Multiphase flows and plasmas
Direct simulations (gas/liquid/solid compressible Navier-Stokes) and simple models (Rayleigh-Plesset) are used to understand bubble dynamics and the damage thereby produced, as well as droplet dynamics.Target applications include medicine (diagnostic/therapeutic ultrasound, traumatic brain injury, wound healing), naval hydrodynamics (cavitation erosion), hypersonics, energy sciences (nuclear energy, Spallation Neutron Source).
Past and current multiphase flows and plasmas projects
- Cavitation and bubble dynamics
- Basic bubble dynamics
- Bubble dynamics in soft matter and constitutive modeling
- Modeling of bubble cloud dynamics
- Shocks in bubbly flows
- Cavitation erosion
- High-speed droplet dynamics
- Shock-droplet interaction
- Droplet impact on solid surfaces
- Droplet dynamics in high-shear flows
- Shocks in viscoelastic media
- Shock-interface interaction
- Ultrasound propagation in tissue
- Biomechanics/biomedical applications
- Traumatic brain injury
- Therapeutic ultrasound
- Low-temperature, atmospheric-pressure plasma jets (APPJs) for wound healing
- Delivery of high-viscosity, large-volume therapeutics