Anand Oza
Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
510 Cullimore Hall (CULM)
About Me
Dr. Oza obtained his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was most recently a postdoctoral fellow at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.
Education
Ph.D.
; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
; Mathematics
; 2014
M.A. ; University of Cambridge ; Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics ; 2009
B.A. ; Princeton University ; Chemistry ; 2004
M.A. ; University of Cambridge ; Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics ; 2009
B.A. ; Princeton University ; Chemistry ; 2004
Website
2025 Fall Courses
MATH 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
MATH 331 - INTRO PARTIAL DIFF EQ
MATH 792B - PRE DOCTORAL RESEARCH
MATH 690 - ADV APPLIED MATH III
MATH 331 - INTRO PARTIAL DIFF EQ
MATH 792B - PRE DOCTORAL RESEARCH
MATH 690 - ADV APPLIED MATH III
Past Courses
MATH 111: CALCULUS I
MATH 211: CALCULUS III A
MATH 331: INTRODUCTION TO PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
MATH 337: LINEAR ALGEBRA
MATH 689: ADV APPLIED MATH II
MATH 689: ADVANCED APPLIED MATHEMATICS II: ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
MATH 690: ADV APPLIED MATH III
MATH 690: ADVANCED APPLIED MATHEMATICS III: PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
MATH 211: CALCULUS III A
MATH 331: INTRODUCTION TO PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
MATH 337: LINEAR ALGEBRA
MATH 689: ADV APPLIED MATH II
MATH 689: ADVANCED APPLIED MATHEMATICS II: ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
MATH 690: ADV APPLIED MATH III
MATH 690: ADVANCED APPLIED MATHEMATICS III: PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
Research Interests
Dr. Oza is interested in fluid mechanics and nonlinear dynamics, specifically with applications in soft matter physics and biology. His research utilizes a combination of analytical techniques and numerical simulations, typically in collaboration with experimentalists.
Journal Article
Lauren Barnes, Boris Khusid, Lou Kondic, William V. Meyer, Anand U. Oza.
2025. "Phase-field modeling of colloid-polymer mixtures in microgravity."
npj Microgravity , vol. 11 , no. 1 .
Lauren Barnes, Boris Khusid, Lou Kondic, William V Meyer, Anand U. Oza. 2025. "Phase-field modeling of colloid-polymer mixtures in microgravity." npj Microgravity , vol. 11 , pp. 63, 13.
Monika Nitsche, Anand U. Oza, Michael Siegel. 2025. "On the stability of an in-line formation of hydrodynamically interacting flapping plates." Journal of Fluid Mechanics , vol. 1013 .
Monika Nitsche, Anand U. Oza, Michael S. Siegel. 2025. "On the stability of an in-line formation of hydrodynamically interacting flapping plates." Journal of Fluid Mechanics , vol. 1013 , pp. A14 (32 pages).
Giuseppe Pucci, Antoine Bellaigue, Alessia Cirimele, Giuseppe Alì, Anand U. Oza. 2025. "Single-particle diffraction with a hydrodynamic pilot-wave model." Physical Review E , vol. 111 , no. L033101 .
Lauren Barnes, Boris Khusid, Lou Kondic, William V Meyer, Anand U. Oza. 2025. "Phase-field modeling of colloid-polymer mixtures in microgravity." npj Microgravity , vol. 11 , pp. 63, 13.
Monika Nitsche, Anand U. Oza, Michael Siegel. 2025. "On the stability of an in-line formation of hydrodynamically interacting flapping plates." Journal of Fluid Mechanics , vol. 1013 .
Monika Nitsche, Anand U. Oza, Michael S. Siegel. 2025. "On the stability of an in-line formation of hydrodynamically interacting flapping plates." Journal of Fluid Mechanics , vol. 1013 , pp. A14 (32 pages).
Giuseppe Pucci, Antoine Bellaigue, Alessia Cirimele, Giuseppe Alì, Anand U. Oza. 2025. "Single-particle diffraction with a hydrodynamic pilot-wave model." Physical Review E , vol. 111 , no. L033101 .
