Corina Drapaca
Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics

- W313 Millennium Science Complex PA 16802
- csd12@psu.edu
- 814-867-2313
Most Recent Publications
A Mathematical Model of Nitric Oxide Mechanotransduction in Brain
Andrew Tamis, Corina Drapaca,
Anisotropic conductivity tensor for irreversible electroporation simulations
Corina Drapaca, Nicholas LaBarbera, on p. 29-36
Modeling Neuronal Electromechanics using Fractional Operators of Variable Order
Corina Drapaca,
Modeling nitric oxide mechanotransduction in brain: the effects of blood‘s non-locality
Corina Drapaca, Andrew Tamis,
Modeling Patterns of Sex-Dependent Neuroprotection Loss in Alzheimer's Disease
Corina Drapaca, 2025, Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Modeling and Computational Science (AMMCS 2023)
Time Filtered Finite Difference Schemes for Linear Hyperbolic Problems
K. Boatman, L Davis, Corina Drapaca, F. Pahlevani, T. Rajan, 2025, Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary International Conference in Applied Mathematics, Modeling and Computational Science (AMMCS 2023)
A Mathematical Study of Effects of Alzheimer’s Drug Donepezil Hydrochloride on Neuronal Viscoelasticity and Action Potentials
Corina S. Drapaca, 2024, Mathematical and Computational Applications
Mathematical Modeling of Alzheimer’s Drug Donepezil Hydrochloride Transport to the Brain after Oral Administration
Corina S. Drapaca, 2024, Fractal and Fractional
Semi-Analytical Solution for a Single-Phase Thermal Conduction Problem of a Hollow-Cylinder with a Growing or Receding Inner Radius
Pavan Kumar, Albert Eliot Segall, Corina Drapaca, 2024, ASME Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
Multiscale modeling and analysis in biophysics
Alessio Gizzi, Andrew D. McCulloch, Corina S. Drapaca, 2024, Journal of Applied Physics
Most-Cited Papers
Aspiration-assisted bioprinting for precise positioning of biologics
Bugra Ayan, Dong Heo, Zhifeng Zhang, Madhuri Dey, Adomas Povilianskas, Corina Drapaca, Ibrahim T. Ozbolat, 2020, Science advances on p. 17
A variable order fractional constitutive model of the viscoelastic behavior of polymers
Ruifan Meng, Deshun Yin, Corina S. Drapaca, 2019, International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics on p. 171-177
Variable-order fractional description of compression deformation of amorphous glassy polymers
Ruifan Meng, Deshun Yin, Corina S. Drapaca, 2019, Computational Mechanics on p. 163-171
Particle squeezing in narrow confinements
Zhifeng Zhang, Jie Xu, Corina Drapaca, 2018, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics
Droplet squeezing through a narrow constriction: Minimum impulse and critical velocity
Zhifeng Zhang, Corina Drapaca, Xiaolin Chen, Jie Xu, 2017, Physics of Fluids on p. 9
Fractional calculus in neuronal electromechanics
Corina S. Drapaca, 2017, Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures on p. 35-55
Pressure of a viscous droplet squeezing through a short circular constriction: An analytical model
Zhifeng Zhang, Corina Drapaca, Dmitry Gritsenko, Jie Xu, 2018, Physics of Fluids
An electromechanical model of neuronal dynamics using Hamilton's principle
Corina S. Drapaca, 2015, Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
A unified framework of continuous and discontinuous Galerkin methods for solving the incompressible Navier–Stokes equation
Xi Chen, Yuwen Li, Corina Drapaca, John Cimbala, 2020, Journal of Computational Physics on p. 23
Leakage evaluation by virtual entropy generation (VEG) method
Zhichao Zhang, Corina Drapaca, Zhifeng Zhang, Shuaifang Zhang, Shimei Sun, Hui Liu, 2018, Entropy