Biography

Dr. Vallorie Peridier is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Temple University, and has served on the faculty since 1989. She also has seven years of industry experience (Western Electric; PP&L - Nuclear Power Division, Rates and Market Research).

Research Interests

  • Inverse problems
  • numerical methods for engineering applications
  • heat transfer

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

MEE 3011

Analysis and Computation of Linear Systems in Mechanical Engineering

Undergraduate

MEE 3185

Mechanical Engineering Summer Work Experience

Undergraduate

ENGR 5011

Engineering Mathematics I

Graduate

ENGR 5012

Engineering Mathematics II

Graduate

Selected Publications

  • Peridier, V. (2020). A faculty-guided continuous improvement regimen with intentional ABET/SO 1-7 scaffolding. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, 2020-June.

  • Peridier, V. (2020). A faculty-guided continuous-improvement regimen with ABET student-outcome scaffolding. Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, 20(14), pp. 68-80. doi: 10.33423/jhetp.v20i14.3851

  • Peridier, V.J. (2008). Basic Schemes for Reversible Two-Dimensional Cellular Automata. Complex Syst, 18.

  • Pan, L.H., Peridier, V.J., & Sullivan, T.E. (2005). Quantum filtering of electron emission from ultrasharp tips. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 71(3). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.035345

  • Peridier, V.J. (2005). Estimating Transient Surface Heating using a Cellular Automaton Energy-transport Model. Complex Syst, 16.

  • Boufadel, M.C. & Peridier, V. (2002). Exact analytical expressions for the piezometric profile and water exchange between stream and groundwater during and after a uniform rise of the stream level. Water Resources Research, 38(7), pp. 27-1-27-6. doi: 10.1029/2001wr000780

  • Peridier, V.J., Pan, L.H., & Sullivan, T.E. (1995). Methods for calculating electrostatic quantities due to a free charge in a nanoscale three-dimensional tip/base junction. Journal of Applied Physics, 78(8), pp. 4888-4894. doi: 10.1063/1.359777

  • Peridier, V.J. (1995). A lagrangian scheme for the animation of unsteady separation. Computers and Fluids, 24(3), pp. 269-291. doi: 10.1016/0045-7930(94)00016-R

  • Pan, L.H., Sullivan, T.E., Peridier, V.J., Cutler, P.H., & Miskovsky, N.M. (1994). Three-dimensional electrostatic potential, and potential-energy barrier, near a tip-base junction. Applied Physics Letters, 65(17), pp. 2151-2153. doi: 10.1063/1.112775

  • Peridier, V.J. (1991). Vortex-induced boundary-layer separation. part 2. unsteady interacting boundary-layer theory. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 232, pp. 133-165. doi: 10.1017/S0022112091003658

  • Peridier, V.J., Smith, F.T., & Walker, J. (1991). Vortex-induced boundary-layer separation. Part 1. The unsteady limit problem Re ⟶ ∞. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 232, pp. 99-131. doi: 10.1017/S0022112091003646

  • Peridier, V. & Walker, J. (1988). Algorithm for unsteady flows with strong convection. NASA Technical Memorandum.