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ELECTROSTATICS

Contributions of Prof. James R. Melcher to engineering education

Markus Zahn*, Hermann A. Haus

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

Received 12 April 1993; accepted after revision 20 September 1993

Abstract

This paper reviews the teaching and research career of the late Professor James R. Melcher. It describes his approach to the teaching of electric and magnetic fields bolstered by the lecture demonstrations he had developed. He is considered the founder of the modern day field of electrohydrodynamics. His undergraduate courses, reinforced by educational films which are briefly described, gave students an introduction into the field. His graduate courses and research extended more broadly into fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and physical chemistry. He spoke and wrote on the need for a national energy policy and was concerned about the effect of military expenditures on US commercial competitiveness.

1. Brief overview of career

Professor James R. Melcher, an engineer, scientist, and educator widely respected for his practical applications of the principles of electromagnetism and continuum electromechanics and a member of the Depar tment of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1962, died on 5 January 1991 at the age of 54. At the t ime of his death, he was the director of the MIT Labora tory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems and was the Julius A. Stratton Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics. Considered an outstanding educator - he received the Outstanding Teacher Award from the New England Section of the American Society for Engineering Education in 1969 and the M I T Graduate Student Teaching Award in 1978 - Prof. Melcher was noted for his dynamic lectures and as a leader in teaching electromagnetic field theory and continuum electromechanics to both undergraduate and graduate students. Through his research and textbooks he is the founder of the modern day field of electrohydrodynamics, the interaction of electric fields with fluids. He was a critical judge of the quality of his students' work, but did not spare

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effort and concern in helping his students and colleagues reach the high standards that he set for himself and them. He has deeply affected the lives, careers, and values of his students and colleagues.

This paper will describe his major contributions to engineering education, as course innovator and lecturer, and as research supervisor. It will also briefly describe his personal qualities as an articulate, thoughtful, and intensely moral human being. A list of his publications and of doctoral, engineers, masters, and bachelors theses that he has supervised is given in the appendices.

James R. Melcher (JRM) was born in Giard, Iowa on 5 July 1936. He received a BSEE in 1957 and a MS in Nuclear Engineering in 1958, both from Iowa State University. He was a research assistant at the Ames Laboratory of the US Atomic Energy Commission. His first journal paper, based on his master's thesis "A Useful Analogy for Single-Group Neutron Diffusion Theory" [A.1] won the American Nuclear Society's First Mark Mills Award. He came to MIT for his doctoral work in electrical engineering, was a teaching assistant in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering, and received the Ph.D. in 1962. He was an Assistant Professor from 1962-1966, an Associate Professor from 1966-1969, and a Professor from 1969, all in the Department of Electrical Engineering at MIT. He spent 1971-72 on sabbatical with Sir Geoffrey I. Taylor at the Cavendish, Churchill College, Cambridge, England. When a memorial was held in honor of Sir Geoffrey, JRM was invited as one of the keynote speakers. They had first worked together at a MIT symposium on Elec- trohydrodynamics sponsored by the International Unions of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and of Pure and Applied Physics, from 31 March to 1-2 April 1969, where Sir Geoffrey was Chairman and JRM was Secretary [A.32]. He was Director of the MIT High Voltage Research Laboratory (HVRL) from 1980-1984, and then with the merging of HVRL with the MIT Continuum Electromechanics Laboratory and the MIT Electric Power Systems Energy Laboratory (EPSEL), to form the MIT Lab- oratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems (LEES) he was briefly co-director of LEES from September-December 1984 and then Director from January 1985 until his death. Since 1981 he was also the first J.A. Stratton Professor in Electrical Engineering and Physics, particularly appropriate because both he and Dr. Stratton were inspired researchers and teachers of electromagnetism.

In his own words from his resume, he described his research interests as following:

"As an engineering science, continuum electromechanics draws upon the areas of electromagnetics, fluid and solid mechanics, heat transfer, and physical chemistry. Typically, electromagnetic fields are exploited for the control, sensing or augmentation of processes. Continuum electromechanics is interdisciplinary and has been shown to provide an overview that encourages the development of techniques and viewpoints that are not only applicable to systems coupled to electromagnetic fields, but to purely mechanical, thermal and electrochemical systems as well. Some of these universal viewpoints are described in the text Continuum Electromechanics I. Some

1J.R. Melcher, Continuum Electromechanics, MIT Press, 1981.

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specific areas of research are electrohydrodynamics (augmentation of heat transfer and mixing), magnetohydrodynamics (metals processing and hydromagnetic stability), continuum feedback control (continuum robotics), sensors (electromechanical and electro-physiochemical), biophysical electromechanics (electromechanics of polymer membranes), microelec- tromechanical systems (for printing), electromechanical fluidized beds (air- pollution control), macroscopic particle electromechanics in turbulent flows (electrostatic precipitators, electrostatic paint spraying and insulator contamination), insulation research (electrokinetics of liquid-insulator interfaces), electrically induced heating (for polymer processing) and electromechanical energy conversion (including new types of rotating machines)."

His textbooks on both undergraduate and graduate levels had similar themes and their content overlapped, although the material was presented at the appropriate levels intended. Almost as valuable as the material presented are the problems at the end of each chapter which greatly reinforce the text material and often provide descriptions of practical applications. Homework problems were great learning experiences for his students. He took great care and effort in developing interesting and solvable homework problems, for it was also a way to teach himself new material. He did not feel that he completely understood a new concept until he could also formulate an undergraduate level homework problem.

He received the following honors and awards:

1958 1969

1971 1971 1971 1977

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First Mark Mills Award, American Nuclear Society Outstanding Teaching Award, American Society for Engineering Education, New England Section Western Electric Fund for Outstanding Teaching Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge, England Young Alumnus Recognition, Iowa State University Guggenheim Fellowship, Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, "For contributions to electrohydrodynamics and its practical application." MIT Graduate Student Teaching Award, Electrical Engineering Professional Achievement Citation in Engineering, Iowa State University Julius A. Stratton Professorship in Electrical Engineering and Physics National Academy of Engineering-for "applications of continuum electromechanical principles to engineering science advancements in electrohydrodynamics, magnetohydrodynamics and electrofluidized beds."

He was a member of the following professional societies: National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, American Physical Society, American Chemical Society, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Electrostatics Society of America, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and Eta Kappa Nu.

After his death, the Electrostatics Processes Committee of the IEEE Industrial Applications Society named its Paper Recognition Awards the James R. Melcher Prize Paper Awards, "in tribute to a truly great electrical engineering researcher and


teacher of our times." Their statement included "Professor Melcher is known for his contribution of several highly original papers to the electrostatic processes technology, some of which were prize winning papers. The high quality of both his written manuscripts and oral presentations established a level of technical excellence that has served as a standard for the profession." Papers [A.76, A.77, and A.91] listed in his resume in Appendix A won IEEE IAS Paper Recognition Awards.

2. Undergraduate education

2.1. Electromagnetic fields

2.1.1. Educational approach With the second author of this paper, JRM developed the junior level MIT course

and textbook Electromaonetic Fields and Energy [A.34, A.93, B.4] described in the MIT catalog as follows:

Maxwelrs equations and the Lorentz force law. Quasistatic forms of Max- well's equations. Studies of electroquasistatic fields and their sources through solutions of Poisson's and Laplace's equations. Steady conduction and polarization. Charge relaxation. Magnetoquasistatic approximation; magnetic boundary value problems, magnetization, induction, current induced in stationary and moving conductors. Electric and magnetic forces derived from energy. Electromagnetic waves. Extensive use of engineering examples.

The traditional approach emphasizes statics in order that students master mathematical methods. This approach permits the introduction of only few stimulating engineering examples. By allowing fields to be time varying, many more interesting examples can be brought in, and lecture demonstrations are more easily constructed. For a major part of the course, the variation with time is "slow", so that the problems can be treated as quasistatic; electroquasistatic if the electric fields predominate, magnetoquasistatic when the magnetic fields predominate. At first, electromagnetic waves are unimportant, yet the electric and magnetic fields are never static because of time varying sources, typically sinusoidal, because of geometry changing with time, or because media introduce their own dynamics. For example, in semiconductor devices the inertia, mobility, and diffusion of charge carriers introduce their own important dynamics, not the electromagnetic waves. The course teaches the student that electric, magnetic, and electromagnetic devices and systems can often be described by either neglecting the magnetic induction or the displacement current density in Maxwell's equations. Recognition of these two limits is part of the art and science of modeling: of making the simplifications necessary for physical insight, for formulating an analytic or numerical treatment, or for extracting the essential features of a process as a guide to invention. JRM drew almost all the figures for his papers and books. Fig. 1 shows his sketch from the textbook [B.4] of a representative summary of how he viewed applications of his work.

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2.1.2. Lecture demonstrations

The acceptance of time-varying fields into an introductory course on electric and magnetic fields allows for a wealth of lecture demonstrations to be used throughout the course, described in the text, which makes the mathematical analysis take on physical meaning. Based upon relatively simple configurations and arrangements of

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equipment, the demonstrations make a direct connection between what has been analytically derived and what is observed. Often accompanied by a plot of the theoretical predictions that can be compared to data taken in the classroom, they give the opportunity to test the range of validity of the theory and to promulgate a quantitative approach to dealing with the physical world. In the MIT classroom, the demonstrations are presented "live", but many of the demonstrations have also been videotaped, presenting enough overview of the theory, documentation of the experimental procedure and data, and summary graphics to stand alone from the textbook [C.4]. These tapes are used to train new teaching staff and for review at the students convenience and on campus cable television. The undergraduate students in the course are urged to view the tapes as study aids before exams while graduate students are urged to view the videotapes in their preparation for qualifying exams. These tapes are used as supplements to the electromagnetism course at many universities throughout the world, and an abbreviated version with the most fundamental demonstrations are given with the Software Book, Vol. I by the NSF/IEEE Center for Computer Applications in Electromagnetics Education (CAEME) [A.99, 1].

Throughout the course, in lecture, recitation, tutorial, or homework, practical applications are used as examples, typically including: vacuum tube and semiconductor diodes; drift/diffusion conduction in semiconductors; electric and capacitance microphones; electrocardiograms; magnetic tape recording and playback; transformers, motors, generators, and power dissipation reducing laminations in AC devices; induction and dielectric heating; driver for a dot matrix printer; dielectric waveguides and optical fibers; Helmholtz coil; transmission lines, waveguides, and antennas; superconductors; circuit elements of resistance, inductance, and capacitance; binding energies in atoms and crystals; electric and magnetic forces; electrostatic precipitation; electrostatic generators; high-voltage insulating bushings; Hall effect probes; mass spectrograph; cyclotron and betatron; magnetohydrodynamic machines; and charged particle beams.

2.1.3. Connecting fields to circuits The course builds on and reinforces an understanding of analog circuits. Dynamics

are typically illustrated with step and sinusoidal steady-state responses in linear ohmic media of dielectric permittivity e, magnetic permeability/~, and ohmic conductivity a, so that time-dependent quantities obey ordinary linear differential equations with constant coefficients. The approximations inherent in the development of circuit theory from Maxwelrs equations are brought out very explicitly, so that the student appreciates under what conditions the assumptions implicit in circuit theory cease to be applicable. Development begins with capacitors with charges and their associated electric fields, equipotentials to represent perfect conductors and steady ohmic conduction to represent resistive losses. The student appreciates how EQS field dynamics with the representative time scale Te = e/a are like resistor--capacitor (re = RC) dynamics. The same approach is used with inductors with currents and their associated magnetic fields to show how MQS systems with the representative time scale Tm= #trl z follow resistor-inductor dynamics (Zm = L/R) where l is a typical length scale of the system.


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In the quasistatic limits the course focuses on the use of superposition of sources and on solutions to Laplace's equation for planar layers, cylinders and spheres. With very simple geometries and general solutions to Laplace's equation, a wide range of EQS and MQS problems, duals and anti-duals, are solved.

