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Joel Koplik Curriculum Vita

 
joelkoplik.gif - 560402 BytesJoel Koplik
Professor of Physics

Levich Institute, Steinman Hall, #1M-19
City College of CUNY
140th Street and Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031

Phone: (212) 650-8162
Fax: (212) 650-6835




Education:

  • (B.S., 1969, Physics) The Cooper Union
  • (Ph.D., 1974, Physics) University of California at Berkeley

Research Interests:

  • Molecular fluid mechanics - dynamics of surfactants in solution - interfacial boundary conditions - nanoscale flows on patterned substrates - non-Newtonian extrusion flows
  • Fluid and particulate flow in geological fractures and random porous media
  • Vortex dynamics in superfluid turbulence
Research Sponsors:

  • Department of Energy (DOE)
  • National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Current Postdoctoral Research Associates:

  • Tak Shing Lo
  • Karla Morris


Current Graduate Students:

  • Weikang Chen
  • Nima Sharifi Mood
  • Rui Zhang


Latest Publications:

  • Transport and sedimentation of suspended particles in inertial pressure-driven flow, Phys. Fluids 21, 013301 (2009), with Y. Yan.
  • Vortex locking in direct numerical simulations of superfluid turbulence, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 015301 (2008), with K. Morris and D. Rouson.
  • Dynamical clustering of counterions on flexible polyelectrolytes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 128301 (2008), with T.-S. Lo and B. Khusid.
  • Shear flow pumping in open microfluidic systems, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 224504 (2007), with M. Rauscher and S. Dietrich.
  • Interaction of two particles in confined linear shear flow at finite Reynolds number, Phys. Fluids 19, 11330 (2007), with Y. Yan and J. F. Morris.
  • Nanoscale fluid flows in the vicinity of patterned surfaces, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 114502 (2006), with M. Cieplak and J. R. Banavar.
  • Slip, immiscibility, and boundary conditions at the liquid-liquid interface, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 044505 (2006), with J. R. Banavar.
  • Pearling instability of nanoscale fluid flow confined to a chemical channel, Phys. Fluids 18, 031104 (2006), with T. S. Lo, M. Rauscher and S. Dietrich.
 
 
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