TMNT Lab @ Purdue

Research

Active Projects

Microscale fluid–structure interactions: Towards a predictive theory of their dynamic response.
Controlling particle migration using geometry and hydrodynamics.
Computational methods for interfacial flows and fluid–structure interactions.
Non-Newtonian fluid flows, including viscous gravity currents, start-up problems, microflows, slip phenomena.
Nonlinear waves; PDEs with Hamiltonian structure.
Hyperbolic conservation laws in fluid mechanics.

See also Prof. Christov's faculty research presentation.

Other Projects

Anomalous scalings in the diffusion of granular materials.
Chaotic mixing of granular materials.
Nonlinear Fourier analysis and transforms for ocean acoustics modeling.
Nonlinear acoustics (inviscid and thermoviscous), wave propagation and shock formation.
Internal waves, breaking and shock formation.
Wavelets and wavelet methods for signal processing and solution of PDEs.

Funding Sources

Some material presented on this web site is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. CBET-1705637, DMS-1104047, by the Los Alamos National Laboratory's Laboratory Directed Research & Development program under Grant No. 20130792PRD2, and by the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund under Grant No. 57371-DNI9.

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation, the American Chemical Society, the benefactors of the Petroleum Research Fund, the Department of Energy, the National Nuclear Security Administration, Los Alamos National Laboratory or any other entities named or implied.