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Asymmetric lung increases particle filtration by deposition by Kundu, Debjit, Panchagnula, Mahesh V.

“…Human lung is known to be an asymmetric dichotomously branched network of bronchioles. Existing literature on the relation between anatomy and air-flow physics…”
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User authentication system based on human exhaled breath physics by Karunanethy, Mukesh, Tripathi, Rahul, Panchagnula, Mahesh V, Rengaswamy, Raghunathan

“…This work, in a pioneering approach, attempts to build a biometric system that works purely based on the fluid mechanics governing exhaled breath. We test the…”
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Pulmonary drug delivery and retention: A computational study to identify plausible parameters based on a coupled airway-mucus flow model by Chakravarty, Aranyak, Panchagnula, Mahesh V, Mohan, Alladi, Patankar, Neelesh A

“…Pulmonary drug delivery systems rely on inhalation of drug-laden aerosols produced from aerosol generators such as inhalers, nebulizers etc. On deposition, the…”
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Inhalation of virus-loaded droplets as a clinically plausible pathway to deep lung infection by Chakravarty, Aranyak, Panchagnula, Mahesh V, Patankar, Neelesh A

“…Respiratory viruses, such as SARS-CoV-2, preliminarily infect the nasopharyngeal mucosa. The mechanism of infection spread from the nasopharynx to the deep…”
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Effect of the initial conditions on the onset of motion in sessile drops on tilted plates by Janardan, Nachiketa, Panchagnula, Mahesh V.

“…•We study the onset of motion in sessile drops due to tilting.•We show that a moving angle when the triple line deforms, is the first critical angle.•A second…”
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Sweating Liquid Micro-Marbles: Dropwise Condensation on Hydrophobic Nanoparticulate Materials by Bhosale, Prasad S, Panchagnula, Mahesh V

“…Liquid marbles have opened up several potential applications including biochemical batch reaction engineering and gas sensing. To be successful candidates in…”
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On Synthesizing Solid Polyelectrolyte Microspheres from Evaporating Liquid Marbles by Bhosale, Prasad S, Panchagnula, Mahesh V

“…We report a simple evaporation process using liquid marbles as precursors to produce high sphericity, precisely diameter controlled polyelectrolyte…”
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Trends in Multiphase Modeling and Simulation of Sprays by Kolakaluri, Ravi, Subramaniam, Shankar, Panchagnula, Mahesh V.

“…The characteristic features of sprays pose unique challenges to multiphase flow methods that are used to model and simulate their behavior. This article…”
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Sparse Game Changers Restore Collective Motion in Panicked Human Crowds by Kulkarni, Ajinkya, Thampi, Sumesh P, Panchagnula, Mahesh V

“…Using a dynamic variant of the Vicsek model, we show that the emergence of disorder from an orderly moving human crowd is a nonequilibrium first-order phase…”
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Comment on How Wenzel and Cassie Were Wrong by Gao and McCarthy by Panchagnula, Mahesh V., Vedantam, Srikanth

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Destabilization characteristics of three dimensional Rayleigh–Taylor mechanism on a cylindrical interface by Vadivukkarasan, M., Panchagnula, Mahesh V.

“…The stability of a cylindrical interface separating two incompressible, inviscid and immiscible fluids under the action of radial motion is studied. Linear…”
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Onset of sliding motion in sessile drops with initially non-circular contact lines by Janardan, Nachiketa, Panchagnula, Mahesh V.

“…[Display omitted] •Impending motion in nearly elliptical drops is dependent on drop orientation.•Experiments and computations are used to determine moving and…”
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Mechanically robust nanoparticle stabilized transparent liquid marbles by Bhosale, Prasad S., Panchagnula, Mahesh V., Stretz, Holly A.

“…Optically transparent liquid marbles were made from water and glycerol drops embedded in surface-treated fumed silica nanoparticles. The mechanical robustness…”
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Shapes of Splattered Drops by Deevi, Sri Vallabha, Janardan, Nachiketa, Panchagnula, Mahesh V

“…Drops that impact and stick to a surface (splattered drops) commonly show noncircular triple lines. Physical or chemical defects on the surface are known to…”
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Helical modes in combined Rayleigh–Taylor and Kelvin–Helmholtz instability of a cylindrical interface by Vadivukkarasan, M, Panchagnula, Mahesh V

“…The effect of competing Rayleigh–Taylor and Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanisms of instability applied to a cylindrical two-fluid interface is discussed. A…”
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Experimental and computational study of triple line shape and evolution on heterogeneous surfaces by Anantharaju, Neeharika, Panchagnula, Mahesh V.

“…•Current work studies the effect of macroscale chemical heterogeneities on triple line.•Triple line shape and kinetics are studied, especially the nature of…”
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Effect of Three-Phase Contact Line Topology on Dynamic Contact Angles on Heterogeneous Surfaces by Anantharaju, Neeharika, Panchagnula, Mahesh V, Vedantam, Srikanth, Neti, Sudhakar, Tatic-Lucic, Svetlana

“…Cassie−Baxter theory has traditionally been used to study liquid drops in contact with microstructured surfaces. The Cassie−Baxter theory arises from a…”
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Constitutive modeling of contact angle hysteresis by Vedantam, Srikanth, Panchagnula, Mahesh V.

“…We introduce a phase field model of wetting of surfaces by sessile drops. The theory uses a two-dimensional non-conserved phase field variable to parametrize…”
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Phase field modeling of hysteresis in sessile drops by Vedantam, Srikanth, Panchagnula, Mahesh V

“…We propose a novel approach to describe wetting of plane solid surfaces by liquid drops. A two-dimensional nonconserved phase field variable is employed to…”
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Effect of size distribution on mixing of a polydisperse wet granular material in a belt-driven enclosure by Mahapatra, Pallab Sinha, Mathew, Sam, Panchagnula, Mahesh V., Vedantam, Srikanth

“…We use a recently developed coupled fluid–particle discrete element model to study mixing of a wet granular material in a two dimensional setting. The…”
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