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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, Univeristy 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 Publications

A.M. Robertson, "On the Attainability of Steady Viscometric Flows," Topics in Mathematical Fluid Mechanics, Quaderni di Matematica (to appear).

V. Coscia and A.M. Robertson, "Existence and uniqueness of steady, fully developed flows of second order fluids in curved pipes," Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences 6(11), 2001.

V. Haljasmaa, A.M. Robertson, and G.P. Galdi, "On the Effect of Apex Geometry on Wall Shear Stress and Pressure in Two-Dimensional Models of Arterial Bifurcations," Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, 3(11), pp. 499–520, 2001.

W. Jitchote and A.M. Robertson, "Flow of Second Order Fluids in Curved Pipes," Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 90, pp. 91–116, 2000.

P. Li, R. Horowitz, L. Alvarez, J. Frankel, and A.M. Roberston, "An AHS Link Layer Controller for Traffic Flow Stabilization," Transportation Research, Part C: Emerging Technologies, 5, pp. 11–37, 1997.

A.M. Robertson, "Flow of Incompressible Viscous Fluids Through Curved Pipes of Non-Uniform Cross-Section," Intl. J. Numer. Meth. Fluids, 22, pp. 771–798, 1996.

A.M. Robertson and S.J. Muller, "Flow of Oldroyd-B Fluids in Curved Pipes of Circular and Annular Cross Section," International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 31, pp. 1–20, 1996.

R.K. Bhatnagar, K.R. Rajagopal, and A.M. Robertson, "Flow of a Non-Newtonian Fluid Between Intersecting Planes, One of Which Is Moving," Rheologica Acta, 35, pp. 520–522, 1996.

faculty

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