The overarching goal of Laboratory of Interface, Flow and Electrokientics (LIFE) is to uncover the full potential of interfacial science to address societally relevant problems of energy storage, environmental remediation, and rational formulation of pharmaceutical and food products. LIFE tackles these challenging problems using a range of theoretical, numerical and experimental techniques. The research at LIFE revolves around various kinds of interfaces: liquid-liquid, liquid-liquid-solid and liquid-solid. These phenomena occur at a broad range of length scales ranging from 1-10 nm to even 1 km. Some topics that have been explored include nanoemulsions for pharmaceutical and cosmetic applications, microscale flows and flow in porous media for oil recovery applications, and electrokinetic phenomena for energy storage and environmental applications.
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Soft Matter, Electrokinetics, Nanoemulsions
Teaching
courses taught
CHEN 3200 - Chemical Engineering Fluid Mechanics
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Spring 2023
Introduces fluid mechanics and momentum transfer, emphasizing the application of these principles to chemical engineering systems. Same as CVEN 3313 and MCEN 3021.
CHEN 5210 - Transport Phenomena
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Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022
Considers continuum mechanics, emphasizing fundamental relationships for fluid mechanics and heat and mass transfer and their applications to engineering problems. Department enforced prerequisites: undergraduate courses in fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and differential equations.
