Flow physics; physiological and biomedical flows; cardiovascular and cerebrovascular phenomena; computational fluid and solid mechanics; quantitative image processing
Assistant Professor Debanjan Mukherjee's inter-disciplinary research group is broadly interested in unraveling the fundamental behavior of complex flow and transport phenomena. Specifically, his research program focuses on understanding the flow, transport, and mechanical underpinnings of physiological processes and on leveraging this understanding to develop tools for disease biomechanics, medical device design, treatment planning, and drug delivery. A primary application area is in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular processes in healthy and diseased states, where the group conducts targeted investigations on diseases like stroke, thrombosis, and embolisms. The tools and technologies developed also have applications broadly in other physiological and disease phenomena. Finally, at a more fundamental level, they are interested in various theoretical and numerical aspects of flow physics, particularly involving particle-based and particle-laden flows, with cross-cutting applications in biomedical and advanced manufacturing systems.
