Pushing boundaries in the theory of water desalination by electrodialysis: cells driven by chemical energy and pH effects

NON-LINEAR VIBRATIONS OF A THIN CIRCULAR RING

Hierarchy of exact low-dimensional reductions for populations of coupled oscillators

Numerical Modeling of Atomization in High-Speed Multi-Phase Flows

Adaptable canopy-like structure for underwater sensing

INVESTIGATION OF THE PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF A CYLINDRICAL CATALYST IN THE PROCESS OF STEAM REFORMING

Nonlinear Phenomena in Engineering Systems

Fusion of CFD and Sensor Observations for Physical Fields Calibration and Reconstruction

Coordinated UAV Platoons/Formations and Aerial Manipulators

High-Temperature Solar Thermochemical Processes for Sustainable Fuel Production

  The production of drop-in solar fuels can eliminate greenhouse gas emissions and provide the path to sustainable aviation. One such promising pathway to solar fuels is via a thermochemical redox cycle for splitting H2O and CO2, driven by concentrated...

Mechanics of 2-D Arrays of Curved-Beam Bistable Elements

Multi-stable metamaterials have a promising potential for applications such as shock absorbers, foldable structures and soft robotics.  In this talk, I will present a study on the mechanics of a special class of multi-stable architected materials, namely 2-D lattices assembled...

A feasibility study of a new concept of VLFS

  Moving out to open sea may provide considerable relief from the over exploitation of the land and natural resources of the coastal regions.  Very Large Floating Structures (VLFS) is an environmentally sensitive technology that can form artificial land at...

Nonlinear Dynamics of Cantilevers

Transient Combustion Control of Internal Combustion Engines Fed with Renewable Fuels

Post-contact behavior of a compressed fiber inside a tube: experimental and theoretical investigation

Optimization of a Hydrogen – Bromine Flow Battery

Analytical analysis of Autoresonance in systems including gyroscopic effects

Selectivity mechanisms in capacitive deionization

Flow Visualization Using Optically Active Particles

Optical activity inherent in crystalline structures of biopolymers and crystallized polymeric materials can serve a laserless (safe and inexpensive) method of flow illumination to be used in volumetric flow velocimetry. Seeding particles incorporating symmetric crystal colonies (e.g., starch granules, polymer...

Resonance Enhancement Optimization

  In this research we designed and fabricated the first spinning and levitating optical resonator, we also present a record value of quality factor over mode volume. In 1970 that Arthur Ashkin manage to use radiation pressure to make an...

Shock attenuation characteristics of aqueous methyl cellulose solutions

Methyl cellulose hydrogel is a thermo-reversible polymer, that solidifies from its room temperature liquid state with an increase in temperature (inverse freezing). This gel has been shown to be a highly effective shock mitigating material, with potential applications to the...

Deposition of particles smaller than 2.5 micron in the human lung acinus

This research examines the deposition patterns of particles smaller than 2.5 micron in the human lung acinus, which is the deepest region in the lung that includes pulmonary alveoli. These particles move down the airway tree under the influence of...

A comprehensive investigation of Electrostatic Micro Resonators

Development of Desktop Sample Handling Robot Based on Caging Grasps

  Although samples testing laboratories have high level of automation, it is still not possible to completely exclude a person from samples testing cycle. Laboratory personnel perform many preparatory operations that are too complex for robots. At the same time,...

Transition to 3D motion in an equivalent mechanical model of nonlinear liquid sloshing

The thesis considers transtiton from two-dimensional to three-dimensional response (swirling) in a problem of liquid sloshing in a symmetric vessel under external periodic forcing. Such transition is well-known in the vicinity of the primary 1:1 resonance between the lowest eigenfrequency...

Effect of meso-structure on plastic localization and failure in heterogeneous metallic materials

System for imaging tympanic membrane vibrations- optic and optomechanical design

In this project the purpose was to develop a medical device, a probe, to conduct an otoscopic test. The test will provide a video imaging of tympanic membrane vibrations and will be used to diagnose hearing problems. The method that...

On The Mechanical Behavior of AZ31B Magnesium Alloy Reinforced by SiC Particles

In the last decades, the car and aviation industries have shown a growing interest in magnesium (Mg) alloys, due to their high specific strength. With that said, the widespread usage of Mg alloys is hindered by their low ductility and strong...

