Andrew Spann Stanford email: spann Undergraduate Institution: MIT Department: Computational & Mathematical Engineering

Deformation of fluid-filled vesicles in mixed shear and extensional flows

Giant unilamellar vesicles are membrane-bound capsules with applications as drug delivery agents. Vesicle research is related to drop dynamics, with the complexity added by the elasticity of the membrane. My research seeks to use computational modeling to understand how vesicles deform when placed in complex flows that have both extensional and shear components. The simulations employ boundary integral methods with adaptive meshing. Future work will incorporate Brownian motion effects.

Personal site: Former (undergraduate) COMAP Mathematical Contest in Modeling papers, Proof of False math comic

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