Amir A. Pahlavan

Website:

Pahlavan Research Lab

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

Room / Office: Mason M2

Office Address:

9 Hillhouse Avenue

New Haven, CT 06511

Mailing Address:

P.O. Box 27394

New Haven, CT 06516

Email: amir.pahlavan@yale.edu

Degrees:

Ph.D., MIT
M.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.S., University of Tehran

Interests:

Fluid mechanics, Soft matter, Biophysics, Transport phenomena

Selected Publications:

A. A. Pahlavan, L. Yang, C. D. Bain, and H. A. Stone, Evaporation of Binary-Mixture Liquid Droplets: The Formation of Picoliter Pancakelike Shapes, Physical Review Letters, 2021
P. de Anna, A. A. Pahlavan, Y. Yawata, R. Stocker, R. Juanes, Chemotaxis under flow disorder shapes microbial dispersion in porous media, Nature Physics, 2020.
C. Kurzthaler, L. Zhu, A. A. Pahlavan, H. A. Stone, Particle motion nearby rough surfaces, Physical Review Fluids, 2020.
B. K. Primkulov, A. A. Pahlavan, L. Bourouiba, J. W. M. Bush, R. Juanes, Spin coating of capillary tubes, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020.
A. A. Pahlavan, H. A. Stone, G. H. McKinley, R. Juanes, Restoring universality to the pinch-off of a bubble, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019.
B. K. Primkulov, A. A. Pahlavan, X. Fu, B. Zhao, C. W. MacMinn, R. Juanes, Signatures of fluid–fluid displacement in porous media: wettability, patterns and pressures, Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Rapids), 2019.
B. Zhao, A. A. Pahlavan, L Cueto-Felgueroso, R Juanes, Forced wetting transition and bubble pinch-off in a capillary tube, Physical Review Letters, 2018.
A. A. Pahlavan, L. Cueto-Felgueroso, A. E. Hosoi, G. H. McKinley, R Juanes, Thin films in partial wetting: Stability, dewetting and coarsening, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018.
A. A. Pahlavan, L. Cueto-Felgueroso, G. H. McKinley, R. Juanes, Thin films in partial wetting: internal selection of contact-line dynamics, Physical Review Letters, 2015.
B. Ezhilan, A. A. Pahlavan, D. Saintillan, Chaotic dynamics and oxygen transport in thin films of aerotactic bacteria, Physics of Fluids, 2012.
A. A. Pahlavan, J. B. Freund, Effect of solid properties on slip at a fluid-solid interface, Physical Review E., 2011.
A. A. Pahlavan, D. Saintillan, Instability regimes in flowing suspensions of swimming micro-organisms, Physics of Fluids, 2011.