Sean Clifford Garrick
Associate Professor
Professor Garrick received his BS (1992), MS (1994), and PhD (1998) from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He was an Office of Naval Research - Future Faculty Fellow at the State University of New York at Buffalo and received his PhD from the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering in Summer 1998. He joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota in Fall 1998 as the Nelson Assistant Professor. Professor Garrick teaches courses in thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, turbulence modeling and computational methods and has research interests in physical and mathematical modeling, numerical simulation of transport phenomena in turbulent flows, and scientific visualization.
Professor Garrick's research has been funded by the Army Research Office, the National Science Foundation, the Army Research Laboratory and current projects include the modeling of turbulent reacting flows, formation and growth of nanoparticles, and the effects turbulence on bio-compatible particles and pharmaceuticals.
Awards include best paper awards from American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (1995) and National Society of Black Engineers (1997), a Department of Defense "Success Story" (2002). His research in large-scale visualization of turbulent reacting flows was featured in the November 2000 issue of Computer Graphics World magazine and his work in visualizing the growth of nanoparticles in turbulent flows won the Visualization Society of Japan - Silicon Graphics Inc. Best Scientific Image for 2004.
Contact Information:
Email: garrick@me.umn.edu
Office: Mechanical Engineering 245
Ph.: (612) 624-5741; FAX: (612) 624-5230