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Sandip Ghosal

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics

Contact

2145 Sheridan Road
Tech L495
Evanston, IL 60208-3109

847-467-5990Email Sandip Ghosal

Website

Research Projects

Departments

Mechanical Engineering

Affiliations

Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Graduate Program

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Education

M.Phil & Ph.D. Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY

B.S. Physics, Presidency College, Calcutta, India


Research Interests

Fluid mechanics; micro-scale flows, biological and soft systems, turbulence

Research webpage:  http://ghosal.mech.northwestern.edu/

Reearch Blog:   http://s-ghosal.blogspot.com


Significant Recognition

  • Fellow of the American Physical Society
  • Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor, Cambridge University (UK)
  • Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge University (UK)
  • NASA ASEE Faculty Fellowship
  • Fellow of the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, Northwestern University
  • CTR Summer research fellow, Stanford University
  • GFD fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  • Fellow of the faculty (Physics), Columbia University
  • J. Bose National Science Talent Search Award, India

Significant Professional Service

  • Chair of Acrivos dissertation award committee, American Physical Society (Division of Fluid Dynamics)
  • Editorial Advisory Board Member, The Open Mechanics Journal
  • Organizing Committee Member & Workshop Chair: IMA Thematic Year on Complex Fluids & Complex Flows

Selected Publications

  • Sherwood, J. D.; Ghosal, Sandip, Nonlinear electrophoresis of a tightly fitting sphere in a cylindrical tube, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Bell, Nicholas A.W.; Chen, Kaikai; Ghosal, Sandip; Ricci, Maria; Keyser, Ulrich F., Asymmetric dynamics of DNA entering and exiting a strongly confining nanopore, Nature communications
  • Ghosal, Sandip; Sherwood, John D., Screened Coulomb interactions with non-uniform surface charge, Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • Ghosal, Sandip; Sherwood, John D., Repulsion between Finite Charged Plates with Strongly Overlapped Electric Double Layers, Langmuir

In the Classroom

Professor Ghosal has taught Fluid Mechanics and various topics in Engineering Mathematics for graduate and undergraduate students.