Samaneh Farokhirad

Dr. Samaneh Farokhirad is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. Prior to joining NJIT, she was a NIH Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Penn Institute for computational science at University of Pennsylvania and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Computational Multiphase Flow Dynamics Group at City College of New York (CCNY). She received her Ph.D. and M.Phil. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from CCNY, and B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology.

Her research focuses on solving problems at the interface of materials, fluid mechanics, and biological systems. Her research group will employ novel computational & theoretical models, data science tools, and deep learning techniques to explore the dynamics and transport of complex fluids and soft matter with particular emphasis on particle-laden multiphase flows and biological flows of active matter in the living systems. She has published her research in top-tier journals such as Nanoscale, Physics of Fluids, Soft Matter, as well as two comprehensive chapters published in the Elsevier describing multiscale modeling of biopolymers and nanofluid dynamics.

Ph.D.; City College of New York; Mechanical Engineering; 2015

M.Phil.; City College of New York; Mechanical Engineering; 2013

M.S.; Iran University of Science and Technology; Mechanical Engineering; 2009

B.S.; Sharif University of Technology; Mechanical Engineering; 2006

https://farokhirad.com

Computational fluid dynamics/heat transfer
Nanoparticle-based drug delivery systems
Particle-laden Multiphase flows
Deep learning and quantitative modeling
Microfluidics
Complex fluids
Soft matter

Farokhirad, Samaneh, & Ramakrishnan, N, & Eckmann, David, & Ayyaswamy, Portonovo (2019). Nanofluid Dynamics of Flexible Polymeric Nanoparticles Under Wall Confinement. Journal of Heat Transfer, 141(5), 052401.

Farokhirad, Samaneh, & Ranganathan, Abhay, & Myerson, Jacob, & Muzykantov, Vladimir , & Ayyaswamy, Portonovo , & Eckmann, David , & Radhakrishnan, Ravi (2019). Stiffness can mediate balance between hydrodynamic forces and avidity to impact the targeting of flexible polymeric nanoparticles in flow. Nanoscale, 11, 6916-6928.

Farokhirad, Samaneh, & Bradley, Ryan , & Radhakrishnan, Ravi (2019). Thermodynamic analysis of multivalent binding of functionalized nanoparticles to membrane surface reveals the importance of membrane entropy and nanoparticle entropy in adhesion of flexible nanoparticles. Soft matter, 15(45), 9271-9286.

Farokhirad, Samaneh, & Shad, Mahmood, & Lee, Taehun (2017). Coalescence-induced jumping of immersed and suspended droplets on microstructured substrates. European Journal of Computational Mechanics, 26, 205-223.

Farokhirad, Samaneh, & Lee, Taehun (2017). Computational study of microparticle effect on self-propelled jumping of droplets from superhydrophobic substrates. International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 95, 220-234.

Radhakrishnan, Ravi, & Farokhirad, Samaneh, & Eckmann, David , & Ayyaswamy, Portonovo (2019). Nanoparticle transport phenomena in confined flows, Elsevier. (pp. 55-129). Elsevier

Farokhirad, Samaneh, & Bradley, R, & Sarkar, A, & Shih, A, & Telesco, S, & Liu, Y, & Venkatramani, R, & Eckmann, D, & Ayyaswamy, P, & Radhakrishnan, R (2017). Computational methods related to molecular structure and reaction chemistry of biomaterials, P. Ducheyne, K.E. Healy, D.W. Hutmacher, D.W. Grainger, C.J. Kirkpatrick (Eds.), Elsevier. (pp. 245-267). Elsevier