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Teaching:

    • ME 2120: Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Statics (Fall 2013)
    • ME 361: Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics (Spring 2013)
    • ME 891: Molecular Modeling in Engineering: Methods and Applications (2011)
    • ME 481: Mechanical Engineering Design (Spring 2013) • Special Needs Bicycle
    • ME 391: Advanced Engineering Mathematics (Spring 2006)

Research Interests:

    • Structural relaxation in amorphous materials under external deformation
    • Numerical modeling of the effective microfiltration of oil-in-water emulsions
    • Transport phenomena in microfluidic systems: slip boundary conditions
    • Liquid crystals (surface anchoring, topological defects, phase ordering)

Computation:

    • Molecular Dynamics (Lennard-Jones, FENE), Langevin Dynamics
    • Monte Carlo (Lebwohl-Lasher model), Cluster Algorithms
    • Combinatorial Optimization Algorithms and Network Flows

Research Projects:

    • Analysis of crossflow-enhanced microfiltration of oil-in-water emulsions
    • 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 polymers
    • Role of defects in the coarsening dynamics of biaxial nematic liquid crystals

Ph.D. Students: Tohid Darvishzadeh, Vahid Mirjalili (co-advised with Michael Feig)