Ivan C. Christov

Ivan Christov

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

School of Mechanical Engineering
Purdue University
585 Purdue Mall
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2088
christov@purdue.edu

Office: FLEX 2021B

Phone: +1 765 496 3733
FAX: +1 765 494 0539

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Northwestern University, '11
  • M.S., Northwestern University, '08
  • M.S., Texas A&M University, '07
  • S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, '05

Research Interests

  • Soft hydraulics
  • Fluid dynamics
  • Non-Newtonian fluid mechanics
  • Particulate and multiphase processes
  • Computational and data-enabled science & engineering
  • Scientific machine learning
  • Nonlinear waves

Fundamental Research Area(s)

Application Area(s)

Awards and Recognitions

  • Fulbright U.S. Scholar, 2022
  • Graduate Teaching Award from the School of Mechanical Engineering, 2022
  • Outstanding Engineering Instructor, recognized three times by the College (for ME309, ME509, and ME610)
  • Outstanding Referee, American Physical Society, 2020
  • Richard P. Feynman Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship in Theory and Computing at Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2013
  • NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Princeton University, 2011
  • Walter P. Murphy Fellowship at Northwestern University, 2007

Selected Publications

SungGyu Chun, Evgeniy Boyko, Ivan C. Christov and Jie Feng, "Flow rate-pressure drop relations for shear-thinning fluids in deformable configurations: Theory and experiments," Physical Review Fluids 9 (2024) 043302, doi:10.1103/PhysRevFluids.9.043302; preprint arXiv:2401.05513.

Daihui Lu and Ivan C. Christov, "Physics-informed neural networks for understanding shear migration of particles in viscous flow," International Journal of Multiphase Flow 165 (2023) 104476, doi:10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2023.104476; preprint arXiv:2111.04684.

Tanmay C. Shidhore, Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol, Vitaliy L. Rayz and Ivan C. Christov, "Comparative Assessment of Biomechanical Parameters in Subjects With Multiple Cerebral Aneurysms Using Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulations," ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering 145 (2023) 051003, doi:10.1115/1.4056317; preprint arXiv:2211.07651.

Xiaojia Wang and Ivan C. Christov, "Reduced modelling and global instability of finite-Reynolds-number flow in compliant rectangular channels," Journal of Fluid Mechanics 950 (2022) A26, doi:10.1017/jfm.2022.802; preprint arXiv:2202.11704.

Ivan C. Christov, "Soft hydraulics: from Newtonian to complex fluid flows through compliant conduits," Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 34 (2022) 063001, doi:10.1088/1361-648X/ac327d; preprint arXiv:2106.07164. [invited topical review]

Pranay P. Nagrani, Federico Municchi, Amy M. Marconnet and Ivan C. Christov, "Two-fluid modeling of heat transfer in flows of dense suspensions," International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 183 (2022) 122068, doi:10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2021.122068; preprint arXiv:2105.08853.

Zongxin Yu and Ivan C. Christov, "Tuning a magnetic field to generate spinning ferrofluid droplets with controllable speed via nonlinear periodic interfacial waves," Physical Review E 103 (2021) 013103, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.103.013103; preprint arXiv:2009.04644.

Ivan C. Christov, Robert J. Decker, A. Demirkaya, Vakhid A. Gani, P. G. Kevrekidis, Avinash Khare and Avadh Saxena, "Kink-Kink and Kink-Antikink Interactions with Long-Range Tails," Physical Review Letters 122 (2019) 171601, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.171601; preprint arXiv:1811.07872.

Ivan C. Christov and Howard A. Stone, "Resolving a paradox of anomalous scalings in the diffusion of granular materials," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 109 (2012) 16012-16017, doi:10.1073/pnas.1211110109.