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JOSEPH KUEHL
THOMAS BUCHANAN
JOSEPH KUEHL joined the mechanical engineering department as an assistant professor in 2017. He was previously an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Baylor University. He earned doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering and physical oceanography from the University of Rhode Island. His research interests include hypersonic boundary-layer stability, nonlinear vibrations and geophysical fluid dynamics.
THOMAS BUCHANAN is director of the Delaware Rehabilitation Institute, and he leads the NIH Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) on Osteoarthritis Prevention and Treatment at the University of Delaware. He is also coordinator of the Delaware Clinical and Translational Research ACCEL program, an NIH-sponsored strategic partnership with Christiana Care Health System, Nemours and the Medical University of South Carolina.
He received an AFOSR Young Investigator Award in 2015 for his hypersonic boundary layer stability and transition research, is a member of the National Academy of Science Committee on Advancing Understanding of the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current Dynamics and is a member of the NATO STO AVT-240 working group on Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Prediction. At UD, Kuehl looks forward to expanding his hypersonic stability and transition research, establishing a geophysical fluid dynamics laboratory and collaborating with colleagues in the College of Engineering; College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, and the Department of Mathematical Sciences.
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He has led NIH research grants continuously since 1990—his work primarily addressing neuromuscular and musculoskeletal problems, such as arthritis, stroke and sports medicine problems. His research involves biomechanics, medical imaging and neuroscience. As an engineer, he uses computer models to characterize and quantify healthy and pathological tissue, and he models the forces in the human body that can lead to injuries or long-term damage. Buchanan’s research is focused on developing a better understanding of how muscles compensate for injury or disease. Research interests include knee stability and osteoarthritis, medical imaging and models of muscle coordination.