Citation Index: 23
Google Scholar Citations
Selected Publications:
2008
1.
S. Afkhami and M. Bussmann, "Height functions for applying contact angles to 2D VOF simulations", International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, vol. 57, pp. 453-472, 2008.
2.
S. Afkhami, Y. Renardy, M. Renardy, J. S. Riffle, and T. St. Pierre, "Field-induced motion of ferrofluid droplets through immiscible viscous media", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 610, pp. 363-380, 2008.
2009
3.
S. Afkhami and M. Bussmann, "Height functions for applying contact angles to 3D VOF simulations", International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, vol. 61, pp. 827-847, 2009.
4.
K. Verhulst, R. Cardinaels, P. Moldenaers, Y. Renardy, and S. Afkhami, "Influence of viscoelasticity on drop deformation and orientation in shear flow. Part 1: Stationary state", Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, vol. 156, pp. 29-43, 2009. Top 25 Hottest Articles, January to March 2009, July to September 2009.
5.
K. Verhulst, R. Cardinaels, P. Moldenaers, S. Afkhami, and Y. Renardy, "Influence of viscoelasticity on drop deformation and orientation in shear flow. Part 2: Dynamics", Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, vol. 156, pp. 44-57, 2009. Top 25 Hottest Articles, Top 10 Most Downloaded Articles, January to March 2009.
6.
S. Afkhami, S. Zaleski, and M. Bussmann, "A mesh-dependent model for applying dynamic contact angles to VOF simulations", Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 228, pp. 5370-5389, 2009.
Top 25 Hottest Articles, April to June 2009.
7.
S. Afkhami, P. Yue, and Y. Renardy, "A comparison of viscoelastic stress wakes for 2D and 3D Newtonian drop deformation in a viscoelastic matrix under shear", Physics of Fluids, vol. 21: 072106, 2009.
2010
8.
S. Afkhami, A. Tyler, Y. Renardy, M. Renardy, T. St. Pierre, R. Woodward, and J. S. Riffle, "Deformation of a hydrophobic ferrofluid droplet suspended in a viscous medium under uniform magnetic fields", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 663, pp. 358-384, 2010.
2011
9.
R. Cardinaels, S. Afkhami, P. Moldenaers, and Y. Renardy, "An experimental and numerical investigation of the dynamics of microconfined droplets in systems with one viscoelastic phase", Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, vol. 166, pp. 52-62, 2011.
10
S. Afkhami, A. M. Leshansky, and Y. Renardy, "Numerical investigation of elongated drops in a microfluidic T-junction", Physics of Fluids, vol. 23: 022001, 2011.
Selected by Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, 23 (6), February 14, 2011. Top 20 Most Downloaded Articles, February-June 2011.
2012
11.
P. Yue, S. Lee, S. Afkhami, and Y. Renardy, "On the motion of superparamagnetic particles in magnetic drug targeting", Acta Mechanica, vol. 223, pp. 505-527, 2012.
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A. M. Leshansky, S. Afkhami, M.-C. Jullien, and P. Tabeling, "Obstructed breakup of slender drops in a microfluidic T junction", Physical Review Letters, vol. 108: 264502, 2012.
2013
13
N. A. Roberts, J. D. Fowlkes, K. Mahady, S. Afkhami, L. Kondic, and P. D. Rack,
"Directed assembly of one- and two-dimensional nanoparticle arrays from pulsed laser induced dewetting of square waveforms", ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, vol. 5: 4450-4456, 2013.
14
S. Afkhami and L. Kondic, "Numerical simulation of ejected molten metal nanoparticles liquified by laser irradiation: Interplay of geometry and dewetting", Physical Review Letters, vol. 111: 034501, 2013.
15
S. Afkhami and Y. Renardy, "A volume-of-fluid formulation for the study of co-flowing fluids governed by the Hele-Shaw equations", Physics of Fluids, vol. 25(8): 082001, 2013.
16
K. Mahady, S. Afkhami, J. Diez, and L. Kondic,
"Comparison of Navier-Stokes simulations with long-wave theory: study of wetting and dewetting", Physics of Fluids, vol. 25(11): 112103, 2013.
2014
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J. D. Fowlkes, N. A. Roberts, Y. Wu, J. A. Diez, A. G. Gonzalez, C. Hartnett,
K. Mahady, S. Afkhami, L. Kondic, and P. D. Rack,
"Hierarchical nanoparticle ensembles synthesized by liquid phase directed self-assembly", Nano Letters, vol. 14(2): pp. 774-782, 2014.
