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Jacques Lewalle
Department of Mechanical Aerospace and Manufacturing Engineering
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-1240
jlewalle@syr.edu
Academic Specialization:
Fluid Mechanics:
Complex Systems:
Cognitive Science:
Wavelet Analysis:
Turbulence theory and modeling.
Self-organized criticality, structure emergence
Relevance to engineering education.
Fluid, mechanical and biological systems.
Objectives:
My professional goal is to make a lasting contribution to a physical
theory of turbulence in fluids and other complex systems, and to apply
cognitive sequencing to innovations in engineering education.
Education:
• Ph.D., 1981, Cornell University, Contribution to the Theory and Modeling
of Interface-related Phenomena in Intermittent Turbulent Flows.
• Ingénieur Physicien, 1975, Université de Liège (Belgium).
Academic Employment:
• Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Syracuse University, July 1988 - present — Assistant Professor,
Sept. 1983 - June 1988 — Visiting Assistant Professor, Sept. 1982
- Aug. 1983.
• Chercheur Associé, CNRS-191, Université de Poitiers (CEAT/LEA),
March 1996 - May 1996 — Professeur Associé, CEAT/LEA, Jan. 1996
- Feb. 1996.
• Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering,
Ohio State University, Oct. 1980 - Aug. 1982.
Other:
• 1993-1999, President, Wavelet Diagnostics Ltd.
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Awards:
• 2008 Filtertech, Pi Tau Sigma and Sigma Gamma Tau Award for
Excellence in Education in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
• 2006 Filtertech, Pi Tau Sigma and Sigma Gamma Tau Award for
Excellence in Education in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
• 2004 Lewis F. Moody Award ‘for the most outstanding original paper
dealing with the practice of fluids engineering’, Fluids Engineering
Division of ASME, for the 1994 IGTI Conference / 2003 J. Fluids
Engineering paper with Schobeiri and Reid.
• 1999 Filtertech, Pi Tau Sigma and Sigma Gamma Tau Award for
Excellence in Education in Mechanical, Aerospace and Manufacturing
Engineering.
Refereed Publications:
Journal Articles:
1. LEWALLE, J. ‘ Single-scale Wavelet representation of Navier-Stokes
dynamics: formulation and scaling ’, to appear, Physica D, 2009.
2. LEWALLE, J. ‘ Field reconstruction from single-scale continuous wavelet
coefficients’, Int. J. of Wavelets, Multires. and Info. Processing 7/1,
131-142, 2009.
3. SCHOBEIRI, M.T., REID, K. and LEWALLE, J., ‘Effect of unsteady
wake passing frequency on boundary layer transition, experimental
investigation and wavelet analysis’, J. Fluids Engineering 125, 251-
266, 2003.
4. LEWALLE, J., Self-organization in Navier-Stokes turbulence’, Inter-
Journal, paper #562, 2002
5. LEWALLE, J., ‘On a class of solutions for the inverse diffusion problem’,
Appl. Math. Lett. 14, 617-624, 2001.
6. LEWALLE, J., ‘A filtering and wavelet formulation for incompressible
turbulence’, J. Turbulence 1, 004, 1-16, 2000.
7. LEWALLE, J., DELVILLE, J. and BONNET, J.P. ‘Decomposition
of Mixing Layer Turbulence in coherent structures and background
fluctuations’, Flow Turb. Comb. 64, 301-328, 2000.
8. KELLER, D.S., LEWALLE, J. and LUNER, P., ‘Wavelet analysis of
simulated paper formation’, Paperi Ja Puu - Paper and Timber 81,
440-446, 1999
9. KELLER, D.S., LEWALLE, J. and LUNER, P., ‘Analysis of paper
variability using the continuous wavelet transform’, Paperi Ja Puu -
Paper and Timber 81, 499-505, 1999
10. DE SOUZA, F, DELVILLE, J., LEWALLE, J. and BONNET, J.P.,
‘Large Scale Coherent Structures in a Turbulent Boundary Layer Interacting
with a Cylinder Wake’, J. Exp. Therm. Fluid Sci. 19 204-213,
1999.