Hydrogen-Rich Reformate Jet Mixing and Combustion in an ICE Chamber

  High-Pressure Thermochemical Recuperation is a promising waste heat recovery method that enables utilization of the engine waste heat together with onboard hydrogen production. Our experimental findings showed that this method enables a significant engine efficiency improvement and gaseous emissions...

Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Liquid Sloshing in Upright Circular and Square-base Cylindrical Containers

The study of liquid sloshing in partially filled liquid storage containers has gained significant attention as the seismic vulnerability of these containers represents a potential source of severe environmental accidents: large amplitude sloshing exerts excessive hydrodynamic loads on the container...

Interpreting Averages

Averages are measured in many circumstances for diagnostic, predictive, or surveillance purposes. Examples include: average stress along a beam, average speed along a section of highway, average alcohol consumption per month, average GDP over a large region, a student’s average...

Electroosmotic flow over superhydrophobic surfaces and potential application in lab-on-a-chip applications

Electro-osmotic flow is a well-established and efficient method for driving microchannel flows that relies on the interaction of an externally applied electric field with charge arising at the interface between the liquid and the channel walls. However, its relatively low...

Micro to macro scale modelling of anisotropic heterogeneous materials

Many materials such as cellular materials, composites and alloys are heterogeneous, and their microstructure essentially determines their macro-scale mechanical behavior. A good understanding of the macro-scale behavior and the underlying micro-scale mechanism of such materials will be valuable to guide...

Fabrication of diffractive optical elements by programmable thermocapillary shaping of thin liquid films

We present a novel method for deforming thin liquid-films into desired topographies, driven by a photo actuated thermocapillary effect. Our system consists of a thin liquid film, resting on a flat substrate patterned with an array of metal pads, and...

Energy Harvesting from the Human Body for Wearable and Mobile Devices

Wearable and mobile devices, such as smartwatches, smartphones, and wearable medical devices, have become a very important part of our daily life and current trends show they will become even more critical to us in the future. However, almost all...

The role of Concentrating Solar Energy in the renewable energy transition

The important cost reduction, seen for renewable energy technologies, together with the improved conversion efficiency based on new components and materials advances and the appearance of smart-grid technologies has led to a revolution in the energy paradigm. This new energy...

Effect of mechanical properties and surface roughness of soft counter-faces on adhesive behavior of mushroom-shaped biomimetic microstructures

Recently the growing need for quick and reversible attachment in different fields of engineering and technology has led to the development of the new emerging field of adhesion science. This has been essentially inspired by those animals and insects that...

Kapitza thermal resistance in linear and nonlinear chain models.

The interfacial thermal resistance, commonly known as Kapitza resistance, is defined as the ratio of discontinuity in the temperature gradient at the two different material interfaces to the heat flux flowing through the interface.  In the present work, the Kapitza...

Investigation of an Absorption Heat Transformer (AHT) for temperature boosting of low grade\waste heat

  An Absorption Heat Transformer (AHT) is a heat pump which is powered by low-grade (low temperature) heat to produce higher temperature heat. If waste heat is available, an AHT can upgrade it to useful (higher temperature) heat. An AHT...

GPU Accelerated Implicit LES of NACA 0018 Airfoil with Active Flow Control

This work applies the state of the art Computational Fluid Dynamics solver – PyFR to perform GPU accelerated Implicit LES simulations of a NACA 0018 Airfoil with steady and unsteady Active Flow Control and compares results to experiments performed by...

Variation Diminishing in Control, Optimization and AI

The concept of variation diminishing, i.e., reduction of number of zero-crossing or local extrema, is an elementary property in system and control, optimization and approximation theory. Surprisingly, while the theory behind this concept has been well-established for many decades, it...

Extraction of bounding box dimensions of scanned objects using deep learning methods.

A wide variety of fields and applications, such as industrial manufacturing, human machine interfaces and augmented reality depend on the analysis of a real-world data (object, scenes etc.). This information can be collected by 3D scanning devices and consists of...