Electromagnetic waves in loss-free media are examined in their distributed inductive (L henries/meter)-capacitive (C farads/meter) circuit analog with representative time-scale of zero--l[lal;'] 1/2 = I [LC'] 1/2 equal to the wave propagation time across a system of length I. Lossy material is then introduced as an analog to RLC circuits. Drawing on EQS, MQS, and electrodynamic characteristic times and lengths, rem is the geometric mean of the time constants re and Zm, Zero = [ZeZm] 1/2. This is why the world can often be either EQS or MQS, but not both as either re or Zm is smaller than Zem. AS illustrated in Fig. 2(a) for large R (small or), EQS dynamics comes first as the frequency co is raised, followed by electrodynamics. For small R (large a), Fig. 2(b) shows that MQS dynamics comes first as the frequency is raised, followed by electrodynamics. Implicit is the enormous difference between what is meant by a perfect conductor in EQS (constant electric scalar potential) and MQS (constant magnetic vector potential) systems. The condition when a system is neither EQS nor MQS occurs when the system size is such that re = "lTm ~--- "Cem SO that l* = [ - g / / 2 ] 1 / 2 / o ".

As shown in Fig. 3, systems having a length I < l* are EQS while systems having I > l* are MQS. The MQS and EQS regimes in Fig. 3 both reduce to quasistationary conduction (QSC) at low frequencies such that both ogze ~ 1 and ~Orm ~ 1.

Although most of JRM's professional research contributions were in quasistatic limits, he was a ham radio operator and thus very knowledgeable about electrodynamics, both theory and practice. He carried on regular worldwide radio


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communications with his family and friends. His backyard hosted a tall antenna tower, that his students often helped install, maintain, and improve with a home barbecue as the payoff. This hobby attracted students who were already hams to work with him, as well as encouraged other students to become hams. He performed some consulting work concerning high frequency electrical signal propagation through the mud surrounding an oil well. He verified key assumptions of his model by performing experiments in his backyard swimming pool. JRM devoted a major amount of time to the successful development of electrodynamic demonstrations, even though his course only briefly introduced this material. He did this in part for use in the subsequent course Electrodynamics, but mainly it deepened his understanding of radio phenomena.

2.1.4. Magnetization: the Chu formulation Another distinction in the course presentation was the use of paired magnetic

charges, magnetic dipoles, rather than Amp6rian currents as the source of magnetization. In this approach, when polarization and magnetization are incorporated into Maxwell's equations, they become essentially symmetric (except for some minus signs). L.J. Chu exploited the symmetry in order to facilitate the introduction of magnetization by analogy with polarization [2]. This approach was criticized because the dipole moment of the electron, the main source of ferromagnetism, is associated with the spin of the electron, and thus seems more appropriately pictured as a circulating current.

Tellegen I-3] took issue with this approach and gave a derivation of the force on a current loop (the Amp6rian model of a magnetic dipole) and showed that it gave


a different answer from that on a magnetic dipole. The difference was small, relativistic in nature occurring only in the presence of a time-varying electric field, and thus difficult to detect in macroscopic measurements. However, if the criticism was valid, the treatment in terms of magnetic dipoles would be suspect.

It turned out that Tellegen's analysis was in error because the time-varying electric field produces changes in a constant circulating current that causes an additional force that cancels the critical term [4]. Both models of a magnetic dipole yield the same force expression and thus are a matter of taste. The magnetic charge model is simpler, because a dipole at rest has no moving parts, whereas a current loop contains moving charges.

2.1.5. Computers and fields JRM encouraged the use of computer instruction to improve the teaching of

concepts and for exposure to practical examples. He was especially interested in computer animated dynamic presentations where the field distributions evolve, using the screen to represent the spatial distributions and real time to represent evolution in time. He used computer animation of evolving dispersion relations in synchronism with experiments in his films Complex Waves I and II [A.31, C.1, C.2]. With the advent of the MIT computer network, Project Athena, he incorporated the use of the computer into the classroom and for use with homework assignments. The field concepts introduced in the course were a natural basis for numerical approaches using the method of moments as the superposition integral approach to boundary value problems, and energy methods for the finite element approach. With improvements to computer capabilities, it was possible to take detailed account of geometric effects in routine engineering design. However, he stressed that even with these computer tools, a firm conceptual base was essential to the engineer to attack nonstandard problems. Even with numerical analysis, the engineer must comprehend the physical phenomena at work.

2.2. Electromechanical dynamics

2.2.1. Educational approach JRM's development of the electromagnetism course came from his mature under-

standing of the fundamentals. His course and textbook developments began in the mid 1960s with the MIT course Fields, Forces, and Motion and the associated three volume text, Electromechanical Dynamics lB.2, A.28], co-authored with H.H. Wood- son, his doctoral thesis supervisor.

The course description that Jim wrote for the MIT catalog provides an accurate summary:

Fields, Forces, and Motion Electromechanical interactions in lumped-parameter and continuum sys-

tems. Integral and differential electromagnetic laws, including motion. Lum- ped electrical and mechanical elements; thermodynamics of discrete electromechanical coupling, equations of motion. Synchronous and induction rotating machines. Linear and nonlinear transducers, transient and steady-


state dynamics; electromechanical time constants. Field transformations, dc rotating machines, magnetic diffusion and charge relaxation in moving conductors. Electromagnetic force densities and stress tensors.

The course and text begins with a fields viewpoint of capacitive and inductive geometries, but where one or more of the surfaces could move. If the geometry is a function of position x, and if this position is a function of time, then the capacitance, C(x( t ) ) and inductance, L(x( t ) ) , are also functions of time and the usual linear constitutive laws relating charge q to voltage v and flux 2 to current i are:

q-- C(x)v; 2 = L(x ) i , (1)

so that the voltage/current relationships become

i = dq /d t = d [C(x ( t ) ) v ] /d t ; v = d2/dt = d [ L ( x ( t ) ) i ] / d t . (2)

Upon expansion of the derivatives, the extra terms over the usual circuit descriptions, proportional to the speed of the moveable members, dx /d t , are due to the electromechanical coupling. An energy method description like that used in thermodynamics is developed and applied to various actuators and rotating machinery. The effects of ohmic loss are included with charge relaxation and magnetic diffusion. A formulation of electric and magnetic forces culminates in the teaching of the Maxwell stress tensor. Then the course concludes with applications of electric and magnetic forces on charged and current carrying strings, membranes, and jets, tying together elastic waves and the issues of wave propagation, evanescence, absolute instability and convective instability (amplifying waves). Using such simple electromechanical systems, he teaches and demonstrates the physics of such analogous complex systems as elastic, acoustic, and electromagnetic waveguides, gaseous and solid-state plasmas, lasers, electron beam oscillators and amplifiers, microwave magnetics, supersonic flows of gases, and supercritical flow of rivers.

The course covers the first two volumes. The third volume of the text has hardly been used in courses, but is a valuable reference for electromechanical coupling to bulk elastic waves, and the thermodynamics of magnetohydrodynamic machines.

Associated with this course, JRM produced three educational films: (a) Complex Waves I: Propagation, Evanescence and Instability [-C.1, A.31]; (b) Complex Waves II: Instability, Convection and Amplification [C.2, A.31]; (c) Electric Fields and Moving Media [C.3, A.39].

2.2.2. Complex waves (the f i lms) Using elastic waves on a simple string, the dispersion relation between complex

frequency o9 and wave number k, is demonstrated by allowing the string to carry current in a magnetic field or to be charged in an electric field. String deflections are taken to be of the form

6(x, t) = Re oeexp [j (ogt - kx)]. (3)

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but by keeping the mathematical development simple by reducing the governing partial differential wave equations to linear constant coefficient ordinary differential equations, it became possible to understand complex physics without obstruction by difficult mathematics.

For ordinary elastic waves on a string under tension, described by the wave equation, waves of all frequencies have the same velocity and any disturbance propagates without changing shape in either direction. He developed the familiar notion of dividing the response into two parts - one due to the drive, the driven response, and one due to initial conditions, consisting of a superposition of natural modes.

(a) Evanescent waves. Evanescent waves, the phenomenon of spatial decay without dissipation, are illustrated by making the elastic string carry a current in a non- uniform magnetic field so that any string deflection results in a restoring Lorentz force that tends to exert a force in the direction opposite to the string deflection as in Fig. 4(a), with the dispersion relations shown in Figs. 4(b)-(d). The natural response is found by assuming the string of length l is fixed at both ends, so that the natural modes require wave numbers given by k = mr/l, where n is an integer, so that the magnetic restoring force raises the natural frequencies. For one end of the string driven at a sinusoidal frequency below a critical value, the resulting wave number is imaginary representing a spatial distribution that decays exponentially away from the source, Fig. 4(c). These cut-off waves are common in acoustic and electromagnetic waveguides.

(b) Absolute instability. An absolute instability results by reversing the direction of current as now the magnetic force on the string also reverses so that any string deflection results in a force in the same direction of the deflection, tending to increase the deflection further. The resonant frequencies are lowered by the magnetic force. If the magnetic force is large enough, a resonant frequency is driven through zero to imaginary values, representing exponential growth in time rather than sinusoidal oscillations for real frequencies. In the experiment, the current is first below the threshold for instability and a plucked string vibrates in its lowest natural mode, reduced from the value with no current. With the current increased beyond the threshold, no matter how carefully the string is released from a centered position where the magnetic force is zero, it deflects to one side or the other, Fig. 4(d).

The EQS analog is also demonstrated in Fig. 5, where a conducting string is centered between plane, parallel electrodes each at potential V with respect to the grounded string. With the string centered, surface charges are induced on both sides of the string and the net force on the string is zero. However, a slight deflection of the string leads to a charge excess on one side, so that the net electric force acts to further increase the deflection, again leading to an absolute instability.

Absolute instabilities are typically found in plasmas and fluids as they interact with electric and magnetic fields, most widely known in fusion machines.

(c) Moving media. The elastic string is replaced by a moving jet of water with surface tension, which can be modeled as a moving, perfectly conducting elastic string. If the jet velocity, U, is less than the wave phase velocity, v, the effects of evanescence and absolute instability are similar to that described in (a) and (b) with the wave


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traveling in the same direction as the convection having its phase velocity increased to U + v, and the wave traveling in the opposite direction to the convection having reduced phase velocity, U - v. Because the wave equation is second order in space, the solution at any point is determined by two boundary conditions, one upstream and one downstream. However, if the jet is "supersonic" so that its velocity U is greater than the wave phase velocity v, both waves travel in the direction of convection, and the waves interfere spatially to form a stationary sinusoidal envelope or "beats". Now both boundary conditions must be specified upstream to determine the solution at downstream locations.

Material convection and instability are brought together by centering the grounded jet between parallel plate electrodes at potential V in Fig. 6(a). For a real frequency, the wave number is complex, with one root growing exponentially in space-wave amplification, as shown in Fig. 6(b).

The art of electron-beam engineering, with its traveling wave tube amplifiers and backward wave oscillators, uses space charge waves on a streaming electron beam to interact with a fixed transmission line. Such a graphic impression is produced in the film using a charged water jet coupled to a fixed string to make an oscillator, shown in Fig. 7.

2.2.3. Electric fields and moving media In the teaching of fundamental field theory, case studies comparing theory and an

experiment are rare. Jim gave a "sparkle" to his lectures by letting the student see the consequences of the field and charge distributions, in otherwise lack-luster examples, such as a cylindrical conductor or insulator in a uniform electric field. With the expenditure of a very few minutes during a class, an experimental demonstration turns an academic discussion into a highly motivating experience. The experiments presented in "Electric Fields and Moving Media" [A.39, C.3-I were intended to be used as demonstrations and electromechanics subjects together with analytical models. In the EQS demonstrations in the film, magnetic induction is unimportant and the phenomena were due to free charge and polarization forces in ohmic media.

The crucial role played by charge relaxation is illustrated with a conducting sphere bouncing between parallel plate electrodes, comparing the use of slightly conducting and highly insulating oils described by conductivity tr and permittivity e. The application of high-voltage charges the sphere when it rests on the lower electrode. The resulting Coulomb force causes the sphere to rise but the slightly conducting oil causes the charge on the sphere to leak away and the sphere returns to the lower electrode by gravity where the process repeats. Particle motions are also shown to lead to electrical breakdown, a major factor in limiting the performance of high- voltage insulation.

The electric field induces a force which causes a motion resulting in the convection of charge. The electric Reynold's number, Re = ~v/trl, describes when charge convection is important for material moving with a characteristic velocity v to move a characteristic distance I.

The effect of charge convection on the electric field is illustrated by a series of experiments using charged water drops as the charge carriers. Grounded jets of water


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Fig. 7. (a) The jet interacting with a fixed string between electrodes; (b) spontaneous oscillatory instability similar to that found in an improperly terminated traveling-wave tube, with the jet playing the role of the electron beam and the string playing the role of the slow-wave structure.

break into drops as they pass through a metal "inducer" ring at a potential. The drops break away with a net charge which they carry to an insulated pail below. One kilovolt on the ring results in a generated voltage of about 10 kV on the water in the pail. This is similar to the operation of a van de Graaffgenerator , where a moving belt replaces the falling water drops. By connecting two such drop generators together, a self-excited dynamo, first due to Lord Kelvin, generates about 20 kV [5]. Then using three water drop generators, as in Fig. 8, three phase AC is spontaneously generated. Similar processes of drop charging may be present in atmospheric electric phenomena.


