Elizabeth B. Stein Dussan V. (born 1946)^[1] is an American applied mathematician, condensed matter physicist, and chemical engineer. Her research involves fluid dynamics, and she is known for her work on wetting, porous media, and fluid-fluid interfaces.^[2][3][4]

Education and career

Dussan graduated from Stony Brook University in 1967,^[5] and earned her Ph.D. in 1972 from Johns Hopkins University. Her dissertation, On the Motion of a Line Common to Three Different Materials, was supervised by applied mathematician Stephen H. Davis.^[6]

She is retired as a scientist for the Schlumberger-Doll Research Center,^[2][3] and also taught chemical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.^[7][6]

Recognition

Dussan became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1984, "for work in the spreading of liquids on solid surfaces".^[7] She became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1985 "for her deep insights into the mechanisms and the realistic modeling of phenomena involving fluid-fluid interfaces, particularly in situations in which moving contact lines and mutual fluid displacement occur".^[2]

She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 "for innovative contributions to the wetting of solids and complex flows in porous media".^[3] In 2009 she became one of the inaugural Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics "for contributions to wetting and flow in porous media".^[4]

In 1985, Stony Brook University gave her their Distinguished Alumni Award.^[5]

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