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

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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...