Faculty Directory
Gretar Tryggvason
Professor and Department Head
Office: Higgins Laboratories, 134
Phone: +1-508-831-5759
Fax: +1-508-831-5680
gretar@wpi.edu
Related Information
Educational Background
- B.S., University of Iceland, 1980
- Sc.M., Brown University, 1982
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Ph.D., Brown University, 1985
Research & Teaching Interests
Multiphase and Free Surface Flows; Phase Changes, including Boiling and Solidification; Vortex Flows and Combustion; Numerical Methods.
Recent Publications
Honors & Awards
- Fellow of the American Physical Society
- Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- The 2005 Computational Mechanics Award from the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
- WPI Sigma Xi Outstanding Senior Faculty Research Award, 2006
Professional Societies/Memberships
- Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Computational Physics
- Associate Editor of the International Journal of Multiphase Flow
