Units School of Mechanical Engineering Research in School Research Areas and Labs

Research Areas and Labs

Research in School of Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering

Keywords

Lab

Researcher

Research Field

Heat and Mass Transfer, Porous Media, Energy, Solar Energy, Desalination, Free Convection, Environment Control,

Bio-Engineering

Solar Energy and Free Convection Laboratory

Prof. Abraham Dayan

Energy and Heat Transfer

Solar Energy, Photovoltaic System, Thermal Systems, Cogeneration, MEMS, Heat Transfer, Radiation, Optimization, Optical Concentrators, Desalination.

Solar Energy Laboratory

Aerodynamics Laboratory

Prof. Abraham Kribus

Flow Control, Detachment, Shearing Flow, Boundary Layers, Laminar Flow, Turbulent Flow, Unsteady Flow, Aerodynamics, Atmosphere, Wind Energy.

Aerodynamics Laboratory

Microfluidics Laboratory

Prof. Abraham Seifert

Strategic Planning, Enterprising, Energy Systems, Technological Education,

Turbulent Flow, Boundary Layers, Free Convection, Solar Energy, Solar Cooling.

Not Affiliated

Prof. Mordechai Sokolov

(Emeritus)

Hydrodynamics, Heat Transfer, Multi-phase Flow, Radiation, Solar Energy, Vaporization, Condensation.

Multiphase Flow Laboratory

Prof. Yehuda Taitel (Emeritus)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Structures, Structure Analysis, Structure Design, Structure Control.

Computational Systems Laboratory

Prof. Maurice Fuchs

Systems

Combined Engineering, Kinematics, Design, Graph Theory.

Kinematic Systems Laboratory

Computational Systems Laboratory

Dr. Offer Shai

MEMS, Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems, Waves, Coupled Problems.

Computational Systems Laboratory

Microsystems Design and Characterization Laboratory

Prof. Slava Krylov

Engineering design, Productdevelopment, Computer-Aided design, Concurrent engineering, Systemsengineering, Knowledge management, Artificial Intelligence

Computational Systems Laboratory

Prof. Yoram Reich

Robotics, Mechatronics, Computerized

Sight, Computerized Vision, Neural Networks, Control, Genetic Algorithms, Watercraft, Structural Analysis.

 

Dr. Amiram Moshaiov

Micro-Systems, Micro-Robots, Bio-Medical Instruments, Medical Robotics, Micro Sensors, Micro Actuators, Micro Fluidics,

Laboratory for Robots and BioMedical Micro-Systems

Dr. Gabor Kosa

 

 

 

 

Multiphase Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer, Hydrodynamics, Molecular Structures, Capillary Pipes, Dynamics and Control.

Environmental Engineering Laboratory

Prof. Neima Brauner

Environment

Water Treatment, UV and Solar Disinfection, Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOP), Characterization of Particles, Biofouling Control.

Water Treatment Laboratory

Dr. Hadas Mamane

Heat and Mass Transfer, Extraction, Contaminated Soil Remediation, Liquid-Liquid two-phase Flow, Free Convection, Separation, Air Pollution.

Environmental Engineering Laboratory

Prof. Amos Ullmann

 

 

 

 

Composite Materials, Piezoelectric Materials, Mircro-Mechanics.

Not Affiliated

Prof. Yaakov Benveniste

Materials

Materials, Biomaterials, Corrosion, Failure Analysis, Ferrography, Electroplating.

Biomaterials and Corrosion Laboratory

Prof. Noam Eliaz

Materials Science, Surface Science,

Nano-Structures, MEMS, Scanning Tunneling Microscopy.

Surface Science and

Nanostructures Laboratory

Prof. Ilan Goldfarb

Non-Linear modeling, Damage Modeling, Composite Materials, Composite Materials Structures, Micromechanics, Computational Mechanics, Structural Optimization, Artificial-Neural Networks.

Mechanics of Composite Materials Laboratory

Prof. Rami Haj-Ali

 

 

 

 

Fracture Mechanics, Fatigue, Composite Materials, Piezoelectric Materials.

Fracture Mechanics Laboratory

Prof. Leslie Banks-Sills

Mechanics

Composite Materials, Piezoelectric Materials, Mircro-Mechanics.

Not Affiliated

Prof. Yaakov Benveniste

Non-Linear modeling, Damage Modeling, Composite Materials, Composite Materials Structures, Micromechanics, Computational Mechanics, Structural Optimization, Artificial-Neural Networks.

Mechanics of Composite Materials Laboratory

Prof. Rami Haj-Ali

Elasticity, Plasticity, Visco-Elasticity, Composite Materials, Statistical Mechanics, Fatigue, Failure.

Not Affiliated

Prof. Zvi Hashin (Emeritus)

Waves, Fracture Mechanics, Plasticity, Solids, Structures.

Not Affiliated

Prof. Leonid Salfien

(Emeritus)

Fracture Mechanics, Composite Materials, Experimental Mechanics, Collapse, Coating, Adhesion.

