Eliot Fried

Eliot Fried

email: efried@me.wustl.edu
Jolley Hall 318
Phone: +1 (314) 935-9447
FAX: +1 (314) 935-4014

Washington University
Campus Box 1185
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899

Eliot Fried
Professor of Mechanics

Ph.D., Applied Mechanics, California Institute of Technology, 1991.
M.S., Applied Mathematics, California Institute of Technology 1989.
B.S., Applied Mathematics, California Polytechnic State University, 1986.
A.B., Oriental Languages, University of California at Berkeley, 1981.

Background :

Associate Professor, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999-2002.
Assistant Professor, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1995-1999.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Center for Nonlinear Analysis, Carnegie Mellon University, 1995.
Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Pennsylvania State University, 1992-1995.
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Nonlinear Analysis, Carnegie Mellon University, 1991-1992.

Honors and Awards:

Fellow, Center for Advanced Study (University of Illinois), 1999-2000
NSF Research Initiation Award, 1993-1996
NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 1992-1995

Research Interests:

Mechanics of Novel Polymeric Materials
- Nematic and other optical elastomers
- Block copolymers
- Gels
Granular Materials
- Compaction
- Segregation by particle type
- Molecular dynamics simulations
Phase Transitions
- Solid-solid transitions
- Epitaxial growth
- Solidification

Selected Publications:

