Publications

Journals

H. P. Kavehpour, M. Faghri, and Y. Asako, Effects of Compressibility and Rarefaction on Gaseous Flows in Microchannels, Numerical Heat Transfer Part A-Applications, 32 (7): 677-696 (1997).
H. P. Kavehpour, B. Ovryn, and G. H. McKinley, Evaporatively-driven Marangoni Instabilities of Volatile Liquid Films Spreading on Thermally Conductive Substrates, Coll. Surf. A, 206, 409-423 (2002).
H. P. Kavehpour, B. Ovryn, and G. H. McKinley, The Microscopic and Macroscopic Structure of the Precursor Layer in Spreading Viscous Drops, Phys. Rev. Lett., 91(19), DOI 196104 (2003).
H. P. Kavehpour and G. H. McKinley, Tribo-rheometry: from Gap-Dependent Rheology to Tribology, Trib. Lett., 17 (2), 327-335 (2004).
E. M. Honey and H. P. Kavehpour, Astonishing Life of a Coalescing Drop on a Free Surface, Phys. Rev. E, 73 (2) 027301 (2006).
H. Aryafar and H. P. Kavehpour, Important Parameters in Drop Coalescence at Planar Surfaces, Phys. Fluids 18, 072105 (2006).
H. Aryafar, A. S. Lukyanets and H. P. Kavehpour, Rupture Process During Drop Coalescence, App. Math. Res. Exp, 4, Article No. 94630, 1-8, (2006).
K. Lu, E. E. Brodski, and H. P. Kavehpour, Shear-weakening of the transitional regime for granular flow, J. Fluid Mech. 587, 347-372, (2007).
H. Aryafar and H. P. Kavehpour, Electrocoalescence, Phys. Fluids. 19, Article No. 091107 (2007).
J. Ashmore, A. Q. Shen, H. P. Kavehpour, H. A. Stone and G. H. McKinley, Coating Flows of Non-Newtonian Fluids: Weakly and Strongly Elastic, J. Eng. Math. 60 (1): 17-41 (2008).
K. Lu, E. E. Brodsky and H. P. Kavehpour, A thermodynamic unification of jamming, Nature Physics, 4, 404-407 (2008).
H. Aryafar and H. P. Kavehpour, Hydrodynamic instabilities of viscous coalescing droplets, Phys. Rev. E. In Press (2008).
H. Aryafar and H. P. Kavehpour, Electro-coalescence: Effects of DC Electric Fields on Coalescence of Drops at Planar Interfaces, Langmuir. Submitted (2008).
K. Uechi, J. Zhen, B. S. Hardy, and H. P. Kavehpour, The Deformation of Flexible PDMS Microchannels Under a Pressure Driven Flow, Lab on a chip, Submitted (2008).
A. Hoang and H. P. Kavehpour, Precursor film of spreading drops: the end of the myth, Nature, Submitted (2008).
A. S. Lukyanets and H. P. Kavehpour, Effect of electric fields on the rest time of coalescing drops, Appl. Phys. Lett. Submitted (2008).

Conference Presentations

H. P. Kavehpour, M. Faghri, and Y. Asako, "Compressibility and rarefaction on gaseous flows in microchannels", ASME National Heat Transfer Conference, Dallas, TX, 1997.
H. P. Kavehpour, D. Fisher, B. Ovryn, and G. H. McKinley, "An Interferometric Investigation of Contact Line Dynamics In spreading Polymer Melts And Solutions", Fifth microgravity fluid physics and transport phenomena conference, Cleveland, OH, Aug 2000.
H. P. Kavehpour, B. Ovryn, and G. H. McKinley, "Marangoni Instabilities of Volatile Polymeric Liquid Films Spreading on Thermally Conductive Substrates", The International TRI/Princeton Workshop on Nanocapillary: Wetting of Heterogeneous Surfaces and Porous Solids, Princeton, NJ, June 2001.
H. P. Kavehpour and G. H. McKinley, "An Interferometric Investigation of Contact Line Dynamics in Spreading Polymers", Third International Symposium on Contact Angle, Wettability and Adhesion, Providence, RI, May 2002.
H. P. Kavehpour, B. Ovryn, and G. H. McKinley, "An Interferometric Investigation of Contact Line Dynamics", Sixth microgravity fluid physics and transport phenomena conference, Cleveland, OH, Aug 2002.
C. Clasen, N. Kojic, H. P. Kavehpour, and G. H. McKinley, "Mircorheology: Gap-dependent Rheology and Tribology of Complex Fluids," Proc. XIVth Int. Cong. Rheol., Seoul, S. Korea, Aug, 2004.
K. Lu, H.P. Kavehpour, and E. Brodsky "Laboratory Experiments of Silica Powder Lubrication Between Rock Faces at Coseismic Velocities", 2004 SCEC Annual Meeting, September 19-23, 2004, Palm Springs, CA, USA.
K. Lu, H.P. Kavehpour, and E. Brodsky "Laboratory Experiments of Silica Powder Lubrication Between Rock Faces at Coseismic Velocities", AGU 2004 Fall Meeting, 13-17 December 2004, San Francisco, CA, USA.
K. Lu, E. E. Brodsky, and H. P. Kavehpour "Triological Aspects and Fluidity of Dense Granular Flow", IMECE2005-80670, 2005 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 2005, Orlando, Florida USA.
H. Aryafar and H. P. Kavehpour "Rupture Process During Drop Coalescence", IMECE2005-81841, 2005 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 2005, Orlando, Florida USA.
H. Aryafar and H. P. Kavehpour "Important Parameters in Drop Coalescence at Planar Surfaces", IMECE2005-81806, 2005 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 2005, Orlando, Florida USA.
B.S. Hardy and H.P. Kavehpour "The effect of rarefaction on lubricated microfluidic flows", 13th Annual International Iranian Mechanical Engineering Conference, May 2005, Isfahan, Iran.
C. Clasen, H. P. Kavehpour, and G. H. McKinley, " From bulk mircorheology to tribology," Soc. Of Rheology 79th annual meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct, 2007.