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Associate Professor and William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering


412-624-7362
Fax: 412-624-9639
Office: 1238 Benedum Hall

Education

PhD Northwestern University, 1998

Professional Interests

Professor McCarthy received his PhD and joined the faculty in 1998. The focus of Professor McCarthy's research is transport phenomena in particulate and/or discrete systems. A prevalent theme in his work is to study problems of fundamental engineering significance which nevertheless have clear implications for engineering practice. His approach to these problems includes computational, theoretical, and experimental aspects.


Five examples of current projects of interest are:

  • Mixing and flow of cohesive materials; spray coating, drying
  • Segregation of cohesive materials, agglomeration
  • Grinding and fracture of particulates
  • Heat transfer in packed and rotating beds
  • Transport in solid-liquid systems

Selected Publications

 

H. Li and J. J. McCarthy, “Cohesive Particle Mixing and Segregation under Shear”, Powder Technology, 164, 58–64, 2006.

Abatan, A. A., Vargas, W. L., and J. J. McCarthy, “Particle Migration in the Rotating Flow Between Co-Axial Discs”, AIChE Journal, 52(6), 2039–2045, 2006.

H. Li and J. J. McCarthy, “Cohesive Effects on Particle Mixing and Segregation”, Physical Review E, 71, 021305, 2005.

K. Jain, D. Shi, and J. J. McCarthy, “Discrete Characterization of Cohesion in Gas-Solid Flows”,

Powder Technology, 146 (1), 160-167, 2004.

J. J. McCarthy and R. S. Parker, “The Pillars of Chemical Engineering: A Block Scheduled Curriculum”, Chemical Engineering Education, 38 (4), 292–301, 2004.

H. Li and J. J. McCarthy, “Controlling Cohesive Particle Mixing and Segregation”, Physical ReviewLetters, 90, 184301, 2003.

J. J. McCarthy, “Micro-modeling of Cohesive Mixing Processes”, Powder Technology, 138 (1), 63-67, 2003.

Vargas, W. L. and J. J. McCarthy, “Stress Effects on the Conductivity of Particulate Beds”, ChemicalEngineering Science, 57, 3119-3131, 2002.

Vargas, W. L. and J. J. McCarthy, “Conductivity of Granular Media with Stagnant Interstitial Fluids via Thermal Particle Dynamics Simulation”, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 45, 4847-4856, 2002.

Nase, S. T., Vargas, W. L., Abatan, A. A. and J. J. McCarthy, "Discrete Characterization Tools for Wet Granular Media”, Powder Technology, 16 214–223, 2001.

Vargas, W. L. and J. J. McCarthy, “Heat Conduction in Granular Materials”, AIChE Journal, 47 (5), 1052-1059, 2001.

McCarthy, J. J., Khakhar, D. V., and J. M. Ottino, “Computational Studies of Granular Mixing”, Powder Technology, 109 (1), 72-82, 2000.

Hill, K. M., Khakhar, D. V., Gilchrist, J. F., McCarthy, J. J., and J. M. Ottino, “Segregation-Driven Organization in Chaotic Granular Flows”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (cover article), 96 (21), 11701-11706, 1999.

Hill, K. M., Gilchrist, J. F., Khakhar, D. V., McCarthy, J. J., and J. M. Ottino, “Mixing of Granular Materials: A Test-Bed Dynamical System for Pattern Formation”, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 9 (cover article), 1467-1484, 1999.

Khakhar, D. V., McCarthy, J. J., and J. M. Ottino, “Mixing and Segregation of Granular Materials in Chute Flows”, CHAOS, 9 (3), 594-610, 1999.

 

McCarthy Research Group

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