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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 22 2017:The Saintillan Research Group hosted the 11th Southern California Flow Physics Symposium (So Cal Fluids XI) on the UCSD campus, with over 80 talks and 140 participants from more than 7 Southern California universities.

January 2017: The paper "Geometric control of active collective motion" by Theillard, Alonso-Matilla and Saintillan appeared in Soft Matter. Click here to download the article.

December 2016: The paper "A nonlinear small-deformation theory for transient droplet electrohydrodynamics" by Das and Saintillan appeared in Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Click here to download the article.

November 2016: David Saintillan participated on the diversity panel "All the Faces of Fluid Dynamics", chaired by David Hu of Georgia Tech, at the 69th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics in Portland, OR.

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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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