Visiting Student: Behrouz Tavakol
Virginia Tech Ph.D. Student in Engineering Mechanics, Behrouz Tavakol, will be visiting the MOSS lab for the 2014-2015 academic year as he completes his doctorate. Behrouz’s research focuses on utilizing fluid-structure interactions to control and manipulation microfluidic flow. Behrouz has created and modeled flexible structures that buckle via mechanical (Soft Matter – 2013) and electrical (Soft Matter – 2014) actuation. He has also developed an extension to the classical lubrication theory approximation to model the flows within these systems (arXiv – 2014).
