Sanjoy Banerjee Distinguished Professor & Director, CUNY Energy Institute, Ph.D., University of Waterloo

The research interests of our group focus on multiphase, complex-fluid, turbulent/chaotic and environmental systems. Studies range from nanoscale problems, e.g. spinodal decomposition in shear flows, coalescence, and flow interactions with macromolecular structures like cell-membrane receptors and channels, to macroscale problems like turbulent transport processes at the air-sea interface, of importance in global warming. Some applications are to a environmental processes, development of complex/multiphase fluid formulations, and mesoscale transport phenomena in biological systems. An example of work in the last area is transport and transduction processes in neo-vascularization. Experimental techniques involve Laser-Doppler Anemometry, Particle Imaging Velocimetry, as well as flow and molecule-specific imaging based on Atomic Force Microscopy. Simulation/theoretical approaches are based on spectral methods using level-set and self-consistent field theory (SCFT) models. We, together with Profs. Frederickson and Ceniceros, have founded the Complex Fluids Design Center (CFDC) at UCSB.