Fig. 8. A high-voltage AC water dynamo of 3 streams which generalizes Kelvin's original 2 stream DC dynamo. The droplet streams pass through induction charging rings and are then collected in barrels. Each ring is connected to the water in a neighboring barrel. The spontaneous buildup of low frequency alternating charge on the streams is evident from their oscillatory spreading and collapse.

Free charge accumulates at interfaces between conductors of different uniform conductivities. In an electric field, such charged interfaces can move as illustrated by Taylor's pump in Fig. 9 [A.20]. Similarly, a cylinder placed within a slightly conducting fluid in a uniform electric field similarly acquires surface charge, as in yon Quincke's rotor of Fig. 10. If the cylinder has dielectric relaxation time longer than that of the surrounding fluid, at a critical DC voltage, it spontaneously rotates. The surface charge distribution has positive charge near the positive electrode and negative charge near the negative electrode. Such a charge distribution is unstable, similar to a compass needle oriented backwards in a magnetic field. The rotor tends to rotate to try to reverse the orientation of the dipolar surface charge. Steady rotation develops as the electrical relaxation compensates for the transport of surface charge by rotation. Cellular motions on fluid interfaces as in Fig. 11 are due to similar interplays between convection and conduction currents.

The electric Reynolds number relates relaxation, re = e/a, and transport times, rt = l/v. The period of an alternating sinusoial voltage provides another dynamical time. With a traveling wave voltage, surface charge is induced on a nearby interface.


, 2 l ~,e'E, Ey]] : " - _ _ ' ; _ L - . - J . : '.

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~ I h ( y ) o

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I Y=O (o) y: q.

Fig. 9. Taylor's pump showing conducting liquid layer with contacting electrodes at left and right and slanted electrode to induce a uniform distribution of surface charge on the interface. The uniform electric field in the liquid exerts a shearing surface force on the charged interface to the left and causes the cellular convection.

At very low frequencies, the electrical shear force is small because the tangential electric field is small while at high frequencies, the surface charge does not have time to significantly form on the interface over the course of a sinusoidal cycle. If the region between the traveling wave voltage and the interface has longer relaxation time than the fluid layer, the force is in the same direction as the traveling wave motion. If the intervening medium has shorter dielectric relaxation time than the fluid layer, then the force is in the opposi te direction. With the fluid more insulating than the intervening region, positive charges at a given point on the electrode structure induce charges of the same sign in their local ne ighborhood on the nearby interface, resulting in a force of repulsion and driving the fluid in the opposite direction to the traveling wave.

This interfacial mot ion can also occur in the fluid bulk if the conductivi ty is a distributed function of position, such as is the case with a fluid with a temperature

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I I electrodes, co rn o i l

- - - - - - " t e f l o n /

(a)

..E- 3- E o Eo ~P"

(b) ! -

+ D

Fig. 10. (a) Von Quincke's rotor consisting of a highly insulating cylinder, free to rotate, that is placed in slightly conducting oil between parallel plate electrodes. As DC voltage is raised, at a critical voltage the rotor spontaneously rotates in either direction; (b) The motion occurs because the rotor charges like a capacitor with positive surface charge near the positive electrode and negative surface charge near the negative electrode. Any slight displacement of the cylinder in either direction results in an electrical torque in the same direction as the initial displacement.

gradient and whose conduct ivi ty varies with tempera ture . A conduct ivi ty gradient leads to a vo lume charge dis tr ibut ion and a volume C o u l o m b force with an electric field [-A.21].

Polar iza t ion forces can exist even in the absence of net free charge. An exper iment involving polar iza t ion forces is shown in Fig. 12. Conduc t ing t ransparen t electrodes are used as diverging capac i tor plates and dipped into a dielectric fluid [A.36]. The electrodes impose an essentially tangential electric field to the fluid interface so that there is no free surface charge on the interface, yet the fluid rises between the electrodes as the vol tage is raised. The high dielectric cons tant fluid is most a t t rac ted where the electric field is highest, that is, at the left where the capaci tor gap is smallest.

C o m b i n e d free charge and polar iza t ion forces act on the current car ry ing jet of Fig. 13 I-A.30]. The sur rounding plates at a cons tan t potent ia l induce the opposi te polar i ty surface charge on the jet. The electric field in the jet exerts a tangential surface force on the jet via the free surface charge and a no rma l force due to the difference in permitt ivit ies on either side of the jet interface. If the shear electrical force accelerates the flow, the jet necks down, as in Fig. 13(a). Reversing either the polar i ty of the

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7

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Fig. 12. Diverging transparent conducting plates stressed by a DC voltage draws dielectric liquid upwards, with a height proportional to the square of the electric field so that the height is greatest where the electrode gap is least.

Fig. 13. Current driven jet of glycerin results from imposing high voltage between orifice at top and electrode at bottom. Ring electrodes around the jet control the sign of surface charge induced on the jet surface. (a} Jet accelerated by downwards electric shearing force and (b) with reversal of polarity of either ring voltage or orifice voltage the electric force is also reversed to decelerate the jet.

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~corn

(a)

(b) (c)

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surrounding electrodes or of the electric field in the jet, but not both, will reverse the electrical shear force and decelerate the jet thereby increasing its diameter, as in Fig. 13(b).

An example of non-uniform electric field stabilization is shown in Fig. 14 where for stabilization of a more dense fluid over a less dense fluid, the upper fluid in the strong field region must have a higher dielectric constant than the lower fluid. When the voltage is removed, the more dense fluid falls because of the Rayleigh-Taylor gravitational instability. This experiment is shown in the film Complex Waves II as an example of an absolute instability.


3. Graduate teaching

3.1. Continuum electromechanics

3.1.1. Educational approach JRM developed a two semester graduate course sequence and textbook to teach

widely applicable basic laws of electromagnetism interacting with solid and fluid media, together with models and mathematical techniques for analysis [B.3]. It started out as an introduction to the subject of electrohydrodynamics, to reflect his research interests, but during his 1971-72 sabbatical as a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, England, the objective was broadened toward the disciplines of continuum mechanics. JRM achieved great satisfaction and motivation from seeing his ideas serve the needs of industry. His consulting activities for more than 30 companies provided many useful examples and he was happy to see the concepts presented in his book and course applied to the development of new energy systems and to the problems of environmental control.

The course descriptions in the MIT catalog provide a concise summary of topics covered in the courses:

Continuum Electromechanics I Quasistatic field dynamics. Transfer relations as an approach to field

descriptions. Electromagnetic forces, force densities, and stress tensors, including magnetization and polarization. Classification of energy-conversion processes. Charge migration and relaxation, and magnetic diffusion and induction interactions with material motion. Introduction to electromechanics of continua. Temporal and spatial modes. Spectral numerical techniques. Method of characteristics. Varied applications. Continuum Electromechanics II

Laws, approximations, and relations of continuum mechanics. Mechan- ical and electromechanical transfer relations. Statics and dynamics of electromechanical systems having a static equilibrium. Electromechanical flows. Field coupling with thermal and molecular diffusion. Electrokinetics. Streaming interactions. Applications to materials processing, magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamic pumps and generators, physiochemical systems, heat transfer, continuum feedback control, electron beam devices, and plasma dynamics. Emphasis on microfabricated systems.

3.1.2. Physical and mathematical modeling In addition to developing physical understanding of diverse phenomena, the course

and text emphasized the need to develop approximate mathematical models and their analytical solutions if possible, and numerical solutions if necessary. He believed in quantitative as well as qualitative understanding with three classes of approximations: time-rate, space-rate, and amplitude parameter expansions.

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Table 1 Characteristic time constants for systems having a typical length l

Time Nomenclature

Electromagnetic Ter n = l / c

"C© = g/O"

Zm = #tTl 2

Zmtg = l/bE

Mechanical and thermal Z a = I /a

zv = pl2/tl zc = ~l/pa 2

TD = 12/x rr = 12pcv/kr

Electromechanical ZEv = tl/eE 2 ZMv = t l /#H 2

z~t = IV/~/~E 2

zMi = I x / - ~ H 2

Electromagnetic wave transit time Charge relaxation time Magnetic diffusion time Particle migration time

Acoustic wave transit time Viscous diffusion time Viscous relaxation time Molecular diffusion time Thermal diffusion time

Electroviscous time Magnetoviscous time

Electroinertial time

Magnetoinertial time

Table 2 Dimensionless numbers as ratios of characteristic times. The material transit or residence time is ~ = l/U, where U is a typical material velocity

Number Symbol Nomenclature

Electromagnetic ze/z = ~U/la Re z~/z = l~alU Rm

Mechanical and thermal Za/Z = U/a M Zv/Z = plU/tl R r

ZD/Z = IU/x RD zr/z = pcvlU/kx R~

"CD/Tv : r l /Pko Po

zr/rv = %tl/kv PT

Electromechanical

~ J Z E v ; "rd*Ev He z~/zv = qlltr/p Pm

Electric Reynolds number Magnetic Reynolds number

Mach number Reynolds number Molecular Peclet number Thermal Peclet number Molecular-viscous Prandtl number Thermal-viscous Prandtl number

Magnetic Hartmann number

Electric Hartmann number Magnetic-viscous Prandtl number

T i m e - r a t e e x p a n s i o n s a re used w h e n t e m p o r a l ra tes o f c h a n g e o f in te res t a re s low

c o m p a r e d to o n e o r m o r e cha rac t e r i s t i c t imes de sc r i b ing such d y n a m i c a l p rocesses as

in T a b l e 1. I m p o r t a n t d i m e n s i o n l e s s n u m b e r s f o r m e d as ra t ios o f t ime cons tan t s , as in

T a b l e 2, def ine i m p o r t a n t r eg imes whe re s impl i fy ing a p p r o x i m a t i o n s c o u l d be made .


Space-rate expansions lead to quasi-one or two-dimensional spatial models, also known as long-wave models. Here fields or deformations in a "transverse" direction can be approximated as being slowly varying with respect to a "longitudinal" direction. Amplitude parameter expansions are carried to first order in linearized models. Often they are used to describe dynamics departing from a static or steady equilibrium.

The course begins with Maxwell's equations in the Chu formulation, in integral and differential form, with magnetization, polarization, and material motion. He formally derives the conditions for the EQS and MQS limits, develops the Galilean transformations between inertial frames, and derives generalized boundary conditions including electrical double-layer effects so that the tangential component of electric field can be discontinuous, being proportional to the surface gradient of the surface double-layer density.

He derives the lumped parameter EQS element of capacitance and MQS element of inductance, generalized to elements with deformable geometry, and then develops an energy conservation formulation with the thermodynamics of discrete electromechanical coupling to find forces. He then generalizes the analysis to find the force densities and stress tensors in continuous media. He considers and compares force density and stress tensor descriptions using microscopic models and energy conservation principles. He shows that for an isolated object in free space, the total force is the same for all models as the free space stress tensors are the same for all models. He also shows that for incompressible media, that force density terms described by a gradient of a scalar have no effect on the motion, only on the pressure distribution.

A major technique that JRM pioneered for multi-layered systems, was the use of generalized prototype layers relating pertinent interfacial variables at two interfaces in planar, circular cylindrical, and concentric spherical geometries, such as those shown in Fig. 15. Since these variables appear in the boundary conditions at the interfaces between layers, analysis of multi-layered systems is greatly simplified by splicing together generalized interfacial relations thereby avoiding the redundancy of solving the same bulk equations in each layer. Many different boundary value problems, could be essentially solved simultaneously, only requiring specification of the pertinent boundary conditions. This generalized approach was used to relate interfacial variables in many diverse coupled systems such as relating tangential and normal electric and magnetic field components to interfacial scalar and vector potentials; relating perturbation pressures and viscous stresses to interfacial fluid velocities in inviscid and viscous, incompressible and compressible fluids; and relating heat fluxes to interfacial temperatures.

In many practical situations, excitations are periodic in one or two spatial direc- tions, and in time. Throughout the course sources and fields are represented with complex Fourier amplitudes and Fourier transforms, with simple formulas for the time and space averages of field products in terms of the complex amplitudes, a great simplification in finding forces and torques.

