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Group Photo Left to right: Piyush Prakash, Achal Mahajan, Debasish Das, David Saintillan, Roberto Alonso-Matilla, Brato Chakrabarti, Yixuan Jia, Maxime Theillard.

Recent News

April 2018: Congratulations to Piyush Prakash, who successfully defended his Master's thesis entitled "Geometric control of confined active flow".

March 2018: The paper "Microfluidic flow actuation using magnetoactive suspensions" by Alonso-Matilla and Saintillan appeared in Europhysics Letters. Click here to download the article.

March 2018: Prof. Saintillan attended the IMA Workshop on Electrohydrodynamics and Electrodiffusion in Material Sciences and Biology at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN.

March 2018: The Saintillan Research Group attended the American Physical Society March Meeting in Los Angeles, CA.

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Biophysical Fluid Dynamics

  • Dynamics of biologically active suspensions
  • Chemotaxis in bacterial suspensions
  • Dynamics of semiflexible biological polymers
  • Rheology of active fluids

Electrokinetics and Microfluidics

  • Electrokinetics of colloidal suspensions
  • Interactions in Quincke electrorotation
  • Optimization of mixing by chaotic advection
  • Dynamics of autonomous catalytic nanomotors

Complex Particulate Flows

  • Concentration instabilities in sedimentation
  • Gravity-driven particulate jets
  • Weak inertial effects in particulate flows
  • Efficient algorithms for Stokes suspensions
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