Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering

Omar Knio


Professor
Mechanical Engineering

Latrobe Hall 103 (office)
410-516-7736 (office)
knio@jhu.edu (primary)

Education

Ph.D. 1990, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
S.M. 1986, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.E. 1984, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Experience

2001: Professor of Mechanical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University
2001-2008: Reactive NanoTechnologies, Inc., Co-Founder and Senior Vice President
1998-2001: Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University
1991-1998: Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University
1991-1991: Senior Associate, Devonrue Ltd., Boston, MA
1990-1991: Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1985-1990: Research/Teaching Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1983-0: Engineering Trainee, Dar Al-Handasah, Consultants, Lebanon

Research Areas

turbulent flow
physical acoustics
oceanic and atmospheric flows
numerical methods
microfluidic devices
energetic materials
dynamical systems
computational fluid mechanics
chemically-reacting flow
asymptotic and stochastic techniques

Journal Articles

Salloum, M., Knio, O.M. (2010). Simulation of reactive nanolaminates using reduced models: I. Basic formulation. Combustion and Flame. 157(2). 288-295.
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Salloum, M., Knio, O.M. (2010). Simulation of reactive nanolaminates using reduced models: III. Ingredients for a general multidimensional formulation. Combustion and Flame. 157(6). 1154-1166.
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Morris, C.J., Mary, B., Zakar, E., Barron, S., Fritz, G., Knio, O., Weihs, T.P., Hodgin, R., Wilkins, P., May, C. (2010). Rapid initiation of reactions in Al/Ni multilayers with nanoscale layering. Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids. 71(2). 84-89.
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Salloum, M., Knio, O.M. (2010). Simulation of reactive nanolaminates using reduced models: II. Normal propagation. Combustion and Flame. 157(3). 436-445.
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Le Maitre, O.P., Mathelin, L., Knio, O.M., Hussaini, M.Y. (2010). ASYNCHRONOUS TIME INTEGRATION FOR POLYNOMIAL CHAOS EXPANSION OF UNCERTAIN PERIODIC DYNAMICS. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. 28(1). 199-226.
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Conference Proceedings

Srinivasan, A., Helgers, J., Paris, C.B., Lehanaff, M., Kang, H., Kourafalou, V.H., Iskandarani, M., Thacker, W.C., Zysman, J.P., Tsinoremas, N.F., Knio, O.M. "Many Task Computing for Modeling the Fate of Oil Discharged from the Deep Water Horizon Well Blowout", 3rd IEEE Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers, November, 2010.

Awards & Honors

2003 - 2008: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award, Humboldt Foundation
2005: Distinguished Alumnus Award, American University of Beirut
2005: R&D 100 Award (T.P. Weihs, O.M. Knio et al.)
1996: Associated Western Universities Faculty Fellowship Award
1984: Penrose Award, American University of Beirut

Presentations

Spectral Approach to Uncertainty Quantification in Complex Dynamical Systems (plenary lecture) 2010 MetStroem Program Meeting, FU Berlin, October 28, 2010
Spectral Approach to Uncertainty Quantification in Complex Dynamical Systems, UMBC, October 15, 2010
Transient Modeling of Self-Propagating Fronts in Reactive Nanolaminates, TU Berlin, June 2, 2010
Spectral Methods for Uncertainty Quantification, Free University of Berlin, May 31, 2010
Spectral Methods for Uncertainty Quantification, Duke University, April 27, 2010
Spectral Methods for Uncertainty Quantification, MIT, April 23, 2010
Spectral Methods for Uncertainty Quantification, University of Miami, April 6, 2010