Presentations and outreach

Invited talks

  •  "Fluid Mechanics in the Optic Nerve Head: Insights into the Development of Optic Disc Edema," Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 2025.
  • "Patient-specific modeling of fluid mechanics in the optic nerve head: Insights into the development of optic disc edema," 18th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, 2025.
  • "Insights into physiological multiphase transport from fluid dynamics theory and simulations,'' Center for Multiphase Flow Research and Education (CoMFRE), Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 2024.
  • "Numerical modeling of cerebrospinal fluid dynamics and transport: implications for neurological disorders," Department of Biomedical Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 2023.
  • "Numerical modeling of biological transport and fluid dynamics: from brain to bacteria,'' Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 2022.
  • "Numerical modeling of biological transport and fluid dynamics: from brain to bacteria.'' Department of Biological Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, 2022.
  • "Numerical modeling of biological transport and fluid dynamics: from brain to bacteria," Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering department seminar, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, 2022.
  • "Front propagation and feedback in convective flow fields," Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 2022.

Recent contributed talks

  • D. Asadollahi, D. Goswami, and S. Mukherjee "Modeling interstitial transport and fluid flow induced by actuation-enabled implantable medical devices," contributed talk, APS DFD 2025, Houston, TX.
  • D. Sarkar, A. J. Brunkhorst, E. Linton, and S. Mukherjee, "Hydraulic network model of fluid mechanics in the optic nerve head: insights into the development of optic disc edema," contributed talk, APS DFD 2025, Houston, TX.
  • B. Kumar and S. Mukherjee, "Modeling the effects of inner-lining geometry and motility patterns on transport in the intestinal tract," contributed talk, APS DFD 2025, Houston, TX.
  • S. Mukherjee and M.R. Paul, "Pattern-forming fronts in Rayleigh-Bénard convection," contributed talk, APS DFD 2025, Houston, TX.

     
  • Contributed talk and session chair at the Americal Physical Society Global Physics Summit 2025.
    S. Mukherjee, "Continuum modeling of transport and microbial dynamics in an idealized intestinal geometry,'' American Physical Society Joint March and April Meeting Global Physics Summit, 2025, Anaheim, CA.
     
  • The FluidTrans group attended the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS DFD) 2024 meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, and presented ongoing research (see below).
Three male attendees at APS conference
  • B. Kumar and S. Mukherjee, "Modeling flow, transport, and microbial dynamics in realistic intestinal geometries," contributed talk, APS DFD 2024, Salt Lake City, UT.
  • D. Sarkar and S. Mukherjee, "Determining the effective Taylor dispersion in an annulus with a pulsatile inner boundary," contributed talk, APS DFD 2024, Salt Lake City, UT.
  • S. Mukherjee, "Modeling interstitial fluid flow induced by traveling waves in the brain," contributed talk, APS DFD, 2024, Salt Lake City, UT.
  • S. Mukherjee, "Numerical modeling of perivascular cerebrospinal fluid-induced optic disc edema in astronauts," poster, NASA Human Research Program Investigators' Workshop, 2024, Galveston, TX.
  • S. Mukherjee and J. Tithof, "A flexible idealized model for investigating extracellular solute transport in the brain," contributed talk, APS March Meeting, 2024, Minneapolis, MN.
  • S. Mukherjee and J. Tithof, "The role of bulk flow in clearing aggregating proteins in the brain interstitium," poster, Barriers of the CNS Gordon Research Conference, 2022, New London, NH.

  • S. Mukherjee and J. Tithof, "Quantifying the relationship between spreading depolarization and the glymphatic system.'' 8th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS), 2022, Oslo, Norway.

Public outreach

  • Judge, 2025 State Science Technology Fair of Iowa, Iowa 4-H Youth Development
  • Judge, 2024 State Science Technology Fair of Iowa, Iowa 4-H Youth Development
    3 men at Hilton Colliseum
    Group members in 2025 SSFTI.