Office: Steinman Hall 237
Tel: (212)650-5439
Fax: (212)650-8013
email: watkins@ccny.cuny.eduEducation:
Howard University, B.S.M.E., 1964
University of New Mexico, M.S., 1966
University of New Mexico, Ph.D., 1970
Licensure:
Professional Engineer, District of Columbia, since 1981.
Research Interests:
Atomistic simulation methods for microscale and nanoscale fluid dynamics
Multiscale, multiphase interfacial transport phenomena
Compressible fluid dynamics
Mechanics and biomechanics of industrial accidents
Underrepresentation of minorities in engineering
Current Collaborators:
Yiannis Andreopoulos, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Joel Koplik, Benjamin Levich Institute
Ali Sadegh, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Recent and frequently cited publications:
Zoghi-Moghadam, M., Sadegh, A., and Watkins, C.B., "Arachnoid Trabeculae and CSF Roles in Blunt Head Impacts," IMECE2003, Proceedings ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Washington, DC, November 2003.
Brown, A.R., Morning, C. and Watkins, C.B., ¤"Implications of African American Engineering Student Perceptions of Campus Climate Factors,"Proceedings of ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Savannah Georgia, October 2004.
Brown, A.R., Morning, C. and Watkins, C.B., ¤"Influence of African American Engineering Student Perceptions of Campus Climate on Graduation Rates," Journal of Engineering Education, April 2005 (Also selected for inclusion in Annals of Research on Engineering Education, Winter 2006, Vol.2, No.1,http://www.areeonline.org )
Kossi, K.,J-P Njante, C.B. Watkins and Y. Andreopoulos, “Microscale Shock Interaction with Shock-Thickness Scale Vortex using Direct Simulation Monte Carlo,” AIAA Paper No. 4898, Proceedings of the 35th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Toronto Canada, 2005.
Gu, K., C.B. Watkins and Y. Andreopoulos, “Shock/Nonlinear Wave Interaction,” AIAA Paper 2006-3548, Proceedings of 36th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, San Francisco, California, June 2006.
Gu, K., C. B. Watkins, K. Kossi, and Y. Andreopoulos, “DSMC Simulations of Shock Interaction with Harmonic Fluctuations,” Proceedings of 25th International Symposium on Rarified Gas Dynamics, Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 2006.
Andreopoulos,Y., C. Watkins, L. Bravo and A. Elzawawy, “Compressibility and Density Effects in Free Subsonic Jet Flows: Three Dimensional PIV Measurements of Turbulence,” AIAA-2007-3858, Proceedings of 36th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Miami, Florida, June 2007.
Zoghi-Moghadam, M., Watkins, C. B., Sadegh, A., and Dunlap, D., “Biodynamics Model for Operator Head Injury in Stand-Up Lift Trucks,”, Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, Volume 11, No. 4, 2008, pp 397-405.
Kossi, K., Y. Andreopoulos, and C.B. Watkins, “Dynamics of Microscale Shock/Vortex Interaction,” to appear in Physics of Fluids, 2009.
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