Amir A. Pahlavan
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Additional Appointments
- Materials Science
Room / Office:
Mason M2
Office Address:
9 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 208284
New Haven, CT 06516
About Amir A. Pahlavan
Degrees
- Ph.D., MIT
- M.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- B.S., University of Tehran
Perspectives
- Fluid mechanics
- Soft matter
- Biophysics
- Transport phenomena
Selected Publications
- A. A. Pahlavan, L. Yang, C. D. Bain, and H. A. Stone, Evaporation of Binary-Mixture Liquid Droplets: The Formation of Picoliter Pancakelike Shapes, Physical Review Letters, 2021
- P. de Anna, A. A. Pahlavan, Y. Yawata, R. Stocker, R. Juanes, Chemotaxis under flow disorder shapes microbial dispersion in porous media, Nature Physics, 2020.
- C. Kurzthaler, L. Zhu, A. A. Pahlavan, H. A. Stone, Particle motion nearby rough surfaces, Physical Review Fluids, 2020.
- B. K. Primkulov, A. A. Pahlavan, L. Bourouiba, J. W. M. Bush, R. Juanes, Spin coating of capillary tubes, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020.
- A. A. Pahlavan, H. A. Stone, G. H. McKinley, R. Juanes, Restoring universality to the pinch-off of a bubble, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019.
- B. K. Primkulov, A. A. Pahlavan, X. Fu, B. Zhao, C. W. MacMinn, R. Juanes, Signatures of fluid–fluid displacement in porous media: wettability, patterns and pressures, Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Rapids), 2019.
- B. Zhao, A. A. Pahlavan, L Cueto-Felgueroso, R Juanes, Forced wetting transition and bubble pinch-off in a capillary tube, Physical Review Letters, 2018.
- A. A. Pahlavan, L. Cueto-Felgueroso, A. E. Hosoi, G. H. McKinley, R Juanes, Thin films in partial wetting: Stability, dewetting and coarsening, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018.
- A. A. Pahlavan, L. Cueto-Felgueroso, G. H. McKinley, R. Juanes, Thin films in partial wetting: internal selection of contact-line dynamics, Physical Review Letters, 2015.
- B. Ezhilan, A. A. Pahlavan, D. Saintillan, Chaotic dynamics and oxygen transport in thin films of aerotactic bacteria, Physics of Fluids, 2012.
- A. A. Pahlavan, J. B. Freund, Effect of solid properties on slip at a fluid-solid interface, Physical Review E., 2011.
- A. A. Pahlavan, D. Saintillan, Instability regimes in flowing suspensions of swimming micro-organisms, Physics of Fluids, 2011.
