Research Interests 

• Capillary elastic instabilities with applications to airway closure
• Thin film instabilities and pattern formation
• Surfactant spreading in thin liquid layers
• Airway reopening mechanics
• Evolution of gas bubbles in the circulation with applications to the bends
• Motion of red blood cells in the microcirculation
• Gas dispersion

Graduate Students

Xuming Chen (1998)
Adam Schweiger (2013)
Yuanyuan Song (Expected: Fall 2014)