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)