3.1.3. Applications (a) Electromechanical kinematics. In source free regions of dielectric or magnetic

media, the electric and magnetic fields are irrotational and thus describable by electric


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5~ Y

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7 =-~k2 + k2 y z

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B

1 -coth(yA)

-1 sinh (yA) coth (yA)

Ii ct] (a)

(a)

¢ = Re ¢(r,t)e -j(=e + kz)

(b)

~ / Ct Ct r,¢~)

/ ,= Re ~(r , t )pn~(cos O)e-Jm~

(c) Fig. 15. Laplacian flux-potential relations for (a) a planar prototype layer, (b) a cylindrical annulus, and (c) a spherical shell.

and magnetic scalar potentials that obey Laplace's equation. Generalized prototype layers relate the normal component of fields to interfacial potentials.

Solenoidal fields, such as the magnetic flux density B, the current density in the steady state Jr, or the displacement field D with no volume charge, can be represented

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by a vector potential. It is shown how the vector potential is related to a flux variable, and generalized prototype relations are derived relating the tangential field components to interracial vector potentials. It is also shown that in two dimensions that solenoidal field lines are given by constant values of vector potential which is directed in the third direction.

These relations are first applied to electromechanical kinematics where the mechanical motions, charges, and currents are known from the outset. The mechanics involves rigid-body translations or rotations while charges and currents are constrained by electrodes and wires. Stress, force, and torque relations in spatially periodic systems are developed and applied to synchronous and DC machines, magnetic and electric types. The synchronous machines involve periodically distributed surface currents for the magnetic case and periodic electrode voltages or a periodic space charge distribution for the electric case. The DC cases are those of a standard brush/commutator magnetic machine and a Van de Graaff electrostatic generator.

(b) Charge migration, convection and relaxation. The kinematic case is generalized to allow the prescribed material deformations to vary in time and space. Electrodes and wires are no longer used to constrain the sources, rather the distribution of free charge and current is determined by the fields themselves. Charge conservation with material convection for bipolar conduction by migration and diffusion with recombi- nation and generation is treated.

When electric potentials greatly exceed the thermal voltage, about 25 mV at room temperature, diffusion is generally negligible. Furthermore, if the net charge density is small, the electric field E has approximately no divergence and is thus describable by a vector potential. In this "imposed field" approximation, the electric field is essentially determined by charges outside of the region of interest, typically on boundaries. For incompressible fluids, the velocity field v also has no divergence and thus also has a vector potential. Melcher converts the governing partial differential equation of charge conservation to a pair of ordinary differential equations, using the method of characteristics. The approximate result is that in the frame of reference of the charged particle moving at velocity v + bE, where b is the charge mobility, the charge density remains approximately constant. Because of the solenoidal character of v and E, the charged particle trajectories follow the net vector potential of v + bE. The results are applied to an ion-drag anemometer and the Whipple and Chalmers model of impact charging of macroscopic particles, important for modeling the charging of raindrops in thunderstorms as well as particle charging for electrostatic copying, printing, painting, and pollution control systems.

Then the self fields from the space charge distribution are included to show that the mutual Coulomb self repulsion causes a self-precipitation of the charge to boundaries, so that the charge density decreases with time. Results are applied to electrostatic precipitators and an electrohydrodynamic energy converter that can be operated as a pump or generator.

Unipolar dynamics are then generalized to bipolar conduction and applied to ions in a gas, aerosol particles, ionized liquids, and dissociated salts in solvents with many case studies developed using the method of characteristics.


Then the treatment considers charge relaxation dynamics of deforming ohmic conductors and considers operation as a generator or pump. General prototype layer relations are used to analyze an electroquasistatic induction motor and tachometer.

(c) Magnetic diffusion and induction interactions. With the same viewpoint as the previous EQS section, magnetoquasistatic systems are treated where material deformations are prescribed (kinematic) while the magnetic field sources, distributions of currents or magnetization, evolve in a dynamical manner that is self-consistent with the magnetic field distribution. In practical terms, the subject takes leave of the windings, slip rings, and commutators used to constrain current distributions in moving elements and takes up conductors in which the currents seek a distribution consistent with the MQS field laws.

Analysis begins with the ohmic constitutive law with moving media applied to Ampere's and Faraday's laws to give the magnetic diffusion equation. For thin translating sheets or rotating shells, boundary conditions are derived and applied to magnetic induction motors and a tachometer. For thick regions, the generalized prototype layer is used again to relate the tangential magnetic field components to the interfacial vector potentials and applied to an induction motor with a deep conductor as a magnetic diffusion study. Applications of the nonlinear magnetization characteristic are demonstrated with a hysteresis motor.

(d) Fluid mechanics. This section considers the field sources to assume distributions consistent with deformations of the media, but also allows the medium to respond to the associated electric and magnetic forces. This limit is appropriate for gases and liquids, as well as fluid-like continua such as certain plasma models and electron beams.

The conservation laws of mass and momentum are elegantly derived using integral theorems earlier derived. JRM first considers motions of an inviscid fluid and develops an Eulerian description of the fluid interface with surface tension. A very useful result is Bernoulli's equation generalized to include irrotational force densities.

Generalized prototype relations are derived for the pressure-velocity relations for inviscid fluids which are incompressible and for slightly compressible fluids to describe acoustic waves, guides, and transmission lines. Then the development is extended for viscous fluids to derive viscous diffusion transfer relations to relate shear and normal stresses to interracial velocities. The thermodynamics and energy conservation laws of highly compressible fluids are also covered.

This physical and mathematical development is applied to many diverse coupled problems of fluids with electric or magnetic forces. The static equilibrium for polariz- able and magnetizable fluids is used with the extended Bernoulli's law to solve for equilibrium fluid shapes. Magnetoacoustic waves in perfectly conducting fluids have an increased wave phase velocity while an electric potential conserving fluid has an electroacoustic wave phase velocity that is reduced. Fluid layer problems are solved for dual dielectric and magnetic fluid geometries for stabilization of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability using tangential fields and destabilization using perpendicular fields. Other interfacial problems solved include the z-O plasma pinch of a cylindrical jet with and without magnetic diffusion, the stability of a charged drop, and the stability of charged aerosols.


Smoothly inhomogeneous systems and their internal modes are solved for bulk internal waves and instabilities, reciprocity and energy conservation, and spatial and temporal modes.

(e) Electromechanicalflows. The dynamics of fluids perturbed from static equilibria illustrated electromechanical rate processes with characteristic times short compared to the representative time constants of a source, such as the period of a sinusoidal excitation. Now another important time constant is the transport time z = l/U for a fluid moving at characteristic velocity U over a length I.

An irrotational force density interacts with a flow of a homogeneous incompressible fluid to alter the pressure distribution but not the flow pattern, as illustrated by an electrolyte flowing through a uniform magnetic field perpendicular to the flow.

Fully developed flows are established after either a temporal or a spatial transient as illustrated by problems with a charge monolayer driven convection, magnetic induction pumping, and cellular creep flow. Also considered are magnetic- and electric-type Hartmann flows where there is a competition between viscous and magnetic or electric forces for power generation, pumping, or dissipation. Mag- netohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic energy conversion with gas flows are described with isentropic subsonic and supersonic flow through nozzles and diffusers.

(f) Electromechanics with thermal and molecular diffusion. The three-way coupling between thermal or molecular subsystems with mechanical and electromagnetic subsystems is first developed with the laws, relations, and parameters of convective diffusion. Thermal transfer relations are derived for a planar layer between heat fluxes and temperatures at upper and lower interfaces and applied to electrical dissipation due to alternating currents induced in a moving conducting layer. Because the dissipated power is proportional to the square of the current density, the temperature response has dc and double frequency parts. Other applications are thermally induced pumping and electrical augmentation of heat transfer, a rotor model for natural convection in a magnetic field, and a hydromagnetic B6nard-type instability of cellular convection.

Molecular diffusion is illustrated with unipolar ion charging of macroscopic particles; the competition between migration and diffusion that creates a double layer of charge at an interface; an electrokinetic shear flow model to describe electroosmosis, streaming potential, streaming current, particle electrophoresis, and sedimentation potential; and electrocapillarity.

(g) Streamin9 interactions. Charged particle beams in vacuum are described for magnetron electron flow and the paraxial ray equation is used to describe magnetic and electric lenses. Nonlinear magnetoacoustic dynamics, shocks and nonlinear electron beam dynamics are described using the method of characteristics. Linear dynamics are described in terms of complex waves, identifying criteria for propagat- ing, evanescent, absolutely unstable, and convectively unstable waves.

3.2. Research achievements

JRM's research activity of continuum electromechanics was concerned with the interactions between macroscopic media and electromagnetic fields. Its interdisciplinary


nature combined electromagnetic field theory with other disciplines such as fluid or solid mechanics, heat transfer, insulation engineering, physical chemistry, or bioen- gineering. His research was applied to diverse situations: polymer and glass processing, electronic devices, sensors, transducers, printing, copying, painting, stack gas cleaning, image processing, metal and dielectric liquid mixing and pumping, motors, generators, and biomedical products.

Appendix B gives a list of doctoral, engineer's, master's, and bachelor's theses supervised by JRM. A major clue that students were very happy with his thesis supervision is to note that many students did two or more theses with him. Many of JRM's students went on to become university professors, some others to found companies, others to work in the military and industry. The following briefly summa- rizes the major research areas that JRM focussed on with his students.

3.2.1. Electrohydrodynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, and ferrohydrodynamics JRM's doctoral thesis resulted in his first book, Field-Coupled Surface Waves [B.1]

which treated the stability and dynamics of the electromechanics of incompressible and inviscid fluids. Electrohydrodynamics (EHD) research [A.2-7, A.9-19] initially considered polarization forces on perfectly insulating dielectrics and Coulomb forces on interfacial surface charge on perfectly conducting fluids. His early research was funded by NASA to develop space applications of electromechanical forces to act as artificial gravity [A.12, A.18, A.24].

Ferrohydrodynamics (FHD) of linearly magnetizable fluids was the direct analog to polarization forces on dielectrics but at the time of his analysis such fluids did not yet exist. When they were first synthesized in 1965 by other researchers [6], his analysis could be directly applied to these new fluids. He supervised a number of theses on ferrohydrodynamics [A.25] and worked with these first researchers in the field, and helped the fledgling company Ferrofluidics, Corp. in its early years as a technical advisor to understand ferrofluid behavior and their practical application.

JRM's magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) research generally concerned perfectly conducting fluids and could be applied to plasma systems and liquid metals [A.29, A.66]. Because such EHD, FHD, and MHD systems are generally inherently unstable, much of his early research focussed on feedback control in time and space to stabilize otherwise unstable systems [A.5, A.7, A.10, A.11, and A.29].

It was natural for his following research to continue these themes but to relax some of the simplifying assumptions. With his students, he extended his EHD research to include space-varying fluid viscosity, gradients in mass density, dielectric permittivity, and temperature and to include volume space charge and conduction as better models of real dielectrics [A.21, A.35, A.47]. His major new contributions were to develop true physical and mathematical models of liquid dielectrics so that he is considered to be the modern day father of electrohydrodynamics, but often via duality principles he also contributed to magnetohydrodynamic and ferrohydrodynamic research.

He applied this research to novel energy conversion systems [A.33]; power systems [A.43, A.68, A.71]; improved heat transfer and fluid mixing [A. 14, A.26, A.47, A.55]; electrostatic precipitation and charged droplet scrubbers for air and water pollution control [A.48, A.51-53, A.58-62]; electrostatic processes of printing, copying and


grounded p L =i insulating shield~ ~ [ / tube

YI .",,, : ,o, :. / C g ",,,, , (}

w~nding 12T III 5 V° ~[. a m pIIfi e r ,I'~'] ° s eillatlr [

d,.,ete ioo -,n I

R m ~--.O Uo

Fig. 16. Apparatus for an electrical standing wave capacitive interaction with an imposed flow that convects part of the electrical double-layer charge distribution. With the liquid stationary, the charging currents, i2 and i3, a r e balanced by bridge adjustments. With flow, the standing wave distribution of charge near the interface is displaced relative to the sensing electrodes and the currents i2 and i 3 change.

painting [A.81, 82, A.90-92]; electrokinetics [A.38, A.49, 50]; electrical insulation measurements, monitoring, and improvements [A.88, 89, A.94, 95, A.97, 98]; and sensors for continuous measurements of material properties [A.101, 102]. Notable were his contributions to understanding audible noise from water droplets on power lines [A.43], insulation problems in HVDC systems [A.68, A.71], AC electrostatic precipitation [A.76, 77, A.79], improvements to electrostatic paint spraying [A.81, 82], and traveling wave transport of tribo-electrified particles for application to electrostatic copying [A.90-92].

