BSc (Qu), MS (Caltech), PhD (Caltech), MA (Cantab), PEng
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Area of Research
Fluid mechanics; flow of non-Newtonian fluids; experimental and theoretical rheology; measurement of fluid elasticity; structure of complex fluids, from molecular to microscopic to macroscopic; friction reduction; flow through fibrous porous media; biomechanics; physiological lubrication; microfluidics.
2005 - Appointed Teaching Mentor, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, U of T
2004 - US Patent, with Yogachandran; Method of Measuring Liquid Elasticity
1988-2004 - Secretary, International Committee on Rheology
1996 - Visiting Fellow, Trinity Fellow, Cambridge
1993 - University Visiting Professor, Monash University, Australia?
1991-1995 - Chair, Engineering Science, U of T
1987-1988 - Chevron Visiting Professor, Caltech
1984 - Faculty Teaching Award (inaugural award)
1974-1975 - Commonwealth Fellow, St. John’s College, Cambridge
Some Recent Papers
James, DF. 2009. Boger Fluids. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
Fick GM, James DF, Baines WD. 2007. A new mechanism to explain physiological lubrication
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
Watch Professor James demonstrate "The Liquid that can flow UPHILL" on this 1967 TV show called "I've got a Secret" when he was a graduate student at Caltech:
