Daniel Valentine
Associate Professor and Associate Chair
362 CAMP
Clarkson University
PO Box 5725
Potsdam, NY 13699-5725
Phone: 315-268-7689
Fax: 315-268-6438
E-mail: clara@clarkson.edu
Research Interests
Dr. Valentine is the director of the Clarkson Space Grant Program which is part of the New York Space Grant Consortium. This program has provided support for undergraduate scholarships, undergraduate summer research appointments, and for graduate students. Parallax is a Web-magazine that periodically describes the space Grant activities at Clarkson, Cornell and City College of New York. He is also a member of the Institute for Nonlinear Studies. He is currently investigating the nonlinear dynamics of two-dimensional, Navier-Stokes flows as part of his work on the development of computational methods to solve fluid dynamics problems. Other activities include investigations to develop a computational method to predict the effect of a marine propulsor on wave resistance of ships, to examine the effect of density stratification on rotating flows, to develop computational tools to predict the time-averaged properties of high-Reynolds number flows among other fluid mechanics problems. More information can be found on his research Web site.
Specific Topics of Interest
- Marine hydrodynamics
- Computer-aided propulsor design
- Propulsor/hull/free-surface interaction
- Boundary integral methods
- Rotating and stratified fluid dynamics
- Turbulence
- Computational fluid dynamics