Steinman Hall, #1M-19
City College of CUNY
140th Street and Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031
Phone: (212) 650-8162
Fax: (212) 650-6835
koplik@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Education:
(B.S., 1969, Physics) The Cooper Union; (Ph.D., 1974, Physics) University of California at Berkeley.
Research Interests:
- Molecular dynamics of wetting phenomena, non-Newtonian fluids, and MEMS flows
- Dispersion and filtration phenomena in random porous media
- Vortex dynamics in superfluidity
- Dynamics and pattern selection in granular flow
Petroleum Research Fund (PRF), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Science Foundation (NSF), NATO Scientific Research Programmes, Department of Energy (DOE).
Current Postdoctoral Associates and Subjects of Research:
- Tak Shing Lo
- Yiguang Yan
- Minyoung Yi
- Scattering of superfluid vortex rings, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 4745(1996), with H. Levine.
- Wetting hysteresis at the molecular scale, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78,1520 (1997), with W. Jin and J. R. Banavar.
- Reentrant corner flows of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids, J. Rheol. 41, 787 (1997), with J. R. Banavar.
- Adhesion of solids, Phys. Rev. E 56, 2626 (1997), with M. Vergeles, A. Maritan and J. R. Banavar.
- Tracer dispersion in three-dimensional multipole flows, Phys. Rev. E 56, 4244 (1997), with M. Zhang.
- The no-slip condition for a mixture of two liquids, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 5125 (1998), with J. R. Banavar.
- Microscopic motion of particles flowing through a porous medium, Phys. Fluids in press (1998), with J. Lee.
- Numerical study of geometrical dispersion in self-affine roughfractures, Phys. Rev. E in press (1998), with F. Plouraboué, J. P. Hulin, and S. Roux.