Bioinspiration Lab

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PUBLISHED: (reverse numerical order...)

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1. N.A. Battista, Exploring the swimming performance and the physical mechanisms of Tomopteris locomotion, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics 20(2):026011 (2025) LINK

2. Z. Main, L.A. Miller, N.A. Battista, Ratcheting Fluid Pumps: using generalized polynomial chaos expansions to assess pumping performance and sensitivity, Physics of Fluids 36: 121919 (2024) LINK

3. Y. He, N.A. Battista, L.D. Waldrop, Mixed uncertainty analysis on pumping by peristaltic hearts using Dempster–Shafer theory, Journal of Mathematical Biology, 89:13 (2024) LINK

4. CL. Hamlet, W.C. Strickland, N.A. Battista, L.A. Miller, Multiscale flow between the branches and polyps of gorgonians, Journal of Experimental Biology (2023) LINK

5. W.C. Strickland, N.A. Battista, C.L. Hamlet, L.A. Miller, Planktos: An agent-based modeling framework for small organism movement and dispersal in a fluid environment with immersed structures, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 84:72 (2022) LINK

6. N.A. Battista, M.G. Gaddam, C.L. Hamlet, A.P. Hoover, L.A. Miller, A. Santhanakrishnan, The Presence of a Substrate Strengthens The Jet Generated by Upside-Down Jellyfish, Frontiers in Marine Science 9:847061 (2022) LINK

7. M. Santiago, N.A. Battista, L.A. Miller, S. Khatri, Passive concentration dynamics incorporated into the library IB2d, a two-dimensional implementation of the immersed boundary method, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics 17: 036003 (2022) LINK

8. J. Miles, N.A. Battista Exploring the sensitivity in jellyfish locomotion under variations in scale, frequency, and duty cycle,  Journal of Mathematical Biology 83:56 (2021) PREPRINT, LINK

9. T. Baldwin, N.A. Battista, Hopscotching Jellyfish: combining different duty cycle kinematics can lead to enhanced performance, Biosinspiration & Biomimetics 16(6): 066021 (2021) PREPRINT, LINK

10. N.A. Battista, Book Review: Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies, Journal of Undergraduate Mathematics and Its Applications, 42(2): 173-175 (2021)

11. N.A. Battista, Diving into a simple anguilliform swimmer's sensitivity, Int. Comp. Biol. 60(5): 1236-1250 (2020) LINK (doi), LINK

    
              **  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.**
     

12. 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, J. Royal Society Interface 17: 20200232 LINK

13. N.A. Battista, Swimming through parameter subspaces of a simple anguilliform swimmer, Int. Comp. Biol. 60(5): 1221-1235 (2020) LINK (doi) , LINK
    
              **  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.**
     

14. 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) BOOK CHAPTER

15. 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, Bioinspiration and Biomimetics 16(1): 016008 (2021) LINK

16. M. Mongelli, N.A. Battista, A Swing of Beauty: Pendulums, Fluids, Forces, and Computers, Fluids 5(2): 48 (2020) LINK

17. N.A. Battista, suite-CFD: an array of fluid solvers written in MATLAB and Python, Fluids 5(1): 28 (2020) LINK

18. N.A. Battista, Fluid-Structure Interaction for the Classroom: Interpolations, Hearts, and Swimming!, SIAM Review (SIREV) 63(1): 181-207 (2021) PREPRINT, LINK

19. J.G. Miles, N.A. Battista, Naut Your Everyday Jellyfish Model: Exploring How Tentacles and Oral Arms Impact Locomotion, Fluids 4(3): 169 (2019) PREPRINT​, LINK

20. N.A. Battista, L.B. Pearcy, W.C. Strickland, On modeling the prescription opioid epidemic, Bull. Math. Biol. 81(7):2258-2289 (2019) PREPRINT, LINK