Solid Mechanics Laboratory

Prof. Herzl Chai

Computational Mechanics, Finite Elements, Waves.

Computational Systems Laboratory

Prof. Isaac Harari

Robotics, Mechatronics, Computerized

Sight, Computerized Vision, Neural Networks, Control, Genetic Algorithms, Watercraft, Structural Analysis.

Not Affiliated

Dr. Amiram Moshaiov

MEMS, Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems, Waves, Coupled Problems.

Computational Systems Laboratory

Prof.Slava Krylov

Solar Energy, Photovoltaic System, Thermal Systems, Cogeneration, MEMS, Heat Transfer, Radiation, Optimization, Optical Concentrators, Desalination.

Solar Energy Laboratory

Aerodynamics Laboratory

Prof. Abraham Kribus

Structures, Structure Analysis, Structure Design, Structure Control.

Computational Systems Laboratory

Prof. Maurice Fuchs

Waves, Composite Materials,

Not Affiliated

Prof. Yakov Abudi (Emeritus)

Waves, Shifting Loads, Vibrations, Structure Dynamics.

Not Affiliated

Prof. Raymond Parnas

(Emeritus)

Combined Engineering, Kinematics, Design, Graph Theory.

Kinematic Systems Laboratory

Computational Systems Laboratory

Dr. Offer Shai

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Not Affiliated

Prof. Shmuel Ryvkin

Multiphase Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer, Hydrodynamics, Molecular Structures, Capillary Pipes, Dynamics and Control.

Environmental Engineering Laboratory

Prof. Neima Brauner

Fluid Mechanics

Multiphase Flow, Hydrodynamics, Flooding, Stability, Slug Flow, Separated Flows.

Multiphase Flow Laboratory

Prof. Dvora Barnea

Perforation, Perforated Environment, Un-saturated Flow, Stochastic Models, Free Flows, Underground Water, Convection of Dissolved Materials.

Not Affiliated

Prof. Gidon Dagan (Emeritus)

Numerical simulation of fluid flows, heat/mass transferprocesses; Laboratory and numerical simulation of crystal growth; Instabilitiesand bifurcations of fluid flows; Non-linear systems; Numerical methods forcomputational mechanics.

 

Prof. Alexander Gelfgat

Vortex, Turbulence, Boundary Layer, Mixtures, Bio-Medicine, Image Processing, Signal Processing, Object Tracking, Electro-Optics.

Turbulence Structure Laboratory

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Dr. Alexander Liberzon

 

Flow Control, Detachment, Shearing Flow, Boundary Layers, Laminar Flow, Turbulent Flow, Unsteady Flow, Aerodynamics, Atmosphere, Wind Energy.

Aerodynamics Laboratory

Microfluidics Laboratory

 

Prof. Abraham Seifert

Hydrodynamics, Potential Flow, Slug Flow, Aerodynamics, Waves, Oceanography Engineering, Magneto-Hydrodynamics, Electro-Kinetics, Wing Design, Self-Propulsion.

Aerodynamics Laboratory

Microfluidics Laboratory

Prof. Touvia Miloh

Hydrodynamics, Heat Transfer, Multi-phase Flow, Radiation, Solar Energy, Vaporization, Condensation.

Multiphase Flow Laboratory

Prof. Yehuda Taitel (Emeritus)

Computational Flow, Bio-Medicine, Periodic Flow, Incompressible Flow, Vortex.

Computational Fluid Dynamics and Biomedical Engineering Laboratory

Prof. Moshe Rosenfeld

Turbulent Flow, Free Jet, Spinning Jet, Boundary Layer, Pipe Flow, Aerodynamics, Wind Tunnels.

Not Affiliated

Prof. Israel Vigenensky

(Emeritus)

 

Experimental Fluid Mechanics, Nonlinear Water Waves, Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction, Multi-Phase Flow, Remote Sensing of Ocean Surface

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Water Waves Laboratory

Multiphase Flow Laboratory

Prof. Lev Shemer

Boundary Layers, Stability, Turbulence, Metal Flow, Mixtures, Diffusion, Geo-Physics, Compressible Flow, Wind Tunnels, Layer Flow.

Turbulence Structure Laboratory

Dr. Alexander Liberzon

Waves, Watercraft, Later Flow, Trails, Hydrodynamics, Marine Animals.

Not Affiliated

Prof. Gregory Zilman

Strategic Planning, Enterprising, Energy Systems, Technological Education,

Turbulent Flow, Boundary Layers, Free Convection, Solar Energy, Solar Cooling.

Not Affiliated

Prof. Mordechai Sokolov

(Emeritus)

Turbulence, Vortex, Layer Flow, Mixtures, Geo-Physics, Waves, Marine Engineering, Coast.

Water Waves Laboratory

Prof. Eliezer Kit

(Emeritus)

Micro-Systems, Micro-Robots, Bio-Medical Instruments, Medical Robotics, Micro Sensors, Micro Actuators, Micro Fluidics,

Laboratory for Robots and BioMedical Micro-Systems

Dr. Gabor Kosa