Uma Balakrishnan

Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: 215-898-5596
Email: umab@seas.upenn.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Multiscale modeling and simulation, Brownian motion of nanoparticles

Statistical mechanics: applications related to biology, Targeted drug delivery using nanoparticles

Direct numerical simulation, Computational Fluid Dynamics

Numerical methods: Chebyshev collocation, finite element, finite difference, finite volume

Thin films and coatings: Spin coating, coating flows driven by gravity

Interfacial instabilities of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid flows under gravity / pressure

Multiphase flows, free surface flows