research

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I am the PI of the FMNST Lab — Fluid Mechanics and Small-scale Transport Lab at WPI. My research interests are small scale fluid dynamics and particle transport. I am also interested in intersectional feminism, STEM education, and science, technology & society.

Throughout my education and postdoctoral training I have worked closely with undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty members. Starting from my B.Eng. thesis, my fluid mechanics research projects have had analytical and experimental components. 

I thoroughly enjoy collaborating with other scholars, and hope to expand my research interests to be even more interdisciplinary moving forward.

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GRants

NSF EAGER — Collaborative Research: Modeling Silane Spreading and Deposition for Liquid Lithography — CBET 1902484, 05/01/19-05/31/21
Awarded by the Biophotonics program under the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems. This project is in collaboration with the Harris Lab (with PI Dr. Daniel M. Harris) in the School of Engineering at Brown University (lead institution).

 

publications

Authors listed in alphabetical order in accordance with the 2009 American Mathematical Society statement on the Culture of Research and Scholarship in Mathematics.

[3]   M. Aminian, F. Bernardi, R. Camassa, D.M. Harris, R.M. McLaughlin.
       Experimental procedure for the diffusion of passive tracers in laminar shear flow.
       Journal of Visualized Experiments, JoVE Engineering: 135 (2018).
PDF version (manuscript) - or - open access version (video & manuscript).

[2]   M. Aminian, F. Bernardi, R. Camassa, D.M. Harris, R.M. McLaughlin.
       How boundaries shape chemical delivery in microfluidics. 
       Science 354.6317 (2016): 1252-1256.
       PDF version - or - Journal version.

[1]   M. Aminian, F. Bernardi, R. Camassa, R.M. McLaughlin.
       Squaring the Circle: Geometric Skewness and Symmetry Breaking for Passive Scalar Transport in Ducts and Pipes. 
       Physical Review Letters 115, 154503 (2015).
       PDF version - or - Journal version. 

Doctoral dissertation

F. Bernardi.
Space/Time Evolution in the Passive Tracer Problem.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. August, 2018.
Online version.