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Drag on a partially immersed sphere at the capillary scale
Robert Hunt, Ze Zhao, Eli Silver +3
We study the drag on a centimetric sphere in a uniform flow in the presence of a free surface as a function of submergence depth. Through direct force measurements in a custom benc…
SurferBot: A wave-propelled aquatic vibrobot
Eugene Rhee, Robert Hunt, Stuart J. Thomson +1
Nature has evolved a vast array of strategies for propulsion at the air-fluid interface. Inspired by a survival mechanism initiated by the honeybee (Apis mellifera) trapped on the…
Enhanced diffusivity and skewness of a diffusing tracer in the presence of an oscillating wall
Lingyun Ding, Robert Hunt, Hunter Woodie +1
We develop a theory of enhanced diffusivity and skewness of the longitudinal distribution of a diffusing tracer advected by a periodic time-varying shear flow in a straight channel…
Cluster formation and self-assembly in stratified fluids: a novel mechanism for particulate aggregation
Roberto Camassa, Daniel M. Harris, Robert Hunt +2
An extremely broad and important class of phenomena in nature involves the settling and aggregation of matter under gravitation in fluid systems. Some examples include: sedimenting…