Rafael G. Henríquez Rivera, Xiao Zhang, and Michael D. Graham
Phys. Rev. Fluids 1, 060501 (2016) – Published 18 October, 2016
Physical Review Fluids publishes a collection of papers associated with the invited talks presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics.
A mechanistic model derived from kinetic theory explains how during blood flow in small vessels or microfluidic channels, white blood cells and platelets segregate near the walls. A key result is the existence of a single parameter whose value characterizes segregation of a particular species.
A overview of the coupling between surface roughness, in the form of scales or denticles, and the hydrodynamics of effective swimming is presented.
Subjected to continuous deformation of its wire boundary, a Möbius-strip soap film collapses to a disklike one through a twist singularity at the wire boundary. A simplified model allows further investigation of this process.
An overview of the recently discovered instabilities of drops is presented in this invited paper associated with a lecture given by the author at the 68th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics.
A thorough description of challenges and recent progress in the understanding of flows in planetary molten cores is provided, with particular attention to flow driven by mechanical forcing due to the tugging of one celestial body on another. This case is particularly relevant for the understanding of the reciprocal actions in the Moon/Earth system.
A study of the analogies between elastic and capillary interfacial flows is presented.
Swarms of balloons released into hurricane formation regions can be used to measure meteorological variables and help improve short-term prediction models.