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11. LEWALLE, J., ‘Formal improvements in the solution of the wavelettransformed
Poisson and diffusion equations’, J. Math. Phys. 39,
4119-4128, 1998.
12. LEWALLE, J., ‘Hamiltonian Formulation for the Diffusion Equation’,
Phys. Rev. E 55, 1590-1599, 1997
13. LEWALLE, J., PEEK, F.W. and MURPHY, S.J., ‘Wavelet Analysis of
Olfactory Nerve Response to Stimulus’, J. Theor. Biol. 177, 215-236,
1995.
14. JAIRAZBHOY, V., TAVLARIDES, L. and LEWALLE, J., ‘Cascade
Models in the Description of Two-Phase Turbulence - Part 1: Formulation
of the Model Framework’, Int. J. Multiphase Flow 21, 467-483,
1995.
15. LEWALLE, J., ‘Wavelet Transforms of some Equations of Fluid Mechanics’,
Acta Mechanica 104, 1-25, 1994.
16. HIGUCHI, H., LEWALLE, J. and CRANE, P., ‘On the Structure of
Two-Dimensional Wakes behind a Pair of Flat Plates’, Phys. Fluids
A6, 297-305, 1994.
17. LEWALLE, J. and TAVLARIDES, L.L., ‘A cascade-transport model
for turbulent shear flows’, Phys. Fluids 6, 3109-3115, 1994.
18. LEWALLE, J., SINGH, K.M. and BAMBACHT, J.P., ‘Analysis of the
Wet Pressing of Paper Pulp’, Int. J. Multiphase Flow 20, 415-437,
1994.
19. LEWALLE, J., ‘Wavelet Transforms of the Navier-Stokes Equations
and the Generalized Dimensions of Turbulence’, Appl. Sci. Res. 51,
109-113, 1993.
20. LEWALLE, J., ‘Energy Dissipation in the Wavelet-Transformed Navier-
Stokes Equations’, Phys. Fluids A5, 1512-1513, 1993.
21. HE, X., LEWALLE, J., and HERRING, J., ‘Spectral Simulation of
the Development of Vortex Arrays in Stratified Fluids’, Phys. Fluids
A3, 675-680, 1991.
22. LEWALLE, J., ‘The Decay of Velocity and Temperature Fluctuations
in Grid Turbulence’, AIAA Journ. 28, 106-112, 1990.
23. LEWALLE, J., ‘On a Variational Property of Helicity in Incompressible
Flows’, Phys. Let. 122 A, 338, 1987.
24. LEWALLE, J., TAVLARIDES, L.L., and JAIRAZBHOY, V., ‘Modeling
of Turbulent Neutrally Buoyant Droplet Suspensions in Liquids’,
Chem. Eng. Comm. 59, 15, 1987.
25. BRODKEY, R.S., and LEWALLE, J., ‘Reactor Selectivity Based On
First Order Closures of the Turbulent Concentration Equations’, AIChE
Journ. 31, 111, 1985.
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Other Publications:
• LEWALLE, J., ‘Analytical uses of wavelets for Navier-Stokes turbulence’,
in Mathematical and Physical Theory of Turbulence, (J. Cannon
and B. Shivamoggi, Eds.), p.145-154, Chapman & Hall / CRC, 2006.
• LEWALLE, J., ‘Wavelet scaling and regularity in Navier-Stokes dynamics’,
in Mathematical and Physical Theory of Turbulence, (J. Cannon
and B. Shivamoggi, Eds.), p.115-124, Chapman & Hall / CRC,
2006.
• LEWALLE, J., FARGE, M. and SCHNEIDER, K., ‘Wavelet transforms’,
by invitation, section D22.6 Springer Handbook of Experimental
Fluid Mechanics, Tropea, Yarin & Foss, Eds., Springer, 2007.
• LEWALLE, J. and ASHPIS, D.E. ‘The estimation of integral scales in
unsteady flows’ NASA TM-2004-209452, 2004.
