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Patrick Dunn

Professor

Education: Ph.D. in Engineering - Purdue University, 1974; M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics - Purdue University, 1971; B.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering - Purdue University, 1970

Research Interests: Aerosol science, particle dynamics, fluid mechanics

Courses: Measurement and Data Analysis; Intermediate Fluid Mechanics; Microparticle Dynamics

Email: pdunn@nd.edu

Phone: 574.631.6089

Office: 107 Hessert Laboratory

Website: www.nd.edu/~pdunn/

Dr. Dunn conducts his research in the Particle Dynamics Laboratory at the Hessert Laboratory for Aerospace Research.

Selected Publications

  • P.F. Dunn, F.O. Thomas, J. Leighton, and D. Lv, "Determination of Henry’s Law Constant and the Diffusion and Polytropic Coefficients of Air in Aviation Fuel", accepted for publication in FUEL, November, 2010.
  • O. V. Kim and P. F. Dunn, "Controlled Production of Droplets by In-Flight Electrospraying", Langmuir, Vol. 26, pp. 15807-15813, 2010.
  • P.F. Dunn, F.O. Thomas, M. Davis, and I. Dorofeeva, "Experimental Characterization of Aviation-Fuel Cavitation, Physics of Fluids", Vol. 22, pp. 117102-1 to 117102-17, 2010.
  • O. V. Kim and P. F. Dunn, "Real-Time Direct Charge Measurements of Microdroplets and Comparison with Indirect Methods", Aerosol Science & Technology, Vol.44, pp. 292-301, 2010.
  • J. Jiménez-Lozano, M. Sen and P.F. Dunn, "Particle Motion in Unsteady Two-Dimensional Peristaltic Flow with Application to the Ureter", Physical Rev. E., Vol. 79, pp. 041901-1 to 041901-15, 2009.
  • A. Ibrahim, S. Ghosh and P.F. Dunn, "Detachment of Tobacco-Smoke-Material Carriers from Surfaces by Turbulent Air Flow", Journal of Environmental Monitoring, Vol. 11, pp. 56-62, 2009.
  • A. Ibrahim, P.F. Dunn and M. Qazi, "Experiments and Validation of a Model for Microparticle Detachment from Surfaces by Turbulent Air Flow", Journal of Aerosol Science, Vol. 39, pp. 645-656, 2008.
  • O. Kim and P.F. Dunn, "Direct Visualization and Model Validation of Microsphere Impact and Surface Capture", Journal of Aerosol Science, Vol. 39, pp. 373-375, 2008.
  • O. Kim and P.F. Dunn, "A Microsphere-Surface Impact Model for Implementation in Computational Fluid Dynamics", Journal of Aerosol Science, Vol. 38, pp. 542-549, 2007.
  • T. Szarek and P.F. Dunn, "An Apparatus to Determine the Pull-Off Force of a Conducting Microparticle from a Charged Surface", Aerosol Science and Technology, Vol. 41, pp .43-50, 2007.
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