Control with Intermittent Communication

Analysis and design of sampled-data systems with intermittent feedback is motivated by the contemporary trend to distribute information processing in many networked control applications. In this seminar I will present my research on the stabilization, optimization and implementation of discrete...

Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma Flow Control on a Low Aspect Ratio Wing

  The ability to maintain attached air flow over aerodynamic surfaces characterizes the performance of airborne vehicles and sets their operational limits. Stalling of lifting surfaces, characterized by boundary layer separation and typically caused by excessive angles-of-attack or wind gusts,...

Tristability, simulations mode actuation, and limit point behaviour in initially curved coupled micro beams

Curved structures have been regarded as a benchmark problem for the study of nonlinear structures, presenting a myriad of complex responses, even more so when under the influence of nonlinear, displacement-dependent, electrostatic load. Recently, the focus has gravitated to two-dimensional...

Mechanics of the Microcirculation: The Role of Mechanical Forces in Reproduction

The microcirculation refers to the blood flow through the smallest vessels (> 100 mm), where the delivery of oxygen and nutrients to the tissues takes place. It exists in all tissues and organs except for the cornea. In this seminar,...

Generalized Kirchhoff law in non-equilibrium conditions

Kirchhoff’s law for thermal radiation is one of the few most fundamental thermodynamic principles for radiation. It states that the absorptivity, , and emissivity, , of any material are equal if the material is in thermodynamic equilibrium; . However, at...

Supratransport in a vibro-impact oscillatory chain

Energy delocalization in the attenuation zones of nonlinear oscillatory dynamical systems has been a matter of interest in the engineering fields. Initiation and propagation of discrete breathers (DB) is commonly perceived as the most efficient and ubiquitous delocalization mechanism. However,...

Self-Motile Synthetic Protocells

Cell motility is central to processes such as wound healing, immune cell surveillance, and embryonic development. Motility requires the conversion of chemical to mechanical energy. An active area of research is to create motile particles, such as microswimmers, using catalytic...

Alternative fuels for clean and efficient internal combustion engines

    Internal Combustion (IC) engines have been facing severe criticism for their pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions and overall low thermal efficiency. Although modern, state-of-the-art IC engines are relatively clean and efficient, they face dire competition with the rising...

Photonic Rashba effect from quantum emitters mediated by a Berry-phase defective photonic crystal

Heterostructures combining a thin layer of quantum emitters and planar nanostructures enable custom-tailored photoluminescence in an integrated fashion. Here, we demonstrate a photonic Rashba effect from valley excitons in a WSe2 monolayer, which is incorporated into a photonic crystal slab...

optimization of cooling power of a miniature Pulse Tube cryocooler by using simulations and new design of all the system’s parts.

A cryocooler is a device for producing cooling at cryogenic temperatures (typically below 120K). The main uses of cryocoolers include liquefaction of natural gas (LNG) for transportation (Transportation), applications of high-temperature superconductors (Superconductors), storage of biological cells and specimens (Biology)....

New parameter identification for optimal design of materials and structures

Integration of advanced materials in complex structures often requires parameter identification of the material constitutive models. This process, also called update of model parameters, represents a challenge in modelling and optimizing these parameters. Building the best model coefficients is based...

Experimental Analysis on Liquid Sloshing in Rectangular Containers

. Liquid sloshing in containers is important in a wide range of engineering applications. For example, it can cause a loss of structural and dynamic stability in fuel tanks, and an ecological disaster due to a structural failure in tanks...

FlowMesher: an automatic unstructured mesh generation algorithm with applications from numerical simulations to designing complex topology structures

Patient-specific surgical simulations based on medical imaging allow surgeons to plan and practice surgical interventions before conducting surgeries and many studies demonstrate that the simulations can improve surgical outcomes. Researchers have devoted great efforts in recent decades and developed various...

Roughness Toughness Correlation and the effect of particle size and spacing on ductile fracture of metal matrix composite

A material’s crack growth resistance depends on its resistance to the creation of new free surfaces, as well as its deformation characteristics, particularly those related to dissipation, which in turn are strongly influenced by the material’s microstructure and the imposed...

R2Gmotion: an IMU-based Approach for Controlling Transradial Prostheses by Learning the Kinematics of Reach-to-Grasp Movement

  The human body is a very efficient system comprised of endless different components that are working together in inspiring coordination and synergy. Recruiting this principle of the natural reach-to-grasp (R2G) movement is the cornerstone of this work towards development...

