Welcome to Francois Blanchette's Home Page
Professor
Applied Mathematics
School of Natural Sciences
UC Merced, ACS-327
5200 N. Lake Road
Merced, CA 95343, USA
fblanchette@ucmerced.edu
Brief Background
Before coming to the University of California Merced, I was a researcher at the James Franck Institute, a part of the University of Chicago (2004-2006) where I worked
primarily with Wendy Zhang.
During the year 2003-2004, I was part of the Mechanical Enginering
department at the University of California Santa Barbara, working with Eckart Meiburg. Before
that (1999-2003), I was a graduate student in Applied Mathematics
at MIT from September 1999 to July 2003 where I studied Fluid
Dynamics under the supervision of
John Bush. Prior to to this, I was born and raised in Montréal and obtained my B.S. in Applied Mathematics at the Université de Montréal .
Research interests
My research interests are all related one way or another to fluid
dynamics. More precisely, I am interested in interfacial flows
between immiscible fluids (drops and bubbles), with a focus on
situations where the surface tension is not constant. I also study
sedimentation, where lots of particles settle under the
influence of gravity. I am also interested in the erosion of these particles
by fluid flow. I study these flows in an ambient fluid where the density may
vary (stratified flow), for example because of temperature or salinity variations.
I also studied how penguins huddle, for the sheer joy of it.
You can find more details here
Research
And if you are interested in doing graduate studies with me, you
can look up our Applied
Mathematics Graduate program.
You may find information about past and current research students and postdocs here
Group
A big part of my job is Teaching.
Also, I am member of the steering committee for the Mathematics portion of
Cal-Bridge
and a group member of the Mathematics Diagnostic test Project
MDTP
You may find a more complete CV here.
Last modified: July 2010