Anand U. Oza

Broadly speaking, I am a theorist interested in fluid mechanics and nonlinear dynamics, with applications to soft matter physics and biology. My research utilizes a combination of analytical techniques and numerical simulations, and I collaborate with experimentalists whenever possible.

CV

• Since Fall 2017: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
• 2014-2017: NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
• 2014: PhD, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • Co-advised by John Bush and Ruben Rosales
  • Supported by NSF and Hertz Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships
• 2009: Master of Advanced Study (MASt), Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), University of Cambridge
  • Supported by Churchill scholarship
• 2008: Bachelor of Arts (A.B.), Chemistry / Applied & Computational Mathematics, Princeton University

Publications

Bubbles

• Equilibrium shapes and their stability for liquid films in fast flows
  L. Ganedi, A. U. Oza, M. Shelley & L. Ristroph
  Physical Review Letters, 121: 094501, 2018.

Schooling of flapping swimmers

• Lattices of hydrodynamically interacting flapping swimmers
  A. U. Oza, L. Ristroph & M. J. Shelley
  Submitted, 2019

• Flow interactions lead to orderly formations of flapping wings in forward flight
  S. Ramananarivo, F. Fang*, A. U. Oza*, J. Zhang & L. Ristroph
  Physical Review Fluids (Rapid Communications), 1: 071201(R), 2016

Active nematic liquid crystals

• Generalized Swift-Hohenberg models for dense active suspensions
  A. U. Oza, S. Heidenreich & J. Dunkel
  European Physical Journal E, 39: 97, 2016
  Topical Collection: Nonequilibrium Collective Dynamics in Condensed and Biological Matter

• Antipolar ordering of topological defects in active liquid crystals
  A. U. Oza & J. Dunkel
  New Journal of Physics, 18: 093006, 2016

Pilot-wave dynamics of walking droplets

• Hydrodynamic spin states
  A. U. Oza, R. R. Rosales & J. W. M. Bush
  Chaos, 28: 096106, 2018.

• Promenading pairs of walking droplets: Dynamics and stability
  J. Arbelaiz, A. U. Oza & J. W. M. Bush
  Physical Review Fluids, 3: 013604, 2018.

• Simulations of pilot-wave dynamics in a simple harmonic potential
  K. M. Kurianski, A. U. Oza & J. W. M. Bush
  Physical Review Fluids, 2: 113602, 2017

• Orbiting pairs of walking droplets: Dynamics and stability
  A. U. Oza, E. Siéfert, D. M. Harris, J. Moláček & J. W. M. Bush
  Physical Review Fluids, 2: 053601, 2017
  Featured on APS Physics Central

• The onset of chaos in orbital pilot-wave dynamics
  L. D. Tambasco, D. M. Harris, A. U. Oza, R. R. Rosales & J. W. M. Bush
  Chaos, 26:103107, 2016

• Pilot-wave dynamics in a harmonic potential: Quantization and stability of circular orbits
  M. Labousse, A. U. Oza, S. Perrard & J. W. M. Bush
  Physical Review E, 93: 033122, 2016

• The wave-induced added mass of walking droplets
  J. W. M. Bush, A. U. Oza & J. Moláček
  Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Rapids), 755: R7, 2014

• Pilot-wave hydrodynamics in a rotating frame: Exotic orbits
  A. U. Oza, Ø. Wind-Willassen, D. M. Harris, R. R. Rosales & J. W. M. Bush
  Physics of Fluids, 26: 082101, 2014

• Pilot-wave dynamics in a rotating frame: on the emergence of orbital quantization
  A. U. Oza, D. M. Harris, R. R. Rosales & J. W. M. Bush
  Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 744: 404-429, 2014

• A trajectory equation for walking droplets: hydrodynamic pilot-wave theory
  A. U. Oza, R. R. Rosales & J. W. M. Bush
  Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 737: 552-570, 2013
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Quantum control and quantum information

• Structure of unital maps and the asymptotic Birkhoff conjecture
  Talk by Peter Shor on joint work
  Steklov Mathematical Institute, 2010

• Optimization search effort over the control landscapes for open quantum systems with Kraus-map evolution
  A. U. Oza, A. Pechen, V. Beltrani, K. Moore & H. Rabitz
  Journal of Physics A, 42: 205305, 2009

Spectroscopy in astrophysics

• The coating hypothesis for ammonia ice particles in Jupiter: laboratory experiments and optical modeling
  K. S. Kalogerakis, J. Marschall, A. U. Oza, P. A. Engel, R. T. Meharchand & M. H. Wong
  Icarus, 196(1): 202-215, 2008

Teaching

NJIT

• Spring 2019: Instructor, Advanced Applied Math II: Ordinary Differential Equations (MATH 689, graduate)

• Fall 2018: Instructor, Advanced Applied Math III: Partial Differential Equations (MATH 690, graduate)

• Spring 2018: Instructor, Advanced Applied Math II: Ordinary Differential Equations (MATH 689, graduate)

• Fall 2017: Instructor, Calculus I (MATH 111, undergraduate)

Courant Institute

• Spring 2017: Instructor, Math for Economics II (MAT 212, undergraduate)

• Fall 2016: Instructor, Calculus II (MAT 122, undergraduate)

• Spring 2016: Instructor, Calculus II (MAT 122, undergraduate)

• Fall 2015: Instructor, Calculus II (MAT 122, undergraduate)

MIT

• Summer 2014: Instructor, Computational Science and Engineering I (18.085, graduate)

• Spring 2013: Recitation instructor, Complex Variables with Applications (18.04, undergraduate).

Princeton University

• Summer 2007: Tutor, Calculus I, Freshman Scholars' Institute (FSI).