Pollen Entrainment and Deposition Characteristics in the Vicinity of Pine Cones

Release and capture of wind dispersed pollen by pine trees is considered to be an ineffective mechanism. However, since pine trees are one of the most ancient trees on earth, one may ask if pine trees enhanced wind pollination and...

Experimental Investigation on the Breakup and Transport of Oil Slicks by Breaking Waves

Prediction of the disperse phase breakup and transport under turbulence with wide range of scales is a critical subject in multiphase flow studies. Although significant efforts have been dedicated to quantifying these processes, still no unified theory exists enabling prediction...

A new model for radiation validating recent experiments of high temperature photoluminescence, leading to expansion of Kirchhoff law of thermal radiation

Thermal radiation is the electromagnetic radiation emitted by a body at a non-zero temperature. The amount of emitted thermal radiation by a body depends on its temperature, T, and its ability to emit, characterized by the emissivity, ε. This fundamental...

The Mechanical Interaction between Carbon-Nano Tubes and Graphene Sheets

      Engineering materials with the ability to control the structure at the atomic level is the heart of modern technology. Devices based on stacked layers of graphene are candidates to form a new family of materials with unique...

A Multiple Site-Type Nucleation Model and its Application to the Probabilistic Strength of Pd Nanowires

Pristine specimens yield plastically under high loads by nucleating dislocations. Since dislocation nucleation is a thermally activated process, the so-called nucleation-controlled plasticity is probabilistic rather than deterministic like in bulk specimens, leading to a temperature-dependent distribution of the yield strength...

Electrical Propulsion and Cargo Transport of Micro-Bowl Shaped Janus Particles

Micro-/nano-motors, known also as active particles, have an important role in a broad range of biomedical applications, e.g. drug delivery, lab-on-a-chip immunosensing and environmental applications. These self-propelling particles asymmetrically harvest and consume energy of various sources, including optical, chemical, acoustic,...

Stability of Thin Liquid Layers Under Vibrating Forcing

Interfacial instabilities develop in a liquid-liquid or liquid-gas interface, due to a growth of interfacial perturbations. These instabilities may be capillary, electrohydrodynamic, magnetic and others. Analysis of flow dynamics with interfacial instability is a fascinating challenge which has been drawing...

Reforming-Controlled Compression Ignition – a Novel Concept for Internal Combustion Engines

  The homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) is a promising engine combustion approach enabling high efficiency and ultra-low pollutant emissions. The HCCI method combines the advantages of the Diesel and the Otto cycles while eliminating their drawbacks. The HCCI enables...

Ethics and Uncertainty: An Info-Gap Approach

Consider these questions:  You are designing a device that can result in vast destruction in an aggressive adversarial country, but you are unsure whether that destruction will be military or civilian. However, without this device, the adversary can inflict...

Pragmatic Modelling of Annular Two-Phase Flow for Demanding Cooling Applications

  The lecture focuses on annular flow, one of the most important flow regimes in gas-liquid and vapor-liquid two-phase flows in tubes and channels. In the annular flow, a thin liquid film flows adjacent to the channel wall, surrounding a...

Fluid mechanics of soft robots – Effects of fluid compressibility and elastic multi-stability

The seminar will present experimental numerical and theoretical studies on fluid driven actuation of elastic structures. The seminar is comprised of two parts: The first part will talk about pneumatics in soft robots. Pressurization of gas within embedded channels and...

Aeroelastic instabilities of a chord-wise elastic airfoil

תקציר ההרצאה : Standard rigid wings are characterized by substantial drag increase during activation of control surfaces, due to lack of continuity in airfoil geometry at the interface between the control surface and the airfoil. In recent years, shape-morphing airfoils...

