Shawn Shadden, PhD
Assistant Professor
Office: E1-130F
Phone: 312.567.5126
Fax: 312.567.7230
Email:
sshadde1@iit.edu
Web:
Expertise
Education
- B.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 2001
- Ph.D., Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology, 2006
Research
- Dynamical Systems Theory
- Transport and Mixing
- Modeling Mechanical Systems
- Biological Flows
Current Projects
Awards/Honors
Patents
Books
Selected Publications
Journal Articles:
Shadden S.C., Lekien F., Paduan J.D., Chavez F. and Marsden J.E., The correlation between surface drifters and coherent structures based on HF radar in Monterey Bay, Deep-Sea Research II 56, 161 - 172, 2009.
Marsden A.L., Bernstein A., Reddy V.M., Shadden S.C., Spilker R.L., Chan F.P., Taylor C.A. and Feinstein J.A., Evaluation of a novel Y-shaped extracardiac Fontan baffle using computational fluid dynamics. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 137, 394 - 403, 2009.
Xu Z., Chen N., Shadden S.C., Marsden J.E., Kamocka M.M., Rosen E.D. and Alber M., Study of blood flow impact on growth of thrombi using a multiscale model, Soft Matter 5, 769-779, 2009.
Shadden S.C. and Taylor C. A., Characterization of coherent structures in the cardiovascular system, Annals of Biomedical Engineering 36(7), 1152-1162, 2008.
Shadden S.C., Katija K., Rosenfeld M., Marsden J.E. and Dabiri J.O., Transport and stirring induced by vortex formation, Journal of Fluid Mechanics 593, 315-331, 2007.
Lekien F., Shadden S.C. and Marsden J.E., Lagrangian coherent structures in n-dimensional systems, Journal of Mathematical Physics 48, 065404, 2007.
Shadden S.C., Dabiri J.O. and Marsden J.E., Lagrangian analysis of fluid transport in empirical vortex ring flows, Physics of Fluids 18(4), 2006.
Shadden S.C., Lekien F. and Marsden J.E., Definition and properties of Lagrangian coherent structures from finite-time Lyapunov exponents in two-dimensional aperiodic flows, Physica D 212(3-4), 271-304, 2005.
Peer-Reviewed Conference Articles:
Inanc T., Shadden S.C. and Marsden J.E., Optimal trajectory generation in ocean flows, Proc. of the American Control Conference, June 2005, Portland, OR.
Chang D.E, Shadden S.C., Marsden J.E. and Olfati-Saber R., Collision avoidance for multiple agent systems, Proc. Conference on Decision and Control, December 2003, Maui, HI.

