Honored and grateful to receive the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER award on my third and final attempt. Stay posted for more exciting science on particles at interfaces and expanded education and outreach initiatives! This is very much an award for the full #harrislab Brown Engineering. #artcraftscience

Thanks to Physical Review Fluids for featuring “Drag on a partially immersed sphere” and “Capillary surfers” from the #harrislab in 2023!

Jack-William Barotta, a doctoral candidate in fluids and thermal sciences engineering, was selected for an Excellence in Teaching Award for his rigorous help, peer support, and passion for teaching. Read more: graduateschool.brown.edu/news/2024-05-1… Brown Engineering

Our very first #flumefriday! Introducing OpenFlume: An accessible and reproducible benchtop flume for research and education. Certified Open Hardware by OSHWA (Open Source Hardware Association). #harrislab #openscience Build instructions: github.com/harrislab-brow… Repository: github.com/harrislab-brow…

Happy to share that our work in #HarrisLab on “mermaid cereal” is now published on Nature Communications. @jackwilliamb21 Robert Hunt Giuseppe Pucci Harris Lab #Capillarity #Magnetism #SelfAssemly #SoftMatter #CondensedMatter #SpringerNature nature.com/articles/s4146…

Research engineer Eli #harrislab Brown Engineering describes the OpenFlume and the design process in a recorded presentation from Crowd Supply Teardown 2024: youtube.com/watch?v=GWPyHW… #openscience #opensource OSHWA (Open Source Hardware Association)

Our lab's very first paper is now on arXiv! This started as a "side project" when Haoyu Liu started his PhD! We learned a lot in the process and were finally able to explain how a colloidal vortex can form in low Re number flows due to solute gradients! arxiv.org/abs/2409.01594

How do porous particles settle in density-stratified fluids? Size and shape matter, and in a way you might not expect! Very excited to share this work motivated by carbon sequestration in the ocean. More soon!

New study from Ton van den Bremer and co. explores wave turbulence in a circular wave tank (FloWave Ocean Energy Research Facility), investigating direct and inverse energy cascades under isotropic forcing. They found evidence of energy cascades but not wave action inversions. go.aps.org/47ADNjr

Our new Active Carpets (AC) paper is finally out in JFM! In this paper, we studied the capacity of an active carpet suspended at the free surface to induce aggregation at the microscale. bit.ly/4dgRhSN

Happy #flumefriday to those who celebrate! And if you are feeling left out, our publication is now live HardwareX with complete details on building your own OpenFlume. #harrislab Brown Engineering #openscience OSHWA (Open Source Hardware Association) doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.…

A mathematical model of fluid-structure interaction in the human heart represents all four cardiac valves and can be used to predict the impacts of medical interventions and for studies of cardiac pathophysiology. In PNAS Nexus: ow.ly/2Q1750TZgw1

Latest news from UNC's Physical Mathematics Lab! Our work on ''Galloping Bubbles'' are out! nature.com/articles/s4146…

While experimenting with waves, researchers discovered that vibrating a container of liquid would cause bubble to "gallop" across its surface - a find that could prove useful as a cleaning technique. Read more: newscientist.com/article/247005…

I recently co-authored an Annual Review article on the capillary driven phenomena of soft solids. Hopefully this provides a useful gateway to this interesting field with broad applications in engineering and biology. go.shr.lc/4iAIONT

#New findings show that in stratified ocean waters, small porous particles can sink faster than larger ones, challenging previous assumptions about marine snow and its role in ocean nutrient cycling. Brown University PNASNews doi.org/g9qz27 phys.org/news/2025-06-u…