Areas of Interest: mechanical engineering, fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, computational modeling. Dr. Storey's research interests involve building computational models of complex problems in fluid dynamics, thermodynamics and heat transfer. Computational models are used to strengthen understanding of systems where experiments are too difficult or costly to perform and analysis is intractable. He enjoys applying common mathematical and computational tools to a variety of problems and applications. One project Dr. Storey is working on involves the control of instabilities in micro-fluidic devices. Specifically, his research lies in a class of electro hydrodynamic instabilities that can occur in microfabricated systems designed to perform on-chip biological and chemical analysis (micro total analysis systems). Such instability can be desirable or undesirable, depending on the application. Dr. Storey's work involves simulations to predict the behavior of the flow in these devices. Dr. Storey is also involved with a project to simulate large-scale turbulent motions in geophysical fluid dynamics (e.g., the motion of atmospheres and oceans), as many basic processes of turbulent transport in these flows are not well understood. He is using simulation to understand some of the basic processes in these flows which, is crucial for developing predictive models of important geophysical processes. Other projects center on the unusual response of micro-bubbles when subjected to ultrasound. The most striking feature of these oscillations is the extremely violent implosions. These implosions happen on micrometer scales, occur over the matter of nanoseconds and can be so violent that the gas can be compressed to unusually high temperatures and pressures. These extreme conditions can be exploited in biomedical applications such kidney stone destruction, ultrasonic imaging, acoustic surgery and by North Sea shrimp that shoot killer bubbles at its prey. Dr. Storey's work involves developing detailed models of all the physical phenomena involved, since the time and spatial scales are too small to make detailed experimental measurements. In addition, Dr. Storey has a general interest in numerical methods on parallel architectures and computing clusters.
Articles
Effects of Electrostatic Correlations on Electrokinetic Phenomena (with Martin Z. Bazant), Physics Review E (2012)
The classical theory of electrokinetic phenomena is based on the mean-field approximation that the electric...
Double Layer in Ionic Liquids: Overscreening versus Crowding (with Martin Z. Bazant and Alexei A. Kornyshev), Physical Review Letters (2011)
We develop a simple Landau-Ginzburg-type continuum theory of solvent-free ionic liquids and use it to...
Field-Amplified Sample Stacking and Focusing in Nanofluidic Channels (with Jess M. Sustarich and Sumita Pennathur), Physics of Fluids (2010)
Nanofluidic technology is gaining popularity for bioanalytical applications due to advances in both nanofabrication and...
Bistability in a Simple Fluid Network Due to Viscosity Contrast (with John B. Geddes, David Gardner, and Russell T. Carr), Physical Review E (2010)
We study the existence of multiple equilibrium states in a simple fluid network using Newtonian...
Towards an Understanding of Induced-Charge Electrokinetics at Large Applied Voltages in Concentrated Solutions (with Martin Z. Bazant, Mustafa S. Kilic, and Armand Ajdari), Advances in Colloid and Interface Science (2009)
The venerable theory of electrokinetic phenomena rests on the hypothesis of a dilute solution of...