Ashwin Vaidya, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Flight times for Stokes and potential flows past symmetric bodies

Abstract:  We consider, by a combination of asymptotic, computational, and experimental techniques, the flight time for passive fluid particles flowing past fixed obstacles under the assumptions of potential, stokes, and slightly inertial flow. In this talk, we will discuss some intriguing differences between the three cases.

This is joint work with Roberto Camassa, Richard McLaughlin and Mathew Moore, Department of Mathematics, UNC-Chapel Hil