2025 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Symposium in Memory of Andreas Acrivos I (Invited Talks)

Andreas Acrivos was one of the chemical engineering profession’s most influential leaders and one of the great fluid dynamicists of the 20th century, as well as the namesake of the AIChE Professional Progress Award. He passed away at the age of 96 on February 17, 2025. This one-time invited session is in his honor.

Chair

Sujit Datta, Princeton University

Co-Chairs

Eric Shaqfeh, Stanford University
John Brady, California Inst of Technology

Presentations

08:00 AM

(268a) Some Reflections and Thixotropy
Morton Denn

08:21 AM

(268b) Topological Flagella: Propulsion By Topological Defects in Nematic Liquid Crystals
Qi Xing Zhang, Claire Dore, Mojtaba Rajabi, Edward Steager, Dr. Kathleen J. Stebe

08:42 AM

(268c) A Personal Perspective on Viscoplasticity
Joe Goddard

09:03 AM

(268d) Drop Motion and Deformation in Microchannels and Porous Media
Robert Davis, Alexander Zinchenko, Gesse Roure, Jacob Gissinger, Rajarshi Chattopadhyay, Souradeep Roychowdhury

09:24 AM

(268e) Nutrient Uptake By a Spherical Squirmer: Role of Closed Streamlines
Ashok S. Sangani

09:45 AM

(268f) Shear-Induced Migration: A Voyage of Discovery Under the Direction of Andreas Acrivos
David Leighton

10:06 AM

(268g) Leveraging the Fundamentals of Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics in Microscale Geometries for Automated Next-Generation Sequencing Library Preparation
Anubhav Tripathi