2021
Lacassagne, N. Cagney and S. Balabani. Shear-thinning mediation of elasto-inertial Taylor-Couette flow, J. Fluid Mech. (2021) accepted
Ma, H. Zhao, E.A. Galan, and S.Balabani (2021) Modulating Flow Topology in Microdroplets to Control Reaction Kinetics, Adv. Biology, 5, 2000309, https://doi.org/10.1002/adbi.202000309
2020
Lacassagne, N. Cagney, J.J.J. Gillissen, S. Balabani (2020). Vortex merging and splitting: a route to elasto-inertial turbulence in Taylor-Couette flow, Phys. Rev. Fluids 5, 113303. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.5.113303
Papadopoulou, A., Gillissen, J. J., Wilson, H. J., Tiwari, M. K., & Balabani, S. (2020) Effect of particle specific surface area on the rheology of non-Brownian silica suspensions, Materials (invited paper) 13(20),4628; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13204628
Bonfanti, M. Franzetti, G., Homer-Vanniasinkam, S. Diaz-Zuccarini, V., Balabani, S. (2020) A combined in vivo, in vitro, in silico approach for patient-specific haemodynamic studies of aortic dissection, Annals Biomedical Engineering, 48, 2950–2964. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-020-02603-z
Cagney, T. Lacassagne and S Balabani (2020) Taylor-Couette flow of polymer solutions with shear-thinning and viscoelastic rheology, J Fluid Mechanics, vol. 905, A28. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2020.701.
J.J. Gillissen, N. Cagney, T. Lacassagne, A. Papadopoulou, S. Balabani, and H. J. Wilson (2020) Taylor-Couette instability in disk suspensions: Experimental observation and theory, Phys. Rev. Fluids, 5, 083302 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.5.083302
Pasias, D., Passos, A., Constantinides, G., Balabani, S. and Kaliviotis, E. (2020) Surface tension driven flow of blood in a rectangular microfluidic channel: effect of erythrocyte aggregation. Physics of Fluids, 32, 071903 (2020) Editor’s pick.https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0008939
Papadopoulou, A., Gillissen, J. J., Wilson, H. J., Tiwari, M. K., & Balabani, S. (2020). On the shear thinning of non-Brownian suspensions: friction or adhesion?. Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 104298. doi:10.1016/j.jnnfm.2020.104298
Quaresma, J. N. N., da Cruz, C. C. S., Cagney, N., Cotta, R. M., & Balabani, S. (2020). Effect of mixed convection on laminar vortex breakdown in a cylindrical enclosure with a rotating bottom plate. International Journal of Thermal Sciences. 106399, ISSN 1290-0729. doi:10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2020.106399.
Gillissen, J., Papadopoulou, A., Balabani, S., Tiwari, M., & Wilson, H. (2020). Suspension rheology of adhesive particles at high shear-rates. Physical Review Fluids, 5, 053302. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.5.053302
Zhang, S., Cagney, N., Lacassagne, T., Balabani, S., Naveira-Cotta, C. P., & Tiwari, M. K. (2020). Mixing in flows past confined microfluidic cylinders: effects of pin and fluid interface offsetting. Chemical Engineering Journal, 125358. doi:10.1016/j.cej.2020.125358
Costa J.M., Pontes P.C., Naveira-Cotta C.P., Tiwari M.K., Balabani S., Cotta R.M. (2020) Hybrid Approach in Microscale Transport Phenomena: Application to Biodiesel Synthesis in Micro-reactors. In: Gupta A., De A., Aggarwal S., Kushari A., Runchal A. (eds) Innovations in Sustainable Energy and Cleaner Environment. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Singapore,DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-9012-8_20
2019
Giacomo Annio, Gaia Franzetti, Mirko Bonfanti, Antonio Gallarello, Andrea Palombi, Elena De Momi, Shervanthi Homer-Vanniasinkam, Helge Wurdemann, Victor Tsang, Vanessa Diaz-Zuccarini, Ryo Torii, Stavroula Balabani, Gaetano Burriesci (2020), Low Cost Fabrication of PVA Based Personalized Vascular Phantoms for in Vitro Haemodynamic Studies: Three Applications, ASME J. Med. Diagnostics (accepted manuscript), https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4045760
Vardakis JC, Bonfanti M, Franzetti G, Guo L, Lassila T, Mitolo M., De Vila MH, Greenwood JP, Maritati G, Chou D, Taylor ZA, Venneri A, Homer-Vanniasinkam S, Balabani S, Frangi AF, Ventikos Y, Díaz-Zuccarini V (2019), Highly Integrated Workflows for Exploring Cardiovascular Conditions: Exemplars of Precision Medicine in Alzheimer’s Disease and Aortic Dissection, Morphologie, 103(343):148-160. doi:10.1016/j.morpho.2019.10.045
Franzetti, G., Diaz-Zuccarini, V., and Balabani, S., 2019, Design of an in Vitro Mock Circulatory Loop to Reproduce Patient-Specific Vascular Conditions: Towards Precision Medicine, ASME J. Med. Diagnostics.,2(4): 041004. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4044488
Zhang, S., Cagney, N., Balabani, S., Naveira-Cotta, C. P., & Tiwari, M. (2019). Probing vortex-shedding at high frequencies in flows past confined microfluidic cylinders using high-speed microscale particle image velocimetry. Physics of Fluids. (Featured Article) doi:10.1063/1.5111817
Passos, A., Sherwood, J. M., Kaliviotis, E., Agrawal, R., Pavesio, C., & Balabani, S.(2019). The effect of deformability on the microscale flow behavior of red blood cell suspensions. Physics of Fluids, 31(9), 091903. doi:10.1063/1.5111189
Gómez Bardón, R., Passos, A., Piergiovanni, M., Balabani, S., Pennati, G., & Dubini, G. (2019). Haematocrit heterogeneity in blood flows past microfluidic models of oxygenating fibre bundles. Medical Engineering and Physics. doi:10.1016/j.medengphy.2019.07.012
Ngoepe, M., Passos, A., Balabani, S., King, J., Lynn, A., Moodley, J., . . . Franz, T. (2019). A Preliminary Computational Investigation Into the Flow of PEG in Rat Myocardial Tissue for Regenerative Therapy. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 6, 14 pages. doi:10.3389/fcvm.2019.00104
Cotta, R. M., Lisboa, K. M., Curi, M. F., Balabani, S., Quaresma, J. N. N., Perez-Guerrero, J. S., . . . Amorim, N. S. (2019). A review of hybrid integral transform solutions in fluid flow problems with heat or mass transfer and under Navier-Stokes equations formulation. Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals, 76(2), 60-87. doi:10.1080/10407790.2019.1642715
Bonfanti, M., Franzetti, G., Maritati, G., Homer-Vanniasinkam, S., Balabani, S., & Díaz-Zuccarini, V. (2019). Patient-specific haemodynamic simulations of complex aortic dissections informed by commonly available clinical datasets. Medical Engineering and Physics. doi:10.1016/j.medengphy.2019.06.012
Cagney, N., & Balabani, S. (2019). Taylor-Couette flow of shear-thinning fluids. Physics of Fluids, 31(5). (Featured Article) doi:10.1063/1.5088143
Cagney, N., & Balabani, S. (2019). Influence of Shear‐Thinning Rheology on the Mixing Dynamics in Taylor‐Couette Flow. Chemical Engineering and Technology.(Editor’s Choice 9 August 2019), doi:10.1002/ceat.201900015
Cagney, N., & Balabani, S. (2019). The role of the separation point in streamwise vortex-induced vibrations. Journal of Fluids and Structures, 86, 316-328. doi:10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2019.02.020
König, C. S., Balabani, S., Hackett, G. I., Strange, R. C., & Ramachandran, S. (2019). Testosterone Therapy: An Assessment of the Clinical Consequences of Changes in Hematocrit and Blood Flow Characteristics. Sexual Medicine Reviews. doi:10.1016/j.sxmr.2019.01.003
2018
Diaz-Zuccarini, V., Bonfanti, M., Franzetti, G., & Balabani, S. (2018). Virtual TEVAR: Overcoming the Roadblocks of In-Silico Tools for Aortic Dissection Treatment. Theranostics , 8(22), 6384-6385. doi:10.7150/thno.30753
Bonfanti M, Balabani S,Alimohammadi, M.. Agu, O.Homer-Vanniasinkam S, Dıaz-Zuccarini V. (2018) A simplified method to account for wall motion in patient-specific blood flow simulations of Aortic Dissection: comparison with Fluid-Structure Interaction, Medical Engineering and Physics, 58, 72–79, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medengphy.2018.04.014.
Thore M. Bücking, Pim J. van den Berg, Stavroula Balabani, Wiendelt Steenbergen, Paul C. Beard, Joanna Brunker, “Processing methods for photoacoustic Doppler flowmetry with a clinical ultrasound scanner,” J. Biomed. Opt. 23(2), 026009 (2018), doi: 10.1117/1.JBO.23.2.026009.
Qiqing Chen, Andreas Passos, Stavroula Balabani, Alexandru Chivu, Shudong Zhao, Helena S. Azevedo, Peter Butler, Wenhui Song (2018),Semi-interpenetrating network hyaluronic acid microgel delivery systems in micro-flow, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 519 (2018) 174–185, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2018.02.049
Kaliviotis, E., Sherwood, J. M. and Balabani, S. (2018).Local viscosity distribution in bifurcating microfluidic blood flows, Physics of Fluids 30, 030706 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5011373.
2017
Kaliviotis, E., Passias, D., Sherwood, J. M. and Balabani, S. (2017). Red blood cell aggregate flux in a bifurcating microchannel, Medical Engineering and Physics, doi.org/10.1016/j.medengphy.2017.04.007.
Kaliviotis, E., Sherwood, J. M. and Balabani, S. (2017). Partitioning of red blood cell aggregates in bifurcating microscale flows, Scientific Reports, 7:44563, DOI: 10.1038/srep44563.
Cagney, N. · Zhang, T. , Bransgrove, ·R., Allen, M. J. and Balabani, S. (2017). Effects of cell motility and morphology on the rheology of algae suspensions, JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYCOLOGY, doi:10.1007/s10811-016-1033-y.
2016
Cagney, N. T. and Balabani, S. (2016). Lagrangian structures and mixing in the wake of a streamwise oscillating cylinder. PHYSICS OF FLUIDS, 28, 045107. doi:10.1063/1.4945784
Cagney, N. and Balabani, S. (2016). Fluid forces acting on a cylinder undergoing streamwise vortex-induced vibrations. JOURNAL OF FLUIDS AND STRUCTURES, 62, 147-155. doi:10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2016.01.007; Most downloaded paper in in JFS in 2016.
Kaliviotis, E., Dusting, J., Sherwood, J. M. and Balabani, S. (2016). Quantifying local characteristics of velocity, aggregation and hematocrit of human erythrocytes in a microchannel flow. CLINICAL HEMORHEOLOGY AND MICROCIRCULATION, 63(2), 123-148. doi:10.3233/CH-151980
Agrawal, R., Sherwood, J., Chhablani, J., Ricchariya, A., Kim, S., Jones, P. H., Balabani, S., Shima, D. (2016). Red blood cells in retinal vascular disorders. BLOOD CELLS MOLECULES AND DISEASES, 56(1), 53-61. doi:10.1016/j.bcmd.2015.10.003
Koenig, C. S. and Balabani, S. (2016). Special Issue “Micro and Nano Flows 2014 (MNF2014) – Biomedical Stream“. MEDICAL ENGINEERING & PHYSICS, 38(1), 1. doi:10.1016/j.medengphy.2015.11.008
2015
Alimohammadi, M., Sherwood, J. M., Karimpour, M., Agu, O., Balabani, S. and Diaz-Zuccarini, V. (2015). Aortic dissection simulation models for clinical support: fluid-structure interaction vs. rigid wall models. BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING ONLINE, 14, 14:34. doi:10.1186/s12938-015-0032-6
Thomas, S. F., Rooks, P., Rudin, F., Cagney, N., Balabani, S., Atkinson, S., . . . Allen, M. J. (2015). Swirl flow bioreactor containing dendritic copper-containing alginate beads: A potential rapid method for the eradication of Escherichia coli from waste water streams. JOURNAL OF WATER PROCESS ENGINEERING, 5, 6-14. doi:10.1016/j.jwpe.2014.10.010
Ma, S., Huck, W. T. S. and Balabani, S. (2015). Deformation of double emulsions under conditions of flow cytometry hydrodynamic focusing. LAB ON A CHIP, 15(22), 4291-4301. doi:10.1039/c5lc00693g
Alimohammadi, M., Pichardo-Almarza, C., Di Tomaso, G., Balabani, S., Agu, O., & Diaz-Zuccarini, V. (2015). Predicting atherosclerotic plaque location in an iliac bifurcation using a hybrid CFD/biomechanical approach. LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 9044, 594-606.
Ma, S., Sherwood, J. M., Huck, W. T. S. and Balabani, S. (2015). The microenvironment of double emulsions in rectangular microchannels. LAB ON A CHIP, 15(10), 2327-2334. doi:10.1039/c5lc00346f
2014
Cagney, N. and Balabani, S. (2014). Streamwise vortex-induced vibrations of cylinders with one and two degrees-of-freedom. JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, 758, 702-727. doi:10.1017/jfm.2014.521
Sherwood, J. M., Holmes, D., Kaliviotis, E. and Balabani, S. (2014). Spatial Distributions of red blood cells significantly alter local haemodynamics. PLOS ONE, 9(6). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0100473
Alimohammadi., M., Bhattacharya., Seshadhri, S., Penrose, J., Agu, O., Balabani, S., & Diaz, V. A. (2014). Evaluation of the hemodynamic effectiveness of aortic dissection treatments via virtual stenting. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL ORGANS. doi:10.5301/ijao.5000310
Sherwood, J. M., Kaliviotis, E., Dusting, J. and Balabani, S. (2014). Hematocrit, viscosity and velocity distributions of aggregating and non-aggregating blood in a bifurcating microchannel. BIOMECHANICS AND MODELING IN MECHANOBIOLOGY, 13(2), 259-273. doi:10.1007/s10237-012-0449-9
Ma, S., Sherwood, J. M., Huck, W. T. S. and Balabani, S. (2014). On the flow topology inside droplets moving in rectangular microchannels. LAB ON A CHIP, 14(18), 3611-3620. doi:10.1039/c4lc00671b
Alimohammadi, M., Agu, O., Balabani, S. and Díaz-Zuccarini, V. (2014). Development of a patient-specific simulation tool to analyse aortic dissections: assessment of mixed patient-specific flow and pressure boundary conditions.. MEDICAL ENGINEERING & PHYSICS, 36(3), 275-284. doi:10.1016/j.medengphy.2013.11.003
2013
Cagney, N. and Balabani, S. (2013). Mode competition in streamwise-only vortex induced vibrations. JOURNAL OF FLUIDS AND STRUCTURES, 41, 156-165. doi:10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2013.02.009
Cagney, N. and Balabani, S. (2013). On multiple manifestations of the second response branch in streamwise vortex-induced vibrations. PHYSICS OF FLUIDS, 25, 075110, doi:10.1063/1.4816293
Cagney, N. and Balabani, S. (2013). Wake modes of a cylinder undergoing free streamwise vortex-induced vibrations. JOURNAL OF FLUIDS AND STRUCTURES, 38, 127-145. doi:10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2012.12.004; Top25 Hottest article in 2013:
2012-
Sherwood, J. M., Dusting, J., Kaliviotis, E. and Balabani, S. (2012). The effect of red blood cell aggregation on velocity and cell-depleted layer characteristics of blood in a bifurcating microchannel. BIOMICROFLUIDICS, 6, 024119 doi:10.1063/1.4717755.
Kaliviotis, E., Dusting, J. and Balabani, S. (2011). Spatial variation of blood viscosity: Modelling using shear fields measured by a m PIV based technique. MEDICAL ENGINEERING & PHYSICS, 33(7), 824-831. doi:10.1016/j.medengphy.2010.09.004
Webster, G. T., Dusting, J., Balabani, S. and Blanch, E. W. (2011). Detecting the early onset of shear-induced fibril formation of insulin in situ. JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B, 115(11), 2617-2626. doi:10.1021/jp110367t
Imomoh, E., Dusting, J. and Balabani, S. (2010). On the quasiperiodic state in a moderate aspect ratio Taylor-Couette flow. PHYSICS OF FLUIDS, 22, 044103. doi:10.1063/1.3407665
Ashton, L., Dusting, J., Imomoh, E., Balabani, S. and Blanch, E. W. (2010). Susceptibility of different proteins to flow-induced conformational changes monitored with Raman Spectroscopy. BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 98(4), 707-714. doi:10.1016/bpj.2009.10.010
Dusting, J., Kaliviotis, E., Balabani, S. and Yianneskis, M. (2009). Coupled human erythrocyte velocity field and aggregation measurements at physiological haematocrit levels. JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS, 42(10), 1438-1443. doi:10.1016/j.jbiomech.2009.04.004
Dusting, J. and Balabani, S. (2009). Mixing in a Taylor-Couette reactor in the non-wavy flow regime. CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE, 64(13), 3103-3111. doi:10.1016/j.ces.2009.03.046
Ashton, L., Dusting, J., Imomoh, E., Balabani, S. and Blanch, E. W. (2009). Shear-induced unfolding of lysozyme monitored in situ. BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 96(10), 4231-4236. doi:10.1016/j.bpj.2009.02.024