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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

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, turbulence and combustion

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


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


Books:


"Electroosmotic Flow and Transport" 

By Sandip Ghosal 

(Northwestern University USA) 

Publisher: World Scientific

URL: https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/14786#t=aboutBook


Book Chapters:


“Electrokinetic Flow and Ion Transport in Nanochannels,” in Encyclopedia of Micro- and Nano-Fluidics, Ed. Li, D. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany 2008.


“Microfluidics” in Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science Ed. Meyers, R., Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany 2009


“Mathematical Modeling of Electrokinetic Effects in Micro and Nano Fluidics” Chapter 2 in Microfluidics & Microfabrication Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany 2009


“Band Broadening Theories in Capillary Electrophoresis” In: Dutta D. (eds) Microflu- idic Electrophoresis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1906. Humana Press, New York, NY 2019


Invited Reviews: 


Ghosal, S. “Fluid mechanics of electroosmotic flow and its effect on band broadening in capillary electrophoresis” Electrophoresis (2004) 25, 214-228


Ghosal, S. “Electrokinetic Flow & Dispersion in Capillary Electrophoresis”, Ann. Rev. Fluid Mech. (2006), 38, 309-338


Datta, S. & Ghosal, S. “Critical Review: Characterizing Dispersion in Microfluidic Channels” Lab on a Chip (2009), 9, 2537-2550

In the Classroom

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