Christopher White

Mechanical Engineering Department
Stanford University

Christopher (Chris) White is a post-doctoral researcher at Stanford University working with Professor Godfrey Mungal. He received his Bachelors degree from Stony Brook University and his Ph.D. from Yale University. His doctoral thesis, entitled "High Reynolds number turbulence in small apparatus", is a study of grid generated turbulence in liquid helium using particle image velocimetry (PIV). Liquid helium was used because it has the smallest viscosity of any fluid, allowing the generation of high-Reynolds number turbulence in a table-top apparatus. Today's talk, entitled PIV measurements of the structure of drag-reduced turbulence and the mechanisms of polymer drag reduction, is about his post-doctoral work on the phenomenon of polymer drag reduction.

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