3.2.2. Fundamental electrokinetics JRM's interest in electrokinetic systems grew from his observations of mer-

cury/electrolyte interfaces [A.65], where the electromechanical responses were large even though the applied voltages were of order of volts as opposed to tens of kilovolts for electromechanical interactions with dielectrics. This work continued on his sabbatical at the Cavendish and through collaboration with his student and then colleague Grodzinsky to the electromechanical and physiochemical nature of connective tissue [A.49, A.50]. Articular cartilage is an example of a biphasic medium in which electromechanical coupling at the double-layer scale can be important. It is composed of an ionic interstitial fluid and an organic matrix of collagen and other biological constituents. The streaming currents and electrical stresses associated with articular stresses and deformations may be related to degenerative changes such as arthritis. Practical motivation for understanding these effects also comes from the need for a membrane-based transport system in which an electric field is applied across a biological polymer membrane and used to control permeability, perhaps useful for controlled drug delivery.

An engineering application utilizing the electrical double layer in dielectrics is shown in Fig. 16, where a standing wave of potential is imposed around an insulating

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tube by a distributed electrode structure. Direct liquid/electrode contact is avoided by using capacitive coupling of the AC voltage through highly insulating tubing. With imposed flow, convected double-layer charge results in a spatial phase shift of charge that gives an imbalance in image charges on the electrode structure that is detected as a difference in charging currents, iz and i 3. Such measurements were used to study natural double-layer processes in flow electrifying systems [7].

Fig. 17 shows the inverse problem where a mechanical response of driven flow is obtained by an imposed traveling wave of potential that gives rise to electric field components both tangential and normal to the tubing interface. The tangential field component on the double-layer charge causes a Coulomb force that convects the fluid in either direction depending on voltage amplitude and frequency [7, A.96].

3.2.3. Electropacked and electrofluidized beds JRM's research with electrostatic precipitation led to major improvements to

conventional technology using electropacked and electrofluidized beds to greatly improve the efficiency and ability to capture smaller particles with a greatly decreased volume [A.45, A.48, A.51-53, A.58-62]. In a conventional electrostatic precipitator, the collection takes place on electrodes several stories high, with much of the interior volume not used for collection. His concept was to fill the interior volume with particles, each of which could capture smaller particles, as small as 0.1 ~tm, particles too small to be captured by conventional precipitators, yet the size range that penetrate into the lungs. JRM demonstrated that a bed of sand a few inches deep could clean smoke as efficiently as an electrostatic precipitator several stories high. The beds of particles could also be powered with alternating voltage rather than the required DC for conventional precipitators simplifying the power requirements.

JRM was proud that his students could make the transition from complex physics and mathematics of mass transfer in the presence of electric fields to wearing hard hats in a plant that applied these ideas to making the recycling of asphaltic concrete environmentally acceptable. Upon graduation some of his students founded the company EFB, Inc. to apply bed technology to air pollution control equipment. JRM was in part motivated in controlling the fine particles in the insulating ash from western coals and from diesel engine emissions.

3.2.4. Flow electrification In transformers and high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) substations, the flow of

liquid coolant can cause charge accumulation and buildup of electric fields beyond design limits leading to spark discharges [7, 8, A.89]. This has resulted in failures of a HVDC substation and of about two-dozen power transformers world-wide. The problem originates with the entrainment from the liquid side of the diffuse double- layer charge at pressboard/oil interfaces in transformers and at the tefzel insulating tube/liquid Freon interface in the substation [7]. This charge can accumulate on insulating surfaces, causing the electric potential to rise in the same fashion as voltage build-up in a van de Graaff generator. The potential builds up until the rate of charge accumulation equals the rate of charge leakage, or until spark discharges occur. Similar processes also occur in fuel pump/gasoline systems.

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Fig. 18. The Couette Charger distributes interfacial electrical double layer charge throughout the turbulent core between cylinders with rotation of the inner cylinder that is measured by the Absolute Charge Sensor. The electrical terminals across the cylinders can be connected for measuring open circuit voltage or short circuit current resulting from the core charge density or can be used to apply DC or AC high voltages to enhance the charge density.

Understanding of flow electrification requires coupling the laws of electroquasi- statics, fluid mechanics, heat, and electro-chemistry to describe the generation, transport, accumulation, and leakage of charge and to relate how these factors are affected by temperature, moisture, flow rate and turbulence, contaminants and surface active agents, material and surface condition, and energization [A.883. JRM's research developed physical modelling and experimental measurement techniques with well instrumented laboratory models that monitored solid and liquid conductivity and moisture levels, flow conditions, and temperature.

The apparatus included flow loop models with conducting and insulating sections [A.89] and a Couette flow facility [A.88, A.98, A.103], shown in Fig. 18, where transformer oil or gasoline fills the annulus between coaxial cylindrical electrodes which could be bare metal or covered with pressboard or polymers and could be energized with DC or AC high voltages. The Couette facility rotated the inner cylinder at speeds to give controlled laminar, secondary cellular convection, or turbulent flows, to bring electric charge to the volume from the double layer at liquid/solid interfaces. This compact apparatus allowed flexibility in testing various liquid/solid combina- tions at controlled temperatures and moisture levels to simulate physical processes at work in power apparatus.

He invented the Absolute Charge Sensor (ACS) [A.97], shown in Fig. 18 and more fully illustrated in Fig. 19, which could measure the volume charge density in a liquid by bringing a sample of fluid into a Faraday cage, independent of the fluid's electrical properties, velocity, and any electrification processes within the instrument. The ACS overcame the ambiguity in current or voltage measurements of probes placed into the


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fluid flow where it is impossible to separate contributions from impacting charge in the flow from charge separated at the probe interface by the very charge generation and transport processes that were being studied.

3.2.5. Imposed frequency-wavenumber sensors JRM was the principal investigator of a 4-year research program aimed at develop-

ing sensors and computerized trend analysis to continually monitor the health of power transformers and to take corrective action in the event of imminent problems. At the same time, other MIT research had developed microdielectrometry sensors which measured the complex permittivity of a medium, with application to monitoring the state of cure of epoxies [9]. The sensor was like that in Fig. 20(a), where one set of interdigitated electrodes are driven at a sinusoidal voltage over the frequency range of 0.005 to 10 000 Hz, while a second set of interdigitated electrodes were floating, and would rise to a voltage magnitude and phase as a function of frequency that depended on the dielectric permittivity and ohmic conductivity of the surrounding dielectric


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[A.94, 95]. Working backward from the measured voltage gain and phase of the floating electrodes, the dielectric constant and ohmic conductivity of the adjacent medium could be calculated.

The applied frequency was imposed by the voltage source and the spatial dependence was imposed by the periodic array of electrodes. JRM modelled the dielectric medium as a continuum driven by a voltage periodic in time and space. The potential obeyed Laplace's equation so that being periodic along the sensor, each Fourier


component of the potential decayed exponentially into the dielectric with a characteristic decay length equal to the electrode spacing divided by the mode number. He applied this sensor to monitoring the complex permittivity of transformer oil and developed the concept of selectively absorbing coatings to also measure moisture and gas contents. To measure dielectric properties of thick regions, such as pressboard, it was necessary to increase the electrode periodicity to make macro-sensors. To measure nonuniform distributions, such as moisture penetrating into pressboard, multiple wavelength sensors were developed [A.102]. If the dielectric properties are known functions of other variables, such as moisture level, these sensors could be used to monitor those variables also. These sensors and similar structures can also be used to measure electrical double-layer properties.

Again, by duality, the capacitive sensors for dielectrometry have their eddy current inductive counterpart for measuring the magnetization and conductivity of magnetizable metals, as in Fig. 20(b). JENTEK Sensors, Inc., founded by Goldfine, Melcher's last doctoral student, is developing such new magnetometers for material property characterization.

4. Social and political activism

JRM's last days were spent writing a paper describing what he perceived as the major problems in American society [A.104]. The time also coincided with the buildup preceding the Persian Gulf War. He used the interesting writing style of alternating between his own deteriorating health to describing his view of the deteriorating health of the country that was leading to war in order to have "cheap oil", because the country had avoided a national energy policy.

His view that America was on the wrong path began while he was on sabbatical in England in 1971-72 where he was able to see from abroad America's involvement in Vietnam and also Britain's involvement in Northern Ireland. He searched for ways to make his teaching and research have an impact on America's course so that the basic engineering science taught at MIT could have an impact on the practical "real world".

4.1. Bicycling

Shortly after his return from sabbatical to MIT came the first Arab oil boycott with lines of cars at gas stations and his growing awareness of America's vulnerability. He sold his family's second car and committed himself to year-round bicycle commuting. For 45 min each way, 9 miles, he contemplated the American transportation system from the point of view of the lowest class on the road. All together he bicycled the equivalent of more than four times around the world on essentially the same route each day.

He became active in promoting bicycling, joining the Boston Area Bicycle Coalition and the League of American Wheelmen. He did not present bicycling as a sacrifice, but rather as fun providing exercise and satisfaction of having done useful work, and a way to greatly reduce air pollution. Student bicyclists were attracted to his


Continuum Electromechanics

Fig. 21. Bicycle with electromechanical variables was the logo for Melcher's Continuum Electromechanics Laboratory which appeared on tee-shirts and sweat-shirts of laboratory students and staff.

laboratory, resulting in a bicycle annotated with electromechanical variables as the laboratory symbol, as illustrated in Fig. 21. With his students, he became good enough to be competitive, drafting a student who won the Great Commuter Race from City Hall in Wellesley, MA to the State House in Boston, and he with two other students placed first for a team in one of MIT's bi-yearly 30 mile intramural races.

JRM recognized the obvious dangers of sharing the road with automobiles, buses and trucks. He had bicycle breakdowns, was hit by cars about 6 times, and as a diabetic, fainted on his bike due to his miscalculating his blood-sugar level.

In 1985, JRM and colleague Richard Tabors wrote a proposal for a MacArthur Foundation grant to MIT for disarmament studies. The proposal "In Pursuit of Policies Designed to Create Socio-Economic Conditions That Minimize Incentives for Arming: A Feasibility Study on the Allocation by Beneficiary of the Costs of Military Services", pointed out that because oil (gasoline) is made cheap by being subsidized through taxes for the military, people see arming as being in their economic interest. The proposal explored ways of restoring free-market incentives by having the true cost be paid by the consumer, for example, by putting a tax on imported oil to pay the appropriate portion of the military budget. The proposal was not funded.

4.2. Opposition to the strategic defense initiative (SDI)

JRM did not fit the image of an anti-war protester, but he became one after the Vietnam War period. He fought against energy dependence and militarism. He made his views known in many rallies, seminars, and other public forums. He was greatly disturbed by the extent to which the military both directly and indirectly dictated the nation's research agenda. He noted that the best scientists and industries were turning away from research and manufacturing of civilian goods such as airplanes and automobiles, where money is tight and the market competition is stiff, and toward military hardware, where research money is plentiful and profits assured. He came to believe that the nations priorities were misguided.


JRM was one of four scientists at a news conference in Washington, DC to present a petition signed by more than 3700 senior science professors and senior researchers pledging to do no research on the strategic defense initiative program. He signed the pledge because he thought SDI was an escalation in the arms race and a pretext for putting weapons in space. He was not for unilateral disarmament because he was aware of the Soviet threat. He was against SDI because he felt that it had no chance to succeed, being easily defeated with "a bucket of sand in a retrograde orbit". He advocated that human creative talents could be better applied to human needs and to help America's competiveness. He used John Trump as an example, his predecessor as Director of the MIT High Voltage Research Laboratory. Trump could make mega- volt beams of ions and electrons. He did not apply his work to weapons, but rather to cancer research and sterilizing sludge.

