{"id":42,"date":"2014-09-19T14:21:42","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T18:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/moss\/?p=42"},"modified":"2014-10-06T14:29:15","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T18:29:15","slug":"visiting-student-behrouz-tavakol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/moss\/2014\/09\/19\/visiting-student-behrouz-tavakol\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Student: Behrouz Tavakol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 (<a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlelanding\/2013\/sm\/c3sm51002f#!divAbstract\">Soft Matter &#8211; 2013<\/a>) and electrical (<a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/Content\/ArticleLanding\/2014\/SM\/C4SM00753K#!divAbstract\">Soft Matter &#8211; 2014<\/a>) actuation.  He has also developed an extension to the classical lubrication theory approximation to model the flows within these systems (<a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1403.2343\">arXiv &#8211; 2014<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 &#8211; 2013) and electrical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9428,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/moss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/moss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/moss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/moss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/moss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/moss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/moss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/moss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/moss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/moss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}