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Classes Taught

• Flow Control
• Turbulence
• Viscous Flow Theory
• Building Systems
• Heat Transfer
• Space Systems and Analysis
• Fluid Mechanics
• Thermodynamics

Current Projects

• Microtechnology
• Viscous pumps and microturbines
• Taming of turbulence
• Flow physics in microdevices

Education

• B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, 1966
• Ph.D. Fluid Mechanics, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1973

Honors

• Designated ASME Distinguished Lecturer, 2002-2005
• Inducted into The Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars, 2002
• Alexander von Humboldt Prize, 1999
• Fourteenth ASME Freeman Scholar, 1998
• Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Fellow, American Physical Society
• Fellow, American Academy of Mechanics

Research Topics

• Microtechnology
• Viscous pumps and microturbines
• Flow control
• Fluids in motion

Sample Publications

• Gad-el-Hak, M. (editor) (2007) "Large-Scale Disasters: Prediction, Control and Mitigation," Cambridge University Press, London, United Kingdom.
• Gad-el-Hak, M., and Tsai, H.M. (editors) (2006) "Transition and Turbulence Control," 444 pages, World Scientific, Singapore.
• Gad-el-Hak, M. (editor) (2006) "MEMS: Applications," 568 pages, CRC Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, Florida.
• Gad-el-Hak, M. (editor) (2006) "MEMS: Design and Fabrication," 664 pages, CRC Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, Florida.
• Gad-el-Hak, M. (editor) (2006) "MEMS: Introduction and Fundamentals," 448 pages, CRC Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, Florida.
• Gad-el-Hak, M. (2005) "Differences Between Liquid and Gas Transport at the Microscale," Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Vol. 53, pp. 301-316.
• Gad-el-Hak, M. (2005) "Liquids: The Holy Grail of Microfluidic Modeling," Physics of Fluids, Vol. 17, pp. 100612.1-100612.13.
• Buschmann, M.H., and Gad-el-Hak, M. (2005) "New Mixing-Length Approach for the Mean Velocity Profile of Turbulent Boundary Layers," Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 127, pp. 393-396.
• Gad-el-Hak, M. (2004) "Publish or Perish—An Ailing Enterprise?" Physics Today, Vol. 57, March, pp. 61-62. Translated into Japanese as well as Czech.
• Gad-el-Hak, M. (editor) (2002) "The MEMS Handbook", 1368 pages, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.
• Hamadiche, M., and Gad-el-Hak, M. (2002) "Temporal Stability of Flow through Viscoelastic Tubes," Journal of Fluids and Structures, Vol. 16, pp. 331-359.
• Gad-el-Hak, M. (2002) "Compliant Coatings for Drag Reduction," Progress in Aerospace Sciences, Vol. 38, pp. 77-99.
• Gad-el-Hak, M. (2000) "Flow Control: Passive, Active, and Reactive Flow Management," 448 pages, Cambridge University Press, London, United Kingdom.
• Gad-el-Hak, M. (1999) "The Fluid Mechanics of Microdevices – The Freeman Scholar Lecture," Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 121, pp. 5-33.
• Gad-el-Hak, M., Pollard, A., and Bonnet, J.-P. (editors) (1998) "Flow Control: Fundamentals and Practices", Lecture Notes in Physics, Vol. m53, 540 pages, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
• Gad-el-Hak, M. (1996) "Compliant Coatings: A Decade of Progress," Applied Mechanics Reviews, Vol. 49, no. 10, part 2, pp. S147-S157.