats Conquer the Air . 2024-08-29 . The New York Times . 0362-4331.
  13. Web site: 06-082 (The Flight of Bats) . 2024-08-29 . www.brown.edu.
  14. Web site: Quirós . Gabriela . 2011-05-10 . Bat Flight a Mechanical Marvel . KQED . 2024-08-29 .
  15. Darnton . Nicholas . Turner . Linda . Breuer . Kenneth . Berg . Howard C. . March 2004 . Moving Fluid with Bacterial Carpets . Biophysical Journal . 86 . 3 . 1863–1870 . 10.1016/S0006-3495(04)74253-8 . 1304020 . 14990512. 2004BpJ....86.1863D .
  16. Arkilic . Errol B. . Breuer . Kenneth S. . Schmidt . Martin A. . June 2001 . Mass flow and tangential momentum accommodation in silicon micromachined channels . Journal of Fluid Mechanics . 437 . 1 . 29–43 . 10.1017/S0022112001004128 . 2001JFM...437...29A . 1469-7645.
  17. Kim . Min Jun . Breuer . Kenneth S. . 2004-09-01 . Enhanced diffusion due to motile bacteria . Physics of Fluids . 16 . 9 . L78–L81 . 10.1063/1.1787527 . 2004PhFl...16L..78K . 1070-6631.
  18. Mathai . Varghese . Das . Asimanshu . Bailey . Jeffrey A. . Breuer . Kenneth . January 2021 . Airflows inside passenger cars and implications for airborne disease transmission . Science Advances . en . 7 . 1 . 10.1126/sciadv.abe0166 . 2375-2548 . 7775778 . 33277325. 2007.03612 . 2021SciA....7..166M .
  19. Web site: WIPO - Search International and National Patent Collections. patentscope.wipo.int.
  20. Web site: WIPO - Search International and National Patent Collections. patentscope.wipo.int.
  21. Web site: WIPO - Search International and National Patent Collections. patentscope.wipo.int.
  22. Web site: Kenneth Breuer Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search . 2024-08-29 . patents.justia.com.
  23. Choi . Chang-Hwan . Westin . K. Johan A. . Breuer . Kenneth S. . 2003-10-01 . Apparent slip flows in hydrophilic and hydrophobic microchannels . Physics of Fluids . 15 . 10 . 2897–2902 . 10.1063/1.1605425 . 2003PhFl...15.2897C . 1070-6631.
  24. Arkilic . Errol B. . Breuer . Kenneth S. . Schmidt . Martin A. . 2001-06-25 . Mass flow and tangential momentum accommodation in silicon micromachined channels . Journal of Fluid Mechanics . 437 . 1 . 29–43 . 10.1017/S0022112001004128 . 2001JFM...437...29A . 0022-1120.
  25. Song . Arnold . Tian . Xiaodong . Israeli . Emily . Galvao . Ricardo . Bishop . Kristin . Swartz . Sharon . Breuer . Kenneth . August 2008 . Aeromechanics of Membrane Wings with Implications for Animal Flight . AIAA Journal . 46 . 8 . 2096–2106 . 10.2514/1.36694 . 2008AIAAJ..46.2096S . 0001-1452.
  26. Liu . Bin . Powers . Thomas R. . Breuer . Kenneth S. . 2011-12-06 . Force-free swimming of a model helical flagellum in viscoelastic fluids . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 108 . 49 . 19516–19520 . 10.1073/pnas.1113082108 . free . 0027-8424 . 3241751 . 22106263. 2011PNAS..10819516L .
  27. Book: Microscale Diagnostic Techniques . 2005 . Springer-Verlag . 978-3-540-23099-1 . Breuer . Kenneth S. . Berlin/Heidelberg . 10.1007/b137604.
  28. Thorpe . S. A. . 2004-07-10 . A Gallery of Fluid Motion. Edited By M. SAMIMY, K. S. BREUER, L. G. LEAL P. H. STEEN. Cambridge University Press, 2004. 119 pp. ISBN 0521 827736, 65.00 (hardback) or ISBN 0521 53500X, 19.99 (paperback) . Journal of Fluid Mechanics . 510 . 374–377 . 10.1017/S0022112004229871 . 2024-11-18 . 0022-1120.
  29. Bridges . Richard . July 2001 . Multi-media fluid mechanics, by G. M. Homsy, H. Aref, K. S. Breuer, S. Hochgreb, J. R. Koseff and B.R. Munson. 2000. £14.95 (US $19.95) CD-ROM ISBN 0 521 78748 3 (Cambridge University Press). . The Mathematical Gazette . 85 . 503 . 380–381 . 10.2307/3622079 . 3622079 . 0025-5572.
  30. Multi-media fluid mechanics, by G. M. Homsy, H. Aref, K. S. Breuer, S. Hochgreb, J. R. Koseff and B.R. Munson. 2000. £14.95 (US $19.95) CD-ROM ISBN 0 521 78748 3 (Cambridge University Press).. Richard. Bridges. July 16, 2001. The Mathematical Gazette. 85. 503. 380–381. Cambridge University Press. 10.2307/3622079. 3622079 .
  31. Book: A Gallery of Fluid Motion. M.. Samimy. K. S.. Breuer. L. G.. Leal. P. H.. Steen. November 16, 2004. Cambridge University Press. 10.1017/CBO9780511610820 . 978-0-521-82773-7 .
  32. Web site: NOVA | Bat Superpowers | Season 48 | Episode 10 | PBS. www.pbs.org.
  33. Web site: The Four-Winged Dinosaur — NOVA | PBS. www.pbs.org.
  34. Web site: The Fancy Flying Of Bats.
  35. Web site: BBC One - Richard Hammond's Invisible Worlds, Speed Limits. BBC.
  36. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/16/science/new-insight-into-how-bats-conquer-the-air.html
  37. Web site: This Is How Bats Can Land Upside Down. Danny. Lewis. Smithsonian Magazine . 2024-08-29.
  38. Web site: Mystery Solved: How Bats Can Land Upside Down. November 16, 2015. Animals.
  39. Web site: New study suggests best way to reduce COVID-19 transmission risk in cars. ABC News.
  40. Web site: Batty for Bats - Innovation Nation. January 7, 2011. YouTube.
  41. Web site: Sticking the (Upside-Down) Landing - California Academy of Sciences. www.calacademy.org.
  42. Web site: BAT Flight vs BIRDS, with SLOWMO, robots, swimming and treadmills - Smarter Every Day 87. April 14, 2013. YouTube.
  43. Web site: Three appointed to CD Chairs. February 16, 1994. MIT News . Massachusetts Institute of Technology . 2024-08-29 .
  44. Web site: The Midwest Mechanics Seminar Series.
  45. Web site: THE 64TH ANNUAL DFD MEETING - American Physical Society. yumpu.com.
  46. https://www.aiaa.org/docs/default-source/uploadedfiles/membership-and-communities/individual-membership/aiaa-membership-grades/aiaa-associate-fellows-roster.pdf?sfvrsn=dd85832d_0
  47. Web site: 2012 Division of Fluid Dynamics. yumpu.com.
  48. https://www.asme.org/getmedia/fb403911-4485-4a50-8232-3b04ea4ac4c0/fellows-all-updated-march-2024.pdf
  49. Web site: Bower, Breuer named Dean's Awards Winners for Excellence in Engineering Teaching, Mentoring . Brown University. engineering.brown.edu.
  50. Web site: People | Fluids at Brown | Brown University. fluids.brown.edu.

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