Research Interests: 

Fatigue failure of metallic glasses under cyclic loading (12 min video)

Atomistic modeling of thermo-mechanical processing of metallic glasses

Structural transformations and mechanical properties of porous glasses 

Wetting properties and re-entrant geometry of nanotextured interfaces 

Numerical modeling of the effective microfiltration of oil-in-water emulsions 

Transport phenomena in microfluidic systems: slip boundary conditions

Liquid crystals (surface anchoring, topological defects, phase ordering) 

Selected Research Projects: 

PPT slides of seminars and presentations uploaded on slideshare.net 

Molecular origin of surface tension at liquid-vapor interfaces 

Novel strategy to transport and mix liquid droplets on vibrating substrates 

Modeling nanostructured interfaces for passive anti-icing applications 

Yielding transition in periodically sheared binary glasses at finite temperature 

Diffusion of spherical and rod-shaped Janus nanoparticles: MD simulations

Plastic deformation of a model glass induced by a local shear transformation 

Analysis of crossflow-enhanced microfiltration of oil-in-water emulsions

Slip condition at the moving contact line in MD and continuum simulations 

Effect of surface roughness on slip flow in nanoscale polymer films (poster)

Brief description of recent studies on slip flow over heterogeneous surfaces

This movie shows the presence of slip at the wall in shear flow of polymers 

Computation:

Molecular dynamics (LAMMPS), Langevin dynamics, Ohio Supercomputer Center

Monte Carlo methods (Lebwohl-Lasher model), cluster Monte Carlo algorithms

Combinatorial optimization algorithms and network flows, pore structure analysis

Ph.D. students: Anoosheh Niavarani (PhD 2011), Tohid Darvishzadeh (PhD 2014), Ali Kharazmi (2010-2017)

M.S. students: Bishal Bhattarai (MS 2018), Qing-Long Liu (MS 2019), Anish Thomas (MS 2022)