Department of Chemical & Sustainability Engineering
University of Rochester
Publications & scholarship

Research, books and patents.

Selected publications and presentations illustrating work in transport phenomena, fluid mechanics, materials science and computational modeling.

Books

Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer

Coauthor, with J. R. Welty and G. L. Rorrer, of the sixth and seventh editions published by Wiley. An eighth edition is in development.

The eighth edition is forthcoming; it is not yet listed as a published book.

Selected journal articles

  1. Ansari, M., Gandhi, H. A., Foster, D. G. & White, A. D. “Iterative symbolic regression for learning transport equations.” AIChE Journal e17695 (2022).
  2. Allio, B. A., Han, W., King, M. R. & Foster, D. G. “Nanoparticle coatings for enhanced capture of flowing cells in microtubes.” ACS Nano 4, 174–180 (2010).
  3. Hughes, A. D., Marsh, G., Waugh, R. E., Foster, D. G. & King, M. R. “Halloysite nanotube coatings suppress leukocyte spreading.” Langmuir 31, 13553–13560 (2015).
  4. Foster, D. G., Jorne, J. & Shapir, Y. “The effect of rate of surface growth on roughness scaling.” Journal of The Electrochemical Society 152, C462–C465 (2005).
  5. Foster, D. G., Shapir, Y. & Jorne, J. “Scaling of roughness in silver electrodeposition.” Journal of The Electrochemical Society 150, C375–C380 (2003).

Selected conference presentations

  1. Williams, P. A., Liu, B. & Foster, D. G. Computational fluid dynamics to understand ureteroscopy irrigation. AIChE Annual Meeting, 2022.
  2. Redus, L. E., Sun, Y., Pung, M., Stone, J. J. & Foster, D. G. CFD simulations of the carotid artery to investigate the connection between blood flow pattern and stroke. AIChE Annual Meeting student poster competition, 2022.
  3. Baker, H. J., Yu, W., Flower, R. D. & Foster, D. G. Computational fluid dynamics analysis of mixing a non-Newtonian fluid in the transition regime. AIChE Annual Meeting, 2021.

Patents and full bibliography

Professor Foster's earlier publications page contains an extensive list of issued patents and conference contributions from his industrial and academic research.

For the archival patent list and remaining citations, visit the original bibliography. A full verified bibliography can be imported before the old website is retired.

Selected citations from the original publications page. Please verify exact spellings and bibliographic formatting before public launch.