Pirouz Kavehpour, Ph.D.
(MIT, 2003)

pirouz@seas.ucla.edu
(310) 825-6494

Complex Fluids & Interfacial Physics Laboratory

Microfluidics and biofluidics, biofuel cells, cardiovascular flow, complex fluids, interfacial physics, micro-tribology, non-isothermal flows, drug delivery systems, and artificial organs.

Selected Recent Publications

H.P. Kavehpour, M. Faghri, and Y. Asako, "Effects of Compressibility and Rarefaction on Gaseous Flows in Microchannels," Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A, Applications 32(7), 677—696, November 21, 1997.

H.P. Kavehpour, B. Ovryn, and G.H. McKinley, "Evaporatively-driven Marangoni Instabilities of Volatile Liquid Films Spreading on Thermally Conductive Substrates," Coll. Surf. A 206, 409—423 (2002).

H.P. Kavehpour, B. Orvyn, and G.H. McKinley, "The Microscopic and Macroscopic Structure of the Precursor Layer in Spreading Viscous Drops," Phys. Rev. Lett. 91(19), DOI 196104 (2003).

H.P. Kavehpour and G.H. McKinley, "Tribo-rheometry: from Gap-Dependent Rheology to Tribology," Trib. Lett. 17(2), 327—335 (2004)