A PhD position is currently available in my group. A strong interest in computational fluid dynamics is highly appreciated. Please contact me for further details.

Teaching:

    • ME 891: Molecular Modeling in Engineering: Methods and Applications (Fall 2008)
    • ME 361: Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics (Spring 2008)
    • ME 481: Mechanical Engineering Design (Fall 2007)

Research Interests:

    • Research description at the High Performance Computing Center web site
    • Hybrid atomistic-continuum multiscale methods: contact line motion
    • Transport phenomena in microfluidic systems: slip boundary conditions
    • Liquid crystals (surface anchoring, topological defects, phase ordering)

Computation:

    • Molecular Dynamics (Lennard-Jones, Gay-Berne particles), Langevin Dynamics
    • Monte Carlo (Lattice models, LJ), Cluster MC Algorithms (Swendsen-Wang)
    • Combinatorial Optimization Algorithms and Network Flows

Research Projects:

    • Effect of surface roughness on slip flow in nanoscale polymer films (poster)
    • Brief description of our recent study on slip flow past heterogeneous surfaces
    • This movie shows the presence of slip at the wall in shear flow of a polymer melt
    • Role of defects in the coarsening dynamics of biaxial nematic liquid crystals

Ph.D. Students:   Anoosheh Niavarani

Publications   CV