Increasing Energy Efficiency of Hydraulic Control Systems

Dielectrophoresis investigation of engineered Janus particles and dynamic capsules

A theoretical study of Homogeneous Nucleation in Metastable Real Liquid During Intense Boiling

Obstacle-Aided Locomotion of a Robot Manipulator: Modeling, Path Planning, Simulation, and Experiments

Microelectromechanical Systems for Mechanobiology

Enhancing Error Related Potentials Classification Using Data Augmentation

Moving beyond descriptive fractography

A Modal Approach for Structural Health Monitoring

Determination of flowable electrode electric conductivity

Measuring deep grooves via Auto resonance for parametrically excited nanowires

The mechanical behavior of a flower-like structure comprised from slender rods subjected bending and torsion

Polyurea coating as a protective layer against hydrodynamic shockwaves

Control of Level Sets from Hamilton-Jacobi PDEs: Experience Versus Theory

Oscillations of metallic nanowires in molecular dynamics simulations with different thermostats

Shock attenuation characteristic of methyl cellulose hydrogels

Surface waves in piezoelectric structures for actuators

Multi-Vehicle Systems: Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Control for Automated Driving

Implementation of Advanced Technologies: Developing the Management Philosophy of the Industry 4.0 Revolution

Liquid Optical Circuits

Decomposing and controlling dispersive propagation modes in acoustic-elastic waveguides at low frequencies

CONTINUUM-COUPLED Microcavity

Experiments on the interaction between a freely moving sphere and a turbulent boundary layer

Numerical Simulations of Aerodynamic Flows: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Active Flow Control using High-Order Unstructured Grids and GPU Accelerated Simulations using Meshless Methods

Chaotic Processing for Fractal Structures: Modeling of Mechanical Alloying for Nanoheater Particulates

Modeling and control of flexible structures with distributed actuation governed by the wave equation

Implementation of a Natural Dynamic Controller on an Under-actuated Compass-Biped Robot

Performance optimization of a UAV engine for high altitude flight conditions

Fault Detection and wave-control of imperfect cyclic symmetric systems

A Multiphase, Single Flow and Membraneless Flow Battery Towards next-generation energy storage devices

Learning Contact Rich Skills Using Coupling Movement Primitives

Luminescent Solar Power

Resonance and Energy Transfer in Forced Vibro-Impact Systems with Compliance

Effect of finite vessel stiffness on transition from two-dimensional liquid sloshing to swirling: reduced-order modeling

Electrospinning as an Alternative Method for Encapsulation and Preservation of Cells

Studying deformation processes at high strain rates using a unique under-microscope mechanical pulse system

Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing Investigations

Crack-flaw interactions in fracture under dynamic loading

Fluidic Shaping of Optical Components

PERSPECTIVES ON MINIMALISTIC ROBOT HAND DESIGN AND A NEW CAGING-BASED BIOHAZRD SAMPLE HANDLING ROBOT

Microstructure design and analysis of bio-degradable bone scaffolds

Energy Infrastructure Model Development for Sustainability of Urban Districts – A Case Study of the Technion Campus in Haifa

Inception and evolution of attached and shear layer intermittent cavitation

Design of fast boat hull made of composite materials considering hydro-elasticity

Dimensions Extraction of Objects from Depth Images using Deep Learning Methods

PERSPECTIVES ON MINIMALISTIC ROBOT HAND DESIGN AND A NEW CLASS OF CAGING-TO-GRASPING ALGORITHMS

Extrusion-based bio-mimetic Hamiltonian tool path for scaffolds

A Biodegradable Drug-Eluting Device for Localized Treatment of Bladder Cancer

Non-uniform electro-osmotic flow: From microscale flow patterning to fluid-structure interaction and instability

Front Propagation in Bi-Stable Non-Degenerate Systems

The effect of unfolding kinetics of bi-stable domains on the propagation of mechanical signals in biomaterials

Non-linear phenomena in the response of bistable chains to impact

Energy Management in Dynamics and Acoustics Through Nonlinearity

DISTORTIONAL PLASTICITY FRAMEWORK FOR ADVANCED HIGH STRENGTH STEELS

Evaluation of the static fracture toughness of advanced ceramics

DISTORTIONAL PLASTICITY FRAMEWORK FOR ADVANCED HIGH STRENGTH STEELS

Multicellular Systems Organize as Active Nematic Liquid Crystals

Tomographic PIV measurements in the wake of a stationary and a tethered sphere undergoing VIV

Experimental investigation of impact mitigation properties of a thin viscous film