The Wall Street Journal editorialized that the petitioners were "Intellectuals In Isolation". JRM responded by sending his press release as part of a letter to the editor, but it was not published. It is reprinted here:

"We have no meaningful defense without a healthy economy. The dollars we spend for SDI are from a deficit budget. Pursuit of SDI implies even larger contributions to the deficit in the future. This alone puts our economic future in jeopardy. But, as our balance of payments becomes increasingly negative, it becomes more evident that military spending compounds the economic tragedy by suffocating our capitalistic base. Our industry can either hide from foreign competition by cultivating the Pentagon as a cus- tomer or use its capital and human resources to make a profit in products that are competitive at home and abroad. SDI is industries' Pied Piper. As it becomes difficult to buy many US manufactured products even in the US, it is becoming clear that time is running out on the US economic miracle. While the SDI escalates the confrontation with our military adversary, it makes us even less able to compete economically with friends who do not share our obsession for arming."

Despite his strong opposition to SDI, as laboratory director he would sign a proposal to SDI from individual laboratory faculty, of which there was only one, but he tried to find and encourage alternatives. He led major research efforts sponsored by many individual electrical utilities, the Electric Power Research Institute, Empire State Electric Energy Research Corporation, Lord Corporation, and IBM.

Even though he tried to justify his views on matters of economics and common sense, his experiences gave him the feeling that the basic issue was moral. He felt that there was a large group that abhorred the society we would become if we continued to use our military to obtain more than our fair share.

Acknowledgements

This paper was written while the first author (MZ) was on sabbatical at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d'Electrostatique et de


Materiaux Dielectriques and at l'Universit~ Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France. It was also partially supported by the National Science Foundation, Grant No. ECS-8913605.

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Appendix A. Resume of Prof James R. Melcher

J.A. Stratton Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics Director, Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139

Born: July 5, 1936 - Giard, Iowa

Education: B.S.E.E., 1957, Iowa State University M.S., Nu.E., 1958, Iowa State University Ph.D., E.E., 1962, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Professional Experience: 1957-1958 Research Assistant, Ames Labora tory of U.S.A.E.C. 1959-1961 1962-1966 1966-1969 1969-until 1980-1984 Sept.-Dec. terns, M I T Jan. 1985 MIT.

Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, M I T Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, MIT Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, M I T his death, 1991 Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, M I T Director, High Voltage Research Laboratory, M I T 1984 Co-director, Labora tory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Sys-

Director, Labora tory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems,


Publications

A. Journal articles

[-1] Melcher, J.R., A useful analogy for single-group neutron diffusion theory, Nucl. Sci. Eng., 1 (1960) 235-239. (Paper won American Nuclear Society's First Mark Mills Award.)

[2] Melcher, J.R., Electrohydrodynamic surface resonators, Phys. Fluids, 5(9) (1962).

[3] Melcher, J.R., Electrohydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic surface waves and instabilities, Phys. Fluids, 4(11) (1961) 1348-1354.

[4] Melcher, J.R., Electrohydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic nonlinear surface waves, Phys. Fluids, 5(9) (1962) 1037-1043.

[5] Melcher, J.R., Stabilization of a continuum electromechanical instability, Proc. Inst. Electrical and Electronics Eng. (IEEE) (1965) 460-473.

[6] Devitt, E.E. and J.R. Melcher, Surface electrohydrodynamics with high frequency fields, Phys. Fluids, 8(6) (1965).

[7] Melcher, J.R., An experiment to stabilize an electromechanical continuum, IEEE Trans. Automat. Control, AC-10 (1965) 466-469.

[8] Melcher, J.R. and E.P. Warren, Demonstration of magnetic flux constraints and a lumped-parameter Alfven wave, IEEE Trans. Education, E-8 (1965) 41--47.

[9] Melcher, J.R., Traveling-wave-induced electroconvection, Phys. Fluids, 9(8) (1966) 1548-1555.

[10] Melcher, J.R., Continuum feedback control of instabilities on an infinite fluid interface, Phys. Fluids, 9(10) (1966) 1973-1982.

[11] Melcher, J.R. and E.P. Warren, Continuum feedback control of a Rayleigh- Taylor type instability, Phys. Fluids, 9(11) (1966) 2085-2094.

[12] Melcher, J.R. and M. Hurwitz, Gradient stabilization of electrohydro-dynam- ically oriented liquids, J. Spacecraft Rockets, 4(7) (1967) 864-881.

[13] Melcher, J.R., Charge relaxation on a moving liquid interface, Phys. Fluids, 10(2) (1967) 325-332.

[14] Melcher, J.R. and M.S. Firebaugh, Traveling-wave bulk electro-convection induced across a temperature gradient, Phys. Fluids, 10(6) (1967) 1178-1185.

[15] Smith, C.V., Jr. and J.R. Melcher, An electrohydrodynamically induced, spatially periodic cellular stokes flow, Phys. Fluids, 10(11) (1967) 2315-2322.

[16] Ketterer, F.D. and J.R. Melcher, Electromechanical costreaming and counter- streaming instabilities, Phys. Fluids, 11(10) (1968) 2179-2191.

[17] Melcher, J.R. and W.J. Schwarz, Jr., Interfacial relaxation overstability in a tangential electric field, Phys. Fluids, 11(12) (1968) 2604-2616.

[18] Melcher, J.R., D.S. Guttman and M. Hurwitz, Dielectrophoretic orientation, J. Spacecraft Rockets, 6(1) (1969) 25-32.

[19] Ketterer, F.D. and J.R. Melcher, Electromechanical stream-structure instabilities, Phys. Fluids, 12(1) (1969) 109-119.

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[20] Melcher, J.R. and G.I. Taylor, Electrohydrodynamics: A review of the role of interfacial shear stresses, Chapter in the First Review of Fluid Mechanics, Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA, 111-146.

[21] Turnbull, R.J. and J.R. Melcher, Electrohydrodynamic Rayleigh-Taylor bulk instability, Phys. Fluids, 12(6) (1969) 1160-1166.

[22] Calvert, R.T. and J.R. Melcher, Stability and dynamics of rotating dielectrophoretic equilibria, J. Fluid Mech., 38, Part 4 (1969) 721-742.

[23] Melcher, J.R. and C.V. Smith, Jr., Electrohydrodynamic charge relaxation and perpendicular-field interfacial instability, Phys. Fluids, 12(4) (1969) 778-790.

[24] Melcher, J.R., M. Hurwitz and R.G. Fax, Dielectrophoretic liquid expulsion, J. Spacecraft Rockets, 6(9) (1969) 961-967.

[25] Zelazo, R.E. and J.R. Melcher, Dynamics and stability of ferrofluids: Surface interactions, J. Fluid Mech., 39, Part 1 (1969) 1-24.

[26] Wong, J. and J.R. Melcher, Thermally induced electroconvection, Phys. Fluids, 12(11) (1969) 2264-2269.

[27] Jolly, D.C. and J.R. Melcher, Electroconvective instability in a fluid layer, Proc. Roy. Soc. (London), A314 (1970) 269-283.

[28] Woodson, H.H. and J.R. Melcher, Electromechanics in the undergraduate curriculum, IEEE Trans. Education, E-13 (1970) 167-175.

[29] Melcher, J.R., Feedback stabilization of hydromagnetic continua: Review and prospects, in: T.K. Chu, H.W. Hendel (Eds.), Proc. Symp. on Feedback and Dynamic Control of Plasmas, American Institute of Physics, New York, 1970, pp. 38-53.

[30] Melcher, J.R. and E.P. Warren, Electrodynamics of a current-carrying semi- insulating jet, J. Fluid Mech., 47, Part 1 (1971) 127-143.

[31] Melcher, J.R., Complex waves, IEEE Spectrum (1968) 86-101. [32] Melcher, J.R., Review of the IUTAM-IUPAP symposium on electrohydro-

dynamics, J. Fluid Mech., 40, Part 3 (1970) 641-655. [33] Melcher, J.R. and T.C. Cheng, Prospects of electrogasdynamic power genera-

tion, invited paper, Paper No. 70 CP 210-PWR, IEEE Winter Power Meeting, New York, NY, January 25-30, 1970.

[34] Haus, H.A. and J.R. Melcher, Electric and magnetic fields, Proc. IEEE, 59(6) (1971) 887-894.

[35] Zahn, M. and J.R. Melcher, Space-charge dynamics of liquids, Phys. Fluids, 15(7) (1972) 1197-1206.

[36] Jones, T.B. Jr. and J.R. Melcher, Dynamics of electromechanical flow structures, Phys. Fluids, 16(3) (1973).

[37] Jones, T.B. Jr., M.P. Perry and J.R. Melcher, Dielectric siphons, Science, 174 (1971) 1232-1233.

[38] Melcher, J.R., Dynamics of charge monolayers on insulating liquid interfaces, J. Fluid Mech., 60, Part 3 (1973) 417-431.

[39] Melcher, J.R., Electric fields and moving media, IEEE Trans. Education, E-17 (2) (1974) 100-110.

[40] Zelazo, R.E. and J.R. Melcher, Dynamic interactions of monomolecular films with imposed electric fields, Phys. Fluids, 17 (1974) 61-72.


[41] Melcher, J.R., Electrohydrodynamics, in: E. Becker and G.K. Mikhailov (Eds.), Proc. 13th lnternat. Congr. of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 1972, Sprin- ger, New York, NY, 1973, pp. 240-263; (in Russian) Magnetohydrodynamics, 2 (1974) 3-30.

[42] Hoburg, J.F. and J.R. Melcher, Observations on 'slot effect' transducer analysis, IEEE Trans. Acoust. Speech, Signal Process., ASSP-23 (1975) 500-501.

[43] Hoburg, J.F. and J.R. Melcher, Current-driven, corona-terminated water jets as sources of charge droplets and audible noise, IEEE Trans. Power Apparatus Systems, PAS-94 (1975) 128-136.

[44] Dietz, P.W. and J.R. Melcher, Field controlled charge and heat transfer involving macroscopic charged particles in liquids, J. Heat Transfer, 97 (1975) 429-434.

[45] Johnson, T.W. and J.R. Melcher, Electromechanics of electrofluidized beds, Ind. Eng. Chem. Fundam. 14 (1975) 146-152.

[46] Melcher, J.R., Electric fields and forces in semi-insulating liquids, J. Electro- stat., 2 (1976) 121-132.

[47] Hoburg, J.F. and J.R. Melcher, Internal electrohydrodynamic instability and mixing of fluids with orthogonal field and conductivity gradients, J. Fluid Mech., 73 (1976) 333 351.

[48] Zahedi, K. and J.R. Melcher, Electrofluidized beds in the filtration of submicron aerosols, J. Air Pollut. Control, 26 (1976) 345.

[49] Grodzinsky, A.J. and J.R. Melcher, Electromechanics of deformable charged polyelectrolyte membranes, Proc. 27th Ann. Conf. Eng. Med. Biology, 16 (1974) Paper 53.2.

[50] Grodzinsky, A.J. and J.R. Melcher, Electromechanical transduction with charge polyelectrolyte membranes, IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., BME-23(6) (1976) 421-433.

[51] Zahedi, K. and J.R. Melcher, Collection of submicron particulate in bubbling electroftuidized beds, Presented at 82nd Meeting of American Institute of Chemical Engineers, August 1976 and published in I & EC Fundamentals, 16 (1977) 248-254.

[52] Dietz, P.W. and J.R Melcher, Momentum transfer in electrofluidized beds, AIChE Symposium Series, Control and Dispersion of Air Pollutants: Empha- sis on NOx and Particulate Emissions, 74 (1978) 175, 168-174.

[53] Alexander, J.C. and J.R. Melcher, Alternating field electrofluidized beds in the collection of submicron aerosols, Presented at the 82nd Meeting of American Institute of Chemical Engineers, August 1976, and published in I & EC Fundamentals, 16 (1977) 311-317.

[54] Melcher, J.R. and J.F. Hoburg, Electrohydrodynamic mixing, Presented at the 82nd Meeting of American Institute of Chemical Engineers, invited paper, August 1976.

[553 Lang, J.H., J.F. Hoburg and J.R. Melcher, Field induced mixing across a dia- phragm, Phys. Fluids, 19(6) (1976) 917--918.

[56] Melcher, J.R., Oscillations and traveling wave induced streaming of charge monolayers on insulating liquid surfaces, Proc. Conf. on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena, October 1976, pp. 233-241.

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[57] Hoburg, J.F and J.R. Melcher, Electrohydrodynamic mixing and instability induced by co-linear fields and conductivity gradients, Phys. Fluids, 20(6) (1977) 903-911.

[58] Zieve, P.B., K. Zahedi, J.R. Melcher and J.F. Denton, Electrofluidized beds in the filtration of smoke emissions from an asphaltic pavement recycling process, Env. Sci. Tech., (12) (1978) 96.

