B.I.C.E.P. Lab

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PUBLISHED: (reverse numerical order...)

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1. 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 (2021) LINK

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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)

5. 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.**
    

6. 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

7. 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.**
    

8. 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

9. 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

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

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

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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

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

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

29. 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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THESIS:

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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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IN PREPARATION/REVIEW:

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• N.A. Battista, M.S. Mizuhara, Fluid-Structure Interaction for the Classroom: Speed, Accuracy, Convergence, and Jellyfish!, in review PREPRINT

• N.A. Battista, R. Handley, S.E. Handley, D.T. Rogers, C.M. Battista, That’s a bingo! On the PMFs and Expectation Values of Various Bingo Games, in preparation 

• M. Williams, L. Waldrop, N.A. Battista, L.A.Miller, Computational model of the circulatory system of the juvenile tunicate, Ciona savignyi, in preparation 

• N.A. Battista, R.J. Booth, Fluid-Structure Interaction for the Classroom: Dimensional analysis, scaling, and Jellyfish!, in preparation 

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TEXTBOOKS IN PREPARATION:

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• N.A. Battista, ODEs, PDEs, Linear Algebra, and that jazz. (Book, in preparation) PDF

• L.A. Miller, R. Levy, N.A. Battista, A mathematical view of life in moving fluids. (Book, in preparation)

• N.A. Battista, MAT/BIO 330: Mathematical Biology (Book, to complement the Math Bio course) PDF