Emails: picardo[at]iitb.ac.in
I am interested in the mathematical description and analysis of dynamic physical phenomena. My group's work typically involves fluid flow and mass/heat transport in systems that are nonlinear and stochastic. We investigate problems in diverse contexts and address questions from engineering, biology, and geophysics.
Research Areas:
Instabilities and pattern formation
Turbulent transport
Mathematical modelling
Topics of recent work:
Mucus flow and aerosol transport in ciliated lung airways
Polymer dynamics in turbulent solutions
Viscoelastic instabilities and turbulence
Mechanochemical waves in the actomyosin cortex
Inverse problems in catalytic reactors
Openings:
Vacant postdoc positions under the IITB Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme, to work on some combination of physiological transport phenomena, viscoelastic and interfacial flows, and pattern formation in turbulence. Write to me for further information.