Prof. Juan Carlos Heinrich
 heinrich@unm.edu 

EDUCATION

CONTACT INFO

    Professor and Chair
    Department of Mechanical Engineering
    The University of New Mexico
    Albuquerque, NM 87131
    TEL: 505-277-6277
    FAX: 505-277-1571

SELECTED RECENT JOURNAL PAPERS

•     P. Zhao, J.C. Heinrich and D.R. Poirier, "Dendritic Solidification of Binary Alloys with Free and Forced Convection." Int. J. Num. Meth. Fluids (2005)

•     P. Zhao, J. C. Heinrich and D. R. Poirier, Numerical modeling of fluid-particle interactions?. Comp. Meth. Appl. Mech. Engrg. 195: 5780-5796 (2006)

•     P Zhao, J. C. Heinrich and D. R. Poirier, ?Numerical simulation of crystal growth in three dimensions using a sharp-interface finite element method. Int. J. Num. Meth. Eng. 71: 25-46 (2007)

•     M. Fox, R. Hastings, S. Lovald and J. C. Heinrich, ?Case Study of an Aerosol Explosion and a Method to Determine Explosion Temperatures. ASM International, J. Fail. Anal. and Preven.7: 165-174 (2007)

•     J. C. Heinrich, U. K. Sajja, S. Felicelli and D. G. Westra. Projection method for flows with large local density gradients. Application to dendritic solidification. Int. J. Num. Meth. Fluids 57: 1211-1226 (2008)

•     S. Lovald, J. C. Heinrich, T. Khraishi, H. Yonas and S. Pappu. The role of fluid dynamics in plaque excavation and rapture in the human carotid bifurcation: a computational study. Int. J. Experimental and Computational Biomechanics 1: 76-95 (2009)

HONORS

•     Fulbright Hays Grant (1972)

•     Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh (1974)

•     Montgomery Culver Award, University of Pittsburgh (1974)

•     Halliburton Educational Foundation Award (1980)

•     Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (1986)

•     Invited Researcher, Spanish Ministry of Science and Education (1993)

•     Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2000)

•     Visiting Professor, UNLV Center for Advanced Computational Methods (2000)