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Cosmological solutions with gravitational particle production and nonzero curvature
(American Physical SocietyPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2017-05-26)
In a homogeneous and isotropic universe with nonzero spatial curvature we consider the effects of gravitational particle production in the dynamics of the universe. We show that the dynamics of the universe in such a ...
Taylor's swimming sheet in a yield-stress fluid
(Cambridge University PressJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017-10-10)
A yield stress is added to Taylor’s (1951, Proc. Royal Soc. A, 209, 447-461) model of a two-dimensional flexible sheet swimming through a viscous fluid. Both transverse waves along the sheet, as in Taylor’s original model, ...
Tricks and tips for faster small-scale swimming: Complex fluids and elasticity
(University of CambridgeMathematicsMagdalene College, 2017-09-28)
Many cells exploit the bending or rotation of flagellar filaments in order to self-propel in
viscous fluids. Often swimming occurs in complex, nonlinear fluids, e.g. mucus. Futhermore
even in simple Newtonian fluids, if ...
Irreversible mixing by unstable periodic orbits in buoyancy dominated stratified turbulence
(Cambridge University PressJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017-10-26)
We consider turbulence driven by a large-scale horizontal shear in Kolmogorov flow
(i.e. with sinusoidal body forcing) and a background linear stable strati cation with buoyancy frequency $N^2_B$ imposed in the third, ...
Analytical and experimental investigation into the effects of leading-edge radius on gust-aerofoil interaction noise
(Cambridge University PressJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017-10-25)
This paper investigates the effects of local leading-edge geometry on unsteady aerofoil interaction noise. Analytical results are obtained by extending previous work for parabolic leading edges to leading edges of the form ...
Layer formation in horizontally forced stratified turbulence: Connecting exact coherent structures to linear instabilities
(Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017-12-10)
© 2017 Cambridge University Press. We consider turbulence in a stratified 'Kolmogorov' flow, driven by horizontal shear in the form of sinusoidal body forcing in the presence of an imposed background linear stable ...
Twistor theory at fifty: from contour integrals to twistor strings.
(Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences, 2017-10-11)
Artificial Micro-Devices: Armoured Microbubbles and a Magnetically Driven Cilium
(University of CambridgeDAMTPQueens', 2017-10-01)
Micro-devices are developed for uses in targeted drug delivery and microscale manipulation.
Here we numerically and analytically study two promising devices in early stages of development.
Firstly, we study Armoured ...
Skyrmions -- beyond rigid body quantisation
(University of CambridgeDAMTPRobinson, 2017-10-01)
In the Skyrme model, nuclei are described as topological solitons known as Skyrmions. To make contact with nuclear data one must quantise these Skyrmions; most calculations to date have used rigid body quantisation, where ...
Bundling of elastic filaments induced by hydrodynamic interactions
(Physical Review Fluids, 2017-12-01)
Peritrichous bacteria swim in viscous fluids by rotating multiple helical flagellar filaments. As the bacterium swims forward, all its flagella rotate in synchrony behind the cell in a tight helical bundle. When the bacterium ...