Career
- 2007-date: Senior Research Associate, Universityof Cambridge
- 2003-2007: Senior Lecturer, Universityof Arizona
Research
My work is focused in two maint areas i) topological transitions in Fluid Dynamics ii) applications of Fluid Dynamics to solutions of living organisms.
The first area is, and has been for a long time, my main line of research starting with the study of drop pinchin in the late 1990's . The latest work relates to reconnection of Plateau borders and collapse of bounded minimal surfaces in the context of soap films.
The second one connects Fluid Mechanics with Biophysics. In particular the study of flows produced by swimming organisms and the development of equations of motion to describe the sef-sustained oscillations of long thin filaments.
Selected Publications
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Antiphase Synchronization in a Flagellar-Dominance Mutant of Chlamydomonas
Kyriacos C. Leptos, Kirsty Y. Wan, Marco Polin, Idan Tuval, Adriana I. Pesci, and Raymond E. Goldstein
Physical Review Letters 111, 158101 (2013) -
Topological Constraints and Their Breakdown in Dynamical Evolution
Raymond E. Goldstein, H. Keith Moffatt, and Adriana I. Pesci
Nonlinearity 25, R85-R98 (2012)
Publications
Geometry of catenoidal soap film collapse induced by boundary deformation
– Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
(2021)
104,
035105
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.104.035105)
Optimal Design of Multilayer Fog Collectors.
– ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
(2020)
12,
7736
(doi: 10.1021/acsami.9b19727)
A Compact Eulerian Representation of Axisymmetric Inviscid Vortex Sheet Dynamics
– Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics
(2019)
73,
239
(doi: 10.1002/cpa.21879)
Elastohydrodynamic synchronization of adjacent beating flagella
– Physical Review Fluids
(2016)
1,
073201
Soap-film dynamics and topological transitions under continuous deformation
– Physical Review Fluids
(2016)
1,
060503
Instabilities and Solitons in Minimal Strips.
– Physical Review Letters
(2016)
117,
017801
Instability of a Möbius strip minimal surface and a link with systolic geometry.
– Physical review letters
(2015)
114,
127801
Instability of a gravity current within a soap film
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2014)
753,
r1
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2014.395)
Boundary singularities produced by the motion of soap films.
– Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
(2014)
111,
8339
(doi: 10.1073/pnas.1406385111)
Antiphase synchronization in a flagellar-dominance mutant of Chlamydomonas
– Physical Review Letters
(2013)
111,
158101
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