This is Mobot mobot, an ocean sunfish (Mola mola) robot from our lab.

Here is a link to our paper in Bioinspiration and Biomimetics that discusses this robot: doi.org/10.1088/1748...

This is a video from our paper published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics today. We show that vortex shedding can be induced in the wake of a cylinder forced to rotate periodically at Reynolds numbers as low as Re=1 for higher rotation rates.

doi.org/10.1017/jfm....

@cambup-scieng.cambridge.org

This is a video based on the results we discuss in our paper just published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics @cambup-scieng.bsky.social on the behavior of a flexible square prism in flow.

Open access link: doi.org/10.1017/jfm....

@bridgetbenner.bsky.social @adriancarleton.bsky.social

Congratulations to Daniela Caraeni for winning one of the best poster prizes of the Graduate Students Research Symposium at the College of Engineering, UMass Amherst. @umassengineering.bsky.social. Excellent work Daniela!

In our paper just published in “Computers in Biology and Medicine”, we explore the utility of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition in elucidating coronary flow dynamics in patient-specific arteries pre- (left in the sample video) and post- (right) stent placement.

authors.elsevier.com/c/1kfz42OYdB...

This is an image from Umang Patel’s Gallery of Fluid Motion poster (gfm.aps.org). These are polymeric stresses in the wake of a flexibly-mounted cylinder placed in inertial-elastic flow. Viscoelasticity is increased in the left image.

Congratulations to Umang Patel who is one of the winners of the Gallery of Fluid Motion at fhe APS DFD meeting. Very well done Umang!

The UMass FSI lab members (current and former) at the APS DFD meeting 2024. @bridgetbenner.bsky.social @adriancarleton.bsky.social @danielacaraeni.bsky.social @gonghan.bsky.social

This is from the first slide of my talk at the APS DFD on Monday: "T29.00007 : Kirigami sheets in disturbed flow".

Kirigami Sun -- our GFM poster at the APS DFD 2024.

gfm.aps.org/meetings/dfd...

Here is a clip of a video we submitted to the Gallery of Fluid Motion APS DFD 2024. We place free-to-move cylinders in the wake of a rigid cylinder to see how they re-organize themselves.

The full video is here:
youtu.be/y5aKa43BInY

A pre-print on the idea is here:
arxiv.org/abs/2411.11160

Hello Bluesky! I will post about what we do in my lab on Fluid-Structure Interactions, Fluid Mechanics, Flow Visualizations, and Nonlinear Dynamics.
www.umass.edu/fsi/index.html