The project aims at establishing a unified framework, currently lacking in the literature, to bridge the fragmented understanding of interfacial rheology in particle-stabilized emulsions and foams—spanning both introduced colloidal systems (such as silica and polystyrene) and in situ crystallizing species (such as monoglycerides and proteins).

Turbulent, dense fluid-particle flows are commonly encountered in engineering and natural process, transport of suspensions in chemical and pharmaceutical industries, bed load sediment transport, movement of sand dunes, impingement of jets on planetary surfaces. High speed fluid flows on dense beds are complex in nature because of the coupling between the fluid and solid phases. Most of the studies, reported in the literature have focused either dilute phase turbulent flows or dense phase solid system with laminar flows.