18
S. Afkhami and L. Kondic, "On the dewetting of liquefied metal nanostructures", Journal of Engineering
Mathematics, vol. 94(1), pp. 5-18, 2014.
19
I. Seric , S. Afkhami, and L. Kondic,
"Interfacial instability of thin ferrofluid films under a magnetic field", Journal of Fluid Mechanics Rapids, vol. 755(9), doi: 10.1017/jfm.2014.435, 2014.
2015
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M. Hein, S. Afkhami, R. Seemann, and L. Kondic, "Capillary focusing close to a topographic step: shape and instability of confined liquid filaments",
Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, vol. 18(5-6), 911-917, 2015.
21
K. Mahady, S. Afkhami, and L. Kondic,
"A volume of fluid method for simulating fluid/fluid interfaces in contact with solid boundaries", Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 294: 243-257, 2015.
22
K. Mahady, S. Afkhami, and L. Kondic,
"On the influence of initial geometry on the evolution of liquid filaments", Physics of Fluids, vol. 27(9), 092104, 2015.
23
C. A. Hartnett, K. Mahady, J. D. Fowlkes, S. Afkhami, L. Kondic, and P. D. Rack,
"Instability of nano and microscale liquid metal filaments: Transition from single droplet collapse to multi-droplet breakup", Langmuir,
vol. 31(50), pp. 13609-13617, 2015.
2016
24
S. Afkhami, L. J. Cummings, and I. Griffiths,
"Interfacial deformation and jetting of a magnetic fluid", Computers & Fluids, vol. 124, pp. 149-156, 2016.
25
K. Mahady, S. Afkhami, and L. Kondic,
"A numerical approach for the direct computation of flows including fluid-solid interaction: modeling contact angle, film rupture, and dewetting", vol. 28(6), 062002, Physics of Fluids, 2016.
26
V. Barra, S. Afkhami, and L. Kondic "Interfacial dynamics of thin viscoelastic films and drops",
Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, vol. 237, pp. 26-38, 2016.
27
M. Hein, R. Seemann, and S. Afkhami, "On the capillary self-focusing in a microfluidic system",
Fluid Dynamics Research, vol. 48(6), 061427, 2016.
2017
28
F. Font, S. Afkhami, and L. Kondic, "Substrate melting during laser heating of metal films on nanoscale",
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 113, pp. 237-245, 2017.
29
I. Rukshin, J. Mohrenweiser, P. Yue, and S. Afkhami,
"Modeling superparamagnetic particles in blood flow for applications in
magnetic drug targeting", Fluids, vol. 2(2), pp. 29, 2017.
30
H. Kim, K. Muller, O. Shardt, S. Afkhami, and H.A. Stone,
"Solutal-Marangoni flows of miscible liquids drive transport without surface contamination", Nature Physics,
vol. 13, pp. 1105-1110, 2017.
31
S. Afkhami and Y. Renardy
"Ferrofluids and magnetically guided superparamagnetic particles in flows:
A review of simulations and modeling", Journal of Engineering Mathematics, vol. 107, pp. 231-251, 2017.
32
C. A. Hartnett, I. Seric, K. Mahady, L. Kondic, S. Afkhami, J. D. Fowlkes, and P. D. Rack,
"Exploiting the Marangoni effect to initiate instabilities and direct the assembly of liquid metal filaments",
Langmuir, vol. 33(33), pp. 8123-8128, 2017.
2018
33
I. Seric, S. Afkhami, and L. Kondic, "Direct numerical simulation of variable
surface tension flows using a Volume-of-Fluid method", Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 352(1),
pp. 615-636, 2018.
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I. Seric, S. Afkhami, and L. Kondic, "Influence of thermal effects on stability of nanoscale films and filaments
on thermally conductive substrates", Physics of Fluids, vol. 30, 012109, 2018.
Selected as a
Featured Article.
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M. Qiu, S. Afkhami, C.-Y. Chen, and J. Feng,
"Magnetophoretic interaction of a pair of ferrofluid droplets in a rotating magnetic field",
vol. 846, pp. 121-142,
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018.
