Education
Doctor Stone completed his undergraduate studies at University of California at Davis and earned his Doctor of Philosophy at the California Institute of Technology under the direction of L. Gary Leal.
Doctor Stone completed his undergraduate studies at University of California at Davis and earned his Doctor of Philosophy at the California Institute of Technology under the direction of L. Gary Leal.
His field of research is in fluid mechanics, chemical engineering and complex fluids. He joined Princeton in 2009 after twenty years of professorship at the School of Engineering at Harvard University, and after spending one year as a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University. His research has been concerned with a variety of fundamental problems in fluid motions dominated by viscosity, so-called low Reynolds number flows, and has frequently featured a combination of theory, computer simulation and modeling, and experiments to provide a quantitative understanding of the flow phenomenon under investigation.
Stone"s studies have been directed toward heat transfer and mass transfer problems involving convection, diffusion and surface reactions.
He has made contributions to a wide range of problems involving effects of surface tension, buoyancy, fluid rotation, and surfactants. He has also studied problems concerning the flow of lipid bilayers and monolayers, and has investigated the motions of particles suspended in such interfacial layers.
His research on surfactants has important implications for the dispersal of hydrocarbon pollution in aquatic environments. Recent research has extended his study of fluid dynamics and flow within microchannels to biological applications as well.
Honors & Doctor H. A. Stone, "Dynamics of Drop Deformation and Breakup in Viscous Fluids", Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 26, 65-102 (1994) H. A. Stone, A. Doctorate. Stroock, A. Ajdari.
"ENGINEERING FLOWS Indiana SMALL DEVICES, Microfluidics Toward a Laboratory-on-a-Chip", Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 36, 381-411 (2004) H. A. Stone, L. G. Leal, "Relaxation and Breakup of an Initially Extended Drop in an Otherwise Quiescent Fluid", J. Fluid Mechanics, 198, 399-427 (1989).
National Academy of Sciences.