E. Fried and M. E. Gurtin, "On the Continuum Mechanics of Turbulence", Note di Matematica, in press.
E. Fried, "Sharp-interface Nematic-Isotropic Phase Transformations with Flow", Archive for Rotational Mechanics and Analysis, in press.
E. Fried and M. E. Gurtin, "Turbulent Kinetic Energy and a Possible Hierarchy of Length Scales in a Generalization of the Navier-Stokes-α Theory" Physical Review E, 75 (2007), 056306.
O. Shklyaev and E. Fried, "Stability of an Evaporating Thin Liquid Film", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 584 (2007), 153-187.
D. M. Anderson, P. Cermelli, E. Fried, M. E. Gurtin and G. B. McFadden, "General Dynamical Sharp-Interface Conditions for Phase Transformations in Viscous Heat-Conducting Fluids", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 581 (2007), 323-370.
T.-Y. Kim, J. Dolbow E. Fried, "A Numerical Method for a Second-gradient Theory of Incompressible Fluid Flow", Journal of Computational Physics, 233 (2007), 551-570
E. Fried and S. Sellers, "Soft Elasticity Is Not Necessary for Striping in Nematic Elastomers", Journal of Applied Physics, 100 (2006), 043521.
E. Fried, M. E. Gurtin and A. Q. Shen, "Theory for Solvent, Momentum, and Energy Transfer Between a Surfactant Solution and a Vapor Atmosphere", Physical Review E, 73 (2006), 061601.
X. Chen and E. Fried, "Rayleigh-Taylor Problem for a Liquid-Liquid Phase Interface", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 560 (2006), 395-414.
E. Fried and M. E. Gurtin, "Tractions, Balances, and Boundary Conditions for Nonsimple Materials with Application to Liquid Flow at Small Length Scales", Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 182 (2006), 513-554.
Y. C. Chen and E. Fried, "Uniaxial Nematic Elastomers: Constitutive Framework and a Simple Application", Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A, 462 (2006), 1295-1314.
E. Fried, "On the Relationship Between Supplemental Balances in Two Theories for Pure Interface Motion", SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 66 (2006), 1130-1149.
E. Fried and S. Sellers, "Incompatible Strains Associated With Defects in Nematic Elastomers", Journal of Chemical Physics, 124 (2006), 024908.
H. Ji, H. Mourad, E. Fried and J. Dolbow, "Kinetics of Thermally-Induced Swelling of Hydrogels", International Journal of Solids and Structures, 43 (2006), 1878-1907.
E. Fried and R. E. Todres, "Mind the Gap: The Shape of the Free Surface of a Rubber-like Material in Proximity to a Rigid Contactor", Journal of Elasticity, 80 (2005), 97-151.
P. Cermelli, E. Fried and M. E. Gurtin, "Transport Relations for Surface Integrals Arising in the Formulation of Balance Laws for Evolving Fluid Interfaces", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 544 (2005), 339-351.
J. Dolbow, E. Fried and H. Ji, "A Numerical Strategy for Investigating the Kinetic Response of Stimulus-Responsive Hydrogels", Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 194 (2005), 4447-4480.
E. Fried and S. Sellers, "Orientational Order and Finite Strain in Nematic Elastomers", Journal of Chemical Physics, 123 (2005) 044901.
J. Dolbow, E. Fried and A. Q. Shen, "Point Defects in Nematic Gels: The Case for Hedgehogs", Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 177 (2005), 21-51.
E. Fried and M. E. Gurtin, "The Unifying Nature of the Configurational Force Balance", in: Mechanics of Material Forces (P. Steinmann and G. A. Maugin, Eds.), Springer, New York, 2005.
P. Cermelli, E. Fried and M. E. Gurtin, "Sharp-Interface Nematic-Isotropic Phase Transitions Without Flow", Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 174 (2004), 151-178.
E. Fried and M. E. Gurtin, "A Unified Treatment of Evolving Interfaces Accounting for Deformation and Atomic Transport with an Emphasis on Grain-Boundaries and Epitaxy", Advances in Applied Mechanics, 40 (2004), 1-177.
J. Dolbow, E. Fried and H. Ji, "Chemically-Induced Swelling of Hydrogels", Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 52 (2004), 51-84.
E. Fried, R. E. Todres and V. Korchagin, "Biaxial Disclinated States in Nematic Elastomers", Journal of Chemical Physics, 119 (2003), 13170-13179.
E. Fried and M. E. Gurtin, "The Role of Configurational Force Balance in the Nonequilibrium Epitaxy of Films", Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 51 (2003), 487-517
E. Fried and R. E. Todres, "Disclinated States in Nematic Elastomers", Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 50 (2002), 2691-2716
E. Fried and R. E. Todres, "Normal-Stress Differences and the Detection of Disclinations in Nematic Elastomers", Journal of Polymer Science B: Polymer Physics, 40 (2002), 2098-2106.
E. Fried, "An Elementary Molecular-statistical Basis for the Mooney and Rivlin-Saunders Theories of Rubber Elasticity", Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 50 (2002), 571-582.
P. Cermelli and E. Fried, "The Evolution Equation for a Disclination in a Nematic Liquid Crystal", Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A, 458 (2002), 1-20.
E. Fried and S. Sellers, "The Debye Theory of Rotary Diffusion: History, Derivation, and Generalizations", Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 158 (2001), 1-27.
P. Cermelli, E. Fried and S. Sellers, "Configurational Stress, Yield, and Flow in Rate-independent Plasticity", Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A, 457 (2001), 1447-1467.
E. Fried and R. E. Todres, "Predication of Disclinations in Nematic Elastomers", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 98 (2001), 14773-14777.
E. Fried, "Introduction: Fifty Years of Research on Evolving Phase Interfaces", in Fundamental Contributions to the Continuum Theory of Evolving Phase Interfaces in Solids (Edited by J. M. Ball, D. Kinderlehrer, P. Podio-Guidugli and M. Slemrod), Springer-Verlag, Berlin (1999), 1-29.
D. Anderson, D. E. Carlson and E. Fried, "A Continuum-Mechanical Theory for Nematic Elastomers", Journal of Elasticity, 56 (1999), 33-58.
E. Fried and M. E. Gurtin, "Coherent Solid-State Phase Transitions with Atomic Diffusion: a Thermomechanical Treatment", Journal of Statistical Physics, 95 (1999), 1361-1427.
E. Fried, A. Q. Shen and S. T. Thoroddsen, "Wave Patterns in a Thin Layer of Sand Within a Rotating Horizontal Cylinder", Physics of Fluids, 10 (1998), 10-12.
E. Fried and G. Grach, "An Order-Parameter Based Theory as a Regularization of a Sharp-interface Theory for Solid-Solid Phase Transitions", Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 138 (1997), 355-404.
P. Cermelli and E. Fried, "The Influence of Inertia on the Configurational Forces in a Deformable Solid", Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A, 53 (1997), 1915-1927.
E. Fried and M. E. Gurtin, "Dynamic Solid-Solid Transitions with Phase Characterized by an Order Parameter", Physica D, 72 (1994), 287-308.