Research

Fluid flow and transport in the brain

  • Modeling cerebrospinal fluid flow, interstitial fluid flow, and transport of waste proteins responsible for Alzheimer's disease in the brain cortex (Mukherjee & Tithof, PRE, 2022; Watkins, Mukherjee & Tithof, PRE, 2024).

  • Modeling how ionic depolarization waves during seizures, stroke, and migraine drive cerebrospinal fluid flow in the brain (Mukherjee et al., Sci. Rep., 2023).

 

Interactions between fluid flow and bacteria

  • Modeling transport in flows involving bacteria and biofilms (Tai et al., PNAS, 2022)

Front propagation in complex fluid flow

  • Autocatalytic fronts propagate and change the background flow field of Rayleigh-Bénard convection rolls (Mukherjee & Paul, 2019, 2020, 2022).