[59] Melcher, J.R., Electrofluidized beds for industrial scale air pollution control, Presented at Novel concepts, methods and advanced technology in particulate-gas separation workshop, University of Notre Dame, April 1977.

[60] Dietz, P.W. and J.R. Melcher, Interparticle electrical forces in packed and fluidized beds, I&EC Fundam., 17 (1978) 28.

[61] Melcher, J.R., K. Sachar and E.P. Warren, Overview of electrostatic devices for control of submicron particles, IEEE Proc., 65(12) (1977) 1659-1669.

[62] Dietz, P.W. and J.R. Melcher, Momentum transfer in electrofluidized beds, AIChE Syrup. Ser. (175), 74 (1978) 166-174.

[63] Melcher, J.R., The electrohydrodynamics of G.I. Taylor, J. Electrostat., 5 (1978) 1-9.

[64] Withers, R.S., J.R. Melcher, and J.W. Richmann, Charging, migration and electrohydrodynamic transport of aerosols, J. Electrostat., 5 (1978), 225-239.

[65] Zuercher, J. and J.R. Melcher, Double-layer transduction at a mercury-electrolyte interface with imposed temporal and spatial periodicity, J. Electrostat., (1978) 21-31.

[66] McHale, E.J. and J.R. Melcher, Hydromagnetic instability of liquid metals in AC magnetic fields and augmentation of heat transfer, Electric Mach. Elec- tromech., 3 (1979) 197-207.

[67] Davey, K.R. and J.R. Melcher, Numerical determination of potential and flux conserving static equilibria of liquids, Electric Mach. Electromech., 5 (1980) 237-245.

[68] Horenstein, M.N. and J.R. Melcher, Particle contamination of high voltage DC insulators below corona threshold, IEEE Trans., EI-14(6) (1979) 297-305.

[69] Davey, K.R. and J.R. Melcher, Electromagnetic precipitation and ducting of particles in turbulent boundary layers, in: Gary R. Hough (Ed.) Viscous Flow Drag Reduction Vol. 72, Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, 1980.

[70] McHale, E.J. and J.R. Melcher, Instability of a planar liquid layer in an alternating magnetic field, J. Fluid Mech., 114 (1982) 27-40.

[71] Radun, A.V. and J.R. Melcher, DC power line charging of macroscopic particles and associated electrical precipitation on insulators, IEEE Trans. Insula- tion, EI-16(3) (1981) 165-179.

[72] Alexander, J.C., K.R. Davey and J.R. Melcher, Comparative study of direct and alternating current electric and magnetic precipitation from laminar and turbulent flows, I & EC Fundam., 20 (1981) 207-216.

[73] Withers, R.S. and J.R. Melcher, Space-charge effects in aerosol charging and migration, J. Aerosol Sci., 12 (1981) 307-331.


[74] Ehrlich, R.M. and J.R. Melcher, Bipolar model for traveling-wave induced nonequilibrium double-layer streaming in insulating liquids, Phys. Fluids, 25 (1982) 1785-1793.

[75] Melcher, J.R., Electrohydrodynamic surface waves, Chapter in Waves on Fluid Interfaces, Academic Press, New York, pp. 167-200.

1-76] Ehrlich, R.M. and J.R. Melcher, AC corona charging of particles, IEEE Trans. Ind. Appl., IA-23(1) (1987). (Technical Paper Recognition Award of the IEEE/IAS Electrostatic Processes Committee.)

[77] Ehrlich, R.M. and J.R. Melcher, AC electrostatic precipitation, IEEE Trans. Ind. Appl. 24(4) (1988). (Technical Paper Recognition Award of the IEEE/IAS Electrostatic Processing Committee, 1989. Also, IAS Prize Papers Committee Second Place paper published in the IAS Transactions in 1988-1989.)

[78] Inkpen, S.L. and J.R. Melcher, Smoothing the electromagnetic heating pattern in polymers, Polymer Eng. Sci., 25(25) (1985) 289-294.

[79] Ehrlich, R.M. and J.R. Melcher, Turbulent diffusion of a traveling-wave of charged aerosol, Ind. Eng. Chem. Fundam. Res., 26(3) (1987).

[80] Von Guggenburg, P., Porter, A.J. and Melcher, J.R., Field-mediated hydraulic deformation and transport of magnetically solidified magnetizable particles, IEEE Trans. Magnetics, MAG-22(5) (1986) 614-619; also LEES Technical Report #TR86-016, May 1986.

1,81] Inkpen, S.L. and Melcher, J.R., Dominant mechanisms for color differences in the mechanical and the electrostatic spraying of metallic paints. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 26 (1987) 1645-1653.

[82] Inkpen, S.L., LR. Melcher and P.K. Jeganathan, Electrical induction of pat- terns in metallic paints, I&EC Amer. Chem. Soc., (1988) 58-64.

[83] Withers, R.S. and J.R. Melcher, Augmentation of single-stage electrostatic precipitation by electrohydrodynamic instability, I&EC Amer. Chem. Soc., (1988) 170-179.

1-84] Bart, S.F., J.R. Melcher and R.M. Ehrlich, AC collection efficiency of pre- charged particulate in turbulent flows, I&EC Amer. Chem. Soc., (1988) 123-131.

[85] Melcher, J.R., Noninvasive ion-drag velocimeter, J. Electrostat., 24 (1989) 67 -77.

[86] Zaretsky, M.C., L. Mouayad and J.R. Melcher, Continuum properties from interdigital electrode dielectrometry, IEEE Trans. Electrical Insulation, 23(6) (1988) 897-917.

[87] Melcher, J.R., Lyon, D. and Zahn, M., Flow electrification in transformer oil/cellulosic systems, Annual Report of Conf. on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena, IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society, 1986 (IEEE Service Center, Single Pub. Sales Dept. 445 Hoes Lane, Piscat- away, NJ 08854) pp. 257-265.

[88] Lyon, D.J., J.R. Melcher and M. Zahn, Couette charger for measurement of equilibrium and energization flow electrification parameters: Application to transformer insulation, IEEE Trans. Electrical Insulation, 23(1) (1988) 159-176.


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[89] Gasworth, S.M., J.R. Melcher and M. Zahn, Flow-induced charge accumulation in thin insulating tubes, IEEE Trans. Electrical Insulation, 23(1) (1988) 103-115.

[90] Melcher, J.R., E.P. Warren and R.H. Kotwal, Theory for finite-phase traveling-wave boundary guided transport of tribo-electrified particles, IEEE Trans. on Industrial Applications, 25(5) (1989) 949-955.

[91] Melcher, J.R., E.P. Warren and R.H. Kotwal, Traveling-wave delivery of single component developer, IEEE Trans. Ind. Appl., 25(5) (1989) 956-961. (1990 Technical Paper Recognition Award from IEEE Industrial Applications So- ciety Electrostatic Processes Committee).

[92] Melcher, J.R., E.P. Warren and R.H. Kotwal, Theory for pure-traveling-wave boundary-guided transport of tribo-electrified particles, Particle Science and Technology.

[93] Haus, H.A. and Melcher, J.R., Fields that are always dynamic, IEEE J. Education, 33(I) (1990) 35-46.

[94] Zaretsky, M.C., Li, P. and Melcher, J.R., Estimation of thickness, complex bulk permittivity and surface conductivity using interdigital dielectrometry, IEEE Trans. Electrical Insulation, EI-24(6) (1989) 1159-1166.

[95] Zaretsky, M.C., Melcher, J.R. and Cooke, C.M., Moisture sensing in transformer oil using thin film microdielectrometry, IEEE Trans. Electrical Insula- tion, EI-24(6) (1989) 1167-1176.

[96] Washabaugh, A.P., M. Zahn and J.R. Melcher, Electrohydrodynamic traveling-wave pumping of homogeneous semi-insulating liquids, IEEE Trans. Elec- trical Insulation, 24(5) (1989) 807-834.

[97] Morin, A.J., II, M. Zahn, J.R. Melcher and D. Otten, An absolute charge sensor for fluid electrification measurements, IEEE Trans. Electrical Insulation, EI-26 (1991) 181-199.

[98] Morin, A.J., II, M. Zahn and J.R. Melcher, Fluid electrification measurements of transformer pressboard/oil insulation in a couette charger, IEEE Trans. Electrical Insulation, EI-26 (1991) 870-901.

[99] Zahn, M., J.R. Melcher and H.A. Haus, Experimental demonstrations for teaching electromagnetic fields and energy, in: NSF/IEEE Center for Com- puter Applications in Electromagnetics Education (CAEME), Software Book, Vol. I, Chapter 7, 1992. Washabaugh, A.P., M. Zahn and J.R. Melcher, Enhanced electrification charge densities due to recirculatory flow, 3rd Internat. Conf. on Properties and Applications of Dielectric Materials, July, 1991, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 272-275. von Guggenberg, P.A. and J.R. Melcher, An immersible relative saturation moisture sensor with application to transformer oil, 3rd Internat. Conf. on Properties and Applications of Dielectric Materials, July, 1991, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 1258-1261. von Guggenberg, P.A. and J.R. Melcher, A three-wavelength flexible sensor for monitoring the moisture content of transformer pressboard, 3rd Internat. Conf. on Properties and Applications of Dielectric Materials, July, 1991, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 1262-1265.


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Washabaugh, A.P., P.A. von Guggenberg, M. Zahn and J.R. Melcher, Temper- ature and moisture transient flow electrification measurements of transformer pressboard/oil insulation using a couette facility, 3rd Internat. Conf. on Prop- erties and Applications of Dielectric Materials, July, 1991, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 867-870. Melcher, J.R., America's Perestroika, Technology Review Alumni Section, April, 1991, pp. 4-11. von Guggenberg, P.A. and J.R. Melcher, Moisture dynamics in paper/oil systems subject to thermal transients, in: Proc. of the PSE & G/EPRI Work- shop: Static Electrification in Power Transformers, Electric Power Research Institute, Princeton, N J, November 15-17, 1989, Paper No. 3-4; EPRI Tech- nical Report EL-6918, July, 1990. von Guggenberg, P.A., M. Zahn and J.R. Melcher, Diagnostic methods for moisture detection in tranformer insulation, in Proc. 3rd EPRI Workshop: Static Electrification in Power Tranformers, Electric Power Research Institute, San Jose, CA, January 23-24, 1992.

B. BooKs'

[-1] Melcher, J.R., Field-Coupled Surface Waves, MIT Press Monograph, Cam- bridge, MA, 1963.

[2] Woodson, H.H. and J.R. Melcher, Electromechanical Dynamics, text published in three separately bound volumes, Wiley, New York, 1968; also published in Japanese and Chinese.

[3] Melcher, J.R., Continuum Electromechanics, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1981, including Solutions Manual.

[4] Haus, H.A. and J.R. Melcher, Electromagnetic Fields and Energy, Prentice- Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N J, 1989 and Solutions Manual: Electromagnetic Fields and Energy.

C. Films

[1] Melcher, J.R., Complex Waves, I: Propagation, Evanescence and Instability, 26 minutes, produced by Education Development Center, Newton, MA, for the National Committee on Electrical Engineering Films.

[2] Melcher, J.R., Complex Waves, II: Instability, Convection and Amplification, 23 minutes, produced by Education Development Center, Newton, MA, for the National Committee on Electrical Engineering Films.

[3] Melcher, J.R., Electric Fields and Moving Media, 30 minutes, produced by Education Development Center, Newton, MA, for the National Committee on Engineering Education Films.

[4] Zahn, M., J.R. Melcher and M.L. Silva, Video Tapes of Selected Demonstra- tions of Electromagnetic Fields and Energy, MIT, 1989; and also Fundamental Demonstrations of Electromagnetic Fields and Energy, Center for Computer


Applications in Electromagnetic Education (CAEME), Salt Lake City, UT, 1991.

D. Pamn~

[1] Electrohydrodynamic apparatus and method, US Patent # 3,463,944, August 26, 1969.

[2] Sheet glass thickness control method and apparatus, US Patent # 3,496,736, February 24, 1970 (with M. Hurwitz).

[3] Electrohydrodynamic induction flowmeter and conductivity measuring device, US Patent #3,528,287, September 15, 1970.

