2 papers
physics.flu-dyn2008
Liquid acrobatics
James C. Bird, Howard A. Stone
We experiment with injecting a continuous stream of gas into a shallow liquid, similar to how one might blow into a straw placed at the bottom of a near-empty drink. By varying the…
cond-mat.soft2003
A macroscopic scale model of bacterial flagellar bundling
MunJu Kim, James C. Bird, Annemarie J. Van Parys +2
Escherichia coli and other bacteria use rotating helical filaments to swim. Each cell typically has about four filaments, which bundle or disperse depending on the sense of motor r…