L. (Lorenzo) Botto

L. (Lorenzo) Botto

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My group works on topics at the interface between fluid dynamics and materials science, studied via a combination of numerical simulations and small scale experiments. Besides high-resolution simulations (Immersed Boudary, Boundary Integral, Stokesian Dynamics), I like to develop mathematical models of flow microphysics of multiphase systems, for example to develop exact solutions that can be used to accelerate the performance of multiphase flow codes. My interest in materials science applications originates from my research experiences in materials science and chemical engineering departments, which has given me an appreciation of flow phenomena driven by non-trivial physico-chemical, surface and colloidal interactions. 

Keywords: multiphase flows; complex fluid interfaces; colloidal hydrodynamics; numerical and mathematical methods

Current projects: fluid dynamics of graphene; particle sorting by centrifugation; flow-based methods for battery recycling; microplastics reduction.

For further information: https://bottogroup.wordpress.com/

My Scholar publication list: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=16ae8r4AAAAJ&hl=nl&oi=sra

Biography

2019-now: Associate Professor, TU Delft
2013-2019: Assistant and Associate Professor, Queen Mary University of London
2012-2013: postdoc, Imperial College, UK (with Y. Xu)
2009-2012: postdoc, University of Pennsylvania, USA  (with K. Stebe)
2003-2009: PhD in fluid dynamics, Johns Hopkins University, USA (supervisor: A. Prosperetti)

Funding: NWO (e-Heat, MicroWash), ERC (FlexNanoFlow), ERC-PoC (SludgeCam)
 

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