[4] Electrohydrodynamic generator, US Patent #3,529,186, September 15, 1970. [5] Method for inducing agglomeration of particulate in a fluid flow, US Patent

# 3,755,122, 1973. [6] Apparatus for electrical support and stabilization of static packed and fluidized

beds, US Patent #4,038,052, 1977. [7] Electrofluidized beds for collection of particulate, US Patent # 4,038,049, 1977. [8] Fluid mixing apparatus, US Patent #4,174,907, 1979. [9] Method for inducing color shift in metallic paint and product, US Patent

#4,911,947 (with S. Inkpen). [10] Apparatus and methods for measuring permittivity in materials, US Patent

#4,814,690, 1989 (with M. Zaretsky). [11] Instrument for measurement of charge entrained in fluids, US Patent

#4,873,489, Oct. 10, 1989 (with A.J. Morin, II and M. Zahn). [ 12] Apparatus and methods for measuring permeability and conductivity in mater-

ials using multiple wavenumber magnetic interrogations, US Patent #5,015,951, May 14, 1991.

[13] Apparatus and methods for obtaining increased sensitivity, selectivity and dynamic range in property measurement using magnetometers, US Patent Application Serial Number 07/803,504 (with N. Goldfine), 1992.

Appendix B. Theses Supervised by Prof. James R. Melcher

1. Doctoral Theses

1965 J.M. Crowley, Feedback control of a convective instability. R. Holland, Application of Green's functions and eigenmodes in the design of

piezoelectric ceramic devices. F.D. Ketterer, Electromechanical streaming instabilities.

1966 M.J. Schaffer, Hydromagnetic surface waves with an alternating magnetic field. R.J. Turnbull, Electroconvective instabilities in a fluid with a stabilizing temper-

ature gradient.


1968 C.V. Smith, Jr., Electrohydrodynamically induced deformation of a planar fluid-

fluid interface. 1970

T.B. Jones, Jr., Polarization surface electrohydrodynamics. M. Zahn, Space charge dynamics of liquids.

1971 J.L. Dressier, Video techniques in the feedback control of an electromechanical

continuum. R.E. Zelazo, Dynamic interactions of monomolecular films with imposed electric

fields. J.C. Zuercher, Electromechanical interactions based on the electrocapillary phe-

nomenon. 1972

A.R. Millner, Nonlinear feedback control of a continuum (co-supervised with R.R. Parker). 1973

E.B. Devitt, Electrogaskinematic flows of charged particles. 1974

A.J. Grodzinsky, Electromechanics of deformable polyelectrolyte membranes (co- supervised with I.V. Yannas).

K.S. Sachar, Charged droplet scrubbing of submicron particles. 1975

J.F. Hoburg, Electrohydrodynamic mixing. 1976

P.W. Dietz, Electrofluidized bed mechanics. K. Zahedi, Electrofluidized bed filtration: fundamentals and applications.

1977 J.C. Alexander, Electrofluidized beds in the control of fly ash. E.J. McHale, AC Magnetohydrodynamic instability.

1978 M. Horenstein, Particle contamination of high voltage DC insulators. R.S. Withers, Transport of charged aerosols.

1979 K.R. Davey, Flow of magnetizable particles in turbulent air streams. J.H. Lang, Computer control of stochastic distributed systems with applications

to very large electrostatically figured satellite antennas (co-supervised with D.H. Staelin). 1981

A.V. Radun, Charging of particles in the turbulent air around D.C. power lines. 1984

R.M. Ehrlich, AC electrostatic precipitation. 1985

S.M. Gasworth, Electrification by liquid dielectric flow (co-supervised with M. Zahn).

158 M. Zahn, I-£A. Haus/Journal of Electrostatics 34 (1995) 109-162

1986 S.L. Inkpen, Discoloration mechanisms in electrostatic spraying of metallic paints.

1987 M.C. Zaretsky, Theory and applications of measuring complex permittivities of

insulating media using microdielectrometry. 1990

N.J. Goldfine, Uncalibrated, absolute property estimation and measurement op- timization for conducting and magnetic media using imposed ~-k magnetometry.

2. Master's and Engineer's Theses

1962 H.T. Ochs III, The stabilization of a Rayleigh-Taylor instability by a rotating

electric field. 1963

J.M. Crowley, Excitation and growth rate of electrohydrodynamic instabilities. 1965

R. Canales, Stability of the hydromagnetic pinch with ideal feedback. M. Nannetti-Valencia, Continuum feedback control of electromechanical instabili-

ties in a thin metal plate. 1966

J.V. Burchett, A magnetoaeroelastic energy conversion scheme. E.B. Devitt, Surface coupled electromechanics in time varying fields. J.L. Dressier, Active electromechanical control of fourth-order continua. M.S. Firebaugh, Electrohydrodynamic induction pumping in a closed conduit. W.J. Schwarz, Jr., Electrohydrodynamic relaxation surface instability. R.H. Thomas, Stability of a distributed parameter system controlled by spatially

and temporally sampled feedback. 1967

S. Grodzinsky, Stability of electrohydrodynamic waves in rotational systems. D.S. Guttman, Bang-bang electrohydrodynamic stabilization. L. Herold, Traveling-wave charged particle generation. D.L. Luck, An electrohydrodynamic wick. R.J. Tove, Problems in plated wire fabrication. R.E. Zelazo, Interfacial ferrohydrodynamics.

1968 R.T. Calvert, Stability and dynamics of simple rotating dielectrophoretic orienta-

tion systems. W.F. Reeve, Traveling-wave synchronous electrohydrodynamic power generation. J.P. Regan, Loading characteristics of a charge-constrained synchronous generator. J. Wong, Thermally induced electroconvection in D.C. fields.

1969 B.E. Bennett, An AC electrostatic precipitator. F.A. Centanni, Asynchronous traveling wave electrohydrodynamics. C.W. Kirkwood, A nonlinear quasistatic model for piezoelectric solids.


1970 R.R. Burn, Electromechanical peristaltic pumping and detection. T.C. Cheng, Electrogasdynamic flows and related shock phenomena. D. Pearson, Nonlinear aspects of electrohydrodynamic surface instability. K.S. Sachar, Double layer transduction mechanisms.

1971 J.O. Dodson, An interactive computer aid for teaching. D.M. Dudley, The electrodynamics of pendant drops. A.J. Grodzinsky, Elastic electrocapillary transduction. J.F. Hoburg, Modes of behavior of water of high voltage transmission lines.

1974 P.W. Dietz, Heat, charge, and momentum transfer in a zero-flow electrofluidized

bed. T.W. Johnson, The electromechanics of a fluidized bed of insulating particles.

1975 K. Zahedi, Electrofluidized beds in the filtration of submicron particles.

1976 J.C. Alexander, Frequency characteristics of electrofluidized beds in the collection

of submicron particulate. S.D. Bonner, A technique for the measurement of surface conductivity.

1977 D.T. Ching, Anomalous mobility and electrophoretic deposition of polyvinyl chlor-

ide particles in liquid dioctyl phthalate. H.R. Simkovits, Control of a variable shaftspeed wind energy conversion and

battery storage system. 1978

P.M. Osterberg, Deformable membrane spatial light modulator: A charge-coupled approach. 1979

R.M. Ehrlich, Non-equilibrium electrokinetic pumping of a semi-insulating liquid.

P.B. Zieve, New England utilities air pollution retrofit study. 1980

R. McLay, An electromechanical model for a permanent magnet dot matrix solenoid.

A.M. Presser, The collection of fine particles at high temperature. 1982

L.A. MacGinitie, Electromechanics and filtration efficiency of spouted beds subject to corona discharge.

M.C. Zaretsky, Design strategy for and implementation of electrostatic control of diesel exhaust. 1983

K.G. Rhoads, Ion source designs for high temperature precipitators. 1984

S.L. Inkpen, Methods for obtaining uniform electromagnetic heating.


1985 S.F. Bart, Back corona in AC electrostatic precipitation; two-stage efficiency and

single-stage effects of highly resistive particulates in AC precipitators. K.A. Delin, Low frequency acoustic methods for leak location in underground

oil-filled conduits. Y. Kisler, Pressure wave pothead failure. L. Mouayad, Monitoring of transformer oil using microdielectric sensors.

1986 A.H. Kotwal, A xerographic development system using electrostatic travelling wave

pumping of single component developer. 1987

P. Li, A new approach to on-line monitoring of transformer oil using dielectrometry.

D. Lyon, Couette flow measurement of equilibrium and energization charging in transformer insulation (co-supervised with M. Zahn).

3. Bachelor's Theses

1962 W.H. Childs, Electrohydrodynamic shocks and anti-shocks.

1963 R.H. Jansen, Stabilizing an electrically stressed plate.

1964 R.J. Aldana, A low output impedance D.C. power amplifier. E.B. Devitt, Electrohydrodynamic surface waves with alternating bias fields. K.L. Doty, Effects of electrical losses on resonances of field-coupled surface waves. R.A. Grant, Jr., Magnetization surface waves. E. Lombrozo, A high impedance, high Q, low frequency electromechanical band-

pass filter. E.P. Warren, A synthetic Alfven shear wave.

1965 F. Herba, Experimental study of two stream electromechanical instabilities. J.I. Steele, The excitation and detection of magnetic-coupled surface waves.

1966 F.A. Centanni, Jr., The dynamics of electrified sheets of fluid. D.M. Espenshade, An experiment with alternating fields in an electrohydrodynamic

system. J.G. Paglia, Jr., An electro-mechanical analog to viscosity. G. Prado, The dynamic behavior of charged water droplets. J. Wong, Resonance frequencies of a rotating electrohydrodynamic system.

1967 G.L. Blankenship, Bang-bang stabilization in one dimension. R.R. Crout, Mechanical effects of polarization forces. R.L. Goldstein, Electric field gradient stabilization of the Kelvin-Helmholtz insta-

bility.


R.W. Landley, Electrohydrodynamic instability of perfect dielectrics. 1969

P.J. Abbas, Experimental investigation of interfacial relaxation overstability. M.P. Perry, A dielectrophoretic siphon. G.A. Tripoli, On the design and operation of an electrohydrodynamic power

generator. F. Westhoff, Measuring conductivity by induction.

1971 T.H. Tate, Properties of a dielectric interface stressed by a perpendicular electric field.

1972 F. Ahmad, Charged droplet production via electrohydrodynamic sprayers.

1973 T.W. Johnson, Dynamics of a conducting sphere between capacitor plates. T. Mitchell, Electrically controlled chemical to mechanical transduction at a mer-

cury double layer. 1974

C.K.-K. Yue, Electrohydrodynamical behavior of a system of convecting charged droplets under oscillation. 1975

J. Gordon, Oscillations of a charged sheet of water droplets. A.A. Merab, Traveling-wave induced electroconvection for a circular geometry.

1976 S.M. Gasworth, Ferrohydrodynamic stability in cylindrical geometry. D.P. Hinson, Synchronous pumping of a highly conducting fluid by an electric field. P.B. Zieve, Electrofluidized bed in filtration of asphaltic smoke emissions.

1977 A. Barnett, A particle mobility analyzer.

1978 R.S. Colby, Electrohydrodynamics of charged aerosol flows. P.G. Huber, High temperature particulate using a combustion ion source. P.A. Martin, Removal of magnetic particles from a turbulent gas. A.M. Presser, Charge transfer mechanisms in electrofluidized and electropacked

beds. J.W. Richmann, Mobility measurement in dielectric liquids.

1979 D.T. Jaime, Design and construction of an electrofluidized bed filter.

1980 L.A. MacGinitie, An Ohmic model for travelling-wave induced electrokinetic

pumping of semi-insulating liquids. D.P. Quinn, A mobility spectrum analyzer for charged particles in air. M.C~ Zaretsky, Hysteresis pumping of a ferrofluid.

1981 E.H. Anderson, Charged particle mobility analysis. S.-L. Lin, The collection efficiency of granular bed in image charge collection mode. L. Jones, Magnetic transport of magnetizable particles.


1982 T. Chase, A system to measure electrokinetic streaming currents in fluorocarbons. A.J. Porter III, The mass measurement system. P.A. von Guggenberg, Magnetic transport of magnetizable particles with uniform

magnetic fields. 1983

Y. Kisler, Chromatographic study of adsorption in an antistatic agent-freon- insulating solid system (Boston University). 1985

V.F. Light, AC electrostatic precipitation in turbulent flow. D.J. Lyon, Measurement of flake orientation in electrostatic painting.

1986 G.K. Frimpong, Feasibility studies on the transmission line model for leak location

in underground conduits. 1987

B.A. Brown, Modeling of paper in flow electrification in tranformer oil/cellulosic systems. 1989

M. Wong, Measurement of the effect of film shape on a piezoelectric film speaker. 1990

A.R. Woo, Electrification parameters in fuel systems.

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