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)
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).
P. Kalitzova-Kurteva, S. Slavtchev and A. Oron, “Long-Wavelength Monotonic Marangoni Instability in a Binary Mixture Layer with Nonlinear Soret Effect”, Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 39, 31-54 (2009).
S. Slavtchev, P. Kalitzova-Kurteva, and A. Oron, “Long-Wavelength Oscillatory Marangoni Instability in a Binary Mixture Layer with Nonlinear Soret Effect”, Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 39, 63-78 (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, “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).
E. S. Benilov and A. Oron, “The Height of a Static Liquid Column Pulled out of an Infinite Pool”, Physics of Fluids 22, 102101-1- 102101-8 (2010).
E. Novbari and A. Oron, “Analysis of Time-Dependent Nonlinear Dynamics of the Axisymmetric Liquid Film on a Vertical Circular Cylinder: Energy Integral Model”, Physics of Fluids 23, 012105-1- 012105-12 (2011).
K. Kanatani and A. Oron, “Nonlinear Dynamics of Confined Thin Liquid-vapor Bilayer Systems with Phase Change”, Physics of Fluids 23, 032102-1- 032102-14 (2011).
J. Zhang, A. Oron and R. P. Behringer, “Novel Pattern Forming States for Marangoni Convection in Volatile Binary Liquids”, Physics of Fluids 23, 072102-1- 072102-5 (2011).
S. Shklyaev, A. A. Nepomnyashchy and A. Oron, “Oscillatory Longwave Marangoni Convection in a Layer of Binary Liquid: Hexagonal Patterns”, Physical Review E 84, 056327-1- 056327-21 (2011).
O. Haimovich and A. Oron, “Nonlinear Dynamics of a Thin Nonisothermal Liquid Film on an Axially Oscillating Cylindrical Surface”, Physical Review E 84, 061605-1- 061605- 9 (2011).
L. Moldavsky, C. Gutfinger, A. Oron and M. Fichman, “Effect of Sonic Waves on Gas Filtration by Granular Beds”, Journal of Aerosol Science 57, 125-140 (2013).
O. Haimovich and A. Oron,”Nonlinear Dynamics of a Thin Liquid Film on an Axially Oscillating Cylindrical Surface Subjected to Double-Frequency Forcing”, Physical Review E 87, 052403-1-052403-11 (2013).
M. Morozov, A. Oron and A. A. Nepomnyashchy, “Nonlinear Dynamics of Long-Wave Marangoni Convection in a Binary Mixture with the Soret Effect”,Physics of Fluids 25, 052107-1- 052107-19 (2013).
Wenbin Mao, A. Alexeev and A. Oron, “Fluid Transport in Thin Liquid Films Using Traveling Thermal Waves”, Physics of Fluids 25, 072101-1- 072101-16 (2013).
M. Bestehorn, Qi Han and A. Oron, “Nonlinear Pattern Formation in Thin Liquid Films Under External Vibrations”, Physical Review E 88, 023025-1- 023025-5 (2013).
S. Slavtchev, P. Kalitzova-Kurteva, and A. Oron, “Evolution Equation for Nonlinear Long-Wavelength Monotonic Marangoni Instability in a Binary Liquid Layer with Nonlinear Soret Effect”, Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 43, 95-102 (2013).
S. Shklyaev, A. A. Nepomnyashchy and A. Oron, “Finite-Amplitude Three-Dimensional Oscillatory Longwave Marangoni Convection in a Binary Liquid Layer with the Soret Effect. Part 1: Two-Dimensional Patterns and Patterns on a Rhombic Lattice”, SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics 73, 2203-2223 (2013).
P. Rosenau and A. Oron, “On Compactons Induced by a Non-Convex Convection”, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulations 19, 1329-1337 (2014).
S. Shklyaev, A. A. Nepomnyashchy and A. Oron, “Oscillatory Longwave Marangoni Convection in a Binary Liquid Layer. Part 2: Square Patterns”, SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics 74, 1005-1024 (2014).
S. Duruk and A. Oron, “Stability Analysis of a Thin Liquid Film on an Axially Oscillating Cylindrical Surface in the High-Frequency Limit”, Physical Review E 90, 023007-1-023007-13 (2014).
V. Frumkin, Wenbin Mao, A. Alexeev and A. Oron, “Creating Localized-Droplet Train by Traveling Thermal Waves”, Physics of Fluids 26, 082108-1-082108-13 (2014).
M. Morozov, A. Oron and A. A. Nepomnyashchy, “Long-wave Marangoni Convection in a Layer of Surfactant Solution”, Physics of Fluids 26, 112101-1-112101-27 (2014).
O. Haimovich and A. Oron, “Healing of an Axisymmetric Thin Liquid Film on a Harmonically Oscillating Horizontal Cylindrical Surface”, Acta Mechanica, 226, 3587-3396 (2015).
W. Batson, Y. Agnon, and A. Oron, “Mass Variation of a Thin Liquid Film Driven by an Acoustic Wave”, Physics of Fluids 27, 062106-1-062106-20 (2015).
M. Morozov, A. Oron and A. A. Nepomnyashchy, “Long-wave Marangoni convection in a layer of surfactant solution: bifurcation analysis”, accepted, Physics of Fluids 27, 082107-1–082107- 19 (2015).
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