People

Bhargav Rallabandi

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Riverside

bhargav@engr.ucr.edu

Bhargav Rallabandi combines mathematical modeling and experiments to understand and design complex flowing systems. Bhargav received a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2010 from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka. He received an MS (in 2012) and a PhD (in 2015) in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, studying flows created by oscillating microbubbles. He then joined Princeton University as a postdoctoral researcher, where he worked on a range of problems involving hydrodynamics in soft systems. Bhargav joined UC Riverside in 2018, where he is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering.

Xirui Zhang

PhD Student
Research: Microscale flows with inertia and elasticity

xzhan392@ucr.edu

Xirui Zhang is a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at UC Riverside. He obtained his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Dalian Jiatong University. He is currently working on inertial flows in microfluidic channels.

Xiaokang Zhang

PhD Student
Research: Particle dynamics in oscillatory flows

xzhan434@ucr.edu

Xiaokang Zhang is currently a PhD student at University of California, Riverside. His research focuses on the dynamics of oscillating particles in fluids. Before joining UCR, he received the master degree from UCSD and bachelor degree in Beijing Forestry University. Besides research, he is a Formula One racing fan, hiker and endurance runner.

Jake Minten

PhD Student
Research: Hydrodynamics of rough particles

jmint003@ucr.edu

Jake Minten is a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering. He currently works on theory and numerical simulations of fluid flows around interacting particulate suspensions.

Kritik Saxena

PhD Student
Research: Inertial microscale flows

ksaxe004@ucr.edu

Kritik Saxena is a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering. He holds an MS from Louisiana Tech University, where his research was centered on learning the effects of surfactants on wettability. Before this, he was a Junior Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad (ISM), India, where he worked on Ni-based superalloys in collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). He holds an M. Tech. from the National Institute of Technology Calicut, where he worked on additive manufacturing of brachytherapy applicators for cancer treatment. He received his bachelor’s degree from RGPV University in Mechanical Engineering.