The project aims at developing innovative, energy-efficient methodologies—currently lacking in optimized pipeline management—for the electrohydrodynamic remediation and prevention of wax blockages in crude oil transport. Building on fundamental research demonstrating that electric fields can break down wax networks into low-viscosity fluids to restore flowability, the candidate will investigate the precise mechanisms governing electric field interactions with paraffinic microstructures.

The project aims at developing a comprehensive model, currently lacking in the literature, for simultaneous electroporation and electrodeformation in vesicles and excitable (such as Neurons and Cardiomyotcytes) and non-excitable nucleate and anucleate cells, relevant in electroporation for cancer treatment.  On the other spectrum of soft matter, the code will also be extended to droplet electrohydrodynamics relevant in crude oil refining. The simulatino platform will be in-house Boundary Integral code, as well as COMSOL Multiphysics and other open source softwares.