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Department
of Mechanics and Physics of Fluids
Department Main Page
- 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.)
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.
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.
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