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Evgeniy Boyko

Evgeniy Boyko

Head of the Technion Complex Fluids Lab

Education

  • 2014 – 2020: Ph.D. (direct track), Mechanical Engineering, Technion – I.I.T., Israel
  • 2012 – 2015: B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Technion – I.I.T., Israel

Research Interests

  • Theoretical research of fluid mechanics and transport phenomena
  • Hydrodynamics of complex and non-Newtonian fluids: flows of shear-thinning and viscoelastic fluids
  • Flows of polymer solutions and melts: theory and simulations
  • Interfacial phenomena, interfacial rheology, free surface flows
  • Microfluidics, electrokinetics, electro-osmotic flows
  • Fluid–structure interaction

Guest Appointments

  • 2021 – 2022: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Schools of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, Purdue University
  • 2020 – 2021: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University

Honors and Awards

  • Alon Fellowship for the Integration of Outstanding Faculty (2023 – present)
  • Zuckerman Israeli Postdoctoral Scholarship (2020 – 2022)
  • Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellowship at Purdue Engineering (2021 – 2022)
  • Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellowship (2020 – 2021)
  • Arie and Rebecca Shostakovsky Ph.D. Excellence Award (2021)
  • Blavatnik Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Cambridge (2020 – 2022) (declined)
  • Jacobs prize for best publication of the 2019 year from the Technion (2020)
  • Adams Fellowship Program of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2017 – 2020)
  • Faculty’s Excellence Scholarship (5x) (2015 – 2020)
  • Technion Graduate School Scholarship for Traveling Students (2015 – 2016)
  • Dean’s Graduate Studies Scholarship (2015)
  • Graduated with excellence (Summa Cum Laude), B.Sc., Technion – I.I.T. (2015)
  • Technion President’s List for academic achievements (4x) (2013 – 2015)

Selected Publications

  • Stone H. A., Shelley M. J., and Boyko E., (2023), “A note about convected time derivatives for flows of complex fluids”, Soft Matter 19, 5353-5359.
  • Boyko E. and Christov I. C., (2023), “Non-Newtonian fluid–structure interaction: flow of a viscoelastic Oldroyd-B fluid in a deformable channel”, J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech. 313, 104990.
  • Boyko E., Stone H. A., and Christov I. C., (2022), “Flow rate–pressure drop relation for deformable channels via fluidic and elastic reciprocal theorems”, Phys. Rev. Fluids (Letter) 7, L092201.
  • Boyko E. and Stone H. A., (2022), “Pressure-driven flow of the viscoelastic Oldroyd-B fluid in narrow non-uniform geometries: analytical results and comparison with simulations”, J. Fluid Mech. 936, A23.
  • Boyko E. and Stone H. A., (2021), “Reciprocal theorem for calculating the flow rate–pressure drop relation for complex fluids in narrow geometries”, Phys. Rev. Fluids (Letter) 6, L081301.
  • Boyko E. and Stone H. A., (2021), “Flow rate–pressure drop relation for shear-thinning fluids in narrow channels: approximate solutions and comparison with experiments”, J. Fluid Mech. (Rapids) 923, R5.
  • Gabay I., Paratore F., Boyko E., Ramos A., Gat A. D., and Bercovici M., (2021), “Shaping liquid films by dielectrophoresis”, Flow 1, E13.
  • Boyko E., Bacheva V., Eigenbrod M., Paratore F., Gat A. D., Hardt, S., and Bercovici M., (2021), “Microscale Hydrodynamic Cloaking and Shielding via Electro-Osmosis”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 184502.
  • Boyko E., Ilssar D., Bercovici M., and Gat A. D., (2020), “Interfacial instability of thin films in soft microfluidic configurations actuated by electro-osmotic flow”, Phys. Rev. Fluids 5, 104201.
  • Arshavsky Graham S., Boyko E., Salama R., and Segal E., (2020), “Mass Transfer Limitations of Porous Silicon-Based Biosensors for Protein Detection”, ACS Sensors 5, 3058-3069.
  • Boyko E., Eshel R., Gat A. D., and Bercovici M., (2020), “Non-uniform Electro-osmotic Flow Drives Fluid-Structure Instability”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 024501.
  • Boyko E., Eshel R., Khaled G., Gat A. D., and Bercovici M., (2019), “Elastohydrodynamics of a pre-stretched finite elastic sheet lubricated by a thin viscous film with application to microfluidic soft actuators”, J. Fluid Mech. 862, 732-752.
  • Paratore F., Boyko E., Kaigala G. V., and Bercovici M., (2019), “Electroosmotic Flow Dipole: Experimental Observation and Flow Field Patterning”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 224502.
  • Boyko E., Bercovici M., and Gat A. D., (2017), “Viscous-elastic dynamics of power-law fluids within an elastic cylinder”, Phys. Rev. Fluids 2, 073301.
  • Boyko E., Bercovici M., and Gat A. D., (2016), “Flow of power-law liquids in a Hele-Shaw cell driven by non-uniform electro-osmotic slip in the case of strong depletion”, J. Fluid Mech. 807, 235-257.
  • Boyko E., Rubin S., Gat A. D., and Bercovici M., (2015), “Flow patterning in Hele-Shaw configurations using non-uniform electro-osmotic slip”, Phys. Fluids 27, 102001.
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