21. N.A. Battista, D.R. Douglas, A.N. Lane, L.A. Samsa, J. Liu, L.A. Miller, Vortex dynamics in embryonic trabeculated ventricles, J. Cardiovasc. Dev. Dis. 6(1): 6 (2019) PREPRINT​, LINK

22. J.E. Samson, N.A. Battista, S. Khatri, L.A. Miller, "Pulsing Corals: a story of scale and mixing", BIOMATH 6(2): 1712169 (2017) PREPRINT, LINK

23. N.A. Battista, J.E. Samson, S. Khatri, L.A. Miller, "Under the Sea: Pulsing Corals in Ambient Flow",  Math. Meth. Models Biosci., BIOMATH Forum, Sofia, 22-35 (2017) PREPRINT , LINK

24. N.A. Battista, L.A. Miller, Bifurcations in valveless pumping techniques from a coupled fluid-structure-electrophysiology model of heart development, BIOMATH 6(2): 1711297 (2017), PREPRINT , LINK

25. W.C. Strickland, L.A. Miller, A. Santhanakrishnan, C. Hamlet, N.A. Battista, V. Pasour, Three-dimensional low Reynolds number flows near biological filtering and protective layers, Fluids 2(4): 62 (2017) PREPRINT, LINK

26. N.A. Battista, W.C. Strickland, A. Barrett, L.A. Miller, IB2d Reloaded: a more powerful Python and MATLAB implementation of the immersed boundary method, Math. Method. Appl. Sci. 41(18):8455-8480 (2018) PREPRINT, LINK

27. N.A. Battista, A.N. Lane, J. Liu, L.A. Miller, Fluid Dynamics of Heart Development: Effects of Trabeculae and Hematocrit, Math. Med. and Biol. 35(4): 493-516 (2018), PREPRINT, LINK

28. N.A. Battista, L.A. Miller, A fully-coupled fluid-structure-muscle-electrophysiology model in heart development, BIOMATH Communications Supplement 4(2) (2017)  LINK

29. N.A. Battista, W.C. Strickland, L.A. Miller, IB2d:a Python and MATLAB implementation of the immersed, boundary method,, Bioinspiration and Biomimetics 12(3): 036003, PREPRINT, LINK

30. N.A. Battista, A.N. Lane, L.A. Miller, On the dynamic suction pumping of blood cells in tubular hearts, Women in Mathematical Biology: Research Collaboration, 211-231 (2017). PREPRINT, BOOK CHAPTER

31. N.A. Battista, A.J. Baird, L.A. Miller, A mathematical model and MATLAB code for muscle-fluid-structure simulations, Integ. Comp. Biol. 55(5): 901-911 (2015), LINK

32. M. Mbonye, N.A. Battista, B. Farr, Time Evolution of a Nonsingular Primordial Black Hole, Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 21(3), 1250027 (2012), PREPRINT, LINK

33. N.A. Battista, Introduction to Magnetohydrodynamics: A non-intimidating journey, Dept. of Mathematics, Stony Brook University, 2010, PDF

34. N.A. Battista, A comparison of heroin epidemic models, School of Mathematical Sciences, RIT, 2009, LINK

35. N.A. Battista, M.A. Radin, Monotonic and Periodic Character of solutions of the Rational Difference Equation $x_{n+1}=\frac{A_n X_{n-1}}{1 + X_n + X_{n-1}}$, School of Mathematical Sciences, RIT, 2008, PDF

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THESES:

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• N.A. Battista, Spectrally Accurate Initial Data in Numerical Relativity, Masters Thesis, Advisors: Anthony Harkin, David Ross, Joshua Faber, School of Mathematical Sciences, RIT, M.S. Thesis (2010) LINK

• N.A. Battista, The Fluid Dynamics of Heart Development: The Effect of morphology on flow at several stages, Advisor: Laura A. Miller, Dept. of Mathematics, UNC-CH, Ph.D. Thesis (2017), PDF, LINK​

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