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Hung D Nguyen, Anand U. Oza.
2024. "The invariant measure of a walking droplet in hydrodynamic pilot–wave theory."
Nonlinearity , vol. 37 , no. 9 , pp. 095009.
Anand U. Oza, Giuseppe Pucci, Ian Ho, Daniel M. Harris. 2023. "Theoretical modeling of capillary surfer interactions on a vibrating fluid bath." Physical Review Fluids , vol. 8 , no. 114011 .
Ian Ho, Giuseppe Pucci, Anand U. Oza, Daniel M. Harris. 2023. "Capillary surfers: Wave-driven particles at a vibrating fluid interface." Physical Review Fluids , vol. 8 , no. 11 .
Peter J. Baddoo, Nicholas J. Moore, Anand U. Oza, Darren G. Crowdy. 2023. "Generalization of waving‐plate theory to multiple interacting swimmers." Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics , vol. 76 , no. 12 , pp. 3811-3851.
Quynh M. Nguyen, Anand U. Oza, Joanna Abouezzi, Guanhua Sun, Stephen Childress, Christina Frederick, Leif Ristroph. 2021. "Flow Rectification in Loopy Network Models of Bird Lungs." Physical Review Letters , vol. 126 , no. 114501 , pp. 6.
Anand U. Oza, David C. Venerus. 2021. "The dynamics of parallel-plate and cone–plate flows." Physics of Fluids , vol. 33 , no. 2 , pp. 13.
John W Bush, Anand U. Oza. 2020. "Hydrodynamic quantum analogs." Reports on Progress in Physics , vol. 84 , no. 1 , pp. 017001.
Lauren Barnes, Giuseppe Pucci, Anand U. Oza. 2020. "Resonant interactions in bouncing droplet chains." Comptes Rendus. Mécanique , vol. 348 , no. 6-7 , pp. 573-589.
Anand U. Oza, Leif Ristroph, Michael J. Shelley. 2019. "Lattices of Hydrodynamically Interacting Flapping Swimmers." Physical Review X , vol. 9 , no. 4 .
Anand U. Oza, Rodolfo R. Rosales, John W. Bush. 2018. "Hydrodynamic spin states." Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science , vol. 28 , no. 096106 , pp. 6.
Likhit Ganedi, Anand U. Oza, Michael Shelley, Leif Ristroph. 2018. "Equilibrium Shapes and Their Stability for Liquid Films in Fast Flows." Physical Review Letters , vol. 121 , no. 094501 , pp. 4.
Juncal Arbelaiz, Anand U. Oza, John W. Bush. 2018. "Promenading pairs of walking droplets: Dynamics and stability." Physical Review Fluids , vol. 3 , no. 1 , pp. 18.
Kristin M. Kurianski, Anand U. Oza, John W. Bush. 2017. "Simulations of pilot-wave dynamics in a simple harmonic potential." Physical Review Fluids , vol. 2 , no. 11 .
Anand U. Oza, Emmanuel Siefert, Daniel M Harris, Jan Molacek, John Bush. 2017. "Orbiting pairs of walking droplets: Dynamics and stability." Physical Review Fluids , vol. 2(5) , no. 053601 , pp. 19.
Sophie Ramananarivo, Fang Fang, Anand U. Oza, Jun Zhang, Leif Ristroph. 2016. "Flow interactions lead to orderly formations of flapping wings in forward flight." Physical Review Fluids (Rapid Communications) , vol. 1 , no. 071201(R) , pp. 9.
Anand U. Oza, Sebastian Heidenreich, Jorn Dunkel. 2016. "Generalized Swift-Hohenberg models for dense active suspensions ." European Physical Journal E , vol. 39 , no. 97 , pp. 8.
Lucas D. Tambasco, Daniel M. Harris, Anand U. Oza, Rodolfo R. Rosales, John W. Bush. 2016. "The onset of chaos in orbital pilot-wave dynamics." Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science , vol. 26 , no. 103107 , pp. 10.
