Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Education

University of Minnesota, PhD 1991
University of Minnesota, MS 1989
Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur), BTech 1985

Current Research Interests

Fluid dynamics, viscoelastic fluids, multiphase and particulate flows, biological fluid mechanics, microfluidics and electrohydrodynamics

Selected Publications

P. Singh and N. Aubry, Dielectrophoresis and deformation of droplets in micro devices, Electrophoresis, 28, 644-657 (2007).

J. Batton, A.J. Kadaksham, A. Nzihou, P. Singh and N. Aubry, Trapping heavy metals by using calcium hydroxyapatite and dielectrophoresis, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 139, 461-466 (2007).

S. Nudurupati, N. Aubry and P. Singh, Electrohydrodynamics of yeast cells in traveling electric fields, Journal of Physics: Applied Physics, 39, 3425-3439 (2006).

N. Aubry and P. Singh, Control of Electrostatic Particle-Particle Interactions in Dielectrophoresis, Euro Physics Letters, 74, 623–629 (2006).

Ben-Abdallah, P, Ni, B., Ould El Moctar, A., Aubry, N. and Singh, P., Tunneling control of neutral particles in suspension in nanofluidic flow, Journal of Applied Physics, 99(9), 094303-1:094303-5 (2006). Also appeared in: May 29, 2006 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.

N. Aubry and P. Singh, Influence of particle-particle interactions and particles rotational motion in traveling wave dielectrophoresis, Electrophoresis, 27, 703-715 (2006).

J. Kadaksham, P. Singh and N. Aubry, Manipulation of Particles Using Dielectrophoresis, Mechanics Research Communications, 33, 108-122 (2006).

J. Kadaksham, P. Singh and N. Aubry, Dielectrophoresis induced clustering regimes of viable yeast cells, Electrophoresis, 26, 3738-3744 (2005).

J. Kadaksham, S.B. Pillaipakkam and P. Singh, Permeability of periodic arrays, Mechanics Research Communications, 32, 659-665 (2005).

P. Singh and N. Aubry, Trapping Force on a Finite Sized Particle in a Dielectrophoretic Cage, in Physical Review E, 72, 016602-016607 (2005).

P. Singh and D.D. Joseph, Fluid dynamics of Floating particles, J. of Fluid Mech., 530, 31-80 (2005).

J. Kadaksham, P. Singh and N. Aubry, Dielectrophoresis of nano particles, Electrophoresis, 25, 3625-3632 (2004).

P. Singh and T.I. Hesla, Torque on floating particles, J. Colloid and Interface Science, 280, 542-543 (2004).

J. Kadaksham, P. Singh and N. Aubry, Dynamics of pressure driven flows of electrorheological suspensions subjected to spatially non-uniform electric fields, Journal of fluids engineering, 126, 170-179 (2004).

P. Singh, T.I. Hesla and D.D. Joseph, A Modified Distributed Lagrange Multiplier/Fictitious Domain Method for Particulate Flows with Collisions, Int. J. of Multiphase Flows, 29, 495-509 (2003).

Awards and Honors

Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Fellow, American Physical Society