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The mechanics of the squash nick shot
Mithun Ravisankar, Madeline Federle, Mina Bahadori +3
Squash is a widely popular racket sport, practiced by millions of people worldwide, played inside a walled court. When played well, players can last for several minutes before the…
Shape-Morphing Dynamics of Soft Compliant Membranes for Drag and Turbulence Modulation
Varghese Mathai, Asimanshu Das, Dante L. Naylor +1
We study the kinematics and dynamics of a highly compliant membrane disk placed head-on in a uniform flow. With increasing flow velocity, the membrane deforms nonlinearly into incr…
Force and torque-free helical tail robot to study low Reynolds number microorganism swimming
Asimanshu Das, Matthew Styslinger, Daniel M. Harris +1
Helical propulsion is used by many microorganisms to swim in viscous-dominated environments. Their swimming dynamics are relatively well understood, but detailed study of the flow…
Airflows inside passenger cars and implications for airborne disease transmission
Varghese Mathai, Asimanshu Das, Jeffrey A. Bailey +1
Transmission of highly infectious respiratory diseases, including SARS-CoV-2 are facilitated by the transport of tiny droplets and aerosols (harboring viruses, bacteria, etc.) that…
Nonlinear modeling and characterization of ultrasoft silicone elastomers
Asimanshu Das, Kenneth S. Breuer, Varghese Mathai
We introduce a strain-energy based nonlinear hyper-elastic formulation to model the material properties of ultrasoft dielectric elastomers over a wide range of elastic properties,…