Dr. Jerzy Blawzdziewicz
Contact Information
Dr. Jerzy Blawzdziewicz
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX 79409-1021
Tel: (806) 742-3563 ext. 226
Fax: 806.742.3493
email: jerzy.blawzdziewicz@ttu.edu
Soft Matter and Complex Fluids
Education
- M.S. Physics, University of Warsaw, 1980
- Ph.D. Physics, University of Warsaw, 1986
Experience
- Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Texas Tech University, 2010-present - Associate Professor, Department of Physics
Yale University, 2006-2010 - Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Yale University, 2005-2010 - Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Yale University, 2001–2005 - Lecturer and Associate Research Scientist, Department of Chemical
Engineering Yale University, 1999–2001 - Senior Research Scientist Institute of Fundamental Technological
Research, Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw, Poland, 1991–1998 - Assistant Professor Department of Physics, University of Szczecin,
Poland, 1986–1991
Teaching Areas
Fluid Mechanics
Thermodynamics
Heat Transfer
Research Interests
Theoretical and numerical descriptions of complex materials that range
from colloidal suspensions to functional nanocomposite membranes to
metallic glasses to soft biological matter.
Selected Publications
- J. Blawzdziewicz, M. L. Ekiel-Jezewska, and E. Wajnryb, Motion of a spherical particle near a planar fluid-fluid interface: The effect of surface incompressibility, J. Chem. Phys. 133, 114702 (2010).
- G. Kumar, P. A. Staffier PA, J. Blawzdziewicz, U. D. Schwarz, and J. Schroers, Atomically smooth surfaces through thermoplastic forming of metallic glass, Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 101907 (2010).
- J. Blawzdziewicz, R. H. Goodman, N., Khurana, E. Wajnryb, and Y.-N. Young, Nonlinear hydrodynamic phenomena in Stokes flow regime, Physica D 239, 1214 (2010).
- B. Cichocki, E. Wajnryb, J. Blawzdziewicz, J. K. G. Dhont, and P. Lang, The intensity correlation function in evanescent wave scattering, J. Chem. Phys. 132, 074704 (2010).
- G.-J. Gao. J. Blawzdziewicz, and C. S. O'Hern, Geometrical families of mechanically stable granular packings, Phys. Rev. E 80, 061303 (2009).
- G. Lois, J. Blawzdziewicz, and C. S. O'Hern, A percolation model for glassy dynamics in disordered materials, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 015702 (2009).
- J. Blawzdziewicz and E. Wajnryb, Equilibrium and nonequilibrium thermodynamics of particle-stabilized thin liquid films. J. Chem. Phys. 129, 194509 (2008).
- J. Blawzdziewicz and E. Wajnryb, An analysis of the far-field response to external forcing of a suspension in Stokes flow in a parallel-wall channel. Phys. Fluids 20, 093303 (2008).
- M. Baron, J. Blawzdziewicz, and E. Wajnryb, Hydrodynamic crystals:collective dynamics of regular arrays of spherical particles in a parallel-wall channel. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 174502 (2008).