The Benjamin Levich Institute for Physico-Chemical Hydrodynamics is a research institute located in the Grove School of Engineering on the campus of the City College of New York (CCNY), the flagship school of the City University of New York. The Institute is comprised of five faculty from the Chemical Engineering and Physics Departments.
Jeffrey Morris is the current director of the Benjamin Levich Institute for Physico-Chemical Hydrodynamics. The Levich Institute is an interdisciplinary research center for the study of fundamental problems of flow and transport in complex fluids, fluid-like media, and interfaces, including polymer melts and solutions, liquid crystals, granular materials, suspensions, colloids, and amphiphiles. Located at the City College of New York (CCNY), one of the senior colleges of the City University of New York, the Institute’s five full-time faculty members are currently associated with the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Physics. All Levich Institute faculty, Ph.D. students, and research fellows are housed together in laboratories and offices in Steinman Hall.
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Jeffrey Morris, Director (ChE) research focuses in the several facets of complex fluid flows. Current research includes frictional rheology (including shear thickening), microrheology, inertial migration, contact line studies, oscillatory and polydisperse rheology using theoretical, simulation and experimental techniques |
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Joel Koplik (Physics) focuses his research interest on Nanoscale fluid mechanics, Colloidal and swimming particles, Porous media flows Superfluids, and Statistical mechanics |
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Hernan Makse (Physics) is interested in the theoretical understanding of Complex Systems from a Statistical Physics viewpoint. We are working towards the development of new emergent laws for complex systems, ranging from brain networks and biological networks to social systems. |
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Charles Maldarelli (ChE) centers research principally on interfacial and colloidal phenomena at the micro and nanoscale. Current research projects include Active Matter, Microfluidics, Colloidal Hydrodynamics, Green Chemistry, Monoclonal Antibodies, and Peptide Self-Assembly and Catalysis. |
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Mark Shattuck (Physics) studies flowing granular material using a combination of laboratory experiments, molecular dynamics, and numeric integration of continuum models. One of the goals of our research is to create simple systems which elucidate important physics. |
The faculty work co-operatively on interdisciplinary problems in soft matter physics, including fluid and granular mechanics, molecular dynamics simulations, interfacial science and network and data science theory.
News
Passing of Professor Andreas Acrivos
AAAS honors Jeffrey Morris as lifetime Fellow
Michel Orsi, research associate with Professor Morris, awarded the Prix de These du GFR 2023.
Hernan Makse elected correspondent member of Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, May 10, 2023
Jeff Morris awarded the 2023 Bingham Award
Jeff Morris awarded the 2022 Weissenberg Award from the European Society of Rheology (ESR)
Jeff Morris named as Endowed Distinguished Lecture in Fluid Mechanics of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida. Click here to view video of lecture presented on 04/05/2021
Hernan Makse – Using AI and Digital Contact tracing to Fight the COVID-19 Pandemic
APS 2019 Stanley Corrsin Award to Jeffrey Morris
Levich Institute Directors’ Lectures – Beginning on Tuesday, 04/16/2019
Mark Shattuck and Yale researchers make shape shifting cell breakthrough
Fluids Research NSF Award
2015 SOR Awards
Marino Xanthos Lecture
Andreas Acrivos Award for Professional Progress
Contact Information
Jeffrey Morris, Director
Mary Wright, Assistant Director
Steinman Hall, #1M
160 Convent Avenue Avenue
New York, NY 10031
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