Research Symposium

22nd annual Undergraduate Research Symposium

Brandon Vargas-Torres Poster Session 5: 1:30-2:15/Poster #17


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BIO


Being from Chapel Hill North Carolina allowed me to see firsthand, some of the best hospitals in the country. This acted to further to emphasize the passion I have in the field of medicine which was instilled in me from a young age. When I graduated it was very clear to me that the Medical Field was my ultimate goal. When my school opened a Biomedical Science program I dove in headfirst and that has persisted in this research which I believe can have an incredible impact on the medical field. I am passionate about your field of research because I believe it can find answers to things that are unknown, filling gaps in knowledge and changing the way that healthcare professionals work. As a result, I believe that any field of research offers a unique opportunity to have a phenomenal impact in this respective discipline.

Non-Newtonian fluid Interactions with Complex micro-swimmers

Authors: Brandon Vargas-Torres, Mark Sussman
Student Major: Interdisciplinary Medical Science: Health Management
Mentor: Mark Sussman
Mentor's Department: Department of Mathematics
Mentor's College: Florida State University
Co-Presenters:

Abstract


Stochastic Eulerian Lagrangian Method refers to the interaction between Eulerian background fluid motion and embedded micro-swimmers. Stochastic Eulerian refers to the fluctuating eulerian hydrodynamics and lagrangian refers to the interaction between the motion of the fluid with the corresponding motion of micro-swimmers on the fluid. This research focuses on preliminary research regarding the Eulerian Lagrangian interaction of a non-newtonian fluid motion with embedded micro-swimmers and more realistic geometry and motion. Previous research in this field (CITE) assumed Newtonian fluids with circular two dimensional or simple geometry three dimensional microswimmers. These vary in applications and methodology
The current simulation and modeling system for non-newtonian droplets through microchannels is inadequate in realistically modeling subtleties in which outside forces such as meshless particles affect underlying flow. Microfluidic devices in conjunction with numerical simulations may be used to enable realistic modeling of multiphase flows. This has a wide range of applications including areas where visco-elastic drops can be modeled more accurately with the new numerical method of general non-newtonian droplets such as blood flow.

Keywords: Mathematics, Physics, Biomedical