Our focus is on systems that are complex due to rheological properties of the considered fluids, complicated flow geometry, complex multiphysics aspects of the forces governing the flows, or a combination of these factors. We carry out modeling and simulations of such problems, as well as developing appropriate computational methods. In some cases, we also carry out physical experiments in our Undergraduate Capstone Laboratory in coordination with the Capstone Course taken by our applied mathematics majors. Our work is carried out in collaboration with mathematicians and scientists from a number of different institutions (listed on our Research pages).
Our research is supported by the Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics, the Department of Mathematical Sciences, and by grants from a number of federal research agencies.
Recent News
May 2024: Linda Cummings is to present an invited talk at the SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science. Congratulations!
Nov 2023: Linda Cummings has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Congratulations, well deserved!
Sep 2023: Jesus Marcos from the University of Badajos, Spain, will be joining the group for the Fall semester 2023: Welcome Jesus!
Sep 2023: Congratulations to Associate Professor Anand Oza on promotion and tenure. Well deserved!
Jul 2023: Congratulations to Lauren Barnes on successfully defending her doctoral thesis!
Jul 2023: Congratulations to Rituparna Basak on successfully defending her doctoral thesis!
Jun 2023: Congratulations to Prof. Kondic (PI) and Prof. Cummings (co-PI) for winning a NJIT Faculty Seed Grant Award for their project "Acoustofluidics for cleaning contaminated fluids."
Sep 2022: Dr. Binan Gu has moved to Worcester to take up a position as Postdoctoral Researcher at Worcester Polytechnic Institute - congratulations, Binan!
Sep 2022: Congratulations to Joseph D'Addessa, Mark Fasano and Matt Illingworth on successfully passing their oral Qualifying Exams!
Aug 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Cummings and Dr. Kondic on their new NSF funding on "Network models for membrane filtration", in collaboration with Dr. Uwe Beuscher at W.L. Gore & Associates!
Jul 2022: Congratulations to Binan Gu on successfully defending his doctoral thesis!
Apr 2022: Congratulations to Prof. Cummings (PI) and Prof. Kondic (co-PI) for winning a NJIT Faculty Seed Grant Award, for their project "Assembly of Nanoscale Liquid Metal Alloys."
Nov 2021: Congratulations to Lauren Barnes for winning the 8th Annual Student Investigator Space Flight Award at the American Society for Gravitational and Space Science Research (ASGSR) meeting, for her poster presentation entitled "Phase-Field Modeling of Colloid-Polymer Mixtures in Microgravity!
Oct 2021: Congratulations to Prof. Kondic on his recent work on frost, featured in APS Physics Magazine! link
Sep 2021: Dr. Yixuan Sun has started his new position as Industry Engagement Officer & Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford. Congratulations, Yixuan!
Sep 2021: Congratulations to Prof. Oza on his recent work on loopy fluid dynamics in bird lungs, featured in SIAM news! link
Jul 2021: Congratulations to Yixuan Sun on his successful doctoral thesis defense!
Jun 2021: Photos from the group outing in New Paltz in June 2021! link
Jun 2021: Ryan Allaire has accepted an assistant professor position at the West Point Academy. Congratulations Ryan!
Jun 2021: Congratulations to Ryan Allaire for his successful thesis defense on June 15th.
Apr 2021: Congratulations to Chao Cheng for his successful thesis defense on April 21.
Apr 2021: Congratulations to Prof. Kondic for the recipient of the 2020 Board of Overseers Excellence in Research Prize and Medal! link
Mar 2021: Congratulations to Prof. Oza for Editor's Suggestion by PRL and the subject of a Focus story for his PRL paper!
