Paulo E. Arratia
Assistant Professor
Phone:
215-746-2174
Email: parratia@seas.upenn.edu
Office:
275 Towne
Lab Website: www.seas.upenn.edu/~parratia
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Micro- and Nanofluidics: confinement effects, drop breakup & formation
- Soft-Condensed Matter & Complex Fluids: polymeric & biological fluids, colloidal suspensions, emulsions, granular media, biophysics
- Transport Phenomena: hydrodynamics instabilities, chaotic advection, nonlinear phenomena, rheology
EDUCATION:
- Ph.D. Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University, 2003
- M.S. Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University, 2001
- B.S. Chemical Engineering, Hampton University, 1997
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
- 2007 - present: Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Dept. Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics
- 2005 - 2007 : Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Pennsylvania
Dept. Physics & Astronomy, with Doug Durian & Jerry Gollub
- 2003 - 2005: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Haverford College
Dept. Physics & Astronomy, with Jerry Gollub
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
- “Elastic instabilities of polymeric solutions in cross-channel flow”
P.E. Arratia, C.C. Thomas. J. Diorio, J.P. Gollub, Phys. Rev. Letters, 96, 144502 (2006)
- “Predicting the progress of diffusively limited chemical reactions in the presence of chaotic advection''
P.E. Arratia, J.P. Gollub, Phys. Rev. Letters, 96, 024501 (2006)
- “The statistics of stretching distributions in experimental fluid flows exhibiting chaotic advection”
P.E. Arratia, J.P. Gollub. J. Stat. Phys., 121, 805-822, (2005)
- "A study of the mixing & segregation mechanisms in the Bohle blender via DEM simulations"
P.E. Arratia, N.H. Duong, F.J. Muzzio, Powder Tech., 164, 50-57 (2006)
- “Mixing of non-Newtonian fluids in steadily forced flows''
P.E. Arratia, T. Shinbrot, M.M. Alvarez, F.J. Muzzio, Phys. Rev. Letters, 94, 084501 (2005)
- “Three-dimensional chaotic mixing”
P.E. Arratia, T. Shinbrot, F.J. Muzzio, Phys. Fluids, 16, Gallery of Fluid Motion (2004)