Jake Socha visiting Barba lab

Olivier Mesnard, Jake Socha, and Lorena Barba (June 2019).


Olivier Mesnard, Jake Socha, and Lorena Barba (June 2019).

Submitted: September 16, 2013. Accepted in Physics of Fluids: February 10, 2014. This paper presents a computational study of the aerodynamics of an anatomically correct cross-section of Chrysopelia paradisi, the flying snake. These animals inhabit the canopy of rainforests in East Asia, and have a very peculiar method of locomotion: they jump from tree branches, change... Continue »

Back-cover feature of the Spring 2013 issue of ENGineer magazine.

Vorticity field in the wake behind a snake cross-section at a Reynolds number of 2000 and 35-degrees angle of attack.