Jacob McFarland

Educational Background

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University — 2013
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University — 2008
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Texas Tech University — 2007

- Experimental and Computational Fluid Mechanics
- Shock Driven Hydrodynamic Instabilities
- Multiphase flows and reactions
- Magnetohydrodynamics

2019 NSF CAREER Award
2019 Junior Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Missouri College of Engineering
2013 Graduate Teaching Fellow, Texas A&M Mechanical Engineering department of Mechanical engineering
2010-2011 High Energy Density Physics Summer Student Scholar, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
2009 Sally and Ray Bowen Scholarship, Texas A&M University
2009 Association of Former Student Fellowship, Texas A&M University

Allen, Roy C., Wolfgang J. Black, and Jacob A. McFarland. "Development and diagnosis of an atmospheric pressure plasma torch for investigating magnetohydrodynamic instabilities." Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 52.17 (2019): 175201.
Paudel, Manoj, Jeevan Dahal, and Jacob McFarland. "Particle evaporation and hydrodynamics in a shock driven multiphase instability." International Journal of Multiphase Flow 101 (2018): 137-151.
Middlebrooks, John B., et al. "Droplet and multiphase effects in a shock-driven hydrodynamic instability with reshock." Experiments in Fluids 59.6 (2018): 98.
Dahal, Jeevan, and Jacob A. McFarland. "A numerical method for shock driven multiphase flow with evaporating particles." Journal of Computational Physics 344 (2017): 210-233.
McFarland, Jacob A., et al. "Computational study of the shock driven instability of a multiphase particle-gas system." Physics of Fluids 28.2 (2016): 024105.