36
S. Afkhami, J. Buongiorno, A. Guion, S. Popinet, Y. Saade, R. Scardovelli, and S. Zaleski,
"Transition in a numerical model of contact line dynamics and forced dewetting", Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 374, pp. 1061-1093, 2018.
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S. Afkhami, J. Buongiorno, A. Guion, S. Popinet, Y. Saade, R. Scardovelli, and S. Zaleski,
"Corrigendum to "Transition in a numerical model of contact
line dynamics and forced dewetting" [J. Comput. Phys. 374
(2018) 1061-1093]", Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 382, pp. 61-64, 2019.
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V. Barra, S. Chester and S. Afkhami,
"Numerical simulations of nearly incompressible viscoelastic
membranes", Computers & Fluids, vol. 175, pp. 36-47, 2018.
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A. Guion, S. Afkhami, S. Zaleski, and J. Buongiorno,
"Simulations of microlayer formation in nucleate boiling",
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 127,
pp. 1271-1284, 2018.
2019
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A. Dziedzic, M. Nakrani, B. Ezra, M. Syed, S. Popinet, and S. Afkhami,
"Breakup of finite-size liquid filaments: Transition from no-breakup to breakup
including substrate effects", The European Physical Journal E, vol. 42:18, 2019;
appeared on the EPJ News:
Link,
and Europhysics News:
Link.
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V. Barra, S. Afkhami, and L. Kondic,
"Thin viscoelastic dewetting films of Jeffreys type subject to
gravity and substrate interactions", The European
Physical Journal E, vol. 42:12, 2019.
41
P. Zaleski and S. Afkhami, "Dynamics of an ellipse-shaped meniscus on a
substrate-supported drop under an electric field", Fluids, 4(4), 200, 2019.
2020
42
S. Afkhami, T. Gambaryan-Roisman, and L. M. Pismen, "Challenges in nanoscale physics of wetting phenomena",
European Physical Journal Special Topics, vol. 229, pp. 1735-1738, 2020.
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A. O'Brien, S. Afkhami, and M. Bussmann, "Pore-scale direct numerical simulation of Haines jumps in a porous media model",
European Physical Journal Special Topics, vol. 229, pp. 1785-1798, 2020.
2022
45
S. Afkhami, "Challenges of Numerical Simulation of Dynamic Wetting Phenomena: A Review", Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, 57, 101523, 2022.
46
M. Lee, A. Shelke, S. Singh, J. Fan, P. Zaleski, and S. Afkhami,
"Numerical Simulation of Superparamagnetic Nanoparticle Motion in Blood Vessels for Magnetic Drug Delivery", Phys. Rev. E, 106, 015104, 2022.
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S. Afkhami, "On the instability of two-layer viscoelastic flows", 2022.
Proceedings: (2010-)
1.
Y. Renardy, K. Verhulst, P. Moldenaers, R. Cardinaels, and S. Afkhami, "Numerical investigation of the influence of viscoelasticity on drop deformation in shear",
The XVth Int. Congr. Rheol., Eds. Albert Co, L. Gary Leal, Ralph H. Colby and A. Jeffrey Giacomin, American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings Volume 1027, 2008.
2.
S. Afkhami, Y. Renardy, M. Renardy, J. S. Riffle, and T. G. St Pierre, "Numerical modeling of ferrofluid droplets in magnetic fields", The XVth Int. Congr. Rheol., Eds. Albert Co, L. Gary Leal, Ralph H. Colby and A. Jeffrey Giacomin, American Institute of Physics Proceedings Volume 1027, 2008.
3.
S. Afkhami, L. J. Cummings, Y. Renardy, and M. Renardy, "Direct numerical simulation of ferrofluid drops in a cylindrical microfluidic channel under the influence of a non-uniform magnetic field", Proc. 16th US National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. USNCTAM2010. June 27-July 2, 2010, State College, PA, USA.
4.
S. Afkhami, Y. Renardy, and M. Renardy, "Effects of viscosity ratio on the transient and steady deformation of a Newtonian drop in a viscous and viscoelastic matrix under shear flow", Proc. 16th US National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. USNCTAM2010. June 27-July 2, 2010, State College, PA, USA.
5.
S. Afkhami, L. Cummings, I. Griffiths, and H. Stone,
"Jetting of a magnetic liquid under an applied magnetic field gradient",
Sixth International Symposium on Bifurcations & Instabilities In Fluid Dynamics, ESPCI Paris, July, 2015.