Using Varying Driving-Force Method to Study Activation Parameters for Nucleation – Application to the Ising Model and nucleation in nanowires

Elastodynamic metamaterials

Shape structure coupling of inhomogeneous polymers

Time resolved, tomographic measurements of oscillatory respiratory flows in an upper airway model

Soft Materials in Soft Machines

Fast and Highly Compressible Single- and Multi-Phase Reacting Flows

Variational approach to brittle fracture: tearing thin sheets and anisotropic surface energy

Energy Absorption in AM Ti6Al4V Thin Walled Cylinders

Wave propagation in space-time microstructures: the theory of field patterns

גלים סוליטריים וגלי הלם בחומרים רכים

Estimating 3D Objects Orientation using Learning Methods on Point Clouds

Nonlocal and nonlinear surface plasmon polaritons and plasmon resonance imaging induced by the thermocapillary effect

Noise Removal in 3D Point Clouds using Deep-Learning Techniques

Battery Powered Coverage of Planar Environments by an Autonomous Mobile Robot

Plasma micro cavity

Predicting Human Motion in Human-Robot Collaborative Tasks using Learning Methods

Advances in electrochemical systems which combine energy storage and conversion with water desalination

Feedback-based topological mechanical metamaterials – designing unconventional wave propagation in real-time

Vignettes from Bio-Inspired Robotics and Dynamical Systems

Piezoelectric Actuators and Vibrating Energy Harvesters

Manufacturing engineered materials with ultrasound directed self-assembly

Active Matter: ‘active thermodynamics’ and the dynamics of biopolymer gels

Novel Applications of Exceptional Points in Optical, Atomic, and Mechanical Systems

Irreversible physio-mechanical processes and collagen rearrangements in stretched fetal membranes

Edge Dislocation Motion in Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Au

The Effective Mass of Partial Dislocations in Cu

Micro-Photonics and Nano-Mechanics with Liquids, Gasses, and Plasma

Caging via Minimalistic Robotic Grasping Systems

Experimental fluid mechanics research: What’s new at the EMPFL?

The Mechanical Response of Additively Manufactured Ti6Al4V Specimens Containing Discrete Artificial Voids

A General Model for Relations between Material Properties and Barriers for Twin Boundary Motion

High-throughput experimental techniques to measure the CRSS for slip and twinning in Mg and Mg alloys

Liquid-Mirror Resonator

Accelerating oscillatory fronts in a chain with nonlocal interactions: effect of linear spectrum

Crack-flaw interactions in fracture under dynamic loading

Minimally Invasive, Motion Preserving Artificial Spinal Intervertebral Disc

Reconciling mechanical and thermomechanical dislocation-based constitutive models

Microscale flow confinement on surfaces using pressure- and electric- actuation

Unraveling Damage Processes at the Microstructure

Optimal control, optimization and asymptotic analysis of simple microswimmer models

Dimensions Extraction from 3D Scanned Hand Model for Prosthesis Design using Deep-Learning Methods

Nonholonomic dynamics of the Twistcar vehicle: asymptotic analysis and hybrid dynamics of frictional skidding

Tailoring nonlinearity for advanced engineering design

Neuro-inspired control and Neuro-engineering

Chaotic dynamics and “decision making” in individual chemically active microdrops

Stabilization of High-Order Flux-Reconstruction Scheme for Wall-Modeled Implicit Large Eddy Simulation

Autoresonance and Modal Filtering for Fast-Sensing and Actuation

High-fidelity low-Mach number simulations of reacting flows using accelerated chemistry

Electrochemical characterization of the transient response of a microchannel-nanoslot fluidic devices

Unorthodox Inertial Navigation and Sensor Fusion

Some issues in fracture mechanics of rubber-like and soft materials

Million times around a microsphere

Classification, Segmentation, and Geometric Analysis of 3D Point Clouds using Deep Learning

Innovation, Quality and in between

Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Arc Plasma Wind Tunnels

Planning and control for low-cost robotic manufacturing

Generating an Ideal light source

Modeling and Analysis of Biomechanical Interfaces

Assessment of immersed boundary methods for large eddy simulations of thermal-hydraulic turbulent flows

Creating Complex Deformation Patterns and Increasing Effective Rigidity of Elastic Plates and Beams via Viscous Flows in Complex Internal Channel Networks

