Center for Bio-Image Informatics

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5080

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The research interests of Prof Banerjee's Group center on multiphase, complex-fluid, turbulent and environmental systems. For example, on a macroscopic scale, we study turbulence, gas, heat and vapor transfer at the atmosphere-ocean interface-crucial to a better understanding of global climate changes. At the other end of the spectrum, they study interactions of vascular flows with cell-surface receptors and channels -- crucial to a better understanding of arteriosclerosis. The common elements in this broad range of work pertain to theoretical, computational and measurement approaches needed to elucidate flow-mediated interactions at complex/deformable interfaces. To this end, they have developed Laser-Doppler Anemometry, Particle Imaging Velocimetry, and flow and molecule-specific imaging based on Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) that allow microscale measurements of fluid motion and forces very close to moving and deforming interfaces.

The Current research projects of Prof Banerjee's Group are:

• Turbulence and gas transfer during wind-generated microscale wave-breaking (Leifer, Smith, Piorek)
• Interfacial waves and scalar exchange for liquid films used for high-heat-flux cooling (Nave)
• Phase-ordering kinetics simulations of shear-induced microstructure formation during phase separation (Badalassi, Morra)
• Self-consistent field theoretic modeling of complex fluid system dynamics (Hall, Buoni)
• Distributed architecture computing for large-scale simulations (Pattison, Archuleta)
• Nanoscale flow and interface imaging (AFM-based) for soft materials and biological systems (Mechler, Piorek)

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