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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
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)
Expertise
Publications
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2024
Buckling of a monolayer of platelike particles trapped at a fluid-fluid interface
Suriya Prakash / Hugo Perrin / Lorenzo Botto
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2023
Hydrodynamic interactions change the buckling threshold of parallel flexible sheets in shear flow
Hugo Perrin / Heng Li / Lorenzo Botto
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2023
The effect of Navier slip on the rheology of a dilute two-dimensional suspension of plate-like particles
Catherine Kamal / L. Botto
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2022
Peeling under large bending deformations
Follower versus fixed loads. A unified approach for concentrated or distributed loads
Ettore Barbieri / Lorenzo Botto -
2022
Quantification of 3-dimensional structure and properties of flocculated natural suspended sediment
K. L. Spencer / J. A. Wheatland / S. J. Carr / A. J. Manning / A. J. Bushby / C. Gu / L. Botto / T. Lawrence
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Media
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2021-02-01
COVID-19 2021
Appeared in: Delta
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2020-07-07
COVID-19 2020
Appeared in: Delta
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2020-03-11
Researchers develop first model to guide large-scale production of ultrathin graphene
Appeared in: phys.org news
Ancillary activities
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2023-11-01 - 2025-10-31
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