Avshalom Offner

I am a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the School of Mathematics, The University of Edinburgh. I combine theoretical and experimental methods to study the dynamics of droplets and particles in fluid flows.

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Research

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Airborne droplets dynamics

Modelling and measuring the lifetime and spread of respiratory droplets.

Positron Emission Particle Tracking (PEPT)

Visualising the motion of particles in opaque fluids using radioisotopes; mathematically quantifying the measurement uncertainty.

Acoustics and droplets

Studying how acoustics can enhance evaporation and drive droplet agglomeration.

Biography

07/2020 – present: Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, School of Mathematics, The University of Edinburgh.

10/2019 – 06/2020: Research Fellow, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

2019: PhD (direct track), Interdisciplinary Energy Program, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Supervisor: Prof. Guy Z. Ramon
Dissertation: Heat and mass transfer in acoustic energy conversion

2013: BSc (Cum Laude), Mechanical Engineering, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

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Publications

Publications

Offner, A., Manger, S. & Vanneste, J. (2023) A probabilistic framework for uncertainty quantification in positron emission particle tracking, Inverse Problems 39(5), 055003.

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Offner, A. & Vanneste, J. (2022) Airborne lifetime of respiratory droplets, Physics of Fluids 34, 053320.

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Offner, A. & Ramon, G. Z. (2021) Acoustic instability in aerosol, Journal of Engineering Mathematics 129(16), 1-14.

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