Bamin Khomami, the Granger and Beaman Distinguished University Professor from the

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and former Francis F. Ahmann Professor of Chemical Engineering at

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, was awarded the status of Fellow in the

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, after they were nominated by their Division of Fluid Dynamics in 2009, for ''his insightful application of novel numerical methods, molecular modeling, and experiments toward the physical understanding of elastic fluid flows including discovering and explaining novel aspects of their purely elastic and thermomechanical instability.''

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