Anand U. Oza, Jörn Dunkel. 2016. "Antipolar ordering of topological defects in active liquid crystals." New Journal of Physics , vol. 18 , no. 9 , pp. 093006.
Matthieu Labousse, Anand U. Oza, Stephane Perrard, John Bush. 2016. "Pilot-wave dynamics in a harmonic potential: Quantization and stability of circular orbits." Physical Review E , vol. 93 , no. 033122 , pp. 6.
John W. Bush, Anand U. Oza, Jan Moláček. 2014. "The wave-induced added mass of walking droplets." Journal of Fluid Mechanics , vol. 755 , no. R7 , pp. 11.
Anand U. Oza, Øistein Wind-Willassen, Daniel M. Harris, Rodolfo R. Rosales, John W. Bush. 2014. "Pilot-wave hydrodynamics in a rotating frame: Exotic orbits." Physics of Fluids , vol. 26 , no. 082101 , pp. 17.
Anand U. Oza, Daniel M. Harris, Rodolfo R. Rosales, John W. Bush. 2014. "Pilot-wave dynamics in a rotating frame: on the emergence of orbital quantization." Journal of Fluid Mechanics , vol. 744 , pp. 404-429.
Anand U. Oza. 2013. "A trajectory equation for walking droplets: hydrodynamic pilot-wave theory." Journal of Fluid Mechanics , vol. 737 , pp. 552-570.
Anand U. Oza, Alexander Pechen, Jason Dominy, Vincent Beltrani, Katharine Moore, Herschel Rabitz. 2009. "Optimization search effort over the control landscapes for open quantum systems with Kraus-map evolution." Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical/IOP Publishing , vol. 42 , no. 20 , pp. 22.
Konstantinos S Kalogerakis, Jochen Marschall, Anand U. Oza, Patricia A Engel, Rhiannon T Meharchand, Michael H Wong. 2008. "The coating hypothesis for ammonia ice particles in Jupiter: laboratory experiments and optical modeling." Icarus/Elsevier , vol. 196 , no. 1 , pp. 202-215.
Anand U. Oza, Giuseppe Pucci, Ian Ho, Daniel M. Harris. 2023. "Theoretical modeling of capillary surfer interactions on a vibrating fluid bath." Physical Review Fluids , vol. 8 , no. 114011 .
Ian Ho, Giuseppe Pucci, Anand U. Oza, Daniel M. Harris. 2023. "Capillary surfers: Wave-driven particles at a vibrating fluid interface." Physical Review Fluids , vol. 8 , no. 11 .
Peter J. Baddoo, Nicholas J. Moore, Anand U. Oza, Darren G. Crowdy. 2023. "Generalization of waving‐plate theory to multiple interacting swimmers." Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics , vol. 76 , no. 12 , pp. 3811-3851.
Quynh M. Nguyen, Anand U. Oza, Joanna Abouezzi, Guanhua Sun, Stephen Childress, Christina Frederick, Leif Ristroph. 2021. "Flow Rectification in Loopy Network Models of Bird Lungs." Physical Review Letters , vol. 126 , no. 114501 , pp. 6.
Anand U. Oza, David C. Venerus. 2021. "The dynamics of parallel-plate and cone–plate flows." Physics of Fluids , vol. 33 , no. 2 , pp. 13.
John W Bush, Anand U. Oza. 2020. "Hydrodynamic quantum analogs." Reports on Progress in Physics , vol. 84 , no. 1 , pp. 017001.
Lauren Barnes, Giuseppe Pucci, Anand U. Oza. 2020. "Resonant interactions in bouncing droplet chains." Comptes Rendus. Mécanique , vol. 348 , no. 6-7 , pp. 573-589.
Anand U. Oza, Leif Ristroph, Michael J. Shelley. 2019. "Lattices of Hydrodynamically Interacting Flapping Swimmers." Physical Review X , vol. 9 , no. 4 .
Anand U. Oza, Rodolfo R. Rosales, John W. Bush. 2018. "Hydrodynamic spin states." Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science , vol. 28 , no. 096106 , pp. 6.
