Martin Wosnik, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Kingsbury Hall S252
33 College Rd
Durham, New Hampshire 03824
Phone: (603) 862-1891
Fax: (603) 862-1865
Email:
martin.wosnik@unh.edu
Ph.D. – Mechanical Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.
M.S. – Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.
B.S. equivalent – Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
Prof. Martin Wosnik joined the Mechanical Engineering faculty in the spring of 2008. Prior to the appointment at UNH, he was Senior Flow Engineer at Alden Research Laboratory in Massachusetts, a national flow engineering firm conducting a wide variety of hydraulic studies for electric power utilities, architect-engineering firms, equipment manufacturers, and governmental agencies. Before that, he worked as Research Associate at St. Anthony Falls Laboratory at the University of Minnesota, and as Assistant Research Professor in the Thermo and Fluid Dynamics Section at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Prof. Wosnik's research interests are in the area of fluid and thermal science and engineering, and include experiment and theory of wall-bounded turbulent flows, cavitation and bubbly flows, high-speed hydrodynamics, flow measurement, hydraulic modeling and alternative energy applications.
Prof. Wosnik is teaching fluid mechanics and heat transfer courses, including ME 906 Convection Heat Transfer and ME 705 Thermal System Design
Research areas:
- Experimental Fluid Dynamics
- Wall-bounded Turbulent Flows
- Cavitation and Bubbly Flows
- Hydraulic Modeling
- Alternative Energy Applications
Recent Publications:
Book Chapter
- Arndt REA; Kawakami DT; Wosnik M (2007) Hydraulics – Measurements in Cavitating Flows. Handbook of Experimental Fluid Dynamics, Tropea C and Foss J editors, Springer Verlag (Nov. 2007)
Journal papers, conference proceedings, reports
- Kopriva JE; Amromin EL; Arndt REA; Wosnik M; Kovinskaya S (2007) High-Performance Partially Cavitating Hydrofoils, Journal of Ship Research, Volume 51, Number 4, Dec 2007 , pp. 313-325(13)
- Wosnik M (2006) Developmental Hydraulic Model Study of the Intake Depth Sensitivity of a Vertical Pit Pump. Alden Research Laboratory, Alden Report No. 2006-372_H954C.
- Wosnik M; Qin Q; Arndt REA (2006) Identification of Large Scale Structures in the Wake of Cavitating Hydrofoils Using LES and Time-Resolved PIV. Proceedings of 26th Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics Rome, Italy, 17-22 September 2006
- Wosnik M; Arndt REA (2006) Measurements in high void-fraction turbulent bubbly wakes created by axisymmetric ventilated supercavitation. Proceedings of CAV2006, 6th International Symposium on Cavitation, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 11-15 September 2006
- Wosnik M; Arndt REA (2006) Testing of a 1:6 scale physical model of the large, low-noise cavitation tunnel (LOCAT). St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, SAFL Report No. 486.
- Amromin E; Kopriva J; Arndt REA; Wosnik M (2005) Hydrofoil drag reduction by partial cavitation. Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 128, Issue 5, pp. 931-936
- Arndt REA; Balas GJ; Wosnik M (2005) Control of Cavitating Flows: A Perspective. JSME International Journal, Series B: Fluids and Thermal Engineering., vol.48, no.2, pp.334-431, May 2005.
- Wosnik M; Schauer TJ; Arndt REA (2004) Experimental Investigation of the Turbulent Bubbly Wake in a Ventilated Flow. In Advances in Turbulence X, Andersson HI and Krogstad P-A editors, CIMNE, Barcelona, pp.657-660
- Wosnik M; George WK; Karlsson RI; Johansson TG (2002) The NORDIC WIND TUNNEL – a very large turbulence research facility. In Advances in Turbulence IX, I. P. Castro, P. E. Hancock and T. G. Thomas editors, CIMNE Publication, p.899
- Wosnik M (2002) Special questions related to high Reynolds number wall-bounded flows. AIAA invited paper, no. 2002-1104, 40th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting & Exhibit, Reno, NV.
- Wosnik M; Castillo L; George WK (2000) A theory for turbulent pipe and channel flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol.421, pp.115-145
- George WK; Abrahamsson H; Eriksson J; Karlsson RI; Wosnik M (2000) A similarity theory for the turbulent plane wall jet without external stream. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol.425, pp.367-411