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BIO
Professor Paolucci received his B.S. (Magna cum Laude) in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University in 1975 and his Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Cornell University in 1979, where he worked with Professors Geoffrey S. S. Ludford and Sidney Leibovich. Dr. Paolucci is currently Professor Emeritus of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. Prior to that he was a Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California, where he managed and was involved in a variety of theoretical and computational fluid mechanics projects.
Dr. Paolucci has received research funding from NSF, AFOSR, ONR and a number of private companies. He has served on advisory panels for NSF, DOE, and NSF, and reviews regularly manuscripts for the leading journals in fluid mechanics, thermal sciences, multi-phase flows, and computational methods. His research expertise are in the fields of laminar and turbulent natural and mixed convection, non-Boussinesq convection, low Mach number flows, hydrodynamic stability, nonlinear dynamical systems and chaos, fluid mechanics of multiphase and reacting flows, nanofluids, multiscale computational methods, and analytical and computational solutions of partial differential equations. He recently published the book Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Matter, Cambridge University Press, which offers a unified view of continuum mechanics for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and the following undergraduate books that are part of a series that he edits: Undergraduate Lectures on Thermodynamics, Undergraduate Lectures on Intermediate Thermodynamics, and Undergraduate Lectures on Heat Transfer.