Valery Roy

R. Valery Roy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware. His work focuses on engineering mechanics, multiscale materials, and computational modeling. He has developed educational materials and textbooks for 21st-century engineering education.

• Education: PhD and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University, Ingénieur from École Centrale de Paris
• Contact: vroy@udel.edu

Research interests include:

• Prediction of macroscopic properties in multiscale materials
• Hydrodynamics of droplets and liquid spreading
• Design of muscle-like actuators and mechatronic systems
• Computational modeling of transport properties in heterogeneous materials

Article trends reveal expertise in composite materials, droplet dynamics, and fluid-structure interactions, with methodologies spanning numerical simulations, particle finite element methods, and analytical frameworks.

Students include:

• Elaf Mahrous (Computational Fluid Mechanics, Multiphase Flow)
• Kelechi Ogbuanu (Heat Transfer, Multiscale Media)