Professor
Co-director, Laboratory for Complex and Non-Newtonian Fluid Flow
Office: CHBE 209
Email: james.feng@ubc.ca
Website: https://secure.math.ubc.ca/~jfeng/
Research Summary
Dynamics of Complex Fluids, Multiphase and Interfacial Fluid Mechanics, Cell and Tissue Mechanics
Education
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, 1995, Ph.D.
Peking University, Beijing, China, 1988, M.Sc.
Peking University, Beijing, China, 1985, B.Sc.
Research interests + projects
Our group carries out research in three broad areas: mechanics of biological cells and tissues, interfacial fluid dynamics, and mechanics and rheology of complex fluids. Our work has an interdisciplinary flavor, crosscutting applied mathematics, cell biology, soft-matter physics and chemical and biomedical engineering. I advise graduate students in the departments of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Mathematics, and I am part of the Biomedical Engineering Program and a member of the Math Biology group. Our methodology involves numerical simulations and experiments. Computational work uses local clusters as well as the WestGrid. Much of the experimental work is done at the Laboratory for Complex and Non-Newtonian Fluid Flow.
Awards and honours
CAIMS Research Prize, Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society , 2017
Wall Scholar, Peter Wall Institute , 2015
Canada Research Chair – II , 2014
Fellow, American Physical Society , 2013
NSF Career Award , 2004
Scholarly and professional activities + affiliations
Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society 2020
Physical Biology 2020
Biomedical Engineering Program, Hong Kong University 2021
Selected publications + presentations
Xu, Z., Yue, P. & Feng, J. J., Poroelastic modeling reveals the cooperation between two mechanisms for albuminuria. J. R. Soc. Interface 20, 20220634 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2022.0634
Feng, J. J. & Hedtrich, S., A similarity scaling approach for organ-on-chip devices. Lab Chip 22, 3663-3667 (2022), https://doi.org/10.1039/D2LC00641C
Loudet, J.-C., Choudhury, A., Qiu, M. & Feng, J. J., Particle trapped at the isotropic-nematic liquid crystal interface: Elasto-capillary phenomena and drag forces. Phys. Rev. E 105, 044607 (2022), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.105.044607
Arefi, S. M. A., Yang, C. W. T., Sin, D. D. & Feng, J. J., A mechanical test of the tenertaxis hypothesis for leukocyte diapedesis. Eur. Phys. J. E 44, 93 (2021), https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/s10189-021-00096-9
Durney, C. H. & Feng, J. J., A three-dimensional vertex model for Drosophila salivary gland invagination. Phys. Biol. 18, 046005 (2021), https://doi.org/10.1088/1478-3975/abfa69