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Classes Taught

• Mathematical Methods in Engineering
• Unit Operations for Chemical Engineers
• Mass Transport Phenomena
• Heat Transport Phenomena
• Momentum Transport Phenomena or Fluid Mechanics
• Chemical Transport Phenomena
• Introduction to Chemical Engineering - Mass and Energy Balances
• Quantitative Anatomy and Systems Physiology

Current Research Topics

• Novel drug delivery methods in the treatment of health and disease
• Small molecule drug synthesis

Education

• B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Dayton , 1977
• M.S. Chemical Engineering, Ohio State University , 1979
• Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Ohio State University , 1981

Recent Publications

• Peters, M.H., "Analytical (Perturbation) Solution to the Problem of Rarefied Gas Flows in Two-Bodied Systems: Results for Flows over Two Cylinders", Phys. Fluids, 8, 1089-1106 (1996).
• Peters, M. H., "Brownian Particle Adsorption in Unsteady-State Viscous Flows in Pores", J Colloid and Interface Sci., 186, 477-492 (1997).
• Peters, M. H., "Fokker-Planck Equation and the Grand Molecular Friction Tensor for Coupled Rotational and Translational Motions of Structured Brownian Particles near Structured Surfaces", J. Chem. Phys., 110, 528-538, 1999.
• Peters, M.H., "Fokker-Planck Equation, Molecular Friction, and Molecular Dynamics for Brownian Particle Transport near External Solid Surfaces", J. Statistical Phys., 94, 557-587, 1999.
• Peters, M.H., "The Smoluchowski Diffusion Equation for Structured Macromolecules Near Structured Surfaces", J. Chemical Physics, 112, 5488-5498 (2000).
• Zhang, Y., Peters, M.H., and Li, Y., "Nonequilibrium Multiple Time Scale Dynamic Simulation of Receptor-Ligand Interactions in Structured Protein Systems", Proteins, Structure, Function and Genetics, 52, 339-348, 2003.

Research Interests

• Pathway discovery via microimaging NMR for delivery of local chemotherapuetic agents in the treatment of skin cancers
• Improving vascular graft efficacies using locally delivered novel promoter factors