Elizabeth B. Dussan V.

Elizabeth B. Dussan V. (born 1946)[1] is an American applied mathematician, condensed matter physicist, and chemical engineer. Her research involves fluid dynamics, and she is known for her work on wetting, porous media, and fluid-fluid interfaces.[2][3][4]

Education and career

Dussan graduated from Stony Brook University in 1967,[5] and earned her Ph.D. in 1972 from Johns Hopkins University. Her dissertation, On the Motion of a Line Common to Three Different Materials, was supervised by applied mathematician Stephen H. Davis.[6]

She is retired as a scientist for the Schlumberger-Doll Research Center,[2][3] and also taught chemical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.[7][6]

Recognition

Dussan became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1984, "for work in the spreading of liquids on solid surfaces".[7] She became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1985 "for her deep insights into the mechanisms and the realistic modeling of phenomena involving fluid-fluid interfaces, particularly in situations in which moving contact lines and mutual fluid displacement occur".[2] She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 "for innovative contributions to the wetting of solids and complex flows in porous media".[3] In 2009 she became one of the inaugural Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics "for contributions to wetting and flow in porous media".[4]

In 1985, Stony Brook University gave her their Distinguished Alumni Award.[5]

References
  1. Birth year from WorldCat Identities, retrieved 2019-01-19.
  2. APS Fellows Nominated by the Division of Fluid Dynamics in the year 1985, American Physical Society, retrieved 2019-01-19
  3. "Dr. Elizabeth B. Dussan V.", Members, National Academy of Engineering, retrieved 2019-01-19
  4. All SIAM Fellows, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, retrieved 2019-01-19
  5. "Distinguished Alumni Awards – Past Recipients", Stony Brook University News, January 29, 2012, retrieved 2019-01-19
  6. Elizabeth B. Dussan V. at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  7. "Eight Guggenheims for Penn" (PDF), Almanac, University of Pennsylvania, 30 (29): 1, April 10, 1984
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