Home
People



  Faculty

  Pirouz Kavehpour
Ph.D., MIT 2003

310-825-6494


46-147A Engineering IV, UCLA Box 951597 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597

  Undergraduate Students

  Aleksandra Sasha Lukyanets
B.S., UCLA (in progress)



Sasha is creating a technique for growing cartilage on silicon wafers.

  Helen Hani Lou
B.S., UCLA (in progress)



Works with high speed photography equipment and analysis software to gather data on coalescence.

  Maziar Hemati
B.S., UCLA (in progress)



Maziar is creating an image processing program to analyze high speed movies.

  Megan Matal
B.S., UCLA (in progress)



Studying the spreading of thin precursor films on wetted surfaces.

  Jerry Huang
B.S., UCLA (in progress)



Jerry uses a high speed camera to study interfacial fluid interactions.





  Graduate Students
  Brian Hardy
B.S., Caltech 2003; M.S., UCLA 2005; Ph.D., UCLA (in progress)



Brian studies flow control, slip-like flow, and heat transfer in microchannels.

  Hamarz Aryafar
B.S., UCSD 2004; M.S., UCLA 2006; Ph.D., UCLA (in progress)



Using a high speed camera, Hamarz studies interfacial phenomena such as partial coalescence.

  Kevin Lu
B.S., Rutgers University; M.S. & Ph.D., UCLA (in progress)



Kevin studies the rheology of sand.

  Kawika Uechi
B.S., MIT 2003; M.S. UCLA (in progress)



Kawika fabricates flexible PDMS microchannels and characterizes their deflection under pressure-driven flow.

  Joseph Attia
B.S., Caltech; M.S. & Ph.D., UCLA (in progress)



Joseph studies the biomechanics/fluidics of aneurysms.

  Janet Zhen
B.S., UCSD 2006; M.S., UCLA (in progress)



Janet quantifies the bulging of PDMS microchannels under different flow rates through the use of fluorescence microscopy.

UCLA, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department