Professor David F. James

BSc (Qu), MS (Caltech), PhD (Caltech), MA (Cantab), PEng
Professor Emeritus

Contact Information Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering University of Toronto 5 King’s College Road Toronto, Canada M5S 3G8 St. George Campus, Mechanical Building, Room 312 Telephone: 416-978-3049 E-mail: david.james@utoronto.ca Director: Rheology Laboratory

• Brief CV
• Recent Publications
• Rheology Laboratory
• Fluid Sciences Laboratory
• Microfluidics Transport Phenomena

Research

Rheology, experimental and theoretical • Extensional rheology • Viscoelasticity, elastic effects in flowing fluids • Structure of complex fluids, from molecular to microscopic Flow of non-Newtonian fluids • Friction reduction with polymer additives • Newtonian Fluid Mechanics • Flow through fibrous porous media • Microfluidics • Biomechanics Physiological lubrication

Video: Professor James is famous for the tubeless siphon - the liquid that can flow uphill - which he discovered while a graduate student at Caltech and which is shown in this video from the 1967 quiz program "I've Got a Secret".

Brief CV

• 2005-present: Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
• 2005-present: Teaching Mentor, Faculty of Engineering, University of Toronto
• 2005: Mason Award, Canadian Society of Rheology
• 2001: Visiting Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University
• 1996: Visiting Fellow, Trinity College, University of Cambridge
• 1995: Visiting Professor, University of Melbourne
• 1993: University Visiting Professor, Monash University, Australia
• 1991-1995: Chair, Division of Engineering Science, University of Toronto
• 1988-2004: Secretary, International Committee on Rheology

• 1987-1988: Chevron Visiting Professor, Caltech

• 1984: Teaching Award, Faculty of Engineering (inaugural award), University of Toronto
• 1979-2005: Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto

• 1974-1975: Commonwealth Fellow, St.John´s College, University of Cambridge

• 1972-1979: Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto
• 1967-1972: Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto

Recent Publications

• James DF, Fick GM, Baines WD. 2010. A new mechanism to explain physiological lubrication. ASME J Biomechanical Eng 132: 1-6
• James, DF. 2009. Boger Fluids. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
• James DF, Yogachandran N. 2006. Filament-breaking length - a measure of elasticity in extension. Rheol Acta 46: 171-170
• Tachie, MF, James DF, Currie IG. 2003. Velocity measurements of a shear flow penetrating a porous medium. J Fluid Mech 493: 319-343
• James DF, Davis AMJ. 2001. Flow at the interface of a model porous medium. J Fluid Mech 426: 47-62
• Anna SL, McKinley GH, Nguyen, DA, Sridhar T, Muller SJ, Huang J, James DF. 2001. An interlaboratory comparison of measurements from filament-stretching rheometers using common test fluids. J Rheol 45: 83-114