2 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Unidirectional flow from continuous broken symmetries
Aaron Winn, Justine Parmentier, Eleni Katifori +1
Locally broken symmetries are used across fields to transport matter, particles and information in preferential directions. Beyond local mechanisms, spatially distributed nonlinear…
physics.flu-dyn2025
The Geometry of Contraction-Induced Flows
Aaron Winn, Eleni Katifori
Peristalsis is the driving mechanism behind a broad array of biological and engineered flows. In peristaltic pumping, a wave-like contraction of the tube wall produces local change…