• LEWALLE, J., ‘On the regularity of solutions to the Navier-Stokes
equations’ Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Reynolds Number
Scaling in Turbulent Flows (A.J. Smits, Ed.), Kluwer Acad. Publ.,
2003
• LEWALLE, J., ‘Detection, tracking and analysis of turbulent spots
and other coherent structures in unsteady transition’, NASA CR 2000-
210694, 2000.
• LEWALLE, J., DE SOUZA, F., BONNET, J.P. and DELVILLE, J.,
‘Multiple stability regions of an asymmetric vortex street’,
www.ecs.syr.edu/faculty/lewalle/vrtx.html, 1999.
• LEWALLE, J., ‘Applications of continuous wavelets to data analysis’,
Von Kàrmàn Institute Lecture Series on Advanced Measurement Techniques
(VKI LS 1998-06, F.A.E. Breugelmans Ed.), Parts I, II and III,
1998.
• LEWALLE, J., ASHPIS, D.E. and H.-K. SOHN, ‘Demonstration of
wavelet techniques in the spectral analysis of bypass transition data’,
NASA TP-3555, 1997.
• KELLER, D.S., LEWALLE, J. and LUNER, P., ‘The analysis of paper
variability using the wavelet transform, Part I: Wavelet theory
and analytical techniques’ and Part II: Analysis of simulated paper
formation’, ESPRI Research Report # 104, 117-177, 1996.
• BONNET, J.-P., LEWALLE, J. and GLAUSER, M.N., ‘Coherent structures:
past, present and future’, in Advances in Turbulence VI (S.
Gavrilakis, L. Machiels & P.A. Monkewitz, Eds.), Kluwer Ac. Pub.
1996.
• SCHOBEIRI, M.T., READ K. and LEWALLE, J., ‘Effect of unsteady
wake passing frequency on boundary layer transition, experimental
investigation and wavelet analysis’, Gas Turbine Conference, ASME
Paper 95-GT-437, 1995.
• LEWALLE, J., ‘Wavelet Analysis of Experimental Data: Some Methods
and the Underlying Physics’, Invited Paper, AIAA-94-2281, 1994.
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• LEWALLE, J., PETAGNA, P. and BURESTI, G., ‘Wavelet statistics
and the near-field structure of coaxial jets’, AIAA-94-2323, 1994.
• LEWALLE, J., ‘Modeling the Effect of Initial and Freestream Conditions
on Circular Wakes’, Studies in Turbulence (Gatski, Sarkar,
Speziale Eds.) 461-483, Springer-Verlag 1992.
• HE, X.J., LEWALLE, J., and HERRING, J., ‘Numerical Evolution
of Elliptical 3-D Vortex Arrays in Inviscid Flows’, AIAA 22nd Fluid
Dyn., Plasma Dyn. and Laser Conf., AIAA 91-1658, 1991.
• LEWALLE, J., BAMBACHT, J.P., and SINGH, K.M., ‘Analysis of
the Wet Pressing of Paper’, Empire State Paper Research Institute,
Report 87, 81, 1987.
• LEWALLE, J., ‘The Glansdorff-Prigogine Principle and Finite Elements:
A Variable Resolution Approach to 3-D Hydrodynamic Simulation’,
SER Preprint ESP 23.86055.
• BRODKEY, R.S., WALLACE, J.M., and LEWALLE, J., ‘The Delta
Conferences: A Discussion of Coherent Structures in Bounded Shear
Flows’, The Ohio State University Research Foundation, RF Project
761061/711063, 1984.
• LEWALLE, J., ‘Contribution to the Theory and Modeling of Interface-
Related Phenomena in Intermittent Turbulent Flows’, Ph.D. Thesis,
Cornell University, 1981.
Other:
Numerous conference abstracts, seminars, and other presentations.
Graduate Students:
M. Taras PhD, in progress
C. Pan PhD, 1998
X. He PhD, 1991
K.M. Singh PhD, 1990 (Co-adv.)
