Penn State Engineering: ME Directory

Margaret Byron

Assistant Professor

Affiliation(s):

Mechanical Engineering

301A Reber

mbyron@psu.edu

814-863-0736

Personal or Departmental Website

Research Areas:

Biomechanics and Mechanobiology; Experimental Fluid Dynamics

Interest Areas:

Multiphase flow, turbulence, animal locomotion, intermediate Reynolds number phenomena.

Education

BS, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, 2010
MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2012
Ph D, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2015

Publications

Journal Articles

Julie M. Van der Hoop, Margaret Byron, Karlina Ozolina, David L Miller, Jacob L Johansen, Paolo Domenici and John F Steffensen, 2018, "Turbulent flow reduces oxygen consumption in the labriform swimming shiner perch, Cymatogaster aggregata", Journal of Experimental Biology, jeb-168773

Margaret Byron, J. Einarsson, K. Gustavsson, G. Voth, B. Mehlig and E. A. Variano, 2015, "Shape-dependence of particle rotation in isotropic turbulence", Physics of Fluids, 27, pp. 035101

C. R. Meyer, Margaret Byron and E. A. Variano, 2013, "Rotational diffusion of particles in turbulence", Limnology and Oceanography: Fluids and Environments, 3, (1), pp. 89-102

Margaret Byron and E. A. Variano, 2013, "Refractive-index-matched hydrogel materials for measuring flow-structure interactions", Experiments in Fluids, 54, pp. 1456

G. B. Bellani, Margaret Byron, A. G. Collignon, C. R. Meyer and E. A. Variano, 2012, "Shape effects on turbulence modulation by large nearly neutrally buoyant particles", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 712, pp. 41-60

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About

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