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Jake Socha visiting Barba lab

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

@deg511 The biggest problem for women is being denied the presumption of competence (in math, in science, in politics, etc.) View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Submitted: "Lift and wakes of flying snakes"

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 »

So wrong, it pains—New bill would eliminate peer review and award @NSF grants based on criteria set by Congress http://t.co/6mSgvzovUR View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Back-cover feature for Barba

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

I'm star-struck: I just met Prof. Leslie Greengard #SIAMCSE13 #bigfan View // Reply // Retweet // Like

Flying snake wake visualizations

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

Flying snake wake visualizations with cuIBM

These animations show the vortex wake behind a snake cross-section (two-dimensional profile), obtained with full Navier-Stokes simulation. The solver is an immersed boundary method that uses GPU hardware, cuIBM (open-source under the MIT license). The cases shown vary in Reynolds number (Re=1000, 2000) and angle... Continue »

A thank-you from the @whitehouse arrived in my Inbox today for signing the #openaccess petition in We the People http://t.co/k85OJSFZz4 View // Reply // Retweet // Like