V. Jairazbhoy PhD, 1990 (Co-adv.)
D. Studniarz MS, 1997
L. Luo MS, 1990
Y. Zhang MS, 1989
P. Jennings MS, 1988
A.-G. Kassem MS, 1986
B. Khababa MS, 1986
P. Knapp MS, 1987
V. Saladin MS, 1985
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Courses Taught:
ECS 101 Intro. to Engineering ECS 105 AEWorkshop (Dynamics)
ECS 221 Statics
ECS 222 Dynamics ECS 200 Dynamics – Honors
MAE251/351 Thermodynamics ECS 200 Thermodyanmics – Honors
MAE 341 Fluid Mech. I MEE 342 Fluid Mech. II
MEE 352 Power and Refrig. MEE 355 Heat Transfer
AEE 342 Aerodynamics
MEE 651 Thermodynamics MEE 643 Fluid Dynamics
MEE 657 Conv. Heat Transfer MEE 741 Turbulence
MEE 746 Viscous Flows MEE 849 Special Topics in Fluid Mech.
CNY-ACE Thermodyn., Fluid Mech.
New courses developed:
MEE 657, MEE 741, MEE 849, ECS200 (2), ECS 105.
Service:
Current:
Past:
• Departmental Committee on Tenure and Reappointments, Committee
on Promotions.
• Departmental Committee on Undergraduate Affairs.
• College Committee on Academic Affairs .
• College Academic Affairs Committee, 1998-2000.
• MCC Task Force, Spring 2000.
• Member, Mechanical Engineering Program Committee, 1999-2000.
• Originator, new degree program, Master’s of Engineering in Mechanical
Systems, 1998-1999.
• Energy Systems Search Committee, 1999.
• S.U. Fellowship Subcommittee for Engineering and Computer and Information
Science 1990-94, 1997-1999 (Chair 1993-94).
• Chair, ad-hoc committee, departmental bylaw revision, 1999.
• Organizer, 49th Annual Meeting, American Physical Society, Division
of Fluid Dynamics, Syracuse NY, Nov. 1996.
• ECS-D2, Task Force on Graduate Programs, 1997.
• University Senate, Committee on Instruction, 1994-96 (Co-Chair).
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• University Senate, Committee on Computing, 1992-94.
• Chair, Departmental Curriculum Committee, 1994.
• Chair, Departmental Committee for Research and Graduate Affairs
1985-88, 1990-93.
• Co-Op Advisory Committee 1992-1999.
• Organizer, Annual Iroquois Fluids Conference 1984-88, 91-92
• Organizer, Departmental Graduate Seminar Series 1983-87, 89-91.
• College Academic Affairs Committee 1990-92 (Chair 90-91), 1998-
2000.
• College of Engineering Tenure and Reappointments Committee 1990.
Reviewer:
Other:
• NSF Panel for Research Initiation Awards
• NSF outside reviewer, Division of Mathematical Physics, Division of
Applied Mathematics, Division of Thermal Transport and Thermal
Processing.
• DOE reviewer, Division of Applied Mathematics
• Outside reviewer, National Research Council of Canada.
• Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Physics of Fluids, Physical Reviews E,
Physical Review Letters, Journal of Turbulence, Applied Mechanics
Reviews, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, Proceedings
A of the Royal Society, Experiments in Fluids, Flow Turbulence
and Combustion (formerly: Appl. Sci. Research), Experimental Thermal
and Fluid Science, Measurement Science and Technology (formerly:
J. Phys. E: Scientific Instruments), International Journal Heat
Mass Transfer, International Journal of Multiphase Flow, Petroleum
Research Fund, Europhysics Letters, Journal of Optics A, Digital Signal
Processing Letters in Applied Mathematics, BIT Numerical Mathematics,
Journal of Fluids Engineering, Geophys. Res. Letters, Computers
and Geoscience, International Journal of Systems Science, International
Journal for Thermal Science, AIChE Journal
• Book reviews: Wiley, Cambridge Univ. Press., Prentice Hall
• Panel member, Gallery of Fluid Motion, APS/DFD.
• Consulting: Wavelet analysis for Total, NASA, UTRC, Creare Inc.
• Technical translations (French).
• Community: Science fair judge, MPH School, 2001-present
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Membership
• APS/DFD American Physical Society / Division of Fluid Dynamics
• ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Hobbies
• Violin — member, Onondaga County Civic Symphony
• Photography
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