Research and Publications

SELECTED PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
  1. Lee, G., Attinger, D., Martin, K., Shiri, S., & Bird, J.C. (2023). Bloodstain tails: Asymmetry aids reconstruction of oblique impact. Physics of Fluids, 35(11).
  2. Baumgartner, D. A., Shiri, S., Sinha, S., Karpitschka, S., & Cira, N. J. (2022). Marangoni spreading and contracting three-component droplets on completely wetting surfaces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(19), e2120432119.
  3. Shiri, S., Sinha, S., Baumgartner, D. A., & Cira, N. J. (2021). Thermal Marangoni Flow Im- pacts the Shape of Single Component Volatile Droplets on Thin, Completely Wetting Sub- strates. Physical Review Letters, 127(2), 024502.
  4. Shiri, S., Martin, K. F., & Bird, J. C. (2019). Surface coatings including fingerprint residues can significantly alter the size and shape of bloodstains. Forensic science international, 295, 189-198.
  5. Shiri, S., Murrizi, A., & Bird, J. C. (2018). Trapping a Hot Drop on a Superhydrophobic Surface with Rapid Condensation or Microtexture Melting. Micromachines, 9(11), 566.
  6. Shiri, S., & Bird, J. C. (2017). Heat exchange between a bouncing drop and a superhydropho- bic substrate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(27), 6930-6935.
  7. Patterson, C. J., Shiri, S., & Bird, J. C. (2016). Macrotextured spoked surfaces reduce the residence time of a bouncing Leidenfrost drop. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 29(6), 064007.
  8. Anderson, R., Shiri, S., Bindra, H., & Morris, J. F. (2014). Experimental results and modeling of energy storage and recovery in a packed bed of alumina particles. Applied Energy, 119, 521- 529.
PATENT
  • Cira, N., Shiri S. (2021). US Provisional Patent Application No 63/281,275. Surface-Patterned, Omniphobic Tiles (Spots), Fabrication, Loading, and Uses.
INVITED / CONFERENCE TALKS
Invited Talks
  1. Interfacial Transport Dynamics: from Fundamental to Application. 2021- Mechanical Engineering department, The City Collage of New York, New York, NY
  2. The relevance of inertia-capillary dynamics on superhydrophobic heat exchange and microscopic phase change. 2018 – Device Research Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
  3. The relevance of inertia-capillary dynamics on superhydrophobic heat exchange and microscopic phase change. 2019 – Rowland Institute at Harvard, Cambridge, MA.
  4. The fluid dynamics and heat exchange of drops impacting wetting and non-wetting surfaces. 2018 – Mechanics of Slender Structures (MOSS), Boston University, Boston, MA.
Conference Talks
  1. Chowdhury, N., Dousti, A., Cal, RB., && Shiri, S. (2023). Mixing Characterization of Containerless Droplets. American Physical Society 76th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Washington, DC.
  2. Lee, G., Attinger, D., Martin, K., Shiri, S., & Bird, J.C. (2023). Can the tails of bloodstain help forensic investigation? American Physical Society 76th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Washington, DC.
  3. Shiri, S., Qazi, M., Menesses, M., & Cira, N. (2021). Passive devices for high throughput liquid handling. American Physical Society 74th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Phoenix, AZ.
  4. Lee, G., Shiri, S., Brasz, C. F., & Bird, J.C. (2021). The wicking of volatile drops on thin, porous substrates. American Physical Society 74th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Phoenix, AZ.
  5. Tao, S., Shiri, S., Kurtz, D., Cira N., Hunter B., Billinge, S. J. L. (2021). A high-throughput method for combinatorial screening of metal nanoparticles using x-ray pair distribution function analysis. 25th International Union of Crystallography, Prague, Czech Republic organizers.
  6. Shiri, S., Sinha, S., Baumgartner, D. & Cira, N. (2021). Droplet stabilization by Thermal Marangoni. Droplets Conference, online.
  7. Sinha, S., Baumgartner, D., Shiri, S., Man, X., Doi, M., & Cira, N. (2019). Marangoni flow influences apparent contact angle of single component volatile liquids on completely wet- ting surfaces. American Physical Society 72nd Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Seattle, WA.
  8. Shiri, S., Murrizi A., & Bird J.C. (2018). Superhydrophobic surfaces that can selectively trap a drop based on temperature. American Physical Society 71st Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Atlanta, GA.
  9. Shiri, S., Martin K.F., & Bird, J.C. (2018). The effect of microscopic surface coatings and residues on the size and shape of bloodstains. American Academy of Forensic Sciences 70th Annual Scientific Meeting, Seattle, WA.
  10. Shiri, S., Kenneth F. Martin, & Bird, J.C. (2017). The Role of Hemiwicking on the Shape of a Blood Drop Stain. American Physical Society 70th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Denver, CO.
  11. Shiri, S., Patterson, C., & Bird, J.C. (2016). The impact of a Leidenfrost drop on a spoked surface texture. American Physical Society 69th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Portland, OR.
  12. Shiri, S., & Bird, J.C., (2015). Transferring heat during a bounce. American Physical Society 68th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Boston, MA.