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David Halpern
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    • Capillary Elastic Instabilities
    • Animations showing airway closure
    • Thin Film Instabilities and Pattern Formation
    • Surfactant Spreading on Thin Liquid Layers
    • Airway Reopening Mechanics
    • Evolution of Gas Bubbles in the Circulation with Application to the Bends
    • Motion of Red Blood Cells in the Microcirculation
    • Gas Dispersion
  • Graduate Students

Research Interests 

  • Capillary elastic instabilities with applications to airway closure
  • Thin film instabilities and pattern formation
  • Surfactant spreading in thin liquid layers
  • Airway reopening mechanics
  • Evolution of gas bubbles in the circulation with applications to the bends
  • Motion of red blood cells in the microcirculation
  • Gas dispersion

Graduate Students

Xuming Chen (1998)
Adam Schweiger (2013)
Yuanyuan Song (2015)
Awa Traore (2019-2024)

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  • Home
  • Research
    • Capillary Elastic Instabilities
    • Animations showing airway closure
    • Thin Film Instabilities and Pattern Formation
    • Surfactant Spreading on Thin Liquid Layers
    • Airway Reopening Mechanics
    • Evolution of Gas Bubbles in the Circulation with Application to the Bends
    • Motion of Red Blood Cells in the Microcirculation
    • Gas Dispersion
  • Graduate Students

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