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People Anne M. Robertson

Associate Professor, Department of
Mechanical Engineering and Materials
Science


Phone: 412-624-9775
Fax: 412-624-4846
Office: BENDM 641

Education

Postdoctoral Researcher: Chemical Engineering, U.C. Berkeley, 1992–94.
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 1992.
MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 1987.
BS, Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University, 1983.

Professional Interests

Robertson's research interests are in continuum mechanics with particular emphasis on (i) Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, (ii) cerebral vascular disease, and (iii) constitutive modeling of soft biological tissues.

For more details, visit her personal web site.

Selected recent Publications

Z. Zeng, B. –J. Chung, M. Durka, A.M. Robertson, An in-vitro device for evaluation of cellular response to flows found at the apex of bifurcations, In: Advances in Mathematical Fluid Mechanics, (ed. A. Sequeira and R. Rannacher), Springer Verlag, Wien, (in press, 2009).

D. Li and A. M. Robertson, A Structural Multi-Mechanism Damage Model for Cerebral Arterial Tissue, J Biomech Eng-T ASME, vol. 131(10), DOI: 10.1115/1.3202559, 2009.

A. Robertson, A. Séqueira, R. G. Owens, Chapter Title: Rheological Models for Blood, in Cardiovascular Mathematics: Modeling and simulation of the circulatory system, Series: MS&A , Vol. 1, Editors:vvFormaggia, Luca; Quarteroni, Alfio M.; Veneziani, Alessandro (Eds.) , Series: MS&A , Vol. 1, , Springer-Verlag,  ISBN: 978-88-470-1151-9, 2009.

D. Li and A.M. Robertson, A Structural Multi-Mechanism Constitutive Equation for Cerebral Arterial Tissue, Int J Solids Struct, 46(14-15), pp. 2920-2928. doi: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2009.03.017, 2009.

H. Zakaria, A. M. Robertson, C. W. Kerber, Parametric Models for Studies of Flow in Arterial Bifurcations, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 36(9), pp1515-1530, 2008.

G.P. Galdi, R. Rannacher, A. M. Robertson, and S. Turek, Book title: Hemodynamical Flows: Modeling, Analysis and Simulation, Oberwolfach Seminars, vol. 37,  Birkhauswer, ISBN: 978-3-7643-7805, 2008.

A. M. Robertson, A. Sequeira and M. Kameneva, Chapter Title: Blood Rheology, in: Hemodynamical Flows: Modeling, Analysis and Simulation, Oberwolfach Seminars, vol. 37, G.P. Galdi, R. Rannacher, A.M. Robertson and S. Turek, Birkhauswer, 2008.

A. M. Robertson, Chapter Title: Review of Relevant Continuum Mechanics, in Hemodynamical Flows: Modeling, Analysis and Simulation, Oberwolfach Seminars, vol. 37, G.P. Galdi, R. Rannacher, A.M. Robertson and S. Turek, Birkhauswer, 2008.

R. Kadirvel, Y. H. Ding, D. Dai, H. Zakaria, A. M. Robertson, M. A. Danielson, D. A. Lewis, D. F. Kallmes, The influence of hemodynamic forces on biomarkers in the walls of elastase-induced aneurysm in rabbits,  Neuroradiology, 49(12), p  1041-1053, 2007.

R. Wulandana and A. M. Robertson, An Inelastic Multi-Mechanism Constitutive Equation for Cerebral Arterial Tissue, Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 4(4), p 235-248, 2005.

A.M. Robertson and A. Sequeira, A Director Theory Approach for Modeling Blood Flow in the Arterial System: An Alternative to Classical 1D models, Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, 15(6), p871-906, 2005.

G.P. Galdi and A.M. Robertson, On Flow of a Navier-Stokes Fluid in Curved Pipes. Part I: Steady Flow, Applied Mathematics Letters, 18, p1116-1124, 2005.

G.P. Galdi and A. M. Robertson, The Relation Between Flow Rate and Pressure Drop for  Time-Periodic Poiseuille Flow in a Pipe,  Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics, 7, p. S215-S223, 2005.

faculty

The Department of Mechanical Engineering has 16 full time, 6 adjunct, and 5 emeritus faculty members