Complex Fluid Systems

Faculty Contact: Professor Daniel Attinger

The complex fluid systems program investigates non-Newtonian, multiphase, turbulent, and/or chemically reacting flows over multiple length and time scales. We develop unique experimental and computational techniques that advance our understanding of fluid flow phenomena and enable engineering applications, including fuel and chemical production; biomass transport; particle dispersion; and heat exchangers in evaporators, boilers, and condensers. The efforts of this program pioneer new theories and models of complex fluid processes and validate these processes through novel experimental techniques and exploration tools.

Associated Faculty

	Daniel Attinger Attinger’s Lab Micro and Nanofluidics, Convective Heat Transfer, Single Droplet/Bubble Dynamics, Multiscale Transfer Phenomena for Energy and Forensics Applications Personal Page
	Ganesh Balasubramanian Laboratory for Computational Nanoscience in Mechanics Nanoscale transport phenomena, surface modiﬁcations through photoswitchable polymers, development and implementation of multiscale computation techniques, improving performance of thermoelectric materials, predicting mechanical properties of soft matter and synthetic (bio)materials, identifying potential long-term thermal storage materials and the related mechanisms Personal Page
	Robert C. Brown Director, Center for Sustainable Environmental Technologies Gasification, Fast Pyrolysis, Bio-oil to fuels, Catalysis, Biocatalysis, Torrefaction of biomass, Biochar production for agronomic applications and carbon sequestration nutrient recycling between production agriculture and biofuels manufacturing Personal Page
	Mark Bryden Virtual Reality Applications Center Development of the computational tools, algorithms, understandings, and strategies needed to analyze, understand, create, design, and build complex engineered, natural, or human system. Personal Page
	Baskar Ganapathysubramanian Computational Physics and Mechanics Laboratory Computational physics, computational mechanics (fluid mechanics and heat transfer), stochastic analysis, uncertainty quantification and propagation, multiscale modeling, control and optimization of complex systems, materials-by-design, and parallel computing and inverse problems. Personal Page
	Nastaran Hashemi Hashemi Lab Microfluidics, Biosensors, Optofluidics, Bio-N/MEMS: Design, Modeling, and Fabrication, Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Physics of Micro/Nanoscale Phenomena, Nonlinear Dynamics Personal Page
	Ted Heindel Experimental Multiphase Flow Laboratory The Experimental Multiphase Flow Laboratory investigates hydrodynamics and mixing in gas-liquid, gas-solid, and gas-liquid-solid systems using X-ray flow visualization techniques, as well as gas-liquid mass transfer. Personal Page
	Atul Kelkar Control theory, robust and nonlinear control, acoustic noise control, vibration control, flexible multibody dynamics, integrated design via multi-objective optimization, robotics, neural networks Personal Page
	Song-Charng Kong Engine Laboratory Clean Energy Technology, Biofuel Research Personal Page
	Terry Meyer Biorenewable Fuels and Combustion Laboratory Laser imaging and spectroscopy for multiphase reacting flows, combustion, and nanoenergetics. Development and utilization of biorenewable fuels, biomass pyrolysis, and biopower. Power and propulsion, gas-turbines, scramjets, hypersonic vehicles, and internal combustion engines Personal Page
	Mike Olsen Experimental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory Experimental Fluid Mechanics, Microelectromechanical Systems Personal Page
	Alberto Passalacqua Multiphase fluid dynamics, Fluid particle flows, Quadrature-based moment methods, Uncertainty quantification, Computational fluid dynamics, Numerical methods for computational fluid dynamics, Development of open-source tools for computational fluid dynamics Personal Page
	Shankar Subramaniam Spray modeling, Modeling and simulation of gas-particle flows, granular flows, Combustion, Turbulent reactive flows, Mixing, Stochastic models, particle methods, Computational fluid dynamics Personal Page

Complex Fluid Systems

Associated Faculty

Daniel Attinger

Ganesh Balasubramanian

Robert C. Brown

Mark Bryden

Baskar Ganapathysubramanian

Nastaran Hashemi

Ted Heindel

Atul Kelkar

Song-Charng Kong

Terry Meyer

Mike Olsen

Alberto Passalacqua

Shankar Subramaniam

Complex Fluid Systems