People Giovanni P. Galdi William Kepler Whiteford Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
EducationLaurea in Fisica, University of Naples, Italy, 1971 Research InterestsGiovanni P. Galdi's current areas of research are in fluid mechanics with particular emphasis on the following topics: (i) linear and non-linear stability: onset of convection in a layer of fluid heated from below, Taylor-Couette instability, stability of flow past an obstacle; (ii) interaction of fluids and particles: sedimentation of rigid bodies in Newtonian and viscoelastic fluids, self-propelled motion of micro-organisms in a viscous liquid; (iii) flow in channels and pipes: regular perturbation expansion in curved pipes, rate of convergence, stability; (iv) shape of rigid walls and associated fluid stress: mathematical analysis of the relationship between hemodynamics and the formation of saccular anuerysms; (v) turbulence modeling. For more information about Galdi's research, visit Selected PublicationsGaldi, G.P.; Robertson, A.M., "On Flow of a Navier-Stokes Fluid in Curved Pipes. Part I: Steady Flow", Appl. Math. Letters, 18 ( 10) ( 2005) 1116-1124 Galdi, G.P.; Robertson, A.M., "The Relation Between Flow Rate and Axial Pressure Gradient for Time-Periodic Poiseuille Flow in a Pipe", J. Math. Fluid Mech., 7, Suppl. 2, (2005) 215-223 Galdi, G.P.; Silvestre, A.L., "Strong Solutions to the Navier-Stokes Equations Around a Rotating Obstacle", Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 176 (3) (2005) 331-350 Galdi, G.P., Stationary Navier-Stokes Problem in a two-dimensional exterior domain, Handbook of Differential Equations, Vol. 1: Stationary Differential Equations, North-Holland Elsevier Science, (2004), 71-156 Wang, J.; Bai, R.; Lewandowski, C.; Galdi, G.P.; Joseph, D.D., Galdi, G.P.; Sohr, H., "Existence and Uniqueness of Time-Periodic Physically Reasonable Navier-Stokes Flow Past a Body", Berselli, L.; Galdi, G.P., "On the Space-Time Regularity of C(0, T; Ln) - Very Weak Solution to the Navier-Stokes Equation",
Curriculum VitaeGaldi became a professor at the University of Pittsburgh School ofEngineering in 1999. Prior to that, in the years 1980–85 he was professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Naples (Italy) and from 1985 to 1998 at the Institute of Engineering at the University of Ferrara (Italy). In 1989 he founded and organized the School of Engineering of the University of Ferrara. He has been visiting professor in several academic institutions, including the University of Glasgow (Scotland), University of Minnesota (USA), Indian Institute of Technology in Madras (India), Fudan University in Shanghai (China), University of Waseda in Tokyo (Japan), Czech Academy of Science (Czech Republic), Steklov Institute of Mathematics in St Petersburg (Russia), University of Paris VI (France), Instituto Superior Tecnico in Lisbon (Portugal) and University of Pisa (Italy). He is cofounder with J.G. Heywood and R. Rannacher of J. Math. Fluid Mech., and of the series Advances in Math Fluid Mechanics, published by Birkhaeuser-Verlag. He is a member of the advisory board of European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids. Galdi has authored or coauthored over 100 original research papers and five books, and edited or coedited 13 books dedicated to mathematical fluid mechanics. In 2003 he was awarded the Mercator Professorship by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation). Graduate Students
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