MIT Dry Fluids Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Faculty
- Martin Z. Bazant
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, MIT
- R. Ruben Rosales
Professor, Department of Mathematics, MIT
- Arshad Kudrolli
Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, MIT
Professor, Clark University
Collaborators
- Andrew C. Kadak
Professor of the Practice, Department of Nuclear Engineering, MIT
- Gary S. Grest
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- James W. Landry
BAE Systems, Burlington, Massachusetts
Alumni
Graduate Students
- Jaehyuk Choi
Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, MIT (2005)
Thesis: Advection-diffusion-limited aggregation and dense granular
flow
Jaehyuk was the first student in the group. He built our experimental
apparatus and wrote custom image-processing software to track particles using
high-speed digital video. His experiments revealed that fluctuations in
granular drainage exhibit a universal crossover from superdiffusion to normal
diffusion at the scale of one particle diameter, as a function of the distance
dropped (not time) in flows of different speeds. He also demonstrated very slow
cage breaking at the scale of the silo. (In his thesis, he also developed
stochastic conformal mapping models for non-Laplacian fractal growth in fluid
flows.)
- Chris H. Rycroft
Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, MIT (2007)
Thesis: Multiscale Modeling in Granular Flow
Chris graduated in September 2007, and is now a post-doctoral researcher in
computational mathematics at the LBL
and UC Berkeley.
- Kenneth N. Kamrin
Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, MIT (2008)
Thesis: Stochastic and Deterministic Models for Dense Granular Flow
Ken graduated in June 2008, and is now an applied mathematics lecturer and
postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University.
- Yee Lok Wong
Ph.D. candidate in Applied Mathematics, MIT
Yee Lok worked on Fast spot-based multiscale
simulations of granular flow, and is now working on high-performance
computing and numerical methods with Prof.
Alan Edelman.
Undergraduate students
- Ken Weaver
Visiting student from Carnegie Mellon University through the MIT Materials
Processing Center (2002)
Summer project: Spot model simulations of granular drainage
- Camilo Guaqueta
B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, MIT (2003)
Senior thesis: Computer simulations of a stochastic model for granular
drainage
- Jeremie Palacci
Visiting student Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon (2005)
Summer project: Numerical stability of the spot model