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Gary Leal

Professor
Chemical Engineering & Materials
lgl20@engineering.ucsb.edu
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Tel. 805-893-8510
Fax: 805-893-5458
3351 Engineering II

Research Interests

Our research is currently focused on two general areas: first, the dynamics of complex fluids such as polymeric liiquids, liquid crystals, liquid crystalline polymers, and colloidal suspensions; second, nonlinear and surfactant-induced phenomena in flows involving interfacial deformations.