Centrifugal fiber spinning has recently emerged as a highly promising alternative technique
for the production of nonwoven, ultrafine fiber mats. Due to its high production rate, it could …

The bacterial flagellum thickness is smaller than the radius of gyration of long polymer chain
molecules. The flow velocity gradient over the length of polymer chains can be nonuniform …

Our recent continuum theory for stress-gradient-induced migration of polymers in confined
solutions, including the depletion from the solid boundaries [Hajizadeh, E., and RG Larson …

We apply our recent continuum theory for stress-gradient-induced migration of polymers in
solution (G. Zhu et al., J. Rheol., 2016, 60, 327–343) to rotational shearing flow in the gap …

A polymer model given in terms of beads, interacting through Hookean springs and
hydrodynamic forces, is studied. A Brownian dynamics description of this bead-spring …

Using the two-species VCM model, we report the effects of stress-gradient-induced
migration on the elastic instabilities of a wormlike micellar solution flowing through a cross …

In this paper, we report an inertial instability that occurs in electro-osmotically driven channel
flows. We assume that the charge motion under the influence of an externally applied …

This thesis looks at two different problems in the field of partially ordered systems-modelling
biopolymers on multiple scales as well as modelling two-dimensional nematic liquid crystal …