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Keywords: Fluid mechanics, thermally driven flow, flow with phase changes. Experimental and numerical methods. Micro- and nanoflows, nanofibres and nanofilaments, biomedical applications of nanoparticles, drug release.

• Micro-fluidics - transition to turbulence in microchannels [123,126,142,155], microPIV; nanofibres, electrospinning [107,118,131,132,140,141,143-148,153,157-161,163-165,168-171]

• Granular flow, application of PIV technique [111,121,124,167]

• Experimental investigations of liquid jet break-up. Evidence of ``super'' thin liquid bridges between liquid jet and the droplet. Instability of evaporating jets, modeling of droplet and liquid jet evaporation, dynamic of growth of single vapour bubble, evaporation of emulsions [11,12, 16,34,38,45,47,48,65,73,94,102].

• Experimental and numerical investigation of nonlinear droplet oscillations. Description of droplet deformation. Development of non-intrusive method to measure dynamic surface tension, measurements of the physical parameters of evaporating surface by oscillating droplet method [13,20,22,23,27, 28,38-40,43,45,47-49].

• Development of high speed video recording methods based on CCD ``frame-transfer'' camera and image processor. Application of the method for investigation of droplets and jet instabilities [11,14,18,22, 35,47].

• Development of a computer supported neurosurgical navigator [ Euromech406 in IFTR Reports 4/1999, pp. 107-110, internal report]

• Turbulence, modelling atmospheric flows, mixing in clouds [88-90, 92, 98, 103,104, 110, 111, 116, 119, 121, 124,133,139,156].

• Experimental and numerical investigation of natural convection, identification of new flow structures; investigation of natural convection in presence of phase change (freezing) [14, 16, 18, 26, 29, 31, 43, 49-52, 55-59, 62, 65-71, 73-75, 77-79, 83-86, 89, 90, 92, 94, 95, 96, 98, 99, 100, 102, 104, 105, 110, 112, 113, 114, 116, 126].

• Development of new experimental technique for instantaneous measurement of temperature and velocity two-diemnsional fields in thermal flow, based on application of liquid crystal as tracers [9, 16, 31, 36, 51, 63, 66-68, 70, 71, 88, 89, 98, 113, 126].

• Investigations of low Reynolds number two-phase flow in tubes (solid and liquid suspensions). Application of new measuring techniques for measuring velocity and particle concentration, laser doppler and ultrasound doppler anemometry [1-9, 54,55-56,58,64].

INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS

• FLOXCOM - 5FP EU project
  
• VTMX - DOE's Environmental Meteorology Program
  
• PIVNET2 - 5FP EU thematic network
  
• EMMA - CONEX project on Production and stability of emulsions containing nanoparticles and their use for new materials
  
• ABIOMED - Center of Excelence
  
• METRO - Leonardo Pilot Project
  
• NADIA - 6FP EU Project
  
• Sliding droplets MC 7FP EU Project
  

NATIONAL PROJECTS

• Experimental investigations of the instabilities of the evaporating liquid jets, (DFG 201/18 - E.M. Mueller), MPI & Uni Goettingen 1991 - 1993.
• Dynamic properties of the jets of liquid mixtures, (DFG201/20 - E.M. Mueller), MPI & Uni Goettingen 1993 - 1994.
• Grant KBN - Struktury konwekcji swobodnej cieczy z przemiana fazowa w kanale zamknietym z chlodzona gorna powierzchnia, grant nr PB 3-P404-001-07, 1995-1997.
• Grant KBN 3T09C 002 12 - Eksperymentalne i numeryczne badanie konwekcji naturalnej z przemiana fazowa w ukladach binarnych, 1997-1999.
• Grant KBN 8 T10B 072 20 - Model eksperymentalny do weryfikacji programow symulujacych procesy odlewnicze, 2001 -2003
• Grant KBN 5T07A 052 24 - Analiza oddzialywan hydrodynamicznych w strukturze chmurowej, 2003 -2005
• Grant promotorski (Tomasz Michalek), Metoda oceny wiarygodnosci symulacji numerycznych przeplywow lepkich i termicznych, KBN nr 4 T07A 007 26, 2004-2005
• Grant promotorski (Piotr Korczyk) - Wplyw kropelek chmurowych na drobnoskalowa turbulecje - model laboratoryjny, KBN N501 035 32/2870, 2007-2008.
• Grant KBN - Optymalizacja procesu wytwarzania nanowlokien metoda elektroprzedzenia, grant nr. N 508 031 31/1740, 2006 - 2009.
• Grant NCBiR zamawiany - Zdalne wykrywanie i identyfikacja skazen biologicznych z wykorzystaniem zaawansowanych metod optoelektronicznych, grant nr. PBS-MNiSW-DBO-03/1/2007, 2007 - 2011.
• Grant NCN - Intensyfikacja procesu mieszania w mikro-przeplywach, grant nr. N501 0087 33, 2007-2010
• Grant NCBiR - Zastosowanie elektroprzedzonych nanowlokien jako opatrunkow aktywnych w zapobieganiu pourazowym zmianom w tkance mozgowej, grant nr. R13008110, 2009 - 2013.
• Grant NCN Opus - Dynamika mikro i nano obiektow zawieszonych w plynie, grant. nr. 2011/03/B/ST8/05482, 2012 - 2016.
• Grant promotorski NCN Prelundium (Sylwia Pawlowska), Hydrozelowe nanowlokna do zastosowan biomedycznych, grant nr. 2015/17/N/ST8/022012, 2016 -2018.
• Grant promotorski NCN Preludium (Krzysztof Zembrzycki), Analiza oddzialywan hydrodynamicznych pojedynczych czastek przy uzyciu pensety optycznej, grant nr. 2015/19/N/ST8/03931, 2016 - 2020.

RESEARCH PARTNERS

• Technion - Haifa & University of Illinois at Chicago
  Alexander L. Yarin
  
• Max-Planck-Institut fuer Stroemungsforschung, Goettingen
  W. Hiller
  
• University of New South Wales, Sydney
  G. de Vahl Davis
  E. Leonardi
  
• LIMSI - CNRS, Orsay
  P. Le Quere , J. Pakleza
  
• University of Rome, "La Sapienza"
  F. Stella
  
• TECHNION, Israel
  Y. Levy, G. Hetsroni, A. Solan, A. Gelfgat
  
• Arizona State University, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  D. Boyer (MAE), H.J.S. Fernando (EFD)
  VTMX field experiment in Utah
  
• Fachhochschule Stralsund -University of Applied Sciences, Germany
  J. Szymczyk
  
• Warsaw University of Technology
  J. Banaszek
  
• University of Mining and Metalurgy, Cracow
  J. Szmyd