Contact person: Andreas Carlson
Keywords: Interfacial flow; biological interfaces; soft matter physics; fluid mechanics
Research group: Mechanics
Department of Mathematics
Soft interfaces that interact with a fluid are found in a myriad of processes, relevant to sustainable engineering of soft robotics, organisation of cells in animal tissue, interfacial flows in milli-/micro-fluidics, plant flight organs, the hidden replication of viruses on membranes to how membrane-less compartments in cells regulating their activity. Projects within this theme, should include development of new computational tools targeted to describe how dynamics of soft interfaces with “active” constituents can drive the interfacial flow dynamics. These active constituents are exemplified by how proteins and viruses can mould cellular membranes, to how surfactants and biological materials drive active wetting process and flow, to how tissue reconfigurations induce shape changes.
Topics from natural sciences or technology:
- Capillary two and three phase flow also including wetting of soft surfaces with complex properties (e.g., rheological, elastic or poro-elastic).
- Shape morphing of soft materials
- Elastohydrodynamic flows
- Active wetting processes
- Flight of plant diaspores and wing morphing
- Reconfiguration of cellular membranes
External partners:
- Oslo University Hospital (OUH)
- Umeå University
- Bordeaux University
- City College New York