Mar 2021: Congratulations to Prof. Oza on press release at NJIT, NYU, APS, NSF respectively for his PRL paper! link
Feb 2021: Congratulations to Prof. Oza on his featured publication in Physics of Fluids. link
Jan 2021: Ivana Seric, our alumni, about data revolution in NBA. link
Oct 2020: Link to Professor Cummings' talk on Mathematical Modeling Seminar at RIT. link
Oct 2020: Link to Professor Oza's talk at Imperial College. link
Apr 2020: Congratulations to Yixuan Sun for Editor's Suggestion for his paper in Phys. Rev. Fluids. link
Mar 2020: Link to Professor Kondic presentation at Granular Matter conference at U. Twente on Quantify particle scale interactions in granular matter. link
Feb 2020: Link to the post describing launch of Space Station colloids experiment. link
Jan 2020: Congratulations to Prof. Oza on press coverage for his PRX paper. link
Dec 2019: Link to Professor Cummings presentation at ESI Workshop in Vienna on Modeling and large-scale simulation of the film liquid crystal flows link
Nov 2019: Congratulations to Prof. Oza on press coverage in NJIT for his PRX paper. link
Oct 2019: Link to a PhD project description: Avalanches in granular matter. link
Oct 2019: Link to a PhD project description: Breakup of multicomponent fluid films. link
Aug 2019: Here is a link to Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech. paper by Prof. Kondic and collaborators. link
Jun 2019: Congratulations to Prof. Kondic for promotion to the rank of Distinguished Professor.
Nov 2018: Congratulations to Prof. Kondic, Prof. Cummings and Dr. Lam on press coverage for their paper on Journal of Fluid Mechanics! link
Sep 2018: Congratulations to Prof. Oza on press coverage in NYU for his PRL paper! link
Jul 2018: NJIT reports on a CFSM research project! link
Jul 2018: Congratulations to Profs. Cummings and Prof. Kondic on new NSF research award for study of Liquid Crystals!
May 2018: Photos from the 2018 commencement. link
Apr 2018: Congratulations to Michael Lam for his successful thesis defense on April 24th!
Apr 2018: Congratulations to Valeria Barra for her successful thesis defense on April 24th!
Apr 2018: Congratulations to Ryan Allaire for winning DOE SCGSR Fellowship. Ryan will spend 3 months at ORNL.
Jan 2018: Ivana Seric' paper in Physics of Fluids was elected for Scilight. link
Nov 2017: Lou Kondic has been awarded Luis Federico Leloir award for his contribution to development of Argentine
science. link
Oct 2017: Linda Cummings has been awarded funds to run an Isaac Newton
Institute 4-month programme on "Complex Analysis: techniques, applications and computations". link
Oct 2017: Lou Kondic has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Aug 2017: Ivana Seric has accepted a position with the Philadelphia 76ers as a Data Scientist in Analytics and Strategy - Congratulations, Ivana!
Aug 2017: Ivana Seric defended her thesis on August 1st in Cullimore 611.
Jul 2017: Michael Lam spoke at the FUNWAVE-TVD workshop in Newark, DE as part of his internship at the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory. link
Jun 2017: Pejman Sanaei defended his thesis on June 16th in Cullimore 611.
Jun 2017: Michael Lam spent summer 2017 as an intern at the Coastal Hydraulics Lab in Mississippi, funded by Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education! link
May 2017: Linda Cummings was an invited speaker at the Applied and Computational Complex Analysis workshop to be held at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh, UK.
Apr 2017: Nanyi Dong defended his thesis on April 26th in Cullimore 611.
Mar 2017: Pejman Sanaei has accepted a position at the Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences, NYU, starting September 2017 - Congratulations, Pejman!
Feb 2017: Pejman Sanaei organized and spoke in minisymposium on Small-scale flows with
industrial applications: Modeling and simulations at the SIAM 2017 CSE meeting. link
Feb 2017: Michael Lam spoke in Liquid Crystal minisymposium and Ivana Seric spoke in
Computational Fluid Dynamic minisymposium
at the SIAM 2017 CSE meeting. link
Dec 2016: Valeria Barra completed an intern at Pixar Studios! link
Nov 2016: Group members William Batson, Michael Lam, Pejman Sanaei, and Ivana Seric present their work at the 2016 APS Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting. link