Bioinspiration Lab

• Tierney Baldwin's, Rose Pereira's, and Zain Moin's ELSA (HPC) usage by in 2020 for fluid-structure interaction simulations:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   

• Tierney Baldwin and Zain Moin presented at SACNAS 2020! Check out their  short teaser videos below! Congrats to Tierney and Zain for delivering great presentations!

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• MAT128 Calculus B Online Resources: 
  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1r5qGMvBuYJpGeL-yh34uwEglTE_Dkq_nVGOtq-miPBw/edit?usp=sharing
   

• Congrats to Zain Main who presented at the TCNJ Summer 2020 Presentation Symposium. Check out his poster (and others) here. Zain has been designing a bio-inspired pump, based off of insect hearts. He ran over 2500 fluid-structure interactions simulations this past summer alone using TCNJ's HPC ELSA. Congrats and great work, Zain!
   

• I'd like to welcome Miruna Baciu, Tierney Baldwin, and Rose Pereira to the lab!!
   

• Our paper exploring the sensitivity of an anguilliform swimmer's performance was accepted into Integrative and Comparative Biology. N.A. Battista, Diving into a simple anguilliform swimmer's sensitivity, accepted  Integrative and Comparative Biology         
  
          **  I want to thank the anonymous Reviewers for their very constructive, supportive feedback. I really                                     appreciate your numerous quick reviews in the middle of a Pandemic. You really went above and                                     beyond and really helped significantly strengthen this manuscript.**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   

• Our paper with over 6300 fully-coupled fluid-structure interactions exploring the anguilliform swimming mode was accepted into Integrative and Comparative Biology. N.A. Battista, Swimming through parameter subspaces of a simple anguilliform swimmer, accepted  Integrative and Comparative Biology
  
            **  I want to thank the anonymous Reviewers for their very constructive, supportive feedback. I really                                     appreciate your numerous quick reviews in the middle of a Pandemic. You really went above and                                     beyond and really helped significantly strengthen this manuscript.**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   

• Our trabeculated, embryonic heart image was published in The Art of Theoretical Biology: N.A. Battista, L.A. Miller, Bumps, Ridges, and No Flows in Vein, The Art of Theoretical Biology, eds:  F. Matthäus, S. Matthäus, S. Harris, Th. Hillen, 106-107 (2020)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   

• Our collaborative work alongside the Waldrop Lab (Chapman University) and the Miller Lab (U. Arizona) was accepted into J. Royal Society Interface. Very fortunate for being asked to be apart of this collaboration! L.D. Waldrop, Y. He, N.A. Battista, T. Neary, L.A. Miller, Uncertainty quantification reveals the physical constraints on pumping by valveless, tubular hearts
   

• Our collaborative work on developing a semi-automated finite difference mesh creator alongside the Miller Lab (U. Arizona) and Strickland Lab (U. Tennessee Knoxville) was accepted for publication into Bioinspiration and Biomimetics. D.M. Senter, D.R. Douglas, W.C. Strickland, S. Thomas, A. Talkington, L.A. Miller, N.A. Battista, A Semi-Automated Finite Difference Mesh Creation Method for Use with Immersed Boundary Software IB2d and IBAMR.

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• Congrats to Mike Mongelli whose 1st first author manuscript was just accepted in Fluids! In this work, we studied the underlying fluid dynamics of pendulums, compared the results with the canonical reduced-order model of a damped pendulum, and discussed unsuspecting, interesting results! Here's the info:
  M. Mongelli, .A. Battista, A Swing of Beauty: Pendulums, Fluids, Forces, and Computers. Fluids 5(2): 48 (2020) LINK
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   

• Our work in which we provide a collection of open-source fluid solver codes (each with numerous built-in examples) to the scientific community has been published. Here's the info:
  N.A. Battista, suite-CFD: an array of fluid solvers written in MATLAB and Python. Fluids 5(1): 28 (2020) LINK
   

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• Our manuscript titled, "Fluid-Structure Interaction for the Classroom: Interpolations, Hearts, and Swimming!" was published in  SIAM Review (SIREV) 61(1): 181-207 (2021)! Check it out!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   

• Jason Miles second manuscript, "Naut Your Everyday Jellyfish Model: Exploring How Tentacles and Oral Arms Impact Locomotion" was published in Fluids 4(3): 169 (2019)! Congrats, Jason! Check it out!