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Graduate Students

Achal

Achal Mahajan

Ph.D. Candidate

Email: acmahaja [at] eng [dot] ucsd [dot] edu
Project: Active polymer hydrodynamics and physical modeling of chromatin
Previous institution: Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India


Mohammadhossein

Mohammadhossein Firouznia

Ph.D. Candidate

Email: mfirouzn [at] eng [dot] ucsd [dot] edu
Project: Electrohydrodynamic instabilities in liquid-liquid systems
Previous institution: Ohio University, Athens, OH


Arijit

Arijit Mahapatra

Ph.D. Candidate (co-advised with Prof. Rangamani)

Email: armahapa [at] eng [dot] ucsd [dot] edu
Research: Transport phenomena in deformable fluid membranes
Previous institution: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India


Yuzhu

Yuzhu Chen

Ph.D. Candidate (co-advised with Prof. Rangamani)

Email: yuc034 [at] ucsd [dot] edu
Research: Modeling and simulations of cell spreading and locomotion
Previous institution: Fudan University, Shanghai, China


Tanumoy

Tanumoy Dhar

Ph.D. Candidate

Email: tdhar [at] ucsd [dot] edu
Research: Transport of active suspensions in complex media
Previous institution: Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India


Brato

Chenji Li

M.S. Candidate

Email: chl043 [at] eng [dot] ucsd [dot] edu
Research: Models and simulations of sperm beating and locomotion
Previous institution: Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China


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March 2021: The paper "A three-dimensional small-deformation theory for electrohydrodynamics of dielectric drops" by Das and Saintillan appeared in a special issue of Journal of Fluid Mechanics in celebration of the G. K. Batchelor centenary. Click here to download the article.

February 2021: The paper "Revisiting the emergence of order in active matter" by Chepizhko, Saintillan and Peruani appeared in Soft Matter. Click here to download the article.

November 2020: The Saintillan Research Group attended the 73st (Virtual) Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics.

November 2020: The paper "Transport phenomena in fluid films with curvature elasticity" by Mahapatra, Saintillan and Rangamani appeared in Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Click here to download the article.

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