Parametrically excited mechanisms for selective detection, identification and actuation in distributed systems

Elastic-plastic contact of coated rough surfaces

Ductile fracture under complex loading scenarios

Stretch-induced accelerated growth in the sensory nervous system

Heat transfer and flow field measurements of a pulsating round jet impinging on a flat heated surface

Exploiting the Somatosensory System with Smart Wearable Devices for the Treatment of Musculoskeletal Joint Pathology

Waves and Networks

Malleable matter: Designing disordered metamaterials by natural aging

Multidimensional topography sensing for frequency modulated AFM

On application of fractals to tribology

Nonlinear Resonance in strongly damped systems

Plantar Pressure and Center of Pressure Curve alterations due to Running Induced Fatigue

Get in Shape: Cell Shape Is an Independent Repository of Retrievable Information

Complexity and performance of mechanical systems

Examination by Tests of the Safety Factor in Solid Propellant Grain Under Ignition Pressure

Aerodynamic Factors Associated with Rebreathing in Infants

Physics-based modeling of pressure-driven and current-driven water desalination

Fractographic Image Analysis Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning Methods

Light and Capillary Waves Propagation in Water Fibers and Tunable Tweezer controlled Microresonators

On the band gap universality of multiphase laminates and its applications

Design Optimization of pediatric Viscous Impeller Pump by Applying Computational Fluid Dynamics

An Info-Gap Approach to Crack Tip Plastic Zone Shapes

The New Wave in Robot Grasping

Dynamics of railway cargo cars

Fuel reforming for improvement of propulsion efficiency and emissions mitigation

Measurement of the dynamics of inertial, heavy fibers in isotropic turbulence

The mechanical behavior of a 2-D lattice of bistable elements

Mechanics of macromolecules with bistable domains undergoing hard-soft transitions

Bio-inspired CPG controllers for walking bipedal robots

Tomographic PIV measurements of the flow field in the wake of a tethered sphere undergoing vortex induced vibrations

Jamming and Geometry in Epithelial Biology

On-chip separation and focusing using isotachophoresis with large-volume processing and analyte encapsulation

TOPOLOGICAL PUMPING IN A MAGNETO-MECHANICAL SYSTEM

Non-reciprocity in waveguides with essentially nonlinear coupling

The influence of confining stress on the ballistic properties of soda lime glass

Escape of dynamical system with multiple degrees of freedom from classical potential well

High Conductivity Dual Operation Mode Flow Electrode Towards next-generation energy storage devices

Interfacial Flows Described by Reduced Models

INVESTIGATION OF INTERSTITIAL FLUID FLOW OF ALVEOLAR PRIMARY SEPTA AFTER PNEUMONECTOMY

Balancing Flexible Rotors at Low Speed Using Parametric Excitation

Microscale Flow Patterning by Dynamic Modulation of Surface Charge

Surface waves in elastic layers of finite thickness, and their relation to mode ordering in resonating disk gyros

On the Prediction of Diapycnal Mixing in Stably Stratified Turbulence

Endo-Atmospheric Vector Guidance

Quasicrystalline multilayered metamaterials: negative refraction and self-similarity of the Bloch-Floquet spectrum

Performance and nanoparticle emissions of a diesel engine fed with dimethyl-ether

Spectrally Interleaved Geometric Phase Metasurfaces

Quantum entanglement of the spin and orbital angular momentum of photons using metamaterials

Non-Newtonian Flows in Annular Shock-Absorbers

Dynamics of the 2D oscillator with internal rotatory attachment: effect of geometric nonlinearity

Research in reduction of vibroacoustic vibration on a payload in an airborne body

Photo-Luminescence and Thermal Devices for Solar Energy Harvesting

External phase shifting tuning mechanism in a miniature-pulse tube cryocooler using a semi-active electromagnetic damping system

Time resolved PIV measurements of the vortex shedding characteristics of stationary rough and smooth spheres in a uniform flow

Modelling ElastoHydrodynamic Interactions with application to soft robotics, geophysics and biomechanics

Dynamics of the damped and parametrically driven oscillatory models: Effect of essentially nonlinear coupling

