Joseph Peterson

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING

4531-J

Email: jdp3@ucla.edu

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Complex fluids: polymers, emulsions, and dense suspensions
Microstructure formation and relaxation in systems far from equilibrium
Population balance equations and their integration into rheological models
Sustainability applications: polymer recycling, plant-based meat analogues, etc.
Continuum models, controlled approximations, and efficient numerical methods.

Polymers

Peterson, J.D. and Cates, M.E., 2020. A full-chain tube-based constitutive model for living linear polymers. Journal of Rheology, 64(6), pp.1465-1496.
Peterson, J.D., Fredrickson, G.H. and Leal, L.G., 2019. Does shear induced demixing resemble a thermodynamically driven instability?. Journal of Rheology, 63(2), pp.335- 359.
Boudara, V.A., Peterson, J.D., Leal, L.G. and Read, D.J., 2019. Nonlinear rheology of polydisperse blends of entangled linear polymers: Rolie-Double-Poly models. Journal of Rheology, 63(1), pp.71-91.

Dense Suspensions

Hou, X. and Peterson, J.D., 2022. A study of dense suspensions climbing against gravity. Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, p.104868.
Gillissen, J.J., Ness, C., Peterson, J.D., Wilson, H.J. and Cates, M.E., 2019. Constitutive model for time-dependent flows of shear-thickening suspensions. Physical review letters, 123(21), p.214504.

Population Balances

Peterson, J.D., Bagkeris, I. and Michael, V., 2022. A New Framework for Numerical Modeling of Population Balance Equations: Solving for the Inverse Cumulative Distribution Function. Chemical Engineering Science, p.117781.
Peterson, J.D. and Cates, M.E., 2021. Constitutive models for well-entangled living polymers beyond the fast-breaking limit. Journal of Rheology, 65(4), pp.633-662.
Peterson, J.D. and Adhikari, R., 2021. Efficient and flexible methods for simulating models of time since infection. Physical Review E, 104(2), p.024410.

Postdoc, Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge 2019 - 2022
PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara 2018
BS, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 2013