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Mechanical Engineering
University of Hawai`i at Manoa
2540 Dole St. - Holmes Hall 302
Honolulu HI 96822

Departmental Chair:
Ronald H. Knapp

    John S. Allen  
 
Assistant Professor of M.E.
PhD 1997, University of Washington



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Phone:(808) 956-9693
Email:alleniii@hawaii.edu
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Research Interests


Acoustics, Cavitation and Bubble Dynamics, Fluid-Structure Interactions, Biomedical Engineering, Biomaterials and Rheology.

 

Selected Publications

Allen, John, Mark Rashid. Dynamics of a Hyperelastic Gas-Filled Spherical Shell in a Viscous Fluid, Journal of Applied Mechanics, Vo1. 71, March 2004.

Allen, John, Dustin Kruse, Paul Dayton, Kathy Ferrara. The effect of coupled oscillations on microbubble behavior, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 114, no. 3, September 2003.

Allen, John, Donovan May and Kathy Ferrara. Dynamics of therapeutic contrast agents. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 28, no. 6, June 2002.

Allen, John, Dustin Kruse and Kathy Ferrara. Shell waves and acoustic scattering from ultrasound contrast agents. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Vol. 48, no. 2, March 2001.

Allen, John and Ronald Roy. Dynamics of gas bubbles in viscoelastic fluids. II. Nonlinear Viscoelasticity. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 108, No. 4, October 2000.

Allen, John and Ronald Roy. Dynamics of gas bubbles in viscoelastic fluids. I. Linear Viscoelasticity. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 107, No. 6, June 2000.

Allen, John, Ronald Roy and Charles Church. On the role of shear viscosity in mediating inertial cavitation from short-pulse, megahertz-frequency ultrasound. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Vol. 44, No. 4, July 1997.

Hancock, Andrew, Michael Insana and John Allen. Microparticle column geometry in acoustic stationary fields. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 113, no. 1, January 2003.

Dayton, Paul, John Allen and Kathy Ferrara. Optical observations of radiation force on microbubbles ,The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 112, no. 5, November 2002.

May, Donovan, John Allen and Kathy Ferrara. Ultrasound contrast agents used for localized drug delivery. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Vol. 49, no. 10, Oct. 2002.

Courses Offered

ME 311 Thermodynamics (UG, University of Hawaii-Manoa, Fall 2008).

ME 626 Viscous Flows (G, University of Hawaii-Manoa, Fall 2008).


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