Nonlinear dynamics of discrete mechanical systems with flat dispersion bands

Laser-induced graphene fabricated on porous polyethersulfone membranes as electrically active antifouling and antimicrobial filters

Electrokinetics on paper-based microfluidic devices: development of low-cost and highly sensitive biomolecular diagnostics

Thermocapillary flow actuation and control

Experimental investigation of Austenite-Martensite phase boundary motion in shape memory alloys

INVESTIGATING MOTOR ADAPTATION TO UNSTABLE SHOE DESIGNS THROUGH GAIT BIOMECHANICS AND THE DYNAMICS OF THE CORTICOSPINAL CONTROL

Barriers, mechanisms of motion, and kinetic laws for twin wall dynamics in ferroic materials

Photonic spin-controlled metasurfaces

On-Line Evasive Navigation of an Autonomous Robot in a Planar Unknown Environment

Liquid/liquid interfaces under electric fields

3D-Printable Soft Robotics

Effect of Hygrothermal Conditions on Strength of Phenolic Composite

Aerosol Exposure, Bioaerosol Inactivation and Respiratory Protection

Auto Resonance Based Identification of Natural Frequencies in Rotating Systems

Measuring the viscoelastic characteristics of a single interface in bio-composite materials via micro-cantilever deformations

Nanofluidics: observed phenomena, (tentative) explanations and applications

Some results on the mechanical properties of inverse freezing gels

Acoustic Levitation – Implementation, Control and Analysis

Void growth in heavily deformed metals – the effect of local gradients

Acoustically levitated bearing system and a nonlinear amplifier concept

Analysis of the hybrid dynamics of a planar rigid body with two frictional contacts near an equilibrium state

CFD Modeling of a Direct Injection Hydrogen/DME Fueled Internal Combustion Engine

Electroencephalographic Responses during a Motor Task with Healthy and Stroke Patients

Variable Compression Ratio Engines – recent development experience and trends

Developing two-chamber reactor for gasification of biomass, organic waste and poor fossil fuels

Enhanced cooling of electronic chips using a combined diamond coating and microfluidics

A Size-dependent Coupled Longitudinal-Transverse Vibration of Nanowires in Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Dynamics of Solid-Fluid Composite Structures and Actuators

Application of Hyper-Dual Numbers to the Equations of Motion

Design and Analysis of the Dynamics of a Propelling Mechanism, Based on Waves Shell in a Medical Syringe

Kinematics with Applications in Robotics and Biomechanics-Gait Analysis

The influence of microstructure on the static and dynamic strength of transparent Magnesium Aluminate Spinel (MgAl2O4)

The exact solution of the 3D vortex compressible Euler equation and Clay Millennium Prize Problem generalization

Optimization of Control Laws of Dynamic Walking Robots through Region of Attraction

Machine Learning Tools Facilitate the Tuning of Networks of Matsuoka Oscillators for Controlling Bipedal Walking

Modeling reverse flow dynamic stall for high advance ratio rotorcraft

Nonlinear Dynamics and Autonomous Stabilization of a Multi-Tethered Spherical Aerostat in Severe Environmental Conditions

Novel structures and tunings of optimal modified Dead Time Compensators for low order time delay stable/unstable systems

Relations Between Material Properties and Barriers for Twin Wall Motion in Ferroic Materials

Effect of shot-peening mechano-chemical surface treatment parameters on friction reduction

Dynamics and instabilities of an arbitrarily clamped elastic sheet in potential flow with application to shape-morphing airfoils

CORRELATING FRACTURE SURFACE ROUGHNESS AND FRACTURE TOUGHNESS UNDER VARYING LOADING RATES

Theoretical analysis of wheeled three-link snake robot: singularities of nonholonomic constraints and stick-slip hybrid dynamics

Experimental investigation of Mechano -Chemical Surface Treatment for friction reduction in reciprocal motion

Development of nonlinear oscillations in a single mode panel flutter

Escape of a forced-damped particle from a potential well: transient response

Elastic-mediated mechanical communication between cells

Impact Time in Vector Guidance

The Influence of loading conditions, strain hardening, damage evolution and material stress state on the interaction between voids in ductile materials under mode I loading

Measuring Simplicity in Mechanical Design