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Alexander Oron



eMail: meroron@technion.ac.il
Phone: +972-4-829-3474
Room: 511, LD

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Professor

Education

  • 1974 - M.Sc., Mathematics, M. V. Lomonosov-Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR
  • 1986 - D.Sc, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion - I.I.T.

Research Interests

  • Hydrodynamic instabilities
  • Instabilities of thin liquid films
  • Nonlinear evolution equations
  • Fluid mechanics in low-gravity and microgravity environment
  • Free boundary problems in hydrodynamics
  • Numerical simulations of nonlinear phenomena in hydrodynamics

Guest Appointments

  • Deutsch Research Fellow, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA (1987-1988)
  • Staff (postdoctoral appointment), Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA (1988-1990)
  • Visiting Scientist, NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA (1991-1993)
  • Visiting Scholar, Department of Applied Mathematics and Engineering Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA (1995-1996)
  • Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA (2005-2006)

Public Professional Activities

  • Secretary of the Israeli Association for Aerosol Research (1992-1994)
  • Faculty Seminar Coordinator (1993-1994)
  • Faculty Committee for New Immigrants (1992-1995, 1996-1998)
  • Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (1997-1998)
  • Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (1999)
  • Chair of the Program Committee of the 29-th Israel Conference on Mechanical Engineering (2003)

Membership in Professional Societies

  • American Physical Society, Member
  • EUROMECH - European Mechanics Society, Member

Honors and Awards

  • Deutsch Foundation Fellowship (1987)
  • Wolf Foundation Fellowship (1987)
  • Leo Wyler Foundation Fellowship (1987)

Publications

  • A. Oron and A. A. Nepomnyashchy, "Long-wavelength Thermocapillary Instability with the Soret Effect", Physical Review E, 69, 016313-1-016313-17 (2004).
  • A. Oron and O. Gottlieb, "Subcritical and Supercritical Bifurcations of the First- and Second Order Benney Equations", Journal of Engineering Mathematics, 50, 121-140 (2004).
  • O. Gottlieb and A. Oron, "Stability and Bifurcations of Parametrically Excited Thin Liquid Films", International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 14, 4117-4141 (2004).
  • A. Podolny, A. Oron and A. A. Nepomnyashchy, "Longwave Marangoni Instability in a Binary-liquid Layer with Deformable Interface in the Presence of Soret Effect: Linear Theory", Physics of Fluids, 17, 104104-1-104104-25 (2005).
  • A. Podolny, A. Oron and A. A. Nepomnyashchy, "Linear and Nonlinear Theory of Long-wave Marangoni Instability with the Soret Effect at Finite Biot Numbers", Physics of Fluids, 18, 054104-1-054104-20 (2006).
  • S. Shklyaev, A. A. Nepomnyashchy and A. Oron, "Three - dimensional Oscillatory Long-wave Marangoni Convection in a Binary Liquid Layer with the Soret Effect: Bifurcation Analysis", Physics of Fluids, 19, 072105-1-072105-14 (2007).
  • J. Zhang, R. P. Behringer and A. Oron, "Marangoni Convection in Binary Mixtures", Physical Review E, 76, 016306-1-016306-7 (2007).
  • A. Alexeev and A. Oron, "Suppression of the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability of Thin Liquid Films by the Marangoni Effect", Physics of Fluids, 19, 082101-1-082101-9 (2007).
  • A. Podolny, A. A. Nepomnyashchy and A. Oron, "Long- wave Marangoni Instability in a Binary Liquid Layer on a Thick Solid Substrate", Physical Review E, 76, 026309-1-026309-17 (2007).
  • L. Moldavsky, M. Fichman and A. Oron, "Dynamics of Thin Liquid Films Falling on Vertical Cylindrical Surfaces Subjected to Ultrasound Forcing", Physical Review E, 76, 045301-1-045301-4 (2007).
  • A. Podolny, A. A. Nepomnyashchy and A. Oron, "Long-wave Coupled Marangoni - Rayleigh Instability in a Binary Liquid Layer in the Presence of the Soret Effect", Mathematical Modelling of Natural Processes, 3 (1), 1-26 (2008).
  • A. Oron and C. Heining, "Weighted- residual Integral Boundary- layer Model for the Nonlinear Dynamics of Thin Liquid Films Falling on an Undulating Vertical Wall", Physics of Fluids, 20, 082102-1 - 082102-16 (2008).
  • G. Ramon and A. Oron, "Capillary Rise of a Meniscus with Phase Change", Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 327, 145-151 (2008).
  • O. A. Frolovskaya, A. A. Nepomnyashchy, A. Oron and A. A. Golovin, "Stability of a Two-layer Binary-fluid System With a Diffuse Interface", Physics of Fluids, 20, 112105-1-112105-16 (2008).
  • A. Oron, O. Gottlieb and E. Novbari, "Numerical Analysis of a Weighted- residual Integral Boundary- layer Model for Nonlinear Dynamics of Falling Liquid Films", European
  • Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, 28, 1-36 (2009).
  • A. Oron, O. Gottlieb and E. Novbari, "Weighted- residual Integral Boundary- layer Model of Temporally Excited Falling Liquid Films", European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids, 28, 37-60 (2009).
  • S. Shklyaev, A. A. Nepomnyashchy and A. Oron, "Long- wave Oscillatory Convection in a Binary Liquid: Hexagonal Patterns", Europhysics Letters, 86, 14005-p.1-14005-p.6 (2009).
  • S. Shklyaev, A. A. Nepomnyashchy and A. Oron, "Marangoni Convection in a Binary Liquid Layer with Soret Effect at Small Lewis Number: Linear Stability Analysis", Physics of Fluids, 21, 054101-1-054101-18 (2009).
  • E. Novbari and A. Oron, "Energy Integral Method Model for the Nonlinear Dynamics of an Axisymmetric Thin Liquid Film Falling on a Vertical Cylinder", Physics of Fluids, 21, 062107-1-062107-17 (2009).
  • O. Haimovich and A. Oron, "Nonlinear Dynamics of a Thin Liquid Film on an Axially Oscillating Cylindrical Surface", Physics of Fluids, 22, 032101-1-032101-14 (2010).
  • A. Podolny, A. Nepomnyashchy and A. Oron, (2010), "Rayleigh-Marangoni Instability of Binary Fluids with Small Lewis Number and Nano-Fluids in the
    Presence of the Soret Effect", Fluid Dynamics and Materials Processing, 6, 13-40, (2010).