Presentation Title: Reynolds Number Dependence, Scaling and Dynamics of Turbulent Boundary Layers (2008 Freeman Scholar Lecture)

Biography: Professor Joseph C. Klewicki received his BS (1983) and PhD (1989) degrees from Michigan State University and his MS degree from Georgia Tech (1985). His technical expertise is in areas relating to vorticity dynamics, complex, unsteady and turbulent flow dynamics, mixing processes, atmospheric surface layer phenomena and the experimental and analytical methods associated with the effective study of these flows. A primary focus is in the study of the physical mechanisms of wall-bounded turbulent flows, the vorticity dynamics of these flows, and the Reynolds number scaling of these flows. Over the course of his career, Professor Klewicki has graduated 11 PhDs and 15 MS students, and with these students has published over 55 peer-reviewed journal articles. Professor Klewicki is currently the Dean of the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of New Hampshire, and has been in this position since August 2005. Prior to this, Professor Klewicki was in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Utah for fifteen years. During the last four years at Utah he was the Department Chair. He is a fellow of the ASME and a Distinguished Alumnus of MSU. While at Utah, he received a number of awards for teaching excellence. In 2006 and 2007, Dean Klewicki served as the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the New Hampshire Academy for Science and Design, New Hampshire's first high-tech charter middle/high school.