Marc Perlin, PhD, PE

• PhD, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1989
• MCE, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 1978
• BS, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, 1974

• Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers, elected 1998.
• Elected Member, Coasts, Oceans, Ports, and Rivers Institute, 2001.
• Award for Outstanding Accomplishment, NAME Department, 2001.
• Invited Panelist, Ecole Navale, Brest, France, May 2002, May 2003, June 2004.
• Research Award, NAME Departmental award for research, 1995, 1997.
• Phi Kappa Phi, 1988; Tau Beta Pi, 1974; Chi Epsilon, 1973.

Member of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics Acrivos Dissertation Award Committee, 2004-; Member of the International Ship Structures Congress - Environment Committee. Independent international oversight Congress, 2003 -; NASA Panel Review, Interfacial Flows, 2003; Associate Editor, Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Division, ASCE, 1989-2003; Member (Fellow, 1998), American Society of Civil Engrs, 1974 -; Member, American Physical Society, 2000 -; Professional Engineer, Virginia, 1978-; Member, American Society for Engineering Education, 2000-; Organizer, NSF Workshop on Undergraduate Fluid Mechanics, 2000; NASA Science Review Panel, Lewis Research Center, 1997.

Active areas of research are in nonlinear water-wave dynamics, contact-line dynamics, drag-reduction technologies, and coastal engineering. Energy dissipation, vorticity dynamics in near-breaking and breaking waves are studied experimentally non-intrusive techniques. Drag-reduction technologies such as polymers and microbubbles are investigated. Contact-line dynamics in oscillatory and rotating flows are studied experimentally and numerically. Steep and breaking standing waves and their nonlinear dynamics are investigated using Faraday waves. In the experimental investigations, temporal and spatial data are used to yield both frequency and directional (wavenumber) spectra. Within coastal engineering, present interests are in the numerical modeling of shorelines and structures, and the use of nature-assisted dredging using bubble and liquid resuspension.

E. Winkel, S.L. Ceccio, D.R. Dowling, M. Perlin, "Bubble size distributions produced by wall injection of air into flowing fresh water, salt water, and surfactant solutions," Experiments in Fluids, to appear, 2004.

M. Perlin, W.W. Schultz, Z. Liu, "High Reynolds number oscillating contact lines," Wave Motion, Vol. 40, 41-56, 2004.

L. Jiang, M. Perlin, and W.W. Schultz, "Contact Line Dynamics and Damping for Oscillating Free Surface Flows," Physics of Fluids, to appear, 2004.

X. Bian, M. Perlin, W.W. Schultz, and M. Agarwal, "Axisymmetric Slosh Frequencies of a Liquid Mass in a Circular Cylinder," Physics of Fluids, Vol. 15, 3659-3664, 2003.

M. Perlin and W.W. Schultz, "Capillary Effects on Surface Waves," Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 32, 241-274, 2000.