Brian P. Tighe

Associate Professor
Process & Energy Department
Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime, and Material Engineering
TU Delft

I am inspired by problems involving mechanics and phase transitions in soft solids and thick fluids. I develop theoretical and numerical models for the rheology of foams, emulsions, suspensions, and other complex fluids with practical applications.

Some research highlights:

• Congratulations to Dr. Dion Koeze, Dr. Julia Boschan, and Dr. Karsten Baumgarten!
• The Poynting effect and (negative) normal stresses in elastic soft matter (Physical Review Research and Physical Review Letters)
• Mystery solved: How soft vibrational modes determine the shear modulus of fiber networks (Soft Matter)
• Elasticity in model foams and emulsions with attraction (Physical Review Research)
• Why stress relaxation is so different above and below jamming (Physical Review Letters)
• Rigidity in under-constrained soft matter (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science)
• Nonlocal rheology in suspensions (Physical Review Letters)
• Sticky stuff, or jamming in systems with attraction (Physical Review Letters Editor's Suggestion!)
• Negative normal stresses and strain stiffening in elastic networks (Physical Review Letters)
• Coarsening near jamming (Physical Review E)
• Oscillatory rheology in emulsions and foams (cover article in Soft Matter)
• Large amplitude oscillatory shear in soft glassy matter (Soft Matter)
• Stress relaxation in emulsions and foams (Soft Matter)
• Yield stresses in magnetorheological fluids (Soft Matter)
• Nonlocal elasticity near jamming (Physical Review Letters)

Previous affiliations
Leiden University, Instituut-Lorentz (postdoc, 2006 - 2011)
Duke University, Department of Physics (PhD, 2002 - 2006)

Disclaimer: If you found this page with a search engine, you may be wondering whether I'm the Brian Tighe with all the knives. I'm not.

Office: P&E Building, Rm 250
Tel: +31 (0)15 27 81103
Email: b.p.tighe (at) tudelft.nl

Mail: Delft University of Technology
Process & Energy Laboratory
Leeghwaterstraat 39
2628 CB Delft
The Netherlands