Eric Varley
Professor
Phone: (610) 758-3781
Fax: (610) 758-6224

Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics

Appointed to Lehigh Faculty: 1967

Education:
Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, Brown University, 1961
Applied Mathematics, Manchester, England, 1957
Applied Mathematics, Manchester, England, 1955

Related experience - teaching, industrial, etc.:
Mathematician, National Physical Laboratory, London (The U.K. equivalent of the National Bureau of Standards)
Professor, Nottingham University, U.K.
Professor and Chairman of the Dept. of Mathematics, University of Southampton, U.K.
Visiting Professorships:
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Courant Institute, N.Y.U.
Mathematics Dept., The University of Mexico
Dept. of Applied Mathematics, California Institute of Technology
Mathematics Dept., Purdue University
Mathematics Dept., Toronto University
Mathematics Dept., University of British Columbia
Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Cambridge University, U.K.
Dept. of Mathematics, Oxford University, U.K.
Dept. of Mathematics, U.C.L.A.
Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Claremont Graduate School, CA

Research activities, consulting, patents, etc.:
Development of mathematical techniques that are used to analyze grossly nonlinear problems in fluid mechanics. Examples include atmospheric flows that are produced by the passage of a tornado, and swirling flows that are associated with vortex breakdown.
Viscometric flows of non-Newtonian fluids
Multi-phase flows in porous media
Finite deformations of inhomogeneous materials
Turbulent flows

Scientific and professional societies of which a member:
Sigma Chi

Honors and awards:
Lifetime Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge
Former member of the Churchill Foundation Committee
Editorial board of SIAM for ten years