Talk 1: Veronika Kubyshkina

Droplet Manipulation on Microdecorated Surfaces

Abstract:

Surface wetting and droplet manipulation are of interest in a variety of fields. My research involves investigating non-spherical evaporating droplets of both pure liquids and nanofluid suspensions, deposited on micro-structured surfaces, with emphasis on the particle deposition patterns of these geometrical drops. I am additionally studying a novel wetting behaviour of binary mixture droplets and films, witnessed during my work.

Bio:

Veronika Kubyshkina is currently a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh in the Institute of Multiscale Thermofluids. She graduated with an MEng in Chemical Engineering in 2017 from the University of Edinburgh. Her research explores the relationship between surface structure and droplet wetting behaviour, with a particular interest in evaporation and binary-mixture dynamics.

Talk 2: Qi (Charles) Zhou

Image-based simulation of particulate blood flow in complex vascular networks

Abstract:

At the microcirculatory level, the particulate nature of blood (i.e. essentially a suspension of red blood cells, RBCs) non-trivially impacts the haemodynamics (e.g. wall shear stress), which has important implications for the development of functional vascular networks. The present study aims to simulate particulate blood flow in complex fluid domains reconstructed from images of mouse retina and explore the effect of RBC dynamics on vascular remodelling in developmental retinal networks.

Bio:

Charles is currently a PhD student in the School of Engineering of University of Edinburgh (at Institute of Multiscale Thermofluids). He obtained his bachelor's degree from Huazhong University of Science & Technology and MPhil degree from University of Hong Kong (both in Mechanical Engineering), followed by a research assistant post at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His PhD research focuses on computational modelling of cellular blood flow in complex vascular networks using the lattice-Boltzmann and immersed-boundary methods.