Likhit Ganedi, Anand U. Oza, Michael Shelley, Leif Ristroph. 2018. "Equilibrium Shapes and Their Stability for Liquid Films in Fast Flows." Physical Review Letters , vol. 121 , no. 094501 , pp. 4.
Juncal Arbelaiz, Anand U. Oza, John W. Bush. 2018. "Promenading pairs of walking droplets: Dynamics and stability." Physical Review Fluids , vol. 3 , no. 1 , pp. 18.
Kristin M. Kurianski, Anand U. Oza, John W. Bush. 2017. "Simulations of pilot-wave dynamics in a simple harmonic potential." Physical Review Fluids , vol. 2 , no. 11 .
Anand U. Oza, Emmanuel Siefert, Daniel M Harris, Jan Molacek, John Bush. 2017. "Orbiting pairs of walking droplets: Dynamics and stability." Physical Review Fluids , vol. 2(5) , no. 053601 , pp. 19.
Sophie Ramananarivo, Fang Fang, Anand U. Oza, Jun Zhang, Leif Ristroph. 2016. "Flow interactions lead to orderly formations of flapping wings in forward flight." Physical Review Fluids (Rapid Communications) , vol. 1 , no. 071201(R) , pp. 9.
Anand U. Oza, Sebastian Heidenreich, Jorn Dunkel. 2016. "Generalized Swift-Hohenberg models for dense active suspensions ." European Physical Journal E , vol. 39 , no. 97 , pp. 8.
Lucas D. Tambasco, Daniel M. Harris, Anand U. Oza, Rodolfo R. Rosales, John W. Bush. 2016. "The onset of chaos in orbital pilot-wave dynamics." Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science , vol. 26 , no. 103107 , pp. 10.
Anand U. Oza, Jörn Dunkel. 2016. "Antipolar ordering of topological defects in active liquid crystals." New Journal of Physics , vol. 18 , no. 9 , pp. 093006.
Matthieu Labousse, Anand U. Oza, Stephane Perrard, John Bush. 2016. "Pilot-wave dynamics in a harmonic potential: Quantization and stability of circular orbits." Physical Review E , vol. 93 , no. 033122 , pp. 6.
John W. Bush, Anand U. Oza, Jan Moláček. 2014. "The wave-induced added mass of walking droplets." Journal of Fluid Mechanics , vol. 755 , no. R7 , pp. 11.
Anand U. Oza, Øistein Wind-Willassen, Daniel M. Harris, Rodolfo R. Rosales, John W. Bush. 2014. "Pilot-wave hydrodynamics in a rotating frame: Exotic orbits." Physics of Fluids , vol. 26 , no. 082101 , pp. 17.
Anand U. Oza, Daniel M. Harris, Rodolfo R. Rosales, John W. Bush. 2014. "Pilot-wave dynamics in a rotating frame: on the emergence of orbital quantization." Journal of Fluid Mechanics , vol. 744 , pp. 404-429.
Anand U. Oza. 2013. "A trajectory equation for walking droplets: hydrodynamic pilot-wave theory." Journal of Fluid Mechanics , vol. 737 , pp. 552-570.
Anand U. Oza, Alexander Pechen, Jason Dominy, Vincent Beltrani, Katharine Moore, Herschel Rabitz. 2009. "Optimization search effort over the control landscapes for open quantum systems with Kraus-map evolution." Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical/IOP Publishing , vol. 42 , no. 20 , pp. 22.
Konstantinos S Kalogerakis, Jochen Marschall, Anand U. Oza, Patricia A Engel, Rhiannon T Meharchand, Michael H Wong. 2008. "The coating hypothesis for ammonia ice particles in Jupiter: laboratory experiments and optical modeling." Icarus/Elsevier , vol. 196 , no. 1 , pp. 202-215.
COLLAPSE
Conference Abstract
"Waves and interaction modes of capillary surfers"
April (2nd Quarter/Spring), 2025.
