THOMAS WARD
Assistant Professor

Education
PhD , Mechanical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, 2003
MS, Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, 2001
BS, Chemical Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly University of Missouri - Rolla), 1998

Research Interests
Heat/mass transfer in multiphase flows, fluid mixing, electro-hydromechanics and dynamical systems

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Selected Publications

Ward, T. 2008 Electrohydrostatically driven flow and instability in a vertical Hele-Shaw cell. Langmuir, 24, 3611-3620.

Ward, T. & Metchik, A. 2007 Viscous fluid mixing in a tilted tank by periodic shear. Chem. Engng. Sci. 62 (22), 6274-6284.

Ward, T. 2007 Electrohydrostatic adhesion of rigid-planar electrodes. J. Electrostat. 65 (12), 742-749.

Ward, T. 2006 Radial spreading of a viscous drop between parallel-plane surfaces. Phys. Fluids 18, 093101.

Ward, T. 2006 Electrohydrostatic wetting of poorly-conducting fluids. J. Electrostat. 64 (12), 817-825.

Ward, T. & Homsy, G. M. 2006 Chaotic streamlines in a translating drop with uniform electric field. J. Fluid Mech. 547, 215-230.

Ward, T., Faivre, M., Abkarian, M., & Stone, H. A. 2005 Drop size and scaling in microfluidic flow-focusing pressure vs. flow-rate driven pumping. Electrophoresis 26, 3716-3724.

Ward, T. & Homsy, G. M. 2003 Electrohydrodynamically driven chaotic mixing in a translating drop part II: Experiments. Phys. Fluids 15 (10), 2987-2994.

Ward, T. & Homsy, G. M. 2001 Electrohydrodynamically driven chaotic mixing in a translating drop. Phys. Fluids 13 (12), 3521-3525.