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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2009 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his insightful application of novel numerical methods, molecular modeling, and experiments toward the physical understanding of elastic fluid flows including discovering and explaining novel aspects of their purely elastic and thermomechanical instability

Overview

Bamin Khomami is affiliated with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the United States. Their research primarily spans fields including Materials Science, Engineering, and Chemical Engineering. Within these areas, Khomami has contributed extensively to subfields such as Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, Materials Chemistry, Computational Mechanics, Polymers and Plastics, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's work addresses several key topics, including Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies, Material Dynamics and Properties, Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows, Polymer Crystallization and Properties, Block Copolymer Self-Assembly, Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication, and Blood Properties and Coagulation.

Khomami has a documented publication record in multiple frequent venues, notably:

  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
  • Macromolecules
  • Soft Matter
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics

Recent papers exemplify the scope and breadth of Khomami's research:

  • "All-Printed In-Plane Supercapacitors by Sequential Additive Manufacturing Process" (2020), ACS Applied Energy Materials
  • "The Oldroyd-B fluid in elastic instabilities, turbulence and particle suspensions" (2021), Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
  • "Direct numerical simulation of inertio-elastic turbulent Taylor-Couette flow" (2021), Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • "MOF-derived PtCo/Co₃O₄ nanocomposites in carbonaceous matrices as high-performance ORR electrocatalysts synthesized via laser ablation techniques" (2021), Catalysis Science & Technology
  • "Flow-Induced Phase Separation and Crystallization in Entangled Polyethylene Solutions under Elongational Flow" (2020), Macromolecules

Throughout their career, Khomami has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Brian J. Edwards
  • Nansheng Liu
  • Xi-Yun Lu
  • Fenghui Lin
  • Jiaxing Song

Awards received by Bamin Khomami recognize contributions to their fields: they were named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2017. Earlier, in 2009, Khomami became a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), with a citation highlighting their application of novel numerical methods, molecular modeling, and experimental techniques in the study of elastic fluid flows, including discoveries related to elastic and thermomechanical instabilities.

Best Publications

  • Brownian dynamics simulations of bead-rod and bead-spring chains: numerical algorithms and coarse-graining issues

    Madan Somasi;Bamin Khomami;Nathanael J. Woo;Joe S. Hur

  • Influence of rheological parameters on polymer induced turbulent drag reduction

    Chang Feng Li;Radhakrishna Sureshkumar;Bamin Khomami

  • Resin flow through fiber beds during composite manufacturing processes. Part II: Numerical and experimental studies of newtonian flow through ideal and actual fiber beds

    L. Skartsis;B. Khomami;J. L. Kardos

  • Resin flow through fiber beds during composite manufacturing processes. Part I: Review of newtonian flow through fiber beds

    L. Skartsis;J. L. Kardos;B. Khomami

  • An experimental investigation of interfacial instabilities in multilayer flow of viscoelastic fluids: Part I. Incompatible polymer systems

    Gregory M. Wilson;Bamin Khomami

  • An experimental investigation of interfacial instabilities in multilayer flow of viscoelastic fluids. Part II. Elastic and nonlinear effects in incompatible polymer systems

    Gregory M. Wilson;Bamin Khomami

  • Individual chain dynamics of a polyethylene melt undergoing steady shear flow

    M. H. Nafar Sefiddashti;B. J. Edwards;B. Khomami

  • Irreversible nanogel formation in surfactant solutions by microporous flow

    Mukund Vasudevan;Eric Buse;Donglai Lu;Hare Krishna

  • Modeling of viscoelastic lid driven cavity flow using finite element simulations

    Anne M. Grillet;Bin Yang;Bamin Khomami;Eric S.G. Shaqfeh

  • Interfacial stability of multilayer viscoelastic fluids in slit and converging channel die geometries

    Yuan‐Yuan Su;Bamin Khomami

  • Polymeric flow through fibrous media

    Lambros Skartsis;Bamin Khomami;John L. Kardos

  • A study of viscoelastic free surface flows by the finite element method: Hele–Shaw and slot coating flows

    Alex G. Lee;Eric S.G. Shaqfeh;Bamin Khomami

  • Application of higher order finite element methods to viscoelastic flow in porous media

    Kapil K. Talwar;Bamin Khomami

  • An investigation of interfacial instabilities in the superposed channel flow of viscoelastic fluids

    Herambh K. Ganpule;Bamin Khomami

  • Purely elastic interfacial instabilities in superposed flow of polymeric fluids

    Y. Y. Su;B. Khomami

  • An experimental/theoretical investigation of interfacial instabilities in superposed pressure-driven channel flow of Newtonian and well characterized viscoelastic fluids

    Bamin Khomami;Kuan C. Su

  • Turbulent channel flow of dilute polymeric solutions: Drag reduction scaling and an eddy viscosity model

    C.F. Li;V.K. Gupta;R. Sureshkumar;B. Khomami

  • Accurate permeability characterization of preforms used in polymer matrix composite fabrication processes

    Yen-Huang Lai;Bamin Khomami;John L. Kardos

  • Interfacial stability and deformation of two stratified power law fluids in plane poiseuille flow Part I. Stability analysis

    B. Khomami

  • Flow birefringence and computational studies of a shear thinning polymer solution in axisymmetric stagnation flow

    Ji Ming Li;Wesley R. Burghardt;Bin Yang;Bamin Khomami

Frequent Co-Authors

Radhakrishna Sureshkumar
Radhakrishna Sureshkumar Syracuse University
Brian J. Edwards
Brian J. Edwards University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Eric S. G. Shaqfeh
Eric S. G. Shaqfeh Stanford University
Sang Woo Joo
Sang Woo Joo Yeungnam University
Xi-Yun Lu
Xi-Yun Lu University of Science and Technology of China
Gerd Duscher
Gerd Duscher University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Pratim Biswas
Pratim Biswas University of Miami
Jin-Woo Han
Jin-Woo Han Ames Research Center
Ilia N. Ivanov
Ilia N. Ivanov Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Martin Kröger
Martin Kröger ETH Zurich

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