Jennifer R. Lukes
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM)
Honors and Awards: NAE U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium - 2007, NSF CAREER Award - 2006, National Science Foundation Fellow - 1995, Phi Beta Kappa - 1994
Research Expertise: Thermal Sciences and Energy Conversion | Nanomaterials | Computational Mechanics
Jennifer focuses primarily on understanding the unusual thermal transport phenomena that emerge in nanostructures and nanostructured materials, such as single wall carbon nanotubes, superlattices, nanowires, ultrathin films, and nanocomposites. She also investigates confinement effects on fluid and mass transport on the nanoscale. Jennifer's expertise is in atomistic computer modeling of transport phenomena using molecular dynamics simulation. Applying a combination of modeling and experimental techniques, her group is developing innovative approaches to design materials with desired structures and thermophysical properties.
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Affiliations: Graduate Group Chair, MEAM
Education:
PhD Mechanical Engineering 2001 - University of California at Berkeley
MS Mechanical Engineering 1998 - University of California at Berkeley
BS Mechanical Engineering 1994 - Rice University
Recent Publications 
- A hybrid atomistic-continuum model for fluid flow using LAMMPS and OpenFOAM, Cosden, I.A. | Lukes, J.R., Computer Physics Communications, 2013
- Report on the seventh U.S.-Japan Joint seminar on nanoscale transport phenomena-science and engineering, Cola, B.A. | Daiguji, H. | Dames, C. | Fang, N. | Fushinobu, K. | Inoue, S. | Kikugawa, G. | Kohno, M. | Kumar, S. | Li, D.Y. | Lukes, J.R. | Malen, J.A. | McGaughey, A.J.H. | Nakabeppu, O. | Pipe, K. | Reddy, P. | Shen, S. | Shi, L. | Shibahara, M. | Taguchi, Y. | Takahashi, K. | Yamamoto, T. | Zolotoukhina, T., Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering, 2013
- Patterning alloy precipitates through tailored surface loading, Franklin, J.A. | Lukes, J.R., Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science, 2012
- Excitation of single phonon modes in nanoscale waveguides, Cheney, D.A. | Lukes, J.R., Journal of Heat Transfer, 2012
- Excitation of single phonon modes in nanoscale waveguides, Cheney, D.A. | Lukes, J.R., ASME/JSME 2011 8th Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, AJTEC 2011, 2011