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Alexander Oron

Office: 511, LD
Phone: 829-3474
Fax: 829-5711


Curriculum Vitae

Associate Professor

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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)

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)

Selected Publications
  • Oron, A. and Rosenau, P. Formation of Patterns Induced by Thermocapillarity and Gravity, Journal de Physique II France, 2, 131-146, (1992).

  • Rosenau, P., Oron, A. and Hyman, J. M. Bounded and Unbounded Patterns of the Benney Equation, Physics of Fluids A, 4, 1102-1104, (1992).

  • Deissler, R. J. and Oron, A. Stable Localized Patterns in Thin Liquid Films, Physical Review Letters 68, 2948-2951, (1992).

  • Oron, A. and Rosenau, P., On a Nonlinear Thermocapillary Effect in Thin Liquid Layers, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 273, 361-374, (1994).

  • Edwards, D. A. and Oron, A., Instability of a Nonwetting Film with Interfacial Viscous Stress, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 298, 287-309, (1995).

  • Oron, A., Bankoff, S. G. and Davis, S. H., Thermal Singularities in Film Rupture, Physics of Fluids A, 8, 3433-3435, (1996).

  • Kats-Demyanets, V., Oron, A. and Nepomnyashchy, A. A., Marangoni Instability in Tri-layer Liquid Systems, European Journal of Mechanics / Fluids, 16, 49-74, (1997).

  • Keller, I., Oron, A., and Bar-Yoseph P. Z., Regular and Irregular Regimes of Binary Fluid Convection Excited by Parametric Resonance, Physical Review E, 55, 3743-3746, (1997).

  • Oron, A. and Rosenau, P., Evolution and Formation of Dispersive-Dissipative Patterns, Physical Review E, 55, 1267-1270, (1997).

  • Oron, A., Davis, S. H., and Bankoff, S. G., Long-scale Evolution of Thin Liquid Films, Reviews of Modern Physics, 69, 931-980, (1997).

  • Oron, A. and Peles, Y., Stabilization of Thin Liquid Films by Internal Heat Generation, Physics of Fluids A, 10, 537-539, (1998).

  • Oron, A. and Bankoff, S. G., Dewetting of a Heated Surface by an Evaporating Liquid Film Under Conjoining/Disjoining Pressures, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 218, 152-166, (1999).

  • Oron, A., Nonlinear Dynamics of Irradiated Thin Volatile Liquid Films, Physics of Fluids, 12, 29-41, (2000).

  • Oron, A., Nonlinear Dynamics of Three-dimensional Long-wave Marangoni Instability in Thin Liquid Films, Physics of Fluids, 12, 1633-1645, (2000).

  • Oron, A., Three-dimensional Nonlinear Dynamics of Thin Liquid Films, Physical Review Letters, 85, 2108-2111, (2000).

  • Oron, A. and Bankoff, S. G., Dynamics of a Condensing Liquid Film Under Conjoining/Disjoining Pressures, Physics of Fluids, 13, 1107-1117, (2001).

  • Oron, A., Physics of Thin Liquid Films, Invited review paper in the MEMS Handbook, edited by M. Gad-el-Hak, 10-1 - 10-49, CRC Press (2001).

  • Oron, A. and Gottlieb, O., Nonlinear Dynamics of Temporally Excited Falling Liquid Films, Physics of Fluids, 14, 2622-2636 (2002).

  • Scheid, B., Oron, A., Colinet, P., Thiele, U. and Legros, J. C., Nonlinear Evolution of Non-uniformly Heated Falling Liquid Films, Physics of Fluids, 14, 4130-4151 (2002); Erratum, Physics of Fluids, 15, 583 (2003).

  • Oron, A. Theory of thin liquid films: some questions and challenges, European Physical Journal E- Soft Matter, 12, 455-458 (2003).

  • Oron, A. and Nepomnyashchy, A. A., Long-wavelength Thermocapillary Instability with the Soret Effect, Physical Review E 69, 016313-1--016313-17 (2004).

  • Gottlieb, O. and Oron, A., Stability and Bifurcations of Parametrically Excited Thin Liquid Films, in press (2004), International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos.

  • Oron, A. and Gottlieb, O., Subcritical and Supercritical Bifurcations of the First- and Second Order Benney Equations, in press (2004), Journal of Engineering Mathematics.