"Data-driven modeling of active nematics via sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics"
Euromech, March, 2025.
"On the stability of interacting flapping plates"
American Physical Society, November, 2023.
"The role of concentration-dependent viscosity on the dynamics of colloid-polymer mixtures"
American Society for Gravitational and Space Research.
"Data-driven continuum modeling of active nematics via sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics"
American Physical Society.
April (2nd Quarter/Spring), 2025.
"Data-driven modeling of active nematics via sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics"
Euromech, March, 2025.
"On the stability of interacting flapping plates"
American Physical Society, November, 2023.
"The role of concentration-dependent viscosity on the dynamics of colloid-polymer mixtures"
American Society for Gravitational and Space Research.
"Data-driven continuum modeling of active nematics via sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics"
American Physical Society.
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"Vortex sheet simulations of interacting flapping plates"
American Physical Society.
"Data-driven continuum modeling of active nematics via sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics"
American Physical Society.
"Phase-field modeling of colloid-polymer mixtures in microgravity"
American Physical Society.
"Phase-Field Modeling of Colloid-Polymer Mixtures in Microgravity"
American Physical Society, November, 2021.
"Bound states of asynchronously flapping tandem wings"
American Physical Society, November, 2021.
"Exploring diffraction with a pilot-wave model"
Bulletin of the American Physical Society: APS March Meeting 2021, March, 2021.
"Resonance, instability and dynamical stabilization in bouncing droplet chains"
American Physical Society, November, 2020.
"Schooling of tandem flapping wings"
American Physical Society, November, 2020.
"Emergent circulation in the loopy network of bird lungs"
Bulletin of the American Physical Society: 73rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November, 2020.
"Schooling of tandem flapping wings"
Bulletin of the American Physical Society: 73rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November, 2020.
"Exact solutions for the unsteady motion of multiple wings in an inviscid fluid"
Bulletin of the American Physical Society: 73rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November, 2020.
"Resonance, Instability and Dynamical Stabilization in Bouncing Droplet Chains"
Bulletin of the American Physical Society: 73rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November, 2020.
"Modelling of colloid-polymer mixtures in microgravity"
American Society for Gravitational and Space Research, November, 2020.
"Continuum modeling of colloid-polymer mixtures in microgravity"
Bulletin of the American Physical Society: American Physical Society March Meeting 2020, March 2-6, Denver, CO, March, 2020.
American Physical Society.
"Data-driven continuum modeling of active nematics via sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics"
American Physical Society.
"Phase-field modeling of colloid-polymer mixtures in microgravity"
American Physical Society.
"Phase-Field Modeling of Colloid-Polymer Mixtures in Microgravity"
American Physical Society, November, 2021.
"Bound states of asynchronously flapping tandem wings"
American Physical Society, November, 2021.
"Exploring diffraction with a pilot-wave model"
Bulletin of the American Physical Society: APS March Meeting 2021, March, 2021.
"Resonance, instability and dynamical stabilization in bouncing droplet chains"
American Physical Society, November, 2020.
"Schooling of tandem flapping wings"
American Physical Society, November, 2020.
"Emergent circulation in the loopy network of bird lungs"
Bulletin of the American Physical Society: 73rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November, 2020.
"Schooling of tandem flapping wings"
Bulletin of the American Physical Society: 73rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November, 2020.
"Exact solutions for the unsteady motion of multiple wings in an inviscid fluid"
Bulletin of the American Physical Society: 73rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November, 2020.
"Resonance, Instability and Dynamical Stabilization in Bouncing Droplet Chains"
Bulletin of the American Physical Society: 73rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November, 2020.
"Modelling of colloid-polymer mixtures in microgravity"
American Society for Gravitational and Space Research, November, 2020.
"Continuum modeling of colloid-polymer mixtures in microgravity"
Bulletin of the American Physical Society: American Physical Society March Meeting 2020, March 2-6, Denver, CO, March, 2020.
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Newsletter
"The Loopy Fluid Dynamics of Bird Lungs"
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, September, 2021.
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, September, 2021.