Soft Matter Laboratory Research

Complex Fluids Inside Microfluidic Devices

Nanoporous Synthesis

BioMimetics

Bioenergy

Energy Storage

Granular Materials

Granular Materials:

Many industrial and geophysical processes involve flowing granular materials, with examples including the mixing and processing of chemicals, food stuffs, and minerals, snowfalls, and debris flows. Considerable effort has been expended in an effort to understand how granular materials behave during flow. Please see some previous and ongoing granular flow projects under the links here.

Project 1: Granular rippling:

Project 2: Granular jets:

Project 3: Impact dynamics:

Project 4: Lava flow: