Sumit Kumar

 
 

MEAM Doctoral Student

Contact

  • Office: Towne 112B, University of Pennsylvania, 220S 33rd St, Philadelphia, PA-19104
  • Phone: 445-237-7435
  • Email: sumitsk at seas dot upenn dot edu
  • Google Scholar

——————————————————————————————————–

Education

——————————————————————————————————–

Research Interests

  • Characterization
    • Rheology
    • Surface modifications
    • Tribological characterization of biomaterials
    • Food/beverage tribology
  • Building
    • Various extensional rheology setups at the macro and microscale (stay tuned :))
  • Theory
    • Multiscale modeling using kinetic Monte Carlo simulations
    • General soft matter physics with interesting math 🙂

——————————————————————————————————–

Publications

  • Journals (primary)
    • [2025] J. Brandon McClimon, Sumit Sunil Kumar, Ben Alexander, Margaret Lin, Manuel A. Lema, Farhana M. Khan, Adam B. Braunschweig, Robert W. Carpick, Synthetic mucin lubricates interfaces at multiple length scales by tribofilm formation, Under review
    • [2025] Sumit Sunil Kumar, J. Brandon McClimon, Manuel Lema, Travis Leadbetter, Ilse B. Nava-Medina, Prashant K. Purohit, Adam B. Braunschweig, Robert W. Carpick, Interfacial yield stress response in synthetic mucin solutions, Adv Mater Interfaces (2025). https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202500066
      • Editors’ Choice at Adv Mater Interfaces
    • [2024] Dhiraj Puri, Sumit Sunil Kumar, Vadiraj Hemadri, Arnab Banerjee, Siddhartha Tripathi, Analysis of sperm cell motion in high viscosity Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids using a microfluidic channel, Microfluid Nanofluid 28, 11 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10404-024-02707-1
  • Journals (Secondary)
    • [2025] Judah Kafui Cofie, Xu Yang, Chengyu Sun, Yuntao Qiu, Keidy L. Matos, Manuel A. Lema, Antonio Cerullo, Sumit Sunil Kumar, J. Brandon McClimon, Robert W. Carpick, Xi Chen, Parastoo Azadi, Adam Braunschweig, American Bullfrog Mucus Composition, Water Sorption, and Mechanical Properties, In preparation
  • Conferences
    • [2022] Sumit Sunil Kumar, Harsh Deswal, Amit Agrawal. Design of a Magnetic Gradient based microviscometer, DAE-BRNS International Symposium on Vacuum Science and Technology and its Applications in Accelerators, 2022
    • [2021] Sumit Sunil Kumar, Pranjal Anand. Analysis of capillary dynamics for Non Newtonian Fluids, 48th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, 2021, ISBN: 978-981-19-7055-9
    • [2021] Sumit Sunil Kumar, Dhyan Patel, Rugved Katole, Ujwal Gandhi. MEMS based pressure sensor for detection of negative pressure wave in subsea pipelines, 65th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, 2021, ISBN: 81-8372-085-4

——————————————————————————————————–

Presentations

  • [2024] Sumit Sunil Kumar, Travis Leadbetter, J. Brandon Mcclimon, Manuel Lema, Ilse B. Nava Medina, Adam B. Braunshweig, Prashant K. Purohit, Robert W. Carpick, Mimicking nature’s lubricant-The flow dynamics of synthetic mucus. Gordon Research Conference-Tribology and Gordon Research Seminar-Tribology, June 2024
  • [2023] Sumit Sunil Kumar, J. Brandon Mcclimon, Ilse B. Nava Medina, Adam B. Braunshweig, Robert W. Carpick, Fully synthetic mucous solutions reproduce rheological response of natural mucous. APS 76th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Washington DC, November 2023
  • [2022] Rajib Kar, Visakha Bende, Sumit Sunil Kumar, Namita Maiti. Design Development of Large Area Atmospheric Pressure Hollow-cathode Cold Plasma: Parametric Variation of Etching Studies Aimed at Radioactive Decontamination, National Conference on Recent Developments and Evolving Trends in Plasma Science and Technology, 2022