- Professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Utah. His research field is turbulent fluid dynamics.
Recent publications:
- Henderson, T.C., McMurtry, P.A.. Smith, P.J., Voth, G.A. Wight, C.A. and Pershing, D.W. “Simulating Accidental Fires and Explosions,” Computing in Science and Engineering, March-April, pp. 64–76, 2000.
Hansen, L., Guilkey, J.E., McMurtry, P.A. and Klewicki, J.C. “The Use of Photo Activatable Fluorophores in the Study of Turbulent Pipe Mixing: Effects of Inlet Geometry.” Measurement Science and Technology, 11, pp. 1235–1250, 2000.
- Ayton, G., Bardenhagen, S., McMurtry, P., Sulsky, D., and Voth, G. “Interfacing Molecular Dynamics with Continuum Dynamics in Computer Simulation: Towards an Application to Biological Membranes,” IBM Journal of Research and Development, 45 3/4. pp. 417–425,2001.
Ayton, G., Bardenhagen, S., McMurtry, P., Sulsky, D., and Voth, G. “Interfacing Continuum and Molecular Dynamics: An Application to Lipid Bilayers,” Journal of Chemical Physics,114, pp. 6913–6924, 2001.
Ayton, G., Smondyrev, A., Bardenhagen, S., McMurtry, P. and Voth, G. “Calculating the Bulk Modulus for a Lipid Bilayer with Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics Simulation,”Biophysical Journal, 82, pp. 1226–1238, 2002.
Ayton, G., Smondyrev, A., Bardenhagen, S., McMurtry, P. and Voth, G. “Interfaceing Molecular Dynamics and Macro-Scale Simulations for Lipid Bilayer Vesicles,” Biophysical Journal,83, pp. 1026–1238, 2002.
Campbell, J.E., Coppom, R.W., Klewicki, J.C. and McMurtry, P.A. “Flow Phenomena and Time Resolved Concentration Measurements in an Axial Flow Mixer,” ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, 126, 6, pp. 981–989, 2005.
Wei, T., Fife, P., Klewicki, J, and McMurtry, P.A. “Properties of the Mean Momentum Balance in Turbulent Boundary Layer, Pipe, and Channel Flow,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics,522, pp. 303-327, 2005.4
Fife, P., Wei, T., Klewicki, J.C., and McMurtry, P.A. “Stress Gradient Balance Layers inWall Bounded Flows,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 532, pp. 165–189, 2005.
Ayton, G., McWhirter, J.L., McMurtry, P. and Voth, G. “Coupling Field Theory with Continuum Mechanics: A Simulation of Domain Formation in Giant Unilamellar Vesicles,” Biophysical Journal, 88, pp. 3855–3869, 2005.
Wei, T., Schmidt, R. and McMurtry, P.A. “Comment on the Clauser Chart Method for Determining the Friction Velocity,” Experiments in Fluids, 38, (5), pp. 695–699, 2005.
Fife, P., Klewicki, J.C., McMurtry, P.A., and Wei, T. “Multiscaling in the presence of indeterminacy: Wall induced turbulence,” SIAM Journal of Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, 4, 3, pp. 936–959, 2005.
Wei, T., Fife, P., Klewicki, J, and McMurtry, P.A. “Scaling heat transfer in fully developed turbulent channel flow,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 48, No. 25-26, pp. 5284–5296, 2005.
Wei, McMurtry, P., Klewicki, J, and Fife, P. “Meso Scaling if Reynolds Shear Stress inTurbulent Channel Flows and Pipes,” AIAA Journal, 43, 11, pp. 2350–2353, 2005.
Klewicki, J.C., Fife, P., Wei, T. and McMurtry, P.A. “Overview of a Methodology for Scaling Scaling the Indeterminate Equations of Wall Turbulence,” AIAA Journal, 44, 12, pp. 2475–2481, 2006.4
Klewicki, J.C., Fife, P., Wei, T. and McMurtry, P.A. “A physical model of the turbulentboundary layer consonant with mean momentum balance structure,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 365, pp. 823–839, 2007.
Guilkey, J., Harman, T., Kashiwa, B., and McMurtry, P. “An Eulerian-Lagrangian Approach for Large Deformation Fluid Structure Interaction Problems,” under review Computational Methods in Applied Mechanics,” 2007.