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physics.flu-dyn2021★ 11 cited
What Does Nature Minimize In Every Incompressible Flow?
Haithem E. Taha, Cody Gonzalez
In this paper, we discover the fundamental quantity that Nature minimizes in almost all flows encountered in everyday life: river, rain, flow in a pipe, blood flow, airflow over an…
math.OC2021★ 15 cited
Sea urchin sperm exploit extremum seeking control to find the egg
Mahmoud Abdelgalil, Yasser Aboelkassem, Haithem Taha
Sperm cells perform extremely demanding tasks with minimal capabilities. The cells must quickly navigate in a noisy environment to find an egg within a short time window for succes…
physics.flu-dyn2021
A Variational Theory of Lift
Cody Gonzalez, Haithem E. Taha
In this paper, we revive a special, less-common, variational principle in analytical mechanics (Hertz' principle of least curvature) to develop a novel variational analogue of Eule…