6.
S. Afkhami, S. Zaleski, S. Popinet, A. Guion, and J. Buongiorno, "On the computation of viscous forces
near the moving contact line", XXIV ICTAM, 21-26 August 2016, Montreal, Canada.
7.
A. Guion, J. Buongiorno, S. Afkhami, and S. Zaleski,
"Mesh convergence of moving contact lines in VOF simulations",
XXIV ICTAM, 21-26 August 2016, Montreal, Canada.
Conferences: (2010-)
S. Afkhami
"Pore-scale direct numerical simulation of Haines jumps in a porous media model",
WE-Heraeus-Seminar / Wetting and Capillarity in Complex Systems,
Bad Honnef, Germany, November 25, 2019.
S. Afkhami
"Pore-scale direct numerical simulation of Haines jumps in a porous media model", International Workshop on
Challenges in Nanoscale Physics of Wetting Phenomena,
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, August 27, 2019.
S. Afkhami, Study of instability of fluid layers/filaments on substrates with Basilisk/Gerris, Basilisk/Gerris Users' Meeting, Sorbonne University, Paris, 2019.
J. Dresher and S. Afkhami, "Thin film polymers with marangoni effects",
Dana Knox Student Research Showcase, NJIT, Newark, NJ, April 2018.
S. Afkhami
"Breakup of finite size liquid filaments including substrate effects", Poster, Dynamic Contact Lines: Progress
and Opportunities, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota, March 26, 2018.
V. Barra, S. Chester and S. Afkhami, "Numerical Simulations of Thin Viscoelastic Sheets",
Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, CA, January, 2018.
J. Dresher and S. Afkhami, "Thin film polymers with marangoni effects",
The 8th Northeast Complex Fluids and Soft Matter Workshop, Columbia University, New York, NY, January, 2018.
S. Afkhami and S. Zaleski, "Large scale simulations of forced dewetting",
American Physical Society, 70th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Denver, Colorado, November, 2017.
L. Kondic, I. Seric and S. Afkhami, "On the influence of thermal effects on the dynamics of thin films and filaments",
American Physical Society, 70th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Denver, Colorado, November, 2017.
S. Afkhami, A decade of research with Gerris, Basilisk/Gerris Users' Meeting, Princeton, NJ, 2017.
S. Afkhami, "Keynote Talk: From Mesoscopic to Macroscopic Computations of Dynamic Contact Lines",
14th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM14), Montreal, Quebec, July, 2017.
M. Qiu, S. Afkhami, C.-Y. Chen, J. Feng, "Magnetophoretic Interaction of a Pair of Ferrofluid Droplets in a Rotating Magnetic Field",
14th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM14), Montreal, Quebec, July, 2017.
M. Qiu, S. Afkhami, C.-Y. Chen, J. Feng, "Magnetophoretic interaction of ferrofluid droplets in a rotating magnetic field",
Droplets 2017, Los Angeles, California, July, 2017.
V. Barra, E. Daudelin, D. Rios, U. Iyer, S. Kamath, M. Schultz, and S. Afkhami, "Gravity-driven instabilities of thin viscoelastic films on an inverted plane",
Poster: Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics 2017, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, May 2017.
A. Dziedzic, M. Nakrani, B. Ezra, M. Syed, and S. Afkhami, "Breakup of Finite Size Liquid Filaments Involving Substrate Effects",
Poster: Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics 2017, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, May 2017.
M. Qiu, S. Afkhami, C.-Y. Chen, J. Feng, "Magnetophoretic Interaction of a Pair of Ferrofluid Droplets in a Rotating Magnetic Field",
18th International Workshop on Numerical Methods for Non-Newtonian Flows, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, June, 2017.
I. Seric, S. Afkhami, and L. Kondic, "Direct Computations of Marangoni-Induced Flows Using a Volume of Fluid Method", SIAM Conference on Computational Science & Engineering, Atlanta, Georgia, March, 2017.
I. Seric, L. Kondic, and S. Afkhami, "Explicit demonstration of the role of Marangoni effect in the breakup of
nanoscale liquid filaments",
The 6th Northeast Complex Fluids and Soft Matter Workshop, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, 2017.
M. Qiu, S. Afkhami, C.-Y. Chen, J. Feng, "Magnetophoretic interaction of ferrofluid droplets in a rotating magnetic field",
American Physical Society, 69th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Portland, Oregon, November, 2016.
S. Zaleski, S. Afkhami, A. Guion, J. Buongiorno, "A scale-dependent model for direct computation of dynamic contact lines",
American Physical Society, 69th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Portland, Oregon, November, 2016.
A. Guion, J. Buongiorno, S. Afkhami, S. Zaleski, "Numerical simulation of microlayer formation in nucleate boiling",
American Physical Society, 69th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Portland, Oregon, November, 2016.
I. Seric, K. Mahady, S. Afkhami, C. Hartnett, J. Fowlkes, P. Rack, L. Kondic,
"Explicit demonstration of the role of Marangoni effect in the breakup of nanoscale liquid filaments",
American Physical Society, 69th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Portland, Oregon, November, 2016.
H. Kim, K. Muller, O. Shardt, S. Afkhami, H. Stone, "Alcohol drops on miscible liquid: mixing or spreading?",
American Physical Society, 69th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Portland, Oregon, November, 2016.
S. Afkhami, I. Seric, L. Kondic, H. Kim, O. Shardt, H. Stone, "Spreading and mixing of drops on a miscible liquid of different surface tension",
American Physical Society, 69th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Portland, Oregon, November, 2016.
V. Barra, S. Afkhami, and L. Kondic, "Wetting and Dewetting of Thin Viscoelastic Drops",
SIAM Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, July, 2016.
I. Seric, S. Afkhami, and L. Kondic, "Direct computations of Marangoni-induced flows using a volume of fluid method",
Poster: Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics 2016, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, June 2016.
A. Guion, J. Buongiorno, S. Afkhami, and S. Zaleski, "Numerical simulation of microlayer formation during the
inertia-controlled growth phase of bubbles in nucleate boiling",
9th International Conference on Multiphase Flow (ICMF 2016), Florence, May, 2016.
V. Barra, S. Afkhami, and L. Kondic, "Interfacial Dynamics of Thin Viscoelastic Films and Drops",
5th Northeast Complex Fluids and Soft Matter (NSC-5), January, 2016.
S. Afkhami, S. Zaleski, A. Guion, and J. Buongiorno, "A boundary condition for fluid/fluid flow at the solid interface",
American Physical Society, 68th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Boston, Massachusetts, November, 2015.
K. Mahady, S. Afkhami, and L. Kondic, "Direct Numerical Simulation of Nanofilm Instability Driven by Liquid/Solid Interactions",
American Physical Society, 68th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Boston, Massachusetts, November, 2015.
K. Mahady, S. Afkhami, and L. Kondic, "On the influence of initial geometry on the evolution of liquid filaments",
American Physical Society, 68th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Boston, Massachusetts, November, 2015.
S. Afkhami,
"A Positive Definite Preserving Numerical Method for Viscoelastic Two-Phase Flows",
International Conference on Transport Processes at Fluidic Interfaces, UT Darmstad, October, 2015.
R. Seemann, M. Hein, and S. Afkhami,
"Capillary self-focusing in a microfluidic system",
International Conference on Transport Processes at Fluidic Interfaces, UT Darmstad, October, 2015.
S. Afkhami, L. Cummings, I. Griffiths, and H. Stone,
"Jetting of a magnetic liquid under an applied magnetic field gradient",
Sixth International Symposium on Bifurcations & Instabilities In Fluid Dynamics, ESPCI Paris, July, 2015.
K. Mahady, S. Afkhami, and L. Kondic,
"On the influence of initial geometry on the evolution of liquid filaments",
poster presentation, Sixth International Symposium on Bifurcations & Instabilities In Fluid Dynamics, ESPCI Paris, July, 2015.
S. Afkhami, "A Finite-Volume Based Formulation for Viscoelastic Two-Phase Flows",
SIAM Conference on Computational Science & Engineering, Salt Lake, Utah, March 2015.
V. Barra and S. Afkhami, "Numerical Study of Thin Viscoelastic Films on Substrates", poster presentation,
SIAM Conference on Computational Science & Engineering, Salt Lake, Utah, March, 2015.
V. Barra and S. Afkhami, "Analysis and simulations for interfacial instability of thin
viscoelastic liquid films", The Third Northeast Complex Fluids and Soft Matter Workshop, NJIT, Newark, NJ, 2015.
I. Seric, L. Kondic and S. Afkhami, "Interfacial Instability of Thin Ferrofluid
Films Under a Magnetic Field", The Third Northeast Complex Fluids and Soft Matter Workshop, NJIT, Newark, NJ, 2015.
K. Mahady, L. Kondic, and S. Afkhami, "Fluid-solid Interaction in Volume of Fluid:
Simulating Droplet Spreading and Film Instability for Large Contact Angles", The Third Northeast Complex Fluids and Soft Matter Workshop, NJIT, Newark, NJ, 2015.
S. Afkhami and L. Cummings, "Interfacial deformation and jetting of a magnetic fluid",
American Physical Society, 67th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, San Francisco, California, November, 2014.
K. Mahady, S. Afkhami, and L. Kondic, "Inclusion of fluid-solid interaction in Volume of Fluid to simulate spreading and dewetting for large contact angles",
American Physical Society, 67th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, San Francisco, California, November, 2014.
I. Seric, K. Mahady, S. Afkhami, and L. Kondic, "Volume of fluid simulations of liquefied metal nanofilms with Marangoni effects",
American Physical Society, 67th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, San Francisco, California, November, 2014.
S. Afkhami, K. Mahady, and L. Kondic, A volume-of-fluid method for simulating fluid/fluid
interfaces in contact with solid boundaries, The Eleventh International Conference
for Mesoscopic Methods in Engineering and Science (ICMMES), New York City, NY, July 14 2014.
S. Afkhami and S. Zaleski, Numerical modeling of slippage of liquids on a solid surface using a volume-of-fluid method,
2nd International Conference on Numerical Methods in Multiphase Flows, Darmstadt, Germany, June 2014.
S. Afkhami, A numerical method for simulating fluid/fluid interfaces in contact with solid boundaries,
Robust Discretization and Fast Solvers for Computable Multi-Physics Models, ICERM, Brown University, May 2014.
K. Mahady, S. Afkhami, and L. Kondic, Contact angles and thin film rupture:
Volume of Fluid based simulations of the van der Waals interaction in three-phase systems,
Poster: Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics 2014, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, May 2014.
I. Seric, S. Afkhami, and L. Kondic, Interfacial instability in thin ferrofluid films under a magnetic field,
Poster: Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics 2014, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, May 2014.
V. Barra and S. Afkhami, Linear stability analysis of thin viscoelastic liquid of Jeffreys type with van der Waals interaction,
Poster: Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics 2014, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, May 2014.
I. Seric, S. Afkhami, and L. Kondic, Interfacial instability in thin ferrofluid films under a magnetic field,
Dana Knox Student Research Showcase, NJIT, Newark, NJ, April 2014.
M. Hein, S. Afkhami, L. Kondic, and R. Seemann, "Capillary focusing: New Breakup Regimes in Step-Emulsification",
DPG Spring Meeting, Dresden, Germany, March, 2014.
S. Afkhami, M. Hein, R. Seemann, and L. Kondic, "Computational and experimental investigation of capillary self-focusing in a microfluidic system",
American Physical Society, 66th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November, 2013.
K. Mahady, S. Afkhami, and L. Kondic, "Influence of Geometry on Instability: Breakup of fluid strips with square-wave perturbations",
American Physical Society, 66th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November, 2013.
I. Seric, S. Afkhami, and L. Kondic, "Numerical simulations of a ferrofluid drop on a substrate under an applied magnetic field",
American Physical Society, 66th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November, 2013.
T. Barnes and S. Afkhami, "Mathematical Modeling of Magnetic Particles in Blood Flow Applied to Magnetic Drug Targeting",
Poster Presentation, NJIT Sixth International Summer Research Symposium, August, 2013.
K. Mahady, S. Afkhami, and L. Kondic, "A numerical study of nanoscale drop assembly via square-wave breakup",
SIAM Conference On Mathematical Aspects Of Materials Science, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 2013.
I. Seric, S. Afkhami, and L. Kondic, "Long-wave approximation for thin ferrofluid film in a magnetic field",
Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics (FACM) conference at NJIT, Newark, New Jersey, June 2013.
K. Mahady, S. Afkhami, and L. Kondic, "Combined mesoscopic-macropsopic computations of thin films and
contact lines",
Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics (FACM) conference at NJIT, Newark, New Jersey, June 2013.
K. Mahady, S. Afkhami, and L. Kondic, "Combined mesoscopic-macropsopic computations of thin films and
contact lines",
Dana Knox Student Research Showcase, NJIT, Newark, New Jersey, April 2013.
K. Mahady, S. Afkhami, and L. Kondic, "Volume of Fluid Simulations of the breakup of a rivulet",
Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics (FACM) conference at NJIT, Newark, New Jersey, June 2012.
S. Afkhami, L. Kondic, and J. Diez, "Comparison of Navier-Stokes solution and lubrication approximation:
dewetting of nanoscale liquid rings", American Physical Society, 64th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Baltimore, Maryland, November, 2011.
S. Afkhami and L. Cummings, "Adaptive volume-of-fluid simulations of dynamic wetting lines", ICIAM 2011, Vancouver, Canada, July, 2011.
Y. Renardy and S. Afkhami, "Droplet Deformation in Two-Liquid Systems", 16th International Conference on Finite Elements in Flow Problems (FEF 2011), Munich, Germany, March, 2011.
S. Afkhami, A. Leshansky, and Y. Renardy, "Direct numerical simulation of confined drops and bubbles at low capillary numbers", American Physical Society, 63rdAnnual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Long Beach, California, November, 2010.
P. Yue, S. Lee, S. Afkhami, and Y. Renardy, "Numerical simulation of the motion of super paramagnetic nanoparticle clusters in a pressure-driven channel flow with an external magnet", American Physical Society, 63rdAnnual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Long Beach, California, November, 2010.
Invited Talks: (2010-)
"Some problems in numerical methods for surface tension",
Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing seminar, Temple University, March 11, 2022.
"A numerical method for modeling interfacial flows with variable surface tension",
Centre for Computational Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, June 15, 2018.
"Large scale direct dynamic contact line simulations and the forced dewetting transition", Modeling and
Simulation of Interface Dynamics in Fluids/Solids and Their Applications,
Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, May 16 2018.
(sildes)
"Large scale direct numerical simulations of dewetting transition", Dynamic Contact Lines: Progress
and Opportunities, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota, March 26, 2018.
(sildes)
"A Volume-Of-Fluid method for modeling variable surface tension flows", Mathematical Approaches to Interfacial Dynamics in Complex Fluids, Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery, June 27, 2017. (sildes)
"Numerical simulation of molten metals on nanoscale", 18th International Workshop on Numerical Methods for Non-Newtonian Flows, University of British Columbia, June 13, 2017. (sildes)
"From mesoscopic to macroscopic computations of dynamic contact lines", Workshop I: Multiphysics, Multiscale, and Coupled Problems in Subsurface Physics, IPAM, UCLA, April 3, 2017. (sildes)
"Large scale simulation of forced dewetting", The 6th Northeast Complex Fluids and Soft Matter Workshop, Stevens Institute of Technology, January 13, 2017.
"Instability of nano-films driven by fluid-solid interactions and surface tension gradient effects: A direct numerical simulation study", Université libre de Bruxelles, TIPs (Transfers, Interfaces and Processes), June 16, 2016.
"A Navier-Stokes formulation for the inclusion of fluid/solid interactions: Nano-scale film rupture, dewetting and contact angle",
Stony Brook University, September 16, 2015. (sildes)
"A mesoscopic approach to model fluid/solid interaction: The contact angle", Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert
, Pierre and Marie Curie University, July 2, 2015. (sildes)
"Modeling of interfacial dynamics of some complex fluids", Rochester Institute of Technology, March 19, 2015. (sildes)
"Can continuum theory be applied to describe flows at nanoscale?", William Paterson University, December 3, 2014. (sildes)
"An adaptive volume-of-fluid method coupled with van der Waals interaction: A mesoscopic approach to model liquid/solid interaction", SEAS SIAM, April , 2014. (sildes)
"To Jump or Not to Jump?", Brown University, October 22, 2013. (sildes)
"Direct continuum computation of nano-dewetting of liquid metals", Binghamton University, February 13, 2013. (sildes)
"Confined slender drops in a microfluidic T-junction", University of Delaware, Newark, March 13, 2012. (sildes)
"Direct numerical simulation of confined drops and bubbles at low capillary numbers", Rutgers, November 9, 2011. (sildes)
"Direct numerical simulation of confined drops and bubbles", Rutgers, November 12, 2010. (sildes)
