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Kimberly Hill
Assistant Professor
Contact Information
- Office: CivE 155 SAFL 385
- Phone: (612)626-0311
- Fax: (612)626-7750
- E-mail: kmhill@umn.edu
Research interests
- Pattern formation in complex systems
- Pattern formation in nature, such as gravel patch formation
- Granular materials, experimental studies and computational modeling
- Particle-laden flows, such as debris flows and sediment transport
- Granular materials in road beds
- River restoration
Selected publications
Hill, K.M., Gioia, G., Amaravadi, D., Winter, C. 2005. Moon patterns, sun patterns, and wave breaking in rotating granular mixtures. Complexity, 10: 79-86.
Maneval, J.E., Hill, K.M., Smith, B.E., Caprihan, A., and Fukushima, E. 2005. Effects of end wall friction in rotating cylinder granular flow experiments. Granular Matter, 4.
Hill, K.M., Gioia, G., Amaravadi, D. 2004. Radial segregation patterns in rotating granular mixtures: Waviness selection. Physical Review Letters, 93: 224301.
Hill, K.M. Gioia, G. and Tota V.V. 2003. Structure and kinematics in dense free-surface granular flow. Physical Review Letters, 91: 064302.
Hill, K.M., Jain, Nitin and Ottino, J.M. 2001. Modes of granular segregation in a noncircular rotating cylinder. Physical Review E, 64: 011302/1-011302/4.
Hill, K.M., Khakhar, D. V., Gilchrist, J.F., McCarthy, J.J. and Ottino, J.M. 1999. Segregation-driven organization in chaotic granular flows. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 96(21): 11701-11706.
Hill, K.M., Gilchrist, J.F., Khakhar, D.V., McCarthy, J.J. and Ottino, J.M. 1999. Mixing of granular materials: A test-bed dynamical system for pattern formation. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 9: 1467-1484.
Martin, J.E., Hill, K.M. and Tigges, C.P. Magnetic-field-induced optical transmittance in colloidal suspensions. 1999. Physical Review E, 59: 5675-5692.
Hill, K.M., Caprihan, A., Kakalios, J. 1997. Axial segregation of granular media segregated in a rotating drum mixer: Pattern Evolution. Physical Review E, 56: 4386-4393.
Hill, K.M., Caprihan, A., Kakalios, J. 1997. Bulk segregation of granular media segregated in a rotating drum measured by magnetic resonance imaging. Physical Review Letters, 78: 50-53.
Education
- Ph.D., 1997, physics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
- M.S., 1996, physics. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
- B.S., 1991, physics, summa cum laude, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Experience
- Assistant professor, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2004-2005
- Lecturer and visiting assistant professor, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2001-2004
- Assistant professor, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, 1999-2001
- Postdoctoral appointee, Department of Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1998-1999
- Postdoctoral appointee, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1997-1998
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