Welcome to the Saintillan Research Group!

Our research focuses on the development of computational and theoretical models for microscale transport phenomena and flow problems relevant to complex fluids, microfluidics, and biophysical systems. We develop efficient algorithms and large-scale simulation techniques to model the dynamics in these systems, with the ultimate goal of enhancing the basic understanding of physical and biophysical fluid phenomena, and of providing reliable design tools for engineering applications.

Our recent efforts have focused on models for active suspensions of self-propelled particles (such as swimming micro-organisms), nonlinear electrokinetic effects in particle suspensions and microfluidic applications, colloidal assembly under electric fields, the dynamics of semiflexible biopolymers in microscale flows, concentration instabilities in particulate suspensions, and accelerated algorithms for the calculation of hydrodynamic interactions in Stokes flow. More details on some of these projects can be found on our research page and in our publications.