Zenit Research Lab

Congratulations to our unbelievably talented undergraduates! Zenit Lab has proudly hosted many graduating seniors at @brownengin in many capacities. These students endeavored to create a complete thesis based on rigorous scientific research, and have succeeded on all counts. 🥇

Congratulations to Dr. @MaddyFederle , who successfully defended her thesis entitled “Bubble Dynamics and Coalescence: bubble-droplet filtration and microgravity bubble emulsions”!🚀🚀 She has been such a vital part of Zenit Lab during her tenure as a PhD student - Congrats! 🫧

Just published! 🚀🌀 Our latest research headed by @MaddyFederle: designing an accessible homogenous isotropic turbulence chamber for lab experiments - out on @HardwareX1. It aims to advance experimental fluid mechanics techniques & broaden tools available to the community!

Thank you to every one of our friends and colleagues who stopped by our talks at @APSphysics DFD this year! Safe travels home ✈️

Non-Newtonian knockout! @APSphysics DFD

This morning our undergraduate, Dongyue Wang, is presenting his research on non-Newtonian spreading dynamics of droplets. Catch this at 10:10am Central at @APSphysics DFD.

Speckle-tacular! @APSphysics DFD

Now at 9:31am Central!

We are starting this morning off with ZenitLab PhD student and @DraperLab Scholar, PJ Gaudio, presenting his findings on using the speckle patterns from lasers to measure flow at 9:41am Central at @APSphysics DFD.

Always great to see the success of students passing through our lab. Great talk Sofia Iterbide, undergraduate of @TrinityCollege!

Orr Avni is presenting now! @APSphysics DFD

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We hope to see fellow Fluid-Mechanicians and Bubble Enthusiasts at the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics this year in Houston! Today we have ZenitLab Fulbright Scholar, Orr Avni, speaking at 5:25pm Central on liquid jets in aerial firefighting.

From lab to court! 🥎Tune into Science Sessions 🎧 from @PNASNews to learn more about how we studied the sqush nick shot! …s-science-sessions-podcast.libsyn.com/unpacking-the-…

Just out in @PhysRevLett! What floats up and breaks scaling laws on the way?🫧Bubble-induced turbulence gets a viscoelastic twist by @MRavisankar_ @brownengin Check this out: doi.org/10.1103/q7xk-1…

Using science to explain the everyday world, Brown researchers from Professor Roberto Zenit's lab used the physics of a special unreturnable shot in squash to further the science behind shock-dampening technologies of mechanical systems. brown.edu/news/2025-06-1…

Huge congrats to the newest PhD from our lab, Dr. @MRavisankar_, on defending his dissertation @brownengin: “Bubbly flows in non-Newtonian fluids and viscous Newtonian fluids.” He’s now a master of all things bubbly and sticky. Next stop: Postdoc at @UniOslo! 🎉 Proud of you!

Just out in PNAS @PNASNews: The physics behind squash’s most satisfying shot—the nick. When hit just right, the ball rolls out with no bounce, "no mercy". A beautiful blend of precision and mechanics. The work was led by @MRavisankar_ @brownengin pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Unfortunately couldn't make it to ICMF in Toulouse this year, but proud to share that my student @MaddyFederle presented her exciting work on bubble emulsions in microgravity @brownengin. Great to see the next generation pushing boundaries! 🚀🫧 #ICMF2025 #FluidDynamics