Graduate Students
Amir Poorghani (PhD candidate)
Amir Poorghani earned his B.Sc. in 2018 from the University of Tabriz and completed his M.Sc. in 2021 at Amirkabir University of Technology. He joined the CFMS at Georgia Tech in May 2022 to pursue his Ph.D. His research focuses on numerically simulating and modeling lymphatic vessels and their pumping mechanisms, with an emphasis on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and fluid-structure interaction (FSI). Building on his M.Sc. and Ph.D. research, Amir has contributed to experimental data collection on lymphatic vessel pumping and is working toward advancing our understanding of lymphatic biomechanics and efficiency through cutting-edge computational approaches.
Ruogu Li (PhD student)
Ruogu Li earned his M.Eng in Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College London in 2024. He joined the CFMS lab in the fall of the same year, focusing on the study of microgels and cells using coarse-graining techniques. In his most recent project, Ruogu simulated the solvent exchange and swelling behavior of microgels. He plans to develop more sophisticated models to study cells flowing through periodic constrictions.
Christopher Jawetz
Mehdi Karimi
Former graduate students
Samuel Bowie
His research focused on using computational methods to model cellular mechanics and analyze the motion of biological cells in microfluidic channels.
Her research focused on complex fluid flow and biophysical mechanisms, with a project that investigated blood clots as biological materials critical to wound healing and hemostasis.
Ki Tae Wolf
His research focused on using computational methods to investigate fluid-structure interaction, particularly for biological applications, with a project studying the physics of lymphatic valve operation.
His research focused on numerical simulations of fluid interactions with biomimetic smart materials.
Fatima Chrit
Her research focused on using the lattice Boltzmann method to investigate the relationship between cell mechanical properties and cell behavior in biological systems.
Yaroslav Vasyliv
An adaptive meshfree solver for incompressible flows
Svetoslav Nikolov
Modeling and application of polymeric microgels
Magnetically Actuated Microfluidic Mixing and Particle Capture
Peter Yeh
Fast and efficient locomotion using oscillating flexible plates
Transport Processes in Wavy Walled Channels
Modeling particle suspensions using lattice Boltzmann method
Polymer networks: modeling and applications