Rahil Valani
School of Mathematical Sciences
Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology
I am an ARC Grant Funded Researcher in Applied Mathematics in the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Adelaide. I completed a Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering (Hons) and a Bachelor of Science (Mathematics and Physics) in 2016 from Monash University. I then completed a PhD in Physics from Monash University in 2020. During my PhD, my research focused on investigating, both experimentally and theoretically, a hydrodynamic system of self-propelled droplets on a vibrating fluid bath.
I have a broad interest in applying mathematics to understand various physical and biological phenomena. My specific interests are in dynamical systems & chaos, fluid dynamics and active matter.
- Inertial particle focusing in curved microfluidic ducts
- Superwalking droplets
- Hydrodynamic quantum analogs
- Dynamics of wave-particle entities
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2019 - 2020 Teaching Professional Monash College 2017 - 2019 Teaching Assistant Monash University 2015 - 2017 Research Assistant Monash University -
Awards and Achievements
Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount 2021 Research Award Robert Street Doctoral Prize 2020 Monash University Australia 2021 Scholarship Australian Government RTP Scholarship Australian Government Australia 2021 Award T.M. Cherry award ANZIAM Australia 2020 Research Award 2020 Norris Family Award for Outstanding Research Output by a Graduate Research Student Monash University Australia 2018 Award Best student presentation award Brown University United States 2017 Scholarship J L William Postgraduate Top Up Scholarship Monah University Australia 2016 Award Best in School Award Monash University Australia -
Language Competencies
Language Competency English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review Gujarati Can read, speak and understand spoken Hindi Can read, speak and understand spoken -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title 2017 - 2020 Monash University Australia PhD 2012 - 2017 Monash University Australia Bachelor of Science 2012 - 2016 Monash University Australia Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering (Hons) -
Research Interests
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Journals
Year Citation 2022 Valani, R. N. (2022). Anomalous transport of a classical wave-particle entity in a tilted potential. Physical Review E, 105(1), 6 pages.
2022 Valani, R. N. (2022). Lorenz-like systems emerging from an integro-differential trajectory equation of a one-dimensional wave-particle entity. Chaos, 32(2), 12 pages.
2021 Valani, R. N., Slim, A. C., Paganin, D. M., Simula, T. P., & Vo, T. (2021). Unsteady dynamics of a classical particle-wave entity. Physical Review E, 104(1), 015106-1-015106-16.
Scopus3 WoS22021 Valani, R. N., Slim, A. C., & Simula, T. P. (2021). Stop-and-go locomotion of superwalking droplets. Physical Review E, 103(4), 043102-1-043102-12.
Scopus2 WoS22020 Valani, R. N., Dring, J., Simula, T. P., & Slim, A. C. (2020). Emergence of superwalking droplets. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 906, 1-28.
Scopus5 WoS52019 Valani, R. N., Slim, A. C., & Simula, T. (2019). Superwalking droplets. Physical Review Letters, 123(2), 024503-1-024503-5.
Scopus19 WoS192018 Valani, R. N., & Slim, A. C. (2018). Pilot-wave dynamics of two identical, in-phase bouncing droplets. Chaos, 28(9), 096114-1-096114-15.
Scopus7 WoS7 Europe PMC22018 Valani, R. N., Slim, A. C., & Simula, T. (2018). Hong-Ou-Mandel-like two-droplet correlations. Chaos, 28(9), 096104-1-096104-7.
Scopus11 WoS10 Europe PMC42018 Valani, R. N., Groszek, A. J., & Simula, T. P. (2018). Einstein-Bose condensation of Onsager vortices. New Journal of Physics, 20(5), 053038-1-053038-16.
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Theses
Year Citation 2020 Valani, R. (2020). Superwalking Droplets and Generalised Pilot-Wave Dynamics. (PhD Thesis).
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