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2024
2024 Akira Yamamura Research Ph.D. Award
Congratulations to Milad for receiving the 2024 Akira Yamamura Research Ph.D. Award! Milad Saadat’s receipt of the 2024 Akira Yamamura Research Ph.D. Award honors his dedicated work in applying machine learning techniques to the study of complex fluids. His research has contributed valuable insights into fluid dynamics, emphasizing the practical applications of advanced computational models in thermofluid sciences. Milad’s scholarly efforts, reflected in several respected publications and co...
Congratulations to Paniz on Passing Her Oral Exam and Becoming a PhD Candidate! In her oral examination, Paniz explored the topic of “Emergence of rigidity in colloidal gels,” explaining the physics of gelation. She provided a detailed explanation of the structure of colloidal particles at the gelation point and its effects on the rheological responses of gels, as well as the potential for hierarchical organization within colloidal gels. Paniz’s thorough analysis demonstrated her understandi...
Congratulations to Donya on passing the oral Ph.D. qualifying exam and becoming a Ph.D. candidate! In her exam, Donya delved into the recent data-driven methods proposed for discovering dynamics from scarce and noisy data. Her presentation started with a physics-inspired algorithm capable of finding a symbolic expression that matches data from an unknown algebraic function, proceeded with the well-known method of sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (SINDY), and ended with the PINN-SR...
New paper - Model Construction from Experiments
We have a new paper out today on unbiased construction of constitutive relations for soft materials from experiments via rheology-informed neural networks. You can read a press release on the paper here. Traditional methods often rely on simplifying assumptions, leading to biases and limitations in precise material-specific characterization. In contrast, the proposed rheology-informed neural network framework learns the hidden rheology of complex fluids from a limited number of experiments, ...
2023
Soohee Bae Defends Master's Thesis
Congratulations to Soohee Bae for successfully defending her Master’s thesis! Soohee Bae successfully defended her MS thesis, titled “A Structural Analysis of Colloidal Gels for Various Short-Range Attractions under Poiseuille Flow.” This project explored the relationship between colloidal gel structure and yielding behavior under pressure-driven flow, considering the effects of different particle volume fractions and different types of inter-particle attraction. Her simulations lay the fou...
Rheology Comics Launches at ICR 2023
Rob Campbell’s Rheology Comics launched it’s first issue this week at the International Congress on Rheology (ICR) in Athens, Greece. The Rheology Comics project is a new project funded by the Society of Rheology’s Rheology Venture Fund. Rob started this project to create a short series of comics that help readers connect with the joys of rheology. The first issue, “Rheology of Cats,” covers the basics of stress and strain to ask if cats are solid or liquid. Each comic is aimed at ages 10+ a...