Head:

Assoc. Prof. Eligiusz Wajnryb, Ph.D., Dr habil.

phone: +48 22 826 98 03; +48 22 826 12 81 ext. 161

room: 323

e-mail: ewajnryb@ippt.gov.pl

Deputy Head:

Prof. Tomasz A. Kowalewski, Ph.D., Dr habil.

phone: +48 22 826 98 03; +48 22 826 12 81 ext. 422

room: 320

e-mail: tkowale@ippt.gov.pl

Secretary:

Elżbieta Rybakiewicz

phone: +48 22 826 12 81 ext. 228

room: 329

e-mail: eryba@ippt.gov.pl

The Department has two Divisions:

• Modelling in Biology and Medicine (Assoc. Prof. Tomasz Lipniacki Ph.D., Dr habil.)
• Complex Fluids (Assoc. Prof. Eligiusz Wajnryb, Ph.D., Dr habil.)

and one Laboratory:

• Bio and Micro Fluidics (Sławomir Błoński, Ph.D., Eng.)

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Staff:

Professors:

Tomasz A. Kowalewski, Ph.D., Dr habil.

Zbigniew Peradzyński, Ph.D., Dr habil.

Associate Professors:

Maria Ekiel-Jeżewska, Ph.D., Dr habil.

Tomasz Lipniacki, Ph.D., Dr habil.

Kazimierz Piechór, Ph.D., Dr habil.

Janusz Szczepański, Ph.D., Dr habil.

Eligiusz Wajnryb, Ph.D., Dr habil.

Senior Researchers:

Bogdan Kaźmierczak, Ph.D., Dr habil.

Stanisław Tokarzewski, Ph.D., Dr habil.

Sławomir Błoński, Ph.D., Eng.

Justyna Czerwińska, Ph.D., Eng.

Beata Hat-Plewińska, Ph.D.

Piotr Korczyk, Ph.D.

Tomasz Kowalczyk, Ph.D., Eng

Krzysztof Sadlej, Ph.D.

Agnieszka Słowicka, Ph.D.

Graduates:

Małgorzata Figurska, M.Sc.

Technicians:

Maciej Kowalczyk, Ph.D., Eng

Andrzej Dąbrowski

Krzysztof Zembrzycki

Ph.D. Students:

Andrzej Chmielowiec, M.Sc.

Michał M. Dyzma, M.Sc.

Joanna Jaruszewicz, M.Sc.

Steffen Jebauer, M.Sc., Eng

Mikołaj Karpinski, M.Sc.

Marcin Kędzierski, M.Sc., Eng

Pawel Kocieniewski, M.Sc.

Marcin Kolanowski, M.Sc.

Anna Myłyk, M.Sc.

Diana Lamparska, M.Sc., Eng

Maria Urmańska, M.Sc.

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Current Research Activities:

• Instability of liquid jets, nano-jets and nanofibres, electrospinning of biofibres.
• Stochastic modelling of immune response and gene expression, dynamics of peptide and DNA chains.
• Theory of mechano-chemical coupling in cells, modelling calcium waves, propagation of nonlinear waves in tissue, regulatory processes in cells.
• Applications of dynamical systems and stochastic processes to biological systems: analysis of neuron response.
• Microfluidics, transport processes in micro-scale, micro-emulsions, numerical modelling of micro and nano-scale flow problems, molecular dynamics, dissipative particles method.
• Hydrodynamic interactions for finite number of particles in Stokes flow.
• Simulation of atmospheric flows, thermal convection, effect of turbulence on diffusion processes in cloud, laboratory model of atmospheric cloud.
• Mathematical description of superfluidity with a particular stress on the role of quantum vortices.
• Effective transport coefficients applying Padé approximates.
• Natural convection with phase change and free surface, experimental and numerical investigation of solidification process, crystal growth and casting simulations.
• Development of methods for verification and validation of numerical models of themally driven flows, experimental benchmarks.
• Image processing in fluid mechanics, high speed video imaging, instantaneous measurements of temperature and velocity fields (Particle Image Velocimetry and Thermometry), conductive tomography, non-intrusive measurements of the surface tension.

Key Words:

• Gene expression, peptide chains, DNA chains, calcium waves, neuroscience.
• Dispersed media, hydrodynamic interactions, effective transport coefficients, Padée approximants.
• Nanofibres, microfluidics, micro and nano particles.
• Molecular Dynamics, Dissipative Particle Dynamics.
• Phase changes, natural convection, experimental and numerical methods.
• Particle Image Velocimetry and Thermometry, stereo-PIV, micro-PIV, thermochromic liquid crystals, image processing.
• Diffusion-reaction equations, chaos, superfluidity, phase changes, quantum vortex.
• Atmospheric flows, turbulence in clouds.
• Verification and validation of numerical models, experimental benchmarks.