Head:

Prof. Tomasz A. Kowalewski, Ph.D., D.Sc.

phone: (48-22) 826 98 03; 826 12 81 ext. 422

room: 207

e-mail: tkowale@ippt.gov.pl

Secretary:

Elżbieta Rybakiewicz

phone: (48-22) 826-98-34; (48-22) 826-12-81 ext. 228

room: 308

e-mail: eryba@ippt.gov.pl

The Department has two Divisions:

• Modelling in Biology and Medicine (Assoc. Prof. Tomasz Lipniacki Ph.D., D.Sc.)
• Viscous and Thermal Flows (Prof. Tomasz A. Kowalewski, Ph.D., D.Sc.)

and Research Group:

• Dynamics of ionized media (Serge Barral, Ph.D.)

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Staff:

Professors:

Tomasz A. Kowalewski, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Zbigniew Peradzyński, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Associate Professors:

Tomasz Lipniacki, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Kazimierz Piechór, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Janusz Szczepański, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Eligiusz Wajnryb, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Senior Researchers:

Maria Ekiel-Jeżewska, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Bogdan Kaźmierczak, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Stanisław Tokarzewski, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Serge Barral, Ph.D.

Justyna Czerwińska, Ph.D.

Tomasz Kowalczyk, Ph.D.

Jacek Kurzyna, Ph.D.

Krzysztof Sadlej, Ph.D.

Graduates:

Sławomir Błoński, M.Sc.

Małgorzata Figurska, M.Sc.

Piotr Korczyk, M.Sc.

Agnieszka Słowicka, M.Sc.

Technicians:

Maciej Kowalczyk, Ph.D.

Andrzej Dąbrowski

Ph.D. Students:

Andrzej Chmielowiec, M.Sc.

Krzysztof Dekajło, M.Sc.

Beata Hat-Plewińska, M.Sc.

Steffen Jebauer, M.Sc.

Marcin Kędzierski, M.Sc.

Marcin Kolanowski, M.Sc.

Anna Myłyk, M.Sc.

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.
• Kinetic theory of gases and some problems of dynamical systems.
• Model of Hall plasma thrusters, numerical fluid mechanics, chaotic phenomena.
• Nonlinear phenomena accompanying phonon heat transfer process.
• 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.
• Phonon heat transfer.