Mauro Rodriguez Jr. is an Assistant Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering at Brown University, where he joined the faculty in 2021. He earned his B.S. degree with honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2010, his M.S from Stanford University in 2012, and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2018, all in Mechanical Engineering. His dissertation focused on high-fidelity computational simulations of bubble dynamics near (linear) viscoelastic media. Prior to joining Brown, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the California Institute of Technology. Rodriguez’s current research interests are in cavitation bubble dynamics in and near viscoelastic materials. He uses high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics to study wave and bubble dynamics in and near hard/soft materials relevant to energy science, naval engineering, and biomedicine applications.
| Kim, M., Lee, J. J., Rodriguez, M. "Energy transfer of two spherical oscillating bubbles in a free field." Physics of Fluids, vol. 38, no. 3, 2026. |
| Sanchez, Victor, Remillard, Sawyer, Abeid, Bachir A., Bu, Lehu, Bryngelson, Spencer H., Yang, Jin, Estrada, Jonathan B., Rodriguez, Mauro. "Hierarchical Bayesian constitutive model selection for high-strain-rate soft material characterization." Soft Matter, vol. 22, no. 17, 2026, pp. 3207-3223. |
| Wilfong, Benjamin, Le Berre, Henry A., Radhakrishnan, Anand, Gupta, Ansh, Vickers, Daniel J., Vaca-Revelo, Diego, Adam, Dimitrios, Yu, Haocheng, Lee, Hyeoksu, Chreim, Jose Rodolfo, Carcana Barbosa, Mirelys, Zhang, Yanjun, Cisneros-Garibay, Esteban, Gnanaskandan, Aswin, Rodriguez Jr, Mauro, Budiardja, Reuben D., Abbott, Stephen, Colonius, Tim, Bryngelson, Spencer H. "MFC 5.0: An exascale many-physics flow solver." Computer Physics Communications, vol. 322, 2026, pp. 110055. |
| Remillard, Sawyer, Abeid, Bachir A., Hall, Timothy L., Sukovich, Jonathan R., Baker, Jacob, Yang, Jin, Estrada, Jonathan B., Rodriguez, Mauro. "Microbubble surface instabilities in a strain stiffening viscoelastic material." Extreme Mechanics Letters, vol. 85, 2026, pp. 102479. |
| Bhola, Sahil, Rodriguez, Mauro, Beig, Shahaboddin A., Barbier, Charlotte N., Johnsen, Eric. "Inertial collapse of a gas bubble in a shear flow near a rigid wall." Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 1004, 2025. |
| Trevino, Avery, Powers, Thomas R., Zenit, Roberto, Rodriguez, Mauro. "Low Reynolds number pumping near an elastic half space." Physical Review Fluids, vol. 10, no. 5, 2025. |
| Zhu, Zhiren, Remillard, Sawyer, Abeid, Bachir A., Frolkin, Danila, Bryngelson, Spencer H., Yang, Jin, Rodriguez, Mauro, Estrada, Jonathan B. "Parsimonious inertial cavitation rheometry via bubble collapse time." Soft Matter, vol. 21, no. 34, 2025, pp. 6717-6734. |
| Yang, Jin, McGhee, Alexander, Radtke, Griffin, Rodriguez, Mauro, Franck, Christian. "Estimating viscoelastic, soft material properties using a modified Rayleigh cavitation bubble collapse time." Physics of Fluids, vol. 36, no. 1, 2024. |
| Radhakrishnan, Anand, Le Berre, Henry, Wilfong, Benjamin, Spratt, Jean-Sebastien, Rodriguez, Mauro, Colonius, Tim, Bryngelson, Spencer H. "Method for scalable and performant GPU-accelerated simulation of multiphase compressible flow." Computer Physics Communications, vol. 302, 2024, pp. 109238. |
| Hersey E, Rodriguez M Jr, Johnsen E. "Dynamics of an oscillating microbubble in a blood-like Carreau fluid." The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 153, no. 3, 2023, pp. 1836. |
| Mancia, Lauren, Rodriguez, Mauro, Sukovich, Jonathan R., Haskel, Scott, Xu, Zhen, Johnsen, Eric. "Acoustic Measurements of Nucleus Size Distribution at the Cavitation Threshold." Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, vol. 47, no. 4, 2021, pp. 1024-1031. |
| Spratt, Jean-Sebastien, Rodriguez, Mauro, Schmidmayer, Kevin, Bryngelson, Spencer H., Yang, Jin, Franck, Christian, Colonius, Tim. "Characterizing viscoelastic materials via ensemble-based data assimilation of bubble collapse observations." Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, vol. 152, 2021, pp. 104455. |
| Mancia, Lauren, Rodriguez, Mauro, Sukovich, Jonathan, Xu, Zhen, Johnsen, Eric. "Single–bubble dynamics in histotripsy and high–amplitude ultrasound: Modeling and validation." Physics in Medicine & Biology, vol. 65, no. 22, 2020, pp. 225014. |
| Rodriguez, M., Johnsen, E., Powell, K. G. "A high-order accurate AUSM$$^+$$-up approach for simulations of compressible multiphase flows with linear viscoelasticity." Shock Waves, vol. 29, no. 5, 2019, pp. 717-734. |
| Rodriguez, Mauro, Johnsen, Eric. "A high-order accurate five-equations compressible multiphase approach for viscoelastic fluids and solids with relaxation and elasticity." Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 379, 2019, pp. 70-90. |
| Wilson, Chad T., Hall, Timothy L., Johnsen, Eric, Mancia, Lauren, Rodriguez, Mauro, Lundt, Jonathan E., Colonius, Tim, Henann, David L., Franck, Christian, Xu, Zhen, Sukovich, Jonathan R. "Comparative study of the dynamics of laser and acoustically generated bubbles in viscoelastic media." Physical Review E, vol. 99, no. 4, 2019. |
| Mancia, Lauren, Vlaisavljevich, Eli, Yousefi, Nyousha, Rodriguez, Mauro, Ziemlewicz, Timothy J, Lee, Fred T, Henann, David, Franck, Christian, Xu, Zhen, Johnsen, Eric. "Modeling tissue-selective cavitation damage." Physics in Medicine & Biology, vol. 64, no. 22, 2019, pp. 225001. |
| Padhy, S., Rodriguez, M., Shaqfeh, E.S.G., Iaccarino, G., Morris, J.F., Tonmukayakul, N. "The effect of shear thinning and walls on the sedimentation of a sphere in an elastic fluid under orthogonal shear." Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, vol. 201, 2013, pp. 120-129. |
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | PhD | University of Michigan |
| 2012 | MS | Stanford University |
| 2010 | BS | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Postdoctoral research fellow | California Institute of Technology, Mechanical | 2019-2021 |
Dedicated Faculty Award, The Rhode Island Alpha Chapter of the Tau Beta Pi, 2024
DEPSCoR Research Collaboration Winner, Department of Defense, 2022
Ford Foundation postdoctoral research fellowship, 2019
National Science Foundation-Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate postdoctoral research fellowship, 2020
Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2019
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Green, Patrick | Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology |
| Guduru, Pradeep | Professor of Engineering |
| Henann, David | James R. Rice Associate Professor of Solid Mechanics |
| Khan, Farhan | Assistant Professor of Neurology |
| Zenit, Roberto | Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence, Professor of Engineering |
American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), since 2015
American Physical Society (APS), since 2013
Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, since 2015
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), since 2015
United States Association for Computational Mechanics, since 2025
I prepared students to achieve career-upward mobility in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) workforce (e.g., industry and academia). These experiences have shaped my teaching philosophy to be growth-mindset oriented and data-driven. My teaching philosophy is to empower and humanely develop the next generations of diverse critical thinkers at Brown University in a welcoming and inclusive environment. My teaching approach combines their gained self-efficacy and intrinsic knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs) to solve engineering, human, and global problems.
I have the following three measurable strategies.
This approach forms an intentional virtuous (feedback-loop) cycle for continuous growth of student outcomes and my teaching.
| ENGN 1700 - High Reynolds Number Flows |
| ENGN 1840 - Numerical Methods in Engineering |
| ENGN 2810 - Fluid Mechanics I |
| ENGN 2830 - Compressible Flow Dynamics |
