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Group Photo Current members of the Saintillan Research Group (December 2024): David Saintillan, Tanumoy Dhar, Dalia Barragan, Nick Broussinos, Cuncheng Zhu, Yuchen Hou, Yuzhu Chen.

Recent News

November 2024: The Saintillan Research Group attended the 78th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics in Houston, TX.

August 2025: The paper "Stability of co-annular active and passive confined fluids" by Dhar, Shelley and Saintillan appeared in Physical Review Fluids, where it is featured as an Editor's Selection. Click here to download the article.

July 2025: The paper "Electrohydrodynamic drift of a drop away from an insulating wall" by Sen, Firouznia, Koch, Saintillan and Vlahovska appeared in Physical Review Fluids. Click here to download the article.

June 2025: Congratulations to Yuchen Hou for successfully defending his M.S. thesis entitled: "Reinforcement